50277Des sources concordantes d’Alger affirment que les étudiants mauritaniens en Algérie ont investi les bâtiments de l’Ambassade et ont pris le staff de celle-ci en otage. Cela se serait produit hier jeudi, pendant les horaires d’ouverture o...

50294L'Agence Mauritanienne d'Information a appris, de sources du ministère des finances, que le département a introduit la langue arabe pour la première fois depuis l'indépendance dans les bulletins de salaire de l'Etat mauritanien, à côté du f...

500108 AfranTehran, June 2, IRNA – A delegation comprising four Majlis deputies is to join the peace flotilla which has been attacked by Israeli forces on Monday, it was announced here on Wednesday.Mahmoud Ahmadi Bighash, a member of the Secretari...

500116 AfranTehran, June 10, IRNA – Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said here Wednesday unfortunately Americans have staged a naïve game in New York nowadays, which we believe it is Zionist lobby pulling Obama’s leg from behind the scene.Accord...

500131 AfranSenegalese Foreign Minister, Madicke Niang in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki said the presence of the Senegalese high ranking officials in Iran during the current sensitive situation shows the nation's solidarity ...

500143 AfranTehran, June 28, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Monday that Iran is ready for talks on its nuclear program.“Iran will continue dialogue but it has its own conditions,” said President Ahmadinejad, adding that Iran...

500150 AfranDamascus, July 15, IRNA – Sec Gen of Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine strongly condemned new US and EU sanctions against Iran Wednesday saying Iran has always been resistant when faced with such sanctions.According to IRNA ...

5060671Burundi has been named the most corrupt country in the region, according to the 2010 East African Bribery Index which was launched by Transparency International in Nairobi on Thursday.The index, which was previously confined to Kenya, Uganda and...

500159 AfranHamas has ruled out any form of negotiations with the Zionist regime, saying US-pushed support by Arab leaders cannot legitimize peace talks with Tel Aviv."There is no legitimacy for the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations whether they were di...

5060102The number of Ugandans who have been condemned to death by hanging in China for trafficking in illegal drugs has risen to 20, the country’s envoy to Beijing has said.Ambassador Charles Madibo Wagidoso told Ugandan journalists on tour in China ...

The Eastern Cape is one of South Africa’s most impoverished provinces in terms of average monthly expenditure, but it is also home to some of the country’s most spectacular and beautiful scenery. The Great Karoo, which spans the Eastern, Wester...

HTML clipboard IntroductionThe word ZANZIBAR is of Persian or Arabic origin. The Persians derive the name from Zangh Bar, meaning "the Negro Coast." On the other hand the Arabs deduce the name from the Arabic Zayn Z'al Barr, meaning "Fair is this l...

The cooking of Southern Africa is sometimes called 'rainbow cuisine', as the food in this region is a blend of many cultures – the indigenous African tribal societies, European and Asian. To understand indigenous cuisine, it is important first to dig...

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...