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Kenya’s new coalition government sworn in
A new government has been sworn in today in Kenya after months of violence and political instability triggered by Decembers elections. The government is...
Morocco signs deals on education and sports with Real Madrid
TSR announces that the Spanish football club Real Madrid invests in aid to poor children in Rabat. This Tuesday the football club signed a...
Vitamins may be more harmful than healthy
Scientific reviews of several studies indicate that vitamins might not be that good for our bodies after all. Vitamin C commonly used to fight...
Leona: first british artist to Top US charts with debut album
Leona Lewis’ debut album “Spirit” was released on November 9th 2007.
She was signed in the US by J Records boss Clive Davis who also...
Nigeria’s Fasuba and Ethiopia’s Beklele expected at Nairobi meet
Reigning world 60m champion Olusoji Fasuba of Nigeria is among the foreign athletes expected to participate in next month's Tusker Athletics International meet in...
Forest Whitaker and Keanu Reeves in “Street Kings”
Street Kings starring Forest Whitaker and Keanu Reeves was released in theaters in the United States on April 11th.
Forest Whitaker plays a cop of...
Naomi Campbell’s blood unfit for Brazilian patients
After last weeks row at Heathrow international airport where she allegedly spat on a police officer, Naomi Campbell has made comeback in the headlines...
Alicia Keys defends “conspiracy theorist” tag
Alicia Keys, the 27 year old african-american R&B musician is said to claim that “Gangsta rap did not exist” and that the government played...
South Africa : ANC distances itself further from Thabo Mbeki
The ANC in South Africa strongly believes Robert Mugabe knows exactly what the election results are and have said the delay in making them...
Africa wants to cut and polish its diamonds for export
After South Africa and Namibia, Botswana, which is the number one producer of diamonds worldwide, should create sixteen local polishing and cutting companies in...
Deadly plane crash in Democratic Republic of Congo
A Hewa Bora Airways DC-9 jet crashed in Goma Eastern Congo yesterday during takeoff. The plane, on a domestic flight to Kisangani, did not...
66 persons survive DR Congo plane crash
Official reports from The Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that some 66 passengers have survived a plane crash that was originally believed to...
Togo’s debt written off by African Develoment Bank
The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) has written off Togo's debt owed the Bank estimated at more than 10 billion FCFA, official sources in Lomé,...
France to tackle African economic problems in a Paris meeting
Paris will on 24 April host a symposium to discuss the pr oblems of the African private sector, official sources told panapress on Tuesday.
The...
Making Africa more investor-friendly
African countries have been told to speed up the process of economic reforms in order to attract more investors into the continent and create...
Togo opens truth, justice and reconciliation talks
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe on Tuesday launched national consultations for the setting-up of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. The ceremony, held at the...
India and Egypt discuss Free Trade Agreements
Egypt and India are currently in discussion for a free trade agreement between the two nations. India, seen globally as the technology hub, is...
FIFA warns Congo of a ban on its biggest stadium
World soccer's governing body, FIFA, has threatened to suspend the Alphonse Massamba-Débat Stadium in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, for failure to comply with international...
Zimbabwe spokesman explains why Mugabe snubbed SADC
Zimbabwe said Tuesday President Robert Mugabe snubbed a regional summit in Zambia at the weekend because it had been irregularly convened by host President...
Several children killed in deadly Uganda school fire
Reports on death toll vary between 19 and 21 in a school fire that broke out in a dormitory at the Budo Junior School...
Football : Chelsea give away two precious points at home
Yesterdays football match between Chelsea and Wigan Athletic finished in a 1-1 tie with goals from Essien and Emile Heskey at Stamford Bridge. However...
Tsvangirai sets conditions for run-off as strike set to begin
The Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has softened his
party's stance, for now, on boycotting a run-off presidential vote by setting conditions on participation.
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$200 million in food aid released by US government
The White House has given the order to release 200 million dollars in food aid to help fight the food crisis that has hit...
Northwest and Delta merge to create World N°1 Airline
Monday evening the directors of Northwest Airlines Corp and Delta Air Line Inc are believed to have agreed to a merger that would create...
SADC calls for the immediate release of election results
Heads of state and government of Southern African Development Community (SADCC) have called for the "expeditious" release of the results from Zimbabwe's presidential election,...
Ethiopia launches a commodity exchange to encourage local crop trade
Ethiopia opens a commodity exchange this week, the first of its kind in Africa, to offer buyers and sellers of mainly African traditional crops...
Duffy : Debut album Rockferry tops UK charts
Duffy's first LP Rockferry has topped UK charts obtaining positive reviews that have won her a comparison with Dusty Springfield herself considered one of...
Research shows obesity and cancer related to gender
It seems that there is a close link between the risk of developing certain forms of cancer and an increase in our body mass...
Estelle & Kanye West’s “American Boy” 3 weeks on top of UK charts
Estelle’s voice is known to go from sweet in her slow songs to a powerful London accented rap flow as she combines several styles...
Zimbabwe High court rules against opposition petition
The High Court in Zimbabwe Monday dismissed an opposition petition for the release of long-delayed results of a presidential vote, lawyers said. Judge Tendai...