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Ghana, SA, Tunisia, Nigeria qualify for African Women’s Championships
Ghana, South Africa, Tunisia and Nigeria have joined host Equatorial Guinea in the 6th African Women's (football) Championship, due to be held 15-29 November....
Nigeria police dismiss 35 officers for corruption
The Nigerian police have dismissed 35 officers for corrupt practices, after they were summarily tried, the local press reported Saturday.
The report quoted the Inspector-General...
AfDB grants loans to Ghana, Tanzania for energy projects
The Governments of Ghana and Tanzania have signed agreements for loans and grants with the African Development Bank AfDB totalling US$ 98.8 million to...
Miriam Makeba to visit DR Congo
The famous South African singer, Miriam Makeba, will visit DR Congo from 10-14 March to support women who have survived sexual abuse, families affected...
Zimbabwe: Plainclothes spies in pre-election stratagem
Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has deployed hordes of
plainclothes police officers to gauge support for Mr Robert Mugabe ahead of the 29 March polls.
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An Obama aide resigns
Miss Samantha Power, a havard professor and Obama aide on foreign policy has resigned following the Scotsman newspaperÂ’s publication of an article which quoted...
Ethiopia: Committee to Protect Journalists condemns arrest
A global media freedom body, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has condemned the recent arrest and two-week imprisonment of three journalists from Ethiopia...
Statement by Judge Faan Hancke, Chairperson of the Council of the University of the Free State (UFS)
The Council of the University of the Free State today (Friday, 7 March 2008) unanimously condemned the offensive and racist Reitz video in the...
Somalia has the ‘worst humanitarian crisis on earth’
Despite international efforts to end the Somali conflict that has spanned two decades, the Horn of African nation still retains tag of the country...
Kenya: Live broadcast of parliamentary proceedings
Media coverage of parliamentary proceedings will go live in six months after Kenyan National Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende announced here Friday the formation of...
Illegal votes to overtake Obama?
The Clinton camp has been putting both popular and political pressure on the democratic party to reverse a decision not to accept results from...
Arabic students in Senegal call for universal knowledge
Arabic language students in Senegal have called on the Islamic Ummah to expand the borders of knowledge so that universal knowledge could be shared...
Mugabe dishes out tractors, food, money
Veteran leader Mr Robert Mugabe will tomorrow further loosen the purse strings by parceling out farm machinery to hand picked land...
Nigeria to deploy 15,000 police personnel for party convention
The Nigeria police will deploy some 15,000 police personnel for the convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the capital city of...
Kenya: In a storm, any port will do
My country's madness has been exorcised at least for the foreseeable future. However, it is not clear, at this stage, what precisely...
Katoucha assassinated ?
Crime or accident? Katoucha’s father and sister are not ruling out a criminal intent behind her death. To help clarify circumstances relating to Katoucha’s...
Nigerian banks raise US$2b from global deposit receipts
A total of US$2.05 billion was last year raised from global deposit receipts (GDR) offering by Nigerian banks, a development described by experts as...
Increase of sect-related violence in DRC
The violence that has claimed several lives in southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, after clashes between a religious sect and the national police, could...
African scientists call for permanent forum
African scientists on Thursday ended a four-day brainstorming conference in Addis Ababa with a call for the creation of a secretariat that will serve...
Obama, Clinton working the math
Barack Obama talked about math. And he was right to talk about it, because when all is said and done, it appears none of...
Congo hosts first African computer engineering exhibition
Congolese capital, Brazzaville, will between 10-12 April, host the first African software engineering exhibition, dubbed Salon Genilog 2008, with the theme "Businesses and Computer...
28 clandestine migrants rescued
Some 28 subsaharan migrants were rescued, Wednesday, by the Royal Moroccan Marin, off the coast of Oued Eddahab, in Western Sahara.The rescue operation was...
Mauritanian foundation supports returnees
The Khattou Mint Boukhary Foundation, named after the Mauritanian First Lady, has donated six tonnes of food aid, blankets, mosquito nets and sewing machines...
Chinese owned smelter fires 500 Zambians
The Chinese-owned Chambishi Copper Smelter (CCS) company in the northern copperbelt province of Zambia has fired all the firm's 500 striking workers, the local...
Zimbabwe: Bomb scare
There has been a bomb scare at a building where presidential candidate Dr Simba Makoni was addressing his campaign team,...
Gabon to deport illegal French residents
The Gabonese government says it is ready to deport illegal French residents on its soil. It is a direct reaction to the forced deportation,...
Development banks more and more efficient
Six major multilateral development banks (MDBs) have released the third report of their Common Performance Assessment System (COMPAS), a statement by the African Development...
two Chinese jet fighters for Ghana
The Ghana Armed Forces announced on Wednesday that it has taken delivery of two fighter jets to augment the fleet of the Ghana Air...
Police detain and beat journalists Sihem Bensedrine and Omar Mestiri
Reporters Without Borders has strongly condemned police who
detained and beat Tunisian journalist, Sihem Bensedrine, president of the working group on press freedom in North...
Kenya gangs storm Nairobi
Hundreds of members of the outlawed quasi-religious Mungiki sect, stormed the streets of Kenyan capital Wednesday, demanding for the immediate release of their leader,...