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President and Mrs. Bush Discuss Africa Policy, Trip to Africa
MRS. BUSH: Thank you very much, Mark. I get to speak first and introduce the President. Thank you, Mark, for your efforts to lead...
Somalia: Extension of peace mission’s mandate not enough, says government
Thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in the capital, Mogadishu. Somalia's transitional government has welcomed a resolution by the UN Security Council...
Pedal power for clean water
Almost 20 percent of the world does not have access to safe drinking water, which, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), means 1.6...
Zimbabwe’s plus 100,000% inflation
The Zimbabwe dollar took a dramatic plunge yesterday, on the eve of President Robert Mugabe’s 84th birthday falling by more than a 100 percent....
Kenya: new threats
Kenya’s opposition has threatened to call its supporters back into the streets en masse in a week’s time if parliament is not recalled to...
Kenya : SMS text messages the new guns of war?
Some Kenyans are using SMS text messages to revive ethnic tensions in their country, preying on the political-ethnic tensions that have ravaged the country...
Ethiopia grants 915 licences for investment projects
The Ethiopian Investment Agency said it has issued investment licenses to investment projects during the first half of the current fiscal year to be...
U.N : Children still treated as soldiers in Africa
The situation for children caught in conflict remains "grave and entirely unacceptable" because 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers,...
Bush, first lady for low tech health solution in Africa
President George W. Bush focused on a low-tech way to save the lives of African children Monday as he and first lady Laura Bush...
Nigeria hands over land to Niger
A Nigerian settlement in Abadam under the local governance of Borno state has been handed over to the Republic of Niger. A dispute over...
Obama wins again
Democrat Barack Obama beat rival Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin on Tuesday, extending his U.S. presidential winning streak. With 99% of the ballots counted in...
Free Banking for Zimbabwe
Since March 2007, Zimbabwe has been in the midst of a hyperinflation (a rate of inflation per month that exceeds 50%). This phenomenon is...
MEND says extradited leader shot dead, govt denies claim
There was a momentary scare in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region Tuesday (19 Feb) evening after the region's largest militant group claimed one...
Heavy snowfalls in north-eastern Libya
A cold wave which swept across Libya over the past few days has brought with it heavy snowfalls since Monday in the region of...
EGYPT: changing attitudes to rape?
Egypt was scandalised last summer when an 11-year-old girl named Hend Farghali was allegedly raped by a 21-year-old man. Petrified, the girl did not...
Skin Bleaching
Some people will do anything to look good! In Brazzaville in the Congo, there has been a disturbing rise in the cosmetic use of...
Kenya: Kibaki agrees to power-sharing but….
Mwai Kibaki has agreed to share power... under the country's current constitution and pledged a new constitution within 12 months, signaling a hardening of...
Mozambique’s trade union federation condemns wildcat strike
Mozambique's main trade union federation, the OTM, has distanced itself from the wildcat strike, waged by about 600 seasonal workers at the Xinavane sugar...
Kibaki agrees to share power to end Kenya crisis
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has agreed to the power sharing agreement being proposed as a way to resolve the political crisis in the East...
Nigeria: MOPPAN responds to cell-phone pornography story
REPORT ON CELL-PHONE PORNOGRAPHIC CLIP INVOLVING A POPULAR HAUSA FILM ACTRESS
BACKGROUND
Six months ago, there had been several media reports both locally and...
Daby Toure’s tough life
Daby's story goes back two generations and has a fairy tale beginning. Once upon a time, there were four brothers who lived in a...
Addis Ababa Airport to use bar coded boarding passes
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport is to become the first airport in Africa to fully operate bar-coded boarding passes (BCBP) for all international and...
Rabat int’l athletics meet holds 14 June
The Rabat International Athletics meet will take place on 14 June, the Moroccan Royal Athletics Association (FRMA) said here on Tuesday. The competition, supported...
AI Senegal opposes legalised homosexuality
The chairman of the national Council of Amnesty Senegal, Samba Guissé, has called on all affiliate groups of the Senegalese chapter of Amnesty International...
End of world records ?
Bad news for sportsmen and sportswomen! According to French researchers, the Olympic motto Citius, Fortius, Altius, will soon be a thing of the past
Bad...
Egypt deports Palestinians as security situation worsens
Egypt has deported 350 Palestinians from the Sinai Peninsula to Gaza, PANA reported Tuesday. The deportations came as Egyptian police discovered hundreds of kilogrammes...
Striking Nigerian university teachers risk losing pay
The Nigerian government has warned striking university teachers they risk losing their pay if they fail to return to work immediately. Education Minister Aja...
First ladies fight for peace
In a bid to support initiatives to restore and strengthen peace on the unrest-prone continent, wives of African heads of state or their representatives...
Moroccan security arrest 23 terrorists
Moroccan security services have "dismantled a vast terrorist network of jihadists", which was planning to perpetrate acts of violence in Morocco, the government press...
Kenya: US may support civil society to “check” Kibaki
The US Monday warned that failure to strike an accord to end the political crisis in Kenya would push the US to support the...