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SkyVision Acquires Afinis – African VSAT operator – from Monaco Telecom

SkyVision Acquires Afinis – African VSAT operator – from Monaco Telecom

HERTFORDSHIRE, United-Kingdom, August 6, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ – SkyVision Global Networks Ltd. ), the leading global provider of IP connectivity over satellite and...
Royal Wedding article from Al Jazeera’s wedding correspondent

Royal Wedding article from Al Jazeera’s wedding correspondent

In his Confessions St Augustine describes how, when studying in Rome, he was persuaded by friends to go to the Colloseum to watch the...
British Police will quiz former Libyan Minister

British Police will quiz former Libyan Minister

The defected Libyan foreign minister, Moussa Koussa will be visited by British police in the next few days for questioning over what he knows...
The architecture of maternal death

The architecture of maternal death

The architectural design of two newly built public maternity hospitals in Malawi, which has one of the world’s highest rates of women dying in...
Pro-Gaddafi Africans protest as Coalition forces gain momentum

Pro-Gaddafi Africans protest as Coalition forces gain momentum

As world leaders met Tuesday in London to discuss the Libyan situation, hundreds of members of a group called Pan Africanists from Uganda and...
Ethiopia and U.K. forge closer economic ties

Ethiopia and U.K. forge closer economic ties

Ethiopia and United Kingdom are soon to sign a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) that aims to give further impetus to growing trade and investment...
The Grass is Always Greener

The Grass is Always Greener

Most mornings I pass by the American Embassy on my way to the gym. There is always a long queue of people waiting...
Libya: Light at the end of tunnel for freedom fighters

Libya: Light at the end of tunnel for freedom fighters

Muammar Gaddafi’s government has warned the international community that any attack on Libya would threaten air and sea traffic in the Mediterranean after it...
Ethiopia, Nigeria, DRC to get increased aid from UK

Ethiopia, Nigeria, DRC to get increased aid from UK

Ethiopia, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo will receive more direct development aid from the United Kingdom as the aid to other countries...
Libya’s Gaddafi ‘Ordered Lockerbie Bombing’

Libya’s Gaddafi ‘Ordered Lockerbie Bombing’

Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, did order the Lockerbie bombing of the Pan Am 103 Flight that killed 270 people in Scotland, United Kingdom,...
Egypt: Gamel Mubarak goes into hiding

Egypt: Gamel Mubarak goes into hiding

The son of ousted Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is desperately seeking a hiding place for himself and his family in the United Kingdom. According to...
John Paintsil, the king of own goals

John Paintsil, the king of own goals

It's operation open net at Fulham! Out of four bitter own goals registered since the beginning of the season, three have emanated from the...
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The United States, Britain and China – Sudan, a nation divided

The seventh in our series of articles about Sudan’s pending referenda focuses on the United States, the United Kingdom and China and the remarkable...
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Tayo Fatunla: Lessons in Black History

Political cartoonists have long been able to hide the truth in plain sight with their comedic work, tempering bitter reality with their deceptively lighthearted...
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Kele Okereke — The Beauty of the Writing, the Strength of the Performance

British rock singer Kele Okereke, on hiatus from the alternative rock band Bloc Party, hit the road for his first Solo European tour. After...
Kate Middleton: An unlikely class warrior

Kate Middleton: An unlikely class warrior

Whilst the candor and the maturity of those two young people describing their intention to spend the rest of their lives together was surprisingly...
Royal Pavilion Ice Rink

Royal Pavilion Ice Rink

“I feel as if I have witnessed something miraculous,” says 75 year-old Ross Sinclair as he gazes on the ice shimmering against the fairytale...
Marshal-Plan for Africa after “colonial rape”?

Marshal-Plan for Africa after “colonial rape”?

Africa deserves a version of the Marshall Plan, reconstruction and assistance, similar to that given to postwar Europe, after the years of "colonial rape"...
Ghanaian designer Ozwald Boateng twists the tradition of Armani

Ghanaian designer Ozwald Boateng twists the tradition of Armani

Somerset House in England’s capital played host to the just ended bi-annual London Fashion Week, an opportunity for top designers from every corner of...
Al Qaeda in Yemen

Al Qaeda in Yemen

On Wednesday the Washington Post reported that CIA sources now believe that Yemen-based group, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), now represents a...
UK gets ready to send thousands of Zimbabweans back home

UK gets ready to send thousands of Zimbabweans back home

Zimbabwean nationals who were denied asylum in the United Kingdom face renewed deportation threats after a United Kingdom Border Agency fact-finding team visited Harare...
Why we can’t be charitable to Blair

Why we can’t be charitable to Blair

Whilst Tony Blair may have decided to get charitable with his money, it seems that the British public remain less than charitable in their...
IT Outsourcing: Africa, the new garden of Eden

IT Outsourcing: Africa, the new garden of Eden

A study conducted by AT Kearney has indicated that seven African countries are among the top 50 global outsourcing destinations for IT services, also...
Libya tears United States and United Kingdom apart

Libya tears United States and United Kingdom apart

A U.S. Senate hearing over the release of the Libyan spy, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi scheduled for Thursday was postponed after "key witnesses" failed to...
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Monty Pythons show solidarity with Sahara refugees

Michael Palin and Terry Jones were among the celebrities attending a private view of a photographs from the Western Sahara refugee camps in London...
Ethiopian government goes bankrupt: Could this be the way out?

Ethiopian government goes bankrupt: Could this be the way out?

The second of my three part series, exposing some of our problems and what could be a possible way out, seeks to explore the...
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“Intervention will harm Iran’s democratic movement”

The head of BBC Persia Service, Sadeq Saba told an audience in the British Parliament on Monday that “any foreign intervention in any shape...
U.K. faces law suit over DR Congo resource-war

U.K. faces law suit over DR Congo resource-war

The British government is to face charges over its failure to surrender British companies and individuals trading directly or indirectly in conflict minerals and...
Uganda head lambasts Commonwealth and Commends China

Uganda head lambasts Commonwealth and Commends China

Uganda's president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said the western world has squandered cultural links with Africa and mismanaged it by making lectures thereby losing...
7/7 Bombings showed we do not know our enemy

7/7 Bombings showed we do not know our enemy

For most Britons 7th July 2005 will be remembered as the day that al Qaeda terrorists attacked London. But five years on, no link...