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President Jammeh resumes HIV/AIDS, infertility treatment
The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, Friday resumed his "HIV/AIDS treatment," with the fifth batch of 150 patients at a military clinic in "Marina Parade...
World Bank to develop health facilities in Congo
The World Bank is planning to develop health facilities in Congo and help set up a National Health Development Plan in the country, according...
USA: Black History Month in full swing
The African-American community has been celebrating the Black History Month during the month of February since 1976. John E. Fleming is the President of...
CAN 2008 : Egyptians in a festive mood
Egyptians celebrated late into Thursday night after their national team, the Pharaohs, cruised into the final of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in...
A Nigerian designs a revolutionary car in the US
A Nigerian, Jelani Aliyu, has made an important breakthrough for the automobile industry in the United States. The invention is an ultramodern electric car...
CAN 2008 : Cameroon beats Ghana, Egypt dazes Ivory Coast
Cameroon on Thursday eliminated Ghana from the 26th MTN Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Ghana when the Indomitable Lions beat the Black Stars...
Nigeria: mysterious loss of a Penis
Motor bike Taxi drivers from Gwagwalada, a small locality close to Abuja in the middle of Nigeria, have gathered to protest against a client...
Audit reports reveal embezzlement of several million dollars in Guinea
Audit reports have revealed unjustified expenses running into several million dollars and 1,300 ghost names on the civil service pay roll in Guinea between...
Sexuality: Young Africans demand fundamental human rights
African youths attending the third Africa Sexuality Conference here have asked that they be given their fundamental human rights, which include their sexuality rights....
Katoucha’s Disappearance : Police Inquiry begins
Paris Police Department has started an inquiry into the disappearance of Katoucha Niane. Persons close to the former Super Model from Guinea have been...
AIDS deaths are declining, reports UN
For the first time since the AIDS pandemic was identified a quarter-century ago, “we are seeing a decline in global AIDS deaths,” reports Dr....
Water for all: Different approaches to common challenges
Until six years ago, Eugenia Uwamahoro had to trek 2 kilometres each day to a river to get water for drinking, cooking, washing and...
Ethiopia launches national nutrition strategy
Faced with a heavy disease burden caused by prevalent maternal and child undernourishment, Ethiopia Thursday launched its first-ever National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) to ensure...
The US opposes constitutional amendment in Cameroon
The US Ambassador to Cameroon, Janet Elisabeth Garvey, has said her country is against any plan to amend the African country's Constitution so that...
Tanzania Prime Minister Edward Lowassa resigns
Tanzanian Prime Minister Edward Lowassa said Thursday that he had handed in his letter of resignation to President Jakaya Kikwete. "I wrote to the...
Nigeria Soccer: Premier League Table / Week 24
Niger Tornadoes of the central city of Minna has overtaken Enyimba in the Nigeria Premier League. Tornadoes, led by coach John Obuh, travelled to...
Chadian President receives AU/Kadhafi’s peace envoys
Chadian President, Idris Deby Itno, Wednesday in the Chadian capital, Ndjamena, received two special envoys of Colonel Muammar Kadhafi and members of the Libya-Congo...
Morocco and Belgium to play friendly match
The Morocco national football team will play a friendly match with their Belgium counterparts on 26 March in Brussels, sports sources told PANA on...
More than 500 illegal migrants arrested in Morocco
The search operations launched by the Moroccan authorities against illegal migration have led to the arrest of more than 500 illegal migrants, the majority...
Kenya: South Africa slams Kenya over peace talks hitch
The South African government has slammed Kenya after South African negotiator Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to quit the ongoing peace talks in Kenya. Deputy...
US presidential election – Barack Obama – After Super Tuesday outcomes: an even tighter race
The Super Tuesday of 2008 US presidential, on 5th February, was a crucial day in the race for US presidential election, as the largest...
Yar’Adua’s Boot Camp Reforms: Kicking himself out of office?
Whilst he is combatting political acrobatics, strategically rehearsed and put into practice by Nigerian politicians since time immemorial, to rig elections, through the setting...
Female circumcision drops by half in Niger
The prevalence rate of female circumcision among women aged between 15 and 49 years has dropped by half (from 5% in 1998 to 2.2%...
CPJ urges Cote d’Ivoire to lift RFI suspension
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Ivorian authorities to immediately lift the indefinite suspension of the FM broadcasts of the...
CAN 2008: Vogts not yet sacked – Nigeria FA
The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has denied reports that Super Eagles' coach Berti Vogts has been sacked over the team's poor performance at the...
Super Tuesday : Barack Obama’s judgement day
It is called tarmac campagne. Barack Obama has litterally been living between two planes since last week, in a race to beat time in...
Egypt: Stop Criminalizing HIV
A series of arrests in Cairo sparked by one man’s admission to police that he was HIV-positive endangers public health as well as human...
CAMAIR planes grounded in Douala
The three planes owned by the Cameroon's national carrier, CAMAIR, have been grounded at the Douala International Airport in the country's economic capital, for...
Chadian rebels withdraw from N’Djamena
The Commander of European peacekeepers in the region, EUFOR, General Jean-Philippe Ganascia says the deployment of the peacekeepers can resume on Wednesday since the...
Nigerian bourse list Dangote flour mills
The number of listed stocks under the Food/Beverages an d Tobacco sub-sector at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has gone up to 12, as...