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Egyptian editor faces trial
Leading Egyptian Editor Ibrahim Eissa is to appear in court on Wednesday to face charges of publishing "fake news about the President's health'' which,...
Huge price cuts ordered
Mr Robert Mugabe has summoned business executives today to discuss the reduction of prices of goods and services to February 12 levels when...
Mugabe goes shopping
The Zimbabwe government under President Robert Mugabe has embarked on a borrowing and spending spree ahead of Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
By Tony...
Better living conditions for Nigerians
President Umaru Yar'Adua Sunday pledged to achieve significant improvement in the living conditions of Nigerians in the shortest possible time, according to his Eid-El-Maulud...
Preventing Kenya style post election violence in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said security agencies were on high alert to thwart any Kenya-style violence in the country after next weekend's election.
The...
Obama gets another ally
Senator Barack Obama on Friday received a long sought after endorsement from a former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, in a boost for...
Editor on the run
The founder and editor of the private bimonthly newspaper Umuco went into hiding last Tuesday, a day before a police raid on his residence...
Egyptian elections: Brotherhood says it’s ready
In two weeks' time Egyptians will head to voting booths to cast ballots in what analysts say could be one of the most important...
Zimbabwe: The art of gerrymandering
If Zimbabwe were any other country, President Robert Mugabe, would be out of office after elections next week on March 29.
The economy is in...
Obama to be endorsed by Bill Richardson
Former democratic hopeful Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico who dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination on January 10, is expected...
Obama’s rights violated, Ms. Rice says sorry
US presidential hopeful is yet again the centre of attraction as State Department spokesman Sean McCormack announced that three of its contract workers had...
Kenyan industrialists want EAC to define relations with Comesa, SADC
A year before the five East African Community (EAC) members amalgamate into a single trading bloc with a common currency, the Kenyan business community...
Zimbabwe : Mugabe lies to teachers
Robert Mugabe's crumbling regime which approved a hefty salary hike for striking teachers two weeks ago failed to pay the new salaries as civil...
Obama : the theory of the controversial drum
The profoundness and earnestness of the poignant Obama speech on race is inarguably one of the best rhetorics on race of alltime. The subject...
Kadhafi’s anti-bible speech causes massive uproar
Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi has attracted outrage from Christians in Uganda, over his remarks that any Bible and Tora (Old Testament) that do not...
‘Go’ and vote or be deported
Zimbabweans living in neigbouring countries have been urged to return to their native country to "flush out" Robert Mugabe. This has lead...
Refugees ask for forgiveness
More than 600 Liberian refug ees who face repatriation back home for breaking Ghanaian laws are pleading for clemency.
Police removed 659 refugees, mainly women...
Analysts react to the Obama speech
Reactions after the Obama Philadelphia speech "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union" are diverse. While the speech has drawn...
Obama – Clinton : Obama calls for end to ‘racial stalemate’
Barack Obama on Tuesday called for an end to the “racial stalemate” that he said the US had been locked in for years as...
Politicians branded ‘gay’ by pastor
The Zanu-PF election campaign sank to unprecedented levels of moral depravity yesterday when a party aligned pastor suggested that MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was...
African MPs to be trained in Nigerian parliament
Nigeria's National Assembly (parliament) has announced plans to institutionalise its Policy Analysis and Research Project (P.A.R.P) to provide training for legislators in Nigeria and...
Power Sharing legalised in Kenya
The Kenyan parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a constitutional amendment in a historic exercise that will legalise the formation of a coalition government in...
Obama’s response to race
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these...
Chad opposition leader alive
Chadian opposition leader Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh, who has been missing since 3 February 2008 in N'Djamena, Chad, is still alive, his son, Hicham...
Several dead people appear on Zimbabwe roll
Mugabe is so desperate to win on March 29 that he has
raised the dead to vote for him. A voters' roll released Monday...
Nigeria : party members killed after victory
Three members of Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) died and seven others were seriously injured Monday...
Three members of Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party...
Obama – Clinton : the product of negative numbers equal positive
After the Somali elder garb near-scandal which almost hurt his fame forcing Obama to publicly defend his religious stance, which some still doubted, Rev....
Former Egyptian presidential candidate will remain in prison
Egypt's highest court Monday turned down another bid by jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour to be released from prison, due to his medical condition.
His...
Algerian health workers strike
Thousands of Algerian health workers, including mid wives and medical secretaries, went on a three day strike, Sunday, in protest of the deterioration of...
Strict screening for journalists and observers begins
The Zimbabwean government is screening foreign journalists before letting them into the country before this month's elections, amid suspicion that some may be spying...