A Nigerian based Saudi cleric, Dr Ahmad Gummi has been arrested by the Saudi authorities at his house in Mecca.Dr Gummi who is widely seen as a controversial Islamic preacher was arrested Thursday last week by the Saudi Arabian secret police although b...

50009 AfranIn the meeting, Mottaki lauded the struggles of the Zimbabwean people with global arrogance and their efforts to attain independence.At the meeting, Mottaki congratulated the Zimbabwean envoy on anniversary of their revolution and said exist...

Underground City in Tunisia  

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 ...

50002 AfranContemporary world politics make it necessary for nations to integrate into international unions in the interest of their own national security and economy. In these international unions, which are usually based upon geographic location, suc...

50011 AfranIRI parliament speaker Ali Larijani Tuesday in separate statements to his counterparts worldwide congratulated the advent of Nowruz, the auspicious New Iranian Year Day to all enthusiasts of civilization, literature and human morality.The st...

Ramadan in 2013 will start on Tuesday, the 9th of July and will continue for 30 days until Wednesday, the 7th of August. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Deemed the most holy month of the year, it represents the revelation o...

SENEGAL-50408Fermeture de la base militaire française de DakarAprès quatre siècles de présence, la France annonce le retrait de sa base militaire du Sénégal. Les ¾ des effectifs, soit 900 hommes, vont être redéployés à Libreville, au Gabon q...

50012 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the unfair materialistic system in the world is on verge of collapse and the world needs a new humanistic and just order.According to the report of Presidential Office website on Tuesday, President Ahmadine...

Ahmadinejad's trip to Africa at a Glance

Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court yesterday 9th February 2010 convicted and sentenced one Mustapha Gaye, a resident of Latrikunda Sabiji, to death. After a marathon trial, the court found the accused, Mustapha Gaye, guilt...

50313 18032010There is excitement among residents on whose land in Manda Bay the port is set to be constructed. Now living in the sprawling slums on Lamu Island after they fled Manda Bay due to insecurity, these residents hope to be compensated for the...

50027 AfranIran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Friday that Iran and Gabon strongly support elimination and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and legal right of the NPT signatories to use peaceful nuclear technology.Addressing repo...

Sénégal 50428Inauguration du monument de la Renaissance AfricaineLe symbole d’une nouvelle destinéeLe président de la république du Sénégal, son excellence Me Abdoulaye Wade a inauguré samedi dernier (3 avril) en présence de chefs d’Etat a...

50109Nigeria’s immediate former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has returned back to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a party he left due to political disagreement between him and the former president Olusegun Obasanjo.Atiku’s media ...

50323 - 13042010The Common Market for Eastern and Southern African states converge in Cairo this week with more than 500 industry leaders, international investors and ministers from more than 19 countries in the continent to weigh emerging opportunitie...

50325 - 19042010The Kenya Government has put on hold a Legal notice issued last year on testing of petroleum products imported in to the country.The move follows an outcry by oil marketing companies that the process was costly and the operators were fo...