NIGERIA

A boat traveling between Sudan and Saudi Arabia caught fire, killing most of the refugees on board.

Almost 200 illegal African migrants have drowned to death when their boat sunk in the Red Sea off the Sudanese coast, according to Sudan’s media.

Nigeria is positioning its banks to offer Islamic banking products.

Russia is slated to support Palestine in its bid for recognition as a member state at the United Nations, according to one Palestinian official.

For Morocco's Berbers, King Mohammed VI's recent constitutional reforms are nothing but rhetoric. Literally.

The Nigerian Islamist terrorist group, which has already wreaked havoc across the country, has killed at least ten people in the northeastern city of Maiduguri by setting off a bomb in a beer garden frequented by soldiers and policemen, according to military officials.

The FIFA Women's World Cup is underway and many of the teams have already played two of the five games in the Group Stage.

North Africa is not a homogenous bloc of Arab societies, struggling in unison for one pan-Arab cause. U.S. media coverage of the Arab spring in Tunisia and Egypt has largely ignored the mass movement of North Africa's ethnic minorities.

The FBI has arrested and charged Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi with stowing away on a Virgin America flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Los Angeles last Friday. Initially released, the Nigerian man was caught again on Wednesday trying to board another flight and arrested.

Equatorial Guinea, one of the smallest African countries but surely the fastest in women's soccer ascendancy, fought Norway today, a traditional powerhouse fallen on less stellar times in a Group D encounter.

Nigeria has imposed a limited curfew on the capital city of Abuja following a series of deadly attacks by an Islamist terrorist group called Boko Haram.

The Islamic sect has struck another Nigerian city, this time bombing a popular beer garden.

The Lakers had four second round draft picks.

The jihadist clan has made good on their threat to cause more destruction in Nigeria. They have said that the time to negotiate has passed.

Korean Air announced Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, to buy Bombardier's C series aircraft, the value of the order is valued at US$616-million based on list price, but could swell upto US$1-billion if all the orders comes to a definitive.

The United Nations passed a resolution today condemning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, marking the first time the organization has explicitly recognized that form of repression.

A three-year old radical group detonated two bombs in Nigeria Thursday. Nine were killed and many more injured.

A powerful blast struck the police headquarters building in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, killing dozens, and according to local officials.

Israeli settlers, still at large, rolled burning tires into a mosque in the West Bank village of Maghayer in the early morning and scrawled Hebrew-language graffiti across the building's exterior.

Israel's attendance at French peace talks may decide the future of the Palestinian state

The United States vows to represent an obstacle in the representation of a Palestinian state at the UN.