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...

50071 AfranZimbabwe International Trade Exhibition opened on Friday in the presence of Iranian and Zimbabwean presidents.Fifteen countries over the world presented their last industrial and agricultural products in the Exhibition, IRIB reported from Zi...

505 07 Hippos on the rampage in JanjanburayThe hippopotamuses on Tuesday, April 22 destroyed over 40 nursery beds at Moriba rice filed in Janjanburay, CRR. The nursery beds, which were due for transplanting, were seriously damaged by the hippos caus...

50123The Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that the northern part of the country will still produce the next president in 2011 when the current tenure of President Umar Yar’adua who is sick is finished next year.The statement cam...

50091 AfranVienna, May 6, IRNA – IAEA chief Yukiya Amano is calling on all the agency’s member states for their viewpoints on how to persuade the Zionist regime to sign up to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.In a letter, dated April 7 and circulated...

505 25The World Health Organization (WHO) country representative in The Gambia, Dr. Thomas Sukwa has saluted Gambian Journalists for their giant strides in covering health issues. He said that the WHO Country Office has been closely monitoring the acti...

501 44The Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has called on the federal government to use the agreement between Nigeria and Germany to obtain a copy of judgment in the case of Siemen’s bribery allegation...

501 59An opposition party in Nigeria, the Action Congress (AC) has advised President Goodluck Jonathan against appointing Information and Communications Minister, Dora Akunyili as the Independent National Electoral Commission ([INEC) chairman, as being...

50221Selon des sources bien informées, la police a arrêté, mercredi, les trois présumés auteurs de la fausse alerte à la bombe donnée mardi dans une agence bancaire à Tevragh Zeina.Dans la journée d’hier, des unités cynophiles de la police ...

50278Le taux de mortalité maternelle a connu une baisse de 50%, passant de 800 cas de décès pour 100 000 en 2002, à 404 cas de décès pour 100 000 accouchements en 2009, indique un rapport récent du ministère de la Santé, publié jeudi.Cette di...

50295APA-Nouakchott (Mauritanie) Les journalistes mauritaniens n’ont plus le droit de publier des informations relevant du domaine du secret militaire ou susceptibles d’être considérées comme telles, a averti le ministre mauritanien de la Défen...

505 44 CJ Agim wants magistrates to live up to expectations The chief justice of The Gambia, His Worship, Mr. Emmanuel Agim has hailed the UNDP for their support in training magistrates on leadership skills, as he called on Gambian magistrates to live ...

500117 AfranQom, June 10, IRNA – First Vice-President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said here Wednesday attack on Gaza Peace Flotilla was an indication of weakness of Zionist regime.Addressing a local seminar on water held in this central provincial capita...

500132 AfranTehran, June 20, IRNA – A Ghana publisher said here Sunday that a new international system of relationship, based on fairness and justice, needs to be drawn up.“This unfair world needs to be changed. We need to have a comprehensive m...

506050The wrangles in the Muslim community yesterday went a notch higher with the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council secretary general Sheikh Siraj Kavuma disowning his chairperson, Mr Hassan Basajjabalaba.Accompanied by over 40 district kadhis at the UMSC ...