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The new scramble for Africa’s resources
In the past decade, Africa has seen an unprecedented boom in oil and gas investment.
By Dino Mahtani
With big companies shut...
Zimbabwe: Short profiles of presidential hopefuls
The Countdown to the Zimbabwe elections, marked for March 29, 2008, is on. Zimbabweans are getting prepared to hit the polls to elect a...
Brief report on the state of film industry in Kano State, Nigeria
Preamble. Motion picture industry in Northern Nigeria popularly known as Kannywood was founded in 1990 when the first Hausa home video titled "Turmin Danya"...
CAF Confederation Cup results
Following are some results in the CAF Confederation Cup which started off across Africa at the weekend:
US Masseda (TOG) 2 0 UNB (BEN)
Express...
Nigerian army spokesman dies in road crash
Nigerian Army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen Solomon Giwa-Amu, has died in a road accident, PANA has learnt. The accident occurred Monday (today) morning as Giwa-Amu was...
Southern Africa power crunch: Namibia to build nuclear station
The Namibian government Monday announced plans to construct a nuclear power station within a decade, as it seeks an independent power supply status amid...
Mauritania reiterates attachment to Maghreb Union
Mauritania has reiterated its attachment to the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) as a strategic choice for political, economic and social integration of its member...
Jean Ping hails Kadhafi’s role in Africa
The new Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Gabonese national Jean Ping, has hailed Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi's role in establishing the AU...
World Bank gives Nigeria $300m for road maintenance
The World Bank has granted Nigeria US$300 million to repair five major highways across the country, according to an official of the Bank. The...
Nigerian university teachers begin ‘warning’ strike
Lecturers in Nigeria's 58 public universities began a week-long 'warning' strike Monday to press for the reinstatement of 49 of their colleagues, who...
Kenya opposes President Bush’s power-sharing proposal
Kenyan government has thrown new obstacles to a power-sh aring accord expected to be reached on Tuesday, saying US proposals for a coalition government...
Volleyball Olympic qualifier: Kenya replaced by Puerto Rico
The world volleyball governing body, FIVB, has granted Puerto Rico a spot in this year's last Olympic qualifier tournament, after Kenya and Peru withdrew...
Mauritanian Premier profers post-slavery program
Mauritanian Premier, Zeine Ould Zeidane, disclosed Saturday afternoon, a program aimed at fighting the after-effects of slavery, by working for the definitive elimination of...
Two million infested with malaria in Burundi annually
Malaria affects between two million and 2.5 million people per year in Burundi, which makes it the first cause of mortality in the country,...
Egypt continues crackdown on opposition ahead local polls
The Egyptian government has continued its crackdown on the most powerful opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, ahead of upcoming munic i pal elections in...
Kenya: coalition government to implement peace road map
The road map to a comprehensive solution to Kenya's post- election crisis has been rolled up with the formation of an international panel of...
Turkish president expected in Kinshasa on 28 February
Turkish president, Abdullah Gül, is expected on 28 F ebruary in Kinshasa at the head of a delegation of 120 businessmen, his special envoy,...
Niger : Fall in rate of female genital mutilation/cutting
The prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting in Niger fell dramatically between 1998 and 2006, according to a recent government survey.
The prevalence of female...
Kenya: Nigerian to co-chair talks
Nigeria's career international diplomat and former Foreign Affairs Minister Oluyemi Adeniji has been proposed to co-chair Kenya's crisis talks as former United Nations Secretary...
Zimbabwe: Four Candidates to battle for presidency
Three opposition politicians in Zimbabwe on Friday registered to take on President Mugabe in a 29 March poll expected to be the toughest the...
Zimbabwe: three election candidates nominated
Friday is the deadline for the registration of candidates nominated by their parties to stand for the March 29 general elections in Zimbabwe. It...
African information systems directors to meet
The second edition of the congress of information systems directors in Africa has been for 21-23 February in Marrakech, southern Morocco, PANA reported Friday....
Kenya: A new constitution ahead
Shortly after US president George Bush said that there must be an immediate halt to violence, while calling for justice for the victims of...
Germany donates €4m to fight HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone
Germany has donated 4 million euros to Sierra Leone to boost the African nation's fight against HIV/AIDS. The donation was handed over to Sierra...
Namibia’s 3rd uranium mine ready in July
Namibia's third uranium mine, Treokkpje mine, will come on stream in July, with the company expecting to ship its first export in 2009, the...
UN fights Female Genital Mutilation in Sierra Leone
The United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) has called on the Government to apply a zero tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)....
10 bodies recovered from collapsed Lagos building
Ten bodies have been pulled out of the rubble of the two-storey building which collapsed in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos Wednesday, rescue workers...
Mauritanian national football team appoints a new coach
The Mauritanian Football Association (FFRIM) on Thursday introduced Alain Moizan, a Franco-Senegalese, as the new coach of the senior national football team, the Mourabitounes....
Court denies granting bail to detained journalist in Niger
Niger's Court of Appeal in Niamey has denied granting ba il to a detained journalist, Moussa Kaka, a sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media Foundation...
Gambian authorities revoke licence of mining company
Gambian government has revoked an operating license gran ted to a foreign mining company, Carnegie Minerals, and threatened possible lega l action against it,...