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...

506056Employees working in the East African Community will be shielded from double taxation since member states are working on a common law in regard to income tax payment.The law is a relief since many questions have remained unanswered in regard to a...

506061 KampalaICC Intercontinental ShieldUganda v NambiaUganda Cricket Association were left cutting a ‘hands-on-head’ posture appealing to the International Cricket Council (ICC) after the latter moved their Intercontinental Shield home fixture w...

5060681Members on the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee want the Libyan Leader to fulfil his promise to pay about Shs2.6 billion used in feeding and accommodating Afro-Arab youth conference delegates in Kampala in 2008. Col. Muammar Gadaffi is cu...

5060691The government has declared five days of mourning fallen former president Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa, starting today. According to the funeral programme released by the government yesterday, the late Binaisa is to be buried on Wednesday at a yet t...

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Sami al-Misrati, a member of the opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, stated in a phone conversation with Al-Alam: “A small airplane left the Al-Abraq Airport yesterday carrying someone who looked like Imam Musa Sadr.”Issa Abd al-Majid Mansur, a promi...

Animals A to Z List The jungles on this planet are full of wild animals which vary in terms of appearance, habitat, food habits, etc. Compiling a jungle animals list is a tough task, considering that each animal belongs to a species or sub-spe...

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, said increased cooperation between Muslim nations for the purpose of defending the identity of Islam and Mus...