Group destroys Shell flow station and asks all staffers to leave
Militants using dynamites and bombs destroyed Shell's Orubiri flow station in Rivers state in Nigeria's Niger Delta oil region Tuesday night in continuation of...
Namibian farmers get lower interest rates from Agribank
Namibia's land bank, Agribank, has slashed interest rates from 11 to 4 % to enable farmers access cheap funds and stimulate the agricultural sector....
External intrusion affecting intra African trade adversely ?
The 2008 economic development in Africa report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reveal that Africa has not made any...
West African Monetary Zone gets a heavy lift from ADF
The African Development Bank Group is to support the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) payment system development project with a grant of US$23 million...
Olympic Soccer stars called to join senior national team
With the World cup qualifier against Sierra Leone coming up, Nigerian Head Coach Shaibu Amodu has invited five stars from the Olympic soccer team...
Ghana international Muntari gets Italian football ban
Ghanaian midfield dynamo Sulley Muntari has been given a three-match ban after seeing red in what was just his second League game for Inter.
The...
Rumours of Nigerian president abandoning office slammed
Nigeria's federal government Tuesday denied local and international media reports that President Umaru Yar'Adua plans to resign on health grounds after making changes in...
Pirates release two abducted South Africans
The two South Africans who were among the 22 oil workers abducted off a vessel by suspected pirates in Nigeria's Niger Delta oil region...
Football : Italian coach of Gambian national U-20 team resigns
The Italian-born head coach of Gambia's U-20 soccer team , Lorenzo Rubinacci, has resigned his post due to pressing family matters. Rubinacci's resignation is...
Suspicious dugout discovered in Cape Verde
The maritime authorities of Cape Verde are investigating the discovery of an empty dugout in north-west of the island of Santo Antao. The dugout,...
Angolan basketball team dismisses captain
The Angolan male basketball club side, Silvio Lemos, has dismissed the captain of the club, Marques Houtman, one year into his contract. Primeiro de...
The world is afraid US voters might make the wrong choice
One of the more comic episodes during the last US presidential election was the effort by Britain’s Guardian newspaper to influence the vote. The...
Rising HIV infections cause stir in Kenya
Kenyan health authorities expressed concern on Tuesday over the growing rate of fresh HIV/AIDS infections, which increased by over 11% in the past year...
British national kidnapped in Port Harcourt
A British national married to a Nigerian lady has been kidnapped in Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt, the Joint (military) Task Force...
Several European tourists die in Egypt road accident
An Egyptian road accident has left 12 people dead, including at least 6 tourists, when a coach collided with a truck on the west...
Man with 84 wives remanded in prison could be put to death
An 84-year-old Nigerian Muslim with 86 wives, Alhaji Bello Abubakar Masaba, has been arrested and charged to an Islamic Sharia court in Bida, capital...
AU peacekeepers killed and several injured in unprovoked attacks in Somalia
Two Ugandan African Union peacekeepers have been killed and seven others injured in an unprovoked attack by Somali insurgents in Mogadishu last Sunday, the...
Djibouti a death trap as conflicts and drought threaten population
According to the official UN report on Djibouti, food supply and emergency aids is would be needed to keep the larger part of the...
Reserve bank chief Gono hammered by Tendai Biti
Gidion Gono, the current Reserve Bank boss is set to resign Thursday morning after year of ruining Zimbabwe’s economy with his unorthodox economic policies.
MDC...
Hard Blow : Deal reminds Britain of Lancaster agreement on land compensation
If ever Britain thought the power sharing deal would drop the land issue, then it has more in store.
Details of the deal show that...
Defence ministry dismisses threats of war in Nigerian oil region
The Oil War declared yesterday by the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has been played down by the Nigerian Defence Headquarters,...
Details of Zimbabwe power sharing deal released
A power-sharing agreement signed Monday by the government and the opposition divides executive authority almost evenly between President Robert Mugabe and his main political...
Kenya : Negotiations or not, teachers will go on stike if gov’t fails
Kenya's Education Minister, Prof. Sam Ongeri, has invited the Kenyan Union of Post-Primary Teachers (KUPPET) to a round-table negotiation on a harmonization proposal for...
Japanese drivers win african international motor rally
Japanese drivers Hideaki Miyoshi and Hakaru Ichino Sunday made history when they convincingly won the Zambia International Rally and also clinched the 2008 FIA...
Spanish ship seized by Mauritania to be freed only after …
The Mauritanian maritime authorities Sunday agreed to release a Spanish fishing vessel, "Bahia de Portosanto", detained last Wednesday for illegal fishing, as soon it...
Zimbabwe Groups say power-sharing deal flawed and elitist
The National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (NANGO) on Monday ruled out an immediate end to Zimbabwe's mounting political and humanitarian woes despite a power...
New revolutionary eye glasses at one dollar for the poor
Inexpensive glasses that allow people to correct their eyesight problems themselves is the new ingenuous project presently being undertaken by the World Bank.
The...
Government military forces and islamist rebles clash in Mauritania
A group of suspected Islamists Sunday engaged th e Mauritanian army in violent clashes with automatic weapons in the region of Zouerate, in the...
Mali gets more cuban sports experts
With the arrival in Bamako of four more coaches from Havana, the number of Cuban sports experts in Mali is now 168, Mali's Youth...
Violence breaks out in Harare as coalition deal is signed
Any hopes that Monday morning's formal signing of the power-sharing agreement, and the inevitable handshakes and smiles exchanged by political leaders, would signal...