Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.[2] With a ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Communications Prof Dora Akuniyli yesterday insisted those aides close to President Umaru Yar’adua should be honest about his state of health if he remains unable to address government after his return from a S...

50010 AfranDeputy Foreign Minister of Myanmar, Maung Myint on Tuesday met and conferred with IRI Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran.In the meeting Mottaki referred to the two countries stance in rejection of arrogance and injustice, as well ...

50014 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that vigilant nations across the world should target heart of global arrogance.President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in the second national festival on making job opportunities in the country.W...

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50024 AfranTehran, March 31, IRNA – Presidents of Iran and Senegal in a telephone conversation discussed important issues of Islamic world.According to the Presidential Office website on Tuesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Senegalese count...

Sénégal 50426Cinquantenaire de l’indépendance sur fond de controverses10 ans d’alternance au SénégalLes cinquante années d’indépendance de la république du Sénégal sont fêtées sur fond de controverses. Depuis que le Chef de l’Etat d...

50041 AfranTehran, April 9, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Friday that Iran will in the near future turn into an exporter of nuclear technology.Addressing the Fourth National Nuclear Festival, President Ahmadinejad said thanks to thei...

50050 AfranTehran, April 11, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday derided US President Barack Obama for posing nuclear threat to the international community."President of a state stands before the podi...

50058 AfranTehran, April 17, IRNA – Ugandan minister of state for international relations, Henry Okello Oryem said on Saturday that it is among legitimate rights of every nation to make use of peaceful nuclear energy.He made the remarks in the Intern...

50068 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Zimbabwe on Friday that the world nations have decided to stand the bullying powers.“Nations of the world, including African nations and governments and nations of Iran and Zimbabwe, have decided to st...

50079 AfranJakarta, Indonesia, April 27, IRNA -- Supreme Leader’s advisor Ali-Akbar Velayati said here on Tuesday that sanctions against Iran are ineffective and that the country will continue its peaceful nuclear activities.In a joint press confe...

50086 AfranTehran, May 2, IRNA – First Vice-President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said on Sunday that Tehran attaches great importance to expansion of ties with African, Latin American and Asian countries.He made the remarks in a meeting with Guinea's Fo...

50090 AfranNigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua died Wednesday night.Early Thursday, the president's office confirmed media reports that the president, who had been sick and virtually incommunicado for several months, had died late the previous night."Pres...

505 22Government ministries and departments have been urged to synergise their programmes and activities so that actions could have maximum impact as well as deliver positive results in the country’s drive for national development.Hon. Jato Sillah, T...

501 36The current state of infrastructural decay and incessant power outages at the airports in the in Nigeria has been condemned by the Airline Operators of Nigerian (AON).The AON also noted that besides huge economic losses, the national embarrassmen...

501 42Both President Goodluck Jonathan and his newly sworn-in Vice President Arc Namadi Sambo have pledged to work together in the best interest of the country so that Nigeria can move ahead.The two, who spoke after the swearing-in ceremony of the new ...

50616President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, in the second and last part of his exclusive interview with UBC Reporter for Parliament & international affairs, Kasozi Nasser, speaks about his son joining the army, denies being authoritarian, and hints at st...

501 62Resident doctors in Nigeria have threatened to start a nationwide strike if the federal government fails to pay their Consolidated Salary Structure (CONMESS) as well as their arrears accrued from January 2010 to date.However, the doctors under th...

50218La police des crimes économiques a arrêté l’ex Directeur de la Somagaz El Mechri ould El Hadj, ainsi que les directeurs administratif et financier de cette société, tous suspectés d’implication dans un scandale de mauvaise gestion, auque...