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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....
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....
Draconian accreditation laws used to censor Zimbabwe elections
The Zimbabwean government is using journalist accreditation laws to prevent most major international media outlets and some local journalists from covering the country’s elections...
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...
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...
Malian Touareg rebels vow more violence
The March 8 release of 22 Malian soldiers, by touareg gunmen led by Brahim Bahanga has not done much to calm down the Malian...
Armed robbers get away with 50 million
Dare-devil armed robbers Wednesday attacked a bullion van and escaped with the 50 million naira (US$427,000) in cash being ferried by the van in...
Football : Zimbabwe beats Botswana
Zimbabwe Wednesday beat Botswana 1-0 in an international soccer friendly played in Gaborone. The visitors scored in the 78th minute through substitute striker Cuthbert...
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...
GAMTEL accused of blocking Gambian online newspaper
The Freedom newspaper, a Gambian online newspaper, has not been accessed by readers for about three weeks now and readers are accusing the Gambia...
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...
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...
Zimbabwe: Journalists still harrashed
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Zimbabwean government's
refusal to allow several leading international news media to cover the 29
March 2008 general elections although it has...
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...
13 dead in building collapse
Some 13 school children were killed when the fence of the building near their school collapsed in Nigeria's South-west city of Ibadan, the local...
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...
Queen Elizabeth II to welcome the French President and his wife
Most state visits are dry, boring affairs that generate little public interest. Fashion experts and gossip columnists stay away.Nicolas Sarkozy will try to...
North Africa investment promotion forum in Brussels
The European Commission and other countries of the Agadir agreement will on 8 April organise a forum on investments in Brussels for countries of...
AfDB to host African Water Week
The First African Water Week (AWW-1) being hosted by the A frican Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) opens...
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...
US$20 million UK investment in Ghana’s bio-diesel production
Jatropha Africa Limited, a subsidiary of Lion Bridge Ventu res in United Kingdom, is to invest 20 million dollars in jatropha plantations i n...
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...
Nigerian Ministers charged with corruption resign
The two Ministers in Nigeria's Health Ministry have resigned over corruption allegations and they are expected to face corruption charges, the presidency said in...
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...
Two Nigerian ministers resign
Two Nigerian ministers quit their jobs Tuesday to face corruption charges, Presidency sources said. Read More. Panapress.