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Northern Nigeria suffers both fuel and food shortages
With massive fuel shortages in the north of Nigeria since mid March, transport costs have doubled exacerbating food prices.
“Until last week I had...
Obama – Clinton deliver Dr. King speeches, McCain apologises
While Obama and Clinton were delivering their Dr. King remembrance day speeches, Mr. McCain was busy saying he was sorry for a mistake made...
Cameroon amends constitution for Biya’s re-election
The Cameroonian government on Friday tabled a controversial bill in Parliament to amend the Constitution to pave way for President Paul Biya's re-election in...
Obama – Clinton campaign : Clinton’s tax returns reveal she is much richer
Hillary and Bill Clinton have earned $109m since they left the White House in 2000, according to tax returns released by the Clinton presidential...
Obama – Clinton : Clinton’s ‘janus’ aide causes confusion
Labour unions called on Friday for Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist to be fired after it emerged that he met this week the Colombian ambassador...
Court case against ZEC opens amid threats from pro-Mugabe war vets
THE MILITANT Veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war on Friday evening vowed to seize the remaining white-owned commercial farms if Robert Mugabe loses the...
Zimbabwe : senatorial poll results
After a 24-hour pause, election officials in Zimbabwe Friday resumed announcing senatorial poll results, with the ruling party taking a one-seat lead. A total...
Outcome of Mugabe meeting : Plans to buy time
ZANU-PF party has decided that its leader Robert Mugabe should contest a run-off vote against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai if neither wins a...
Nigeria : Yar’Adua demands an end to fuel crisis
Nigeria's President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Standards Organisation of...
Eighteen miners die in accident
Eighteen people died when a bus carrying Mozambican mine workers from South Africa to Mozambique over-turned and burst into flames T hursday morning, near...
Morocco : Mohamed Serraj attacked
The general secretary of the moroccan press national syndicate Mohamed Daw Serraj, (SNPM from its french acronym, Syndicat National de la Presse Maroccaine), is...
6th Cameroon international Cycling Tour won by Ivorian
Ivorian Konté Bassirou Thursday won the 164-km, sixth leg of the Cameroon international Cycling Tour, between Douala and Kribi in the South-eastern part of...
Nigerian Navy constructs its own ship
The Nigerian Navy (NN) has started work on the country's first locally-made warship, which is expected to be ready in September, the Chief of...
Mass recruitment for Cameroonian military
The Cameroonian army plans to recruit 1,000 soldiers by the end of this year, reliable sources revealed here Friday. The sources said the recruitments...
An archbishop’s sex scandal that turned political
A case which is currently before the courts in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second capital could easily find a place in the Guinness Book of records...
Why Mugabe has called for an emergency meeting
ZANU PF politburo meets today in Harare to discuss the biggest challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s 28-year rule. Ruling Zanu-PF party sources said the...
Kidnapped oil workers freed
The five oil workers who were kidnapped on an oil production platform off the coast of Nigeria's South-west Ondo state last Sunday have been...
Obama’s fundraiser, the Pelosi Club and Clinton’s concern
Barack Obama’s record-breaking online fund-raising continued in March, netting $40m (£20m, €25m) from almost half a million donors in spite of his defeats to...
A 50m dollar bill and MDC’s first promised sack
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) today introduced a new Z$50 million note to deal with rampant shortages of cash in an economy...
New bank notes for Zimbabwe
The Central Bank in Zimbabwe on Thursday introduced higher denomination ZWD25 million and ZWD50 million bank notes, as inflation surge d to 165,000 per...
Zimbabwe : Inflation at 165 000 %
It seems it never rains, but pours for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Hours after elections officials Thursday declared his party had lost for the first...
Parties tie in zimbabwe senate polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Thursday began announcing the delayed results of senatorial elections held at the weekend, with the ruling party and opposition...
Foot and Mouth disease discovered in Mozambique
The dreaded Foot and mouth disease has been detected in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, reports Thursday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
The...
Air Corridor in trouble
The private Mozambican airline Air Corridor may never fly again because its two Boeing 737s are grounded in South Africa with serious safety problems,...
A high increase in school enrolments in Sudan
Some 1.3 million children in southern Sudan are expected to start classes this year, compared to just 340,000 in 2005, thanks to an initiative...
UN and AU in historic meeting
The 15 Ambassadors in the UN Security Council will hold a historic meeting on 16 April with the 15 members of the African Union's...
No press coverage for MEND leader’s trial
Journalists have been barred from the venue of the Thursday's arraignment of Nigerian militant leader Henry Okah and an accomplice, Edward Atatah in Jos,...
Nigerian army chief acquitted in murder charge
A court in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos Thursday discharged and acquitted a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, of murder charges,...
Nigeria probes another ex-official
Nigeria's immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, was grilled for over two hours by an anti-graft agency Wednesday over the management of...
If only London could become the French capital
The "official" reason behind French President, Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit last week to the banks of the Thames river was to rekindle Franco-British relations.
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