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Morocco gets 147m euros from Japan
The Japanese International Co-operation Bank (JBIC) has approved two loans worth 147 million euros designed to finance road and water supply projects in the...
Kenyan politics disrupts sell-off
The flotation of Safaricom, a mobile telephone operator set to be the biggest listed company in east Africa, has been dragged into the increasingly...
Football: South Africa beats Paraguay
outh Africa's 2010 World Cup campaign received a massive boost after the Bafana Bafana thrashed visiting Paraguay 3-0 in an international soccer friendly at...
Catholicism more powerful in Scotland
The Catholic Church has become closely associated with an open and positive attitude toward Scottish independance
Part of the growing interest in the country’s national...
A long list of Christian Zionists running the United States
All Jews are not Zionists, and all Zionists are not Jews. Starting with Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft - plus many in Congress such as...
“Judaism’s Sexual Revolution : Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality”
When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah’s prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made...
Morocco beats Guinea 1-0 in Olympic qualifier
The Moroccan U-23 national football team beat visiting Guinea 1-0 Wednesday in Mohammedia, in the final round of qualifiers for the 2008 Olympics in...
Zimbabwe : Mugabe defends rigging accusations
Embattled Robert Mugabe has come out fighting over accusations of vote rigging that have variously been levelled against him and his Zanu PF government...
Nigerian football to represent Africa at Olympics
Local newspapers Thursday hailed the qualification of Nigeria's Under-23 national football team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, saying it paves the way for the...
US and Libyan lawmakers discuss politics
The secretary of the Libyan People's General Congress (PGC ), the highest legislative authority in the country, Muftah Kaiba, on Wednesday briefed the head...
President explains action against refugees
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday defended his government's handling of a standoff with Liberian refugees who have flouted Ghana's laws and affirmed the...
Horror at the killing of three WFP food supply drivers in Sudan
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it is shocked and sad at the murder of three drivers of trucks contracted by the United Nations...
Debt relief for The Gambia
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) on Wednesday in Tunis approved debt relief of US $ 22.77 million in nominal...
Yar’Adua gets tougher as two ministers get the sack
Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s president, has sacked two ministers on suspicion of stealing public funds, a sign he is adopting a more assertive style after...
Obama – Clinton : ‘Misspeak’, worst thriller of the year
This is the harrowing story of a strong and yet vulnerable woman who finds herself in a life threatening environment with her only child...
6 month jail term for Egyptian editor
Egypt's leading Editor Ibrahim Eissa has been sentenced to six months in prison over a series of articles published by his Al Dustour newspaper...
African football friendlies in France : France thrashes Mali
A reserved selection of the French national team, Tuesday, beat the Malian national team by 3 goals to 2, in a friendly match in...
Comoros’ rebel island under union gov’t control
Comoros took control of its rebel island of Anjouan on Tuesday in a military operation aimed at toppling renegade leader, Mohamed Bacar, a government...
Strike fears bolster artificial fuel shortage
The long fuel queues that surfaced in Nigeria's economic capital city of Lagos Tuesday is artificial and will soon disappear, sources close to the...
Opposition arrests among other threats begin
ZIMBABWEAN police have again vowed to ruthlessly crush any premature victory celebrations ahead of the official release of results from this weekend's general...
Africa film week opens in Bamako
The fifth edition of the national week of the African Film in Bamako (SENAFAB) will open here Friday, organisers told Panapress. The week will...
Sustainable development to boost Africa’s marginal growth
Africa registered a marginally better economic growth performance in 2007, but the continent is still far from achieving the necessary momentum to meet the...
Obama – Clinton : The ‘misspoke’ war
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Tuesday provided fresh evidence of their tendency towards mutual character assassination, with each trading allegations the other serially...
Comoros: Anjouan under loyalist control
The executive assistant of the Comoros president in charge of defence, Mohamed Bacar Dossar, declared on Tuesday in Moroni that the army had the...
Nigerian bourse: Downturn in market capitalization
Trading on the floor of Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) resumed Tuesday after the long holidays, declared by the Nigerian government to mark the Easter...
Delphi recruits 3441 Moroccans
Delphi, a US company specialized in automobile electronics, is to recruit 3.441 Moroccans for their two factories in the city of Tanger, northern Morocco....
WFP, MOSS and GAIN celebrate start of flour fortification in Egypt
Aswan, Egypt (GAIN/WFP) - The fortification of Egyptian flour, used in the production of widely-consumed baladi bread, with iron and folic acid has been...
March 24, The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung
Within the Stop TB Partnership, The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, known as The Union, an international
organisation established in 1920 to fight...
Football linked to high cardiac risks
Football supporters get far too stressed! Particularly when their favourite
team is playing a close match… At times like this their risk of suffering a
stroke...
French police abuse African lawyer
Several Mauritanian NGOs under the umbrella National Human Rights Forum (FONADH) have slammed "the violence and abuses" of the French police against lawyer Fatimata...