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Over 100 000 Refugees repatriated
The UN refugee agency has announced the repatriation of more than 100,000 refugees from South Sudan, under an organised repatriation programme launched in December...
Maputo’s steel rolling mill resumes production after 10 years
Maputo's steel rolling mill, paralysed for almost a decade, has resumed production, though on an experimental scale Mill owners Arcelor-Mittal, the world's largest steel...
Zimbabwe votes : early opposition victory
Zimbabweans main opposition Movement for Democratic Change on Saturday night claimed victory in the country’s bitterly contested presidential and parliamentary elections setting the stage...
Voting ends peacefully despite arson
Voting in Zimbabwe's closely fought general elections ended at 7 pm across the country Saturday, but election officials said some polling centres extended the...
Comoros reconstruction pledged by AU
Following the defeat of Colonel Mohamed Bacar's illegal regime in the Island of Anjouan during the week, the African Union (AU) is looking into...
Agreement reached by gov’ts of Ghana and Liberia
Ghana has softened its position on the issue of the repatriation of Liberian refugees and announced that it has reached an agreement with Liberia...
Turkey becomes the 25th AfDB non-regional member
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved Turkey's application to join the Bank Group, a statement issued by...
Pa endorses Obama – Clinton urged to quit
Hillary Clinton faced calls on Friday to drop out of the presidential race as senior Democrats warned that her divisive battle with Barack Obama...
Zimbabwe votes : Statistics of votes in three scenarios
Three scenarios have been developed based on slightly different assumptions. The major assumption is that Tsvangirai still has major support in urban areas,...
African defence ministers pledge effort for peace on the continent
Member states of the African Union (AU) need to intensify efforts at making the continent's peace and security architecture fully operational, defence and security...
AU says Zimbabwe polls peaceful so far
African Union (AU) election observers taking part in Z imbabwe's weekend polls said Friday campaigning had so far been peaceful and free of intimidation.
The...
Zimbabwe cabinet dissolved
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Friday dissolved his cabinet ahead of weekend general elections in which his party is fighting for political survival after 28...
AfDB and Japan to build hospitals in Africa
At least three hospitals will soon be built in Africa thanks to a funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the head of the...
Morocco gets 147m euros from Japan
The Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has provided Morocco with two loans totalling 147 million euros to finance road and water supply projects....
Comoros : Rebels warned
The Alliance for the Liberation of Anjouan, made up of the Comoran military supported by AU forces from Tanzania and Sudan, has presented rebels...
AfDB to increase water access to 66% of Africa
The African Development Bank (ADB) intends to raise abou t US$ 4.5 billion to take the number of Africans having access to drinking water...
Obama reveals Clinton’s economic history
Barack Obama on Thursday laid much of the blame for America’s unfolding credit crisis on the financial deregulation of the 1990s in his hardest...
Morocco seeks dialogue with Algeria over “Western Sahara”
Moroccan Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa has said the settlement of the Western Sahara conflict requires "direct dialogue" between his country and Algeria.
"A settlement is...
Morocco holds talks with sports journalists
The Executive Committee of the African Sports Journalists' Union (ASJU) will meet over the weekend in Casablanca, Morocco, which is hosting the ASJU headquarters....
Cameroonians get pay rise
The 15 per cent salary increase announced by the Cameroonian government after last February's riots will come into force in April 2008, according to...
Man begs to be killed after crushing pregnant wife’s head
A 35-year-old Nigerian man who killed his pregnant wife by smashing her head with a huge stone has asked the government to kill him...
Cameroonian Archbishop wounded in accident
Archbishop Victor Tonye-Bakot of the Catholic Archdiocese of Yaounde, Cameroon, was seriously wounded in a road accident here Thursday, the Cameroon state-owned television reported....
300 foreign journalists to cover elections
At least 300 foreign journalists have arrived in Zimbabwe to cover Saturday's crunch poll, according to Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu.
The Minister said Thursday that...
Voter fraud uncovered by opposition
Opposition parties in Zimbabwe said they had uncovered plans by the government to rig crunch weekend polls, and warned of unspecified action.
At a joint...
Zimbabwe votes : Results could be canceled
THE worlds focus would zoom on Zimbabwe tomorrow as millions of
citizens file to the polling stations to elect new leaders.
from our...
Release of Fitna the Movie met with calm
The much controversed Geert Wilders film « fitna » has been released online. The Dutch Prime minister rejected Geert Wilders’ views in a statement...
Refugees to go home in June
Ghana and Liberia have reached an agreement under which the repatriation of Liberian refugees in Ghana would begin in June.
The agreement was reached at...
US$ 700,000 relief donation from Portugal to Mozambique
The Portuguese government Wednesday donated US$ 700,000 to support Mozambique's relief agency, the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC) and to assist small scale fishermen,...
Darfur attacks hampering UN relief efforts
Attacks against aid workers in western Sudan have reached unprecedented levels, jeopardizing vital relief operations in the war-wracked Darfur region, the United Nations Resident...
Microsoft helps develop African micro-enterprise
US software giant, Microsoft, is to help African governments create local computer industry and support small-scale enterprises to become competitive on the world market.
The...