As the continental body celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, analysts take a retrospective look at the activities of the continental body while also making suggestions on the way ... Read more »

A health development organisation is hoping to save two million lives by 2015 by tackling diarrhoea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children globally. Read more »

After Thurday's double suicide bombings which claimed more than 20 lives, militants have threatened to carry out more attacks against French and other interests in Niger. Read more »

Daily Monitor, its sister stations and The Red pepper publications have remained closed for a fourth day running as police search for the letter alleging a plot to hand over power ... Read more »

Chairman of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Bethuel Kiplagat has expressed fear of the fact-finding report being rejected by those named. Read more »

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim have voiced support for peace and economic development in a historic visit to the country. Read more »

A UN envoy has convened a meeting between the government and opposition leaders to help resolve differences over preparations for stalled legislative elections. Read more »

The UN say that the number of people receiving antiretroviral treatment in Africa had increased from less than one million to 7.1 million in the last seven years. Read more »

Although listed by the International Monetary Fund as one of the world's fastest growing economies, not all benefit from the post-civil war boom. Read more »

Amade Oueremi, a militia leader who supported President Alassane Ouattara during the post-election violence, has been arrested on suspicion of participating in a massacre. Read more »