Houthis free top aide to Yemen president

Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak was relased on Tuesday, and handed over to local tribes in the southern province of Shabwa.

Mubarak was previously nominated as prime minister, but his appointment was rejected by the Shia rebel group [EPA]

Houthi rebels have freed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's chief of staff, whose abduction set in motion days of political turmoil in Yemen.

Several dead as convoy ambushed in South Sudan

Military says at least 13 people, including four journalists, dead in attack blamed on Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army.

South Sudan is struggling to contain lawlessness as conflict between the government and the rebels continues [EPA]

At least 13 people, including four journalists, were killed in South Sudan's western region, when gunmen attacked their convoy in the country's west, a military spokesman said.

Buhari Is Not Electable- Obanikoro

Sen Musliu Obaniko, who is the immediate past Minister of State for Defence, has called on Nigerians to judge the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) by his past and not what his party presents him to be in 2015.

Senator Obanikoro of PDP

Vanguard reports that the former minister made the assertion on Tuesday while addressing party supporters at the campaign rally he organised under the aegis of the Goodluck/Sambo Independent Campaign Group in Lagos.

#PDPRallyLafia: GEJ Rules Out Sambo As Successor

President Goodluck Jonathan today, January 27, 2015 took his campaign train to the city of Lafia, the capital of Nasarrawa, in his quest for victory in the upcoming 2015 presidential election.
The president and his team were welcomed by the Emir of Lafia and his fellow Imams in his palace before kick-starting the rally.

President Goodluck Jonathan and Emir of Lafia, Isa Mustapha Agwai

Jonathan Visits Emir Of Lafia

The Emir of Lafia, Dr Isa Mustapha Agwai, January 27 greeted President Goodluck Jonathan in his palace in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State.

President Goodluck Jonathan and Emir of Lafia, Isa Mustapha Agwai. January 27 meeting. Credits: Reuben Abati

Argentina to dissolve intelligence agency

President announces plans over suspicions rogue agents were behind death of prosecutor probing tragic 1994 bombing.

Thousands took to the streets last week demanding answers around Nisman's death [AP]

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez has announced plans to dissolve the country's intelligence agency amid suspicions that rogue agents were behind the murky death of a state prosecutor

Shia fighters accused of killing civilians in Iraq

Sunni tribal leaders say mass grave containing 70 bodies found in a village amid fighting in eastern Diyala province.

The assault on Diyala enabled Shia fighters, the Iraqi army and Sunni tribesmen to push ISIL out of the Muqdadiya area [Getty Images]