50033 AfranTehran, April 4, IRNA – Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki wound off his African tour and arrived home on Sunday.During his five-day African tour, Mottaki visited Algeria, Gabon and Senegal and conferred with the countries’ high ranking...

50320 - 09042010KINGSWAY TYRES LTD plans to invest Sh50 million in a retread production line.The proposed Nairobi factory, which is a signature project in marking Kingway’s 50 year anniversary, will reduce the cost of tyres by 60 per cent and curb en...

50043 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is now emerging as a new power in the world.President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a meeting with new Iranian ambassadors to Norway, Jordan and Turkmenistan ...

50055 AfranTehran, April 16, IRNA – The First International Conference on Poets of Iran and World will be held here at Vahdat Hall on Saturday.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will open the meeting where a group of Iran's cultural officials as well as 5...

50062 AfranTehran, April 21, IRNA -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said insecurity in the Middle East is caused by forces outside this region.According to the Presidential Office Website, Ahmadinejad in an interview with the German TV network R.T.L. sa...

50077 AfranTehran, April 25, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who paid an official visits to two African countries, returned home on Sunday morning. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Cooperative Minister Mohammad Abbasi, Agricultural Jihad Mi...

50604Nairobi/ KampalaKenya’s bid to settle a month-long diplomatic row with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over new visa rules appears to have flopped, signalling that thousands of traders will remain locked out of their most popular source market fo...

50517The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh Friday decorated eight officers of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) who were earlier promoted to various ranks in the army.The promoted officers are Sering Modou Njie, promote...

505 14 The former Inspector General of police, Ensa Badjie, Lt Colonel Mam Matarr Secka and Major Kuluteh Manneh who are facing 30 criminal charges, Tuesday April 27th 2010 appeared before Justice Amadi of the High court in Banjul to take their pleas....

505 31The Ministry of Agriculture is spearheading the Gambia All Village Savings and Credit Associations (VISACA) Congress at the Sheraton Hotel and Spa in Brufut. The two-day forum brings together stakeholders in the micro-finance institutions across ...

505 38Hon. Ousman Sonko, The Gambia’s minister for the Interior and NGO Affairs has expressed the desire of The Gambia government for the effective control of small arms and light weapons in the West African sub region. The minister said this at a on...

501 51Major concessionaires in Nigeria indebted the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria to the tune of N10 billion, the Senate Committee on Aviation has revealed.The revelation came yesterday during a budget defense session attended by the management ...

50621Over the last four years, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has highlighted employment creation as one of its budget priorities. But lack of a cohesive plan means most of the plans are yet to be realised, writes Kasozi Nasser: -In ...

50210APA-Nouakchott (Mauritanie) Youssef Al Qardaoui, célèbre prêcheur et président de l’Union mondiale des ulémas musulmans, est arrivé mardi soir à Nouakchott pour sa première visite dans le pays.Cette visite qui dure trois jours sera meubl...

50237Une jeune femme de 20 ans, violement battue et brulée par des présumes proches de son mari, non loin d’Aioun, a été admise hier, aux urgences de l’hôpital régional de cette ville dans le Hodh El Gharbi.Selon alakhbar, secourue par certai...

50284Près de 2000 candidats se sont présentés, aujourd’hui, à Zouérate et à Nouadhibou, pour participer à un concours de sélection, organisé par la Snim en vue de recruter une centaine d’employés au profit de la société minière.Les can...

50099 AfranIslamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a statement Tuesday in condemnation of the Monday bloody Israeli attack against Fleet of Freedom humanitarian aid ships, saying that the atrocity was an aggression against world ...

505 45 Towards a tobacco-free societyAs The Gambia joined the rest of the world to observe this year's World Tobacco Day, we wish to add our voice to the calls for people to distance themselves from tobacco usage so that the world can produce a healthy...

500122 AfranArmenian Prelacy Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian in Tehran and a number of Armenian MPs on Monday met and conferred with Ayatollah Mohseni Gorgani, Head ofIRI Supreme Court.Ayatollah Gorgani said, "Noting that we have a common enemy who tries ...

506 040Exiled Rwandan top military officer, Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa was yesterday discharged from hospital in South Africa after the doctors at Morningside Clinic in Johannesburg said he was expected to gain full recovery.He left hospital sho...