Are expectations too high for President Buhari? Will the center hold for the coalition cobbled by the new ruling APC? Will the PDP survive now that it is in the opposition? These and more ar... Read more
Sepp Blatter won re-election for an unprecedented fifth term as FIFA president on Friday after challenger Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan conceded following the first round of voting. At... Read more
By Paula Ganzi Licata Meeting someone for the first time since my husband’s death is difficult. There are two groups: those who know about Robert’s death but haven’t seen me, and those who h... Read more
The exhumation of what are believed to be the remains of Burkina Faso’s former President Thomas Sankara has begun. Once exhumed they can be formally identified – a long-standing... Read more
By Simegnish “Lily” Mengesha/CPJ Guest Blogger On Sunday Ethiopians go to the polls in the country’s fifth general election since the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Demo... Read more
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has married his gay partner, becoming the first leader in the European Union to enter into a same-sex union in a symbol of growing social change acros... Read more
Spanish Police have found an eight-year-old Ivorian boy hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border into territory in north Africa, officials have said. A 19-year-old woman took... Read more