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Demonstration in Paris against the Chadian government
Supporters of the Chadian political opponent, Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh, who went missing on 3 February in N'Djamena, Chad, gathered Saturday afternoon near the...
Nigeria’s President lists African nations’ challenges
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua, has lamented that most African nations are today confronted with a number of daunting challenges of poor infrastructure and weak...
Obama – Clinton : Dirty republican tricks and Clinton’s hopes
Conventional wisdom says Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a no-holds barred contest that could result in a “train wreck” at the...
Jepkosgei, Dunford are Kenya’s best sports personalities for 2007
Swimming star Jason Dunford and reigning women’s 800m World champion Janeth Jepkosgei are Kenya’s best sports personalities for the year 2007.
Dunford was rewarded for...
Morgan Tsvangirai leads opinion polls
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, could win the forthcoming presidential election in two weeks time against beleaguered incumbent, Mr Robert Mugabe, an opinion...
More Mauritanian refugees return
Some 257 Mauritanian refugees arrived Thursday in Rosso, southern Mauritania, after 19 years in exile in Senegal, an official source told panapress here. The...
First group of Sudanese soldiers arrives Comoros
About 100 Sudanese soldiers arrived in Moroni Thursday as part of a planned military intervention of the African Union (AU) to restore the Comorian...
International Telemedicine forum opens in Libya
The fourth international Euro-Mediterranean conference on computer science and telemedicine opened here on Thursday. The three-day meeting is being attended by doctors and specialists...
AU to review rules on democratic polls
Following Kenya's post-election bloody conflict, the African Union (AU) is considering a review of its Declaration of Principles Governing Democratic Elections on the continent,...
Mozambique: ex-migrant workers storm labour ministry
Over a hundred Mozambicans, who had once been migrant workers in the now defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR), Wednesday burst into the Labour Ministry,...
Arab Newspapers Win Awards in International Design Contest
The Dubai-based Gulf News and Emirates Business 24/7 newspapers were recently granted prizes in an international contest for newspaper design. A close collaboration between...
Crackdown on Egypt’s Brotherhood personnel
The Internet has proven to be one of the Muslim Brotherhood's main means of attracting attention, but a government campaign to arrest its editors...
Bourse merger for Nigeria and Ghana
Talks are underway for the integration of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) with that of Ghana, such that an investor in each of the...
Chike Obi Nigerian Mathematician, dies at 87
The globally-acclaimed Nigerian mathematics icon, Chike Obi, has died at the age of 87, the local press reported Friday. Obi died in Onitsha, South-east...
Morocco orders removal of painting from Paris exhibition
A painting of the Malagasy painter, Brigitte Rabarijaona, representing the 53 member countries of the African Union (AU), including the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic...
Morocco hosts Africa shooting tourney
The African clay pigeon shooting championship kicked off on Wednesday in the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers, with the participation of over 150 shooters...
Obama – Clinton: playing the race card or healing america
She has still not said sorry although she is finding ways of softening the magnitude of her words, but it looks like anytime she...
Sean Kingston, the kid singing for ladies
Sean Kingston, the 17 year-old Miami born, Jamaica bred artist, is not just a new face in popular music; he’s accomplished the rare task...
Chad: Rebels crossed back, another attack soon?
The government of Chad issued a communique Thursday that said mercenaries from Sudan had crossed into Chad. The communique, sent out from the capital...
Ministers agree to review the OIC Charter
Ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Tuesday reached an agreement to review the OIC charter, official sources said. "We have just...
Obama – Clinton : What Ferraro and Power have in common
Earlier “prophesies” that the democratic campaign was going to be a fierce verbal battle did not lie. In an effort to bring an end...
Mugabe pumps huge sums into vote buying strategem
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, fighting for political survival in a tricky poll in two weeks, Wednesday ordered the government to award huge salary increases...
Mauritius economic success applauded by Mbeki
South African President Thabo Mbeki, on the second day of his visit to Mauritius, has said the economic success of the island should be...
Ethiopia seeks relief for 88,000 drought-affected people
Around 88,000 people in the drought-hit lowland agro-pastoral areas of Southeastern Ethiopia require emergency food assistance, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...
Soccer: South Africa beats Zimbabwe
South Africa, rebuilding its national soccer squad for the 2010 World Cup which it will host, Tuesday beat neighbouring Zimbabwe 2-1 in an international...
Obama’s Mississippi win
Senator Obama has won the Mississippi primary. He got 60% of the votes against 38% for Clinton (RealClear Politics). CNN polls also show that...
Missing Austrian tourists in Mali ?
Despite the close follow up of the missing Austrian story by the Algerian arabophone daily, Annahar and its ensuing announcement that the “kidnappers of...
Mali sacks french coach
The head coach of the Malian national football team, the Eagles, French national Jean François Jodar was sacked Monday by the Malian Football Association...
Jill Scott, Anika Noni to star in BBC series
Best seller The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is to be made into a television series. Jill Scott the African American soul singer will...
Liberia: Teaching medicine against the odds
Before Liberia was torn apart by civil war, the AM Dogliotti medical school was funded by the government and turned out around 40 graduates...