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SA snubs Nigerian hospitality ahead of Sunday’s 2010 CAN/WC qualifier
The stage is set for the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Bafana Bafana of South Africa to trade tackles in their opening 2010...
Obama – Clinton : DNC’s fair deal for Florida and Michigan
Democratic party officials dealt a blow to Hillary Clinton on Saturday by rejecting her calls for Michigan and Florida to have their full voting...
Obama – Clinton : Settling the Michigan and Florida math
Democratic officials are meeting in Washington on Saturday in an attempt to resolve the highly-charged dispute over whether delegates from Florida and Michigan should...
Obama – Clinton : Hillary proves her divisive political prowess
Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Friday stepped up its defiance of the near-consensus view that Barack Obama has won the Democratic nomination, claiming she would...
Africa’s economic growth continues upward trend
Africa's economic growth, estimated at 5.7 percent in 2007, is expected to continue at a slightly higher level of about 5.9 % over the...
Intentional HIV infections in Angola raises heavy concerns
Proposed reforms to Angola's Penal Code have divided opinion in the country about whether HIV-positive people who intentionally infect others with the virus should...
Barack Obama to visit Iraq ?
Iraq has surged back towards the top of the presidential campaign agenda as attention shifts from the closing stages of the Democratic nomination race...
The obscene act of mistaking Barack Obama for Ossama Bin Laden
Mistaking the name of a good american for an arab gone mad is not just insane and obscene, it is simply an American...
New insurance cover to help Africa compensate investors
Africa's prospective investors will be guaranteed compensations for any losses they incur as a result of political instability in the continent, following a favourable...
Obama – McCain : Turn on lobbyist nightmare on the campaign trail
It is an irony of the 2008 election that the long shadow of Jack Abramoff, the former Republican super-lobbyist, looms over the very man,...
Distorting Michelle Obama’s words is tantamount to bigotry
Michelle Obama is a well educated woman. A former sociology and law student in Princeton and Havard, respectively. Her support has been priceless to...
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission seeks to destroy ballot paper evidence
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission last week filed an urgent application in the High Court chambers seeking an order to destroy ballot papers used in...
Investigating the brain behind South African xenophobic attacks
A top African diplomat who has served in the southern Africa region in an interview conducted by panapress in Arusha said that the mayhem...
Mugabe’s aide claims fiery statement was taken out or context
President Robert Mugabe’s chief election agent, Emmerson Mnangagwa sunday ruled out any likelihood that the Zanu-PF leader will refuse to vacate office in the...
Obama – McCain campaign and Israel
"Thrown under the bus" is becoming the phrase of the American presidential election. It describes the moment when a candidate disowns an embarrassing supporter...
Football : Sierra Leone meets Nigeria and South Africa in 2010 World Cup qualifiers
Sierra Leones national soccer squad the Leone Stars will take on the flying eagles of Nigeria and the Bafana Bafana boys 7 and 14...
Obama and McCain at loggerheads on big issues
Two weeks ago I expressed the naive hope that a US presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama might be a cut above...
Regional aviation meeting opens in Dakar
A three-day regional meeting of aviation workers under the banner of the 'Route Development Group' (RDG) opened Sunday at Hotel 'Le Meridien' in Dakar,...
Mengistu Haile Mariam, former Ethipian head of state, sentenced to death
Ethiopias former head of state, Mengistu Haile Mariam, has been sentenced to death in absentia by the countrys supreme court. Mengistu who has been...
Former Malawian President arrested by rival
Malawi's former president Bakili Muluzi has been placed under house arrest following his arrest earlier Sunday, a senior government official has confirmed. "Dr. Muluzi...
Nigerian musician Sonny Okosun dead
Popular Nigerian musician Sonny Okosun has died at the age of 61, according to the nightly news on the state-run Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)....
Saving Zimbabwe from dictatorship and a military coup
With governance in limbo and post-election violence spreading beyond control in Zimbabwe, rights groups and think-tanks have warned of a military coup, martial law...
Row over diplomatic insults made by Kenyan Foreign Minister
Professor Oluyemi Adeniji, the Nigerian envoy chairing the ongoing peace and reconciliation talks in Kenya, has told off the country's foreign minister, Moses Wetangula,...
Israeli police shoot and kill an Egyptian
In a twist of roles, Israeli border police shot and killed an Egyptian Bedouin man Wednesday as he allegedly attempted to cross the lengthy...
Violent xenophobic attacks spread from Jo’burg to Cape Town
The xenophobic related violence that has rocked Johannesburg in the past days have spread to Cape Town. According to AFP reports, Zimbabwean and other...
McCain’s pastor’s Catholic insult and Hitler remarks
John McCain on Thursday rejected the endorsement of an influential evangelical Christian leader who has faced criticism for controversial remarks about the Catholic and...
Zimbabwe violence pointing to a coup d’etat
The International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned that violence in Zimbabwe is likely to escalate and could lead to a military coup, unless African...
Racist monkey caricature of Barack Obama sends emotions flying
The owner of a bar in the US state of Georgia has designed a T Shirt depicting Senator Barack Obama in the form of...
Congo : Controversial attitude to food crisis plan
Measures announced by the Congolese government to keep food prices affordable have elicited both scepticism and praise from NGOs and citizens, some accusing the...
Kentucky and Oregon reinforce Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s arguments
Barack Obama moved to the brink of the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday after a victory in the Oregon primary election that brought him...