506066The 2010 summit of African heads of state and government opens in Kampala today. It is the latest in many summits by African leaders that go back to the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963 as Kasozi Nasser reviews:...

The subject of "traditional family patterns in Africa" is so broad that it cannot be adequately addressed in one chapter. The cultural and physical diversity added with the dramatic social changes of the last three decades on the continent makes th...

506099Since 9/11, international terrorism has, sometimes erroneously, been associated with Islam, so this Ramathan, let’s dismember our religion from this association, Nasser writesBy Thursday next week, Muslims all over the world will be fasting, h...

505 41The Gambia’s minister of Tourism and Culture, Honorable Fatou Mass Jobe Njie has highlighted the important role the tourism sector plays in the country’s socio-economic development describing it as the engine of growth for the country’s eco...

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...

50692Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa, a lawyer, former President and Attorney General in the post independent government, died yesterday in Kampala, Fred Guweddeko writes about his life;The late Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa was President of Uganda from July 1979 ...

The International Trade Centre has partnered with Africa’s trade consultants to increase the exporters’ competitiveness at the international market.Ms Aicha Pouye, the ITC director of business and institutional support, said in Entebbe on Tuesday t...

50606 KampalaThe Ugandan 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, Mr. Eriya Kategaya, has today announced that the volume of inter East African Community trade has more than doubles in the region since 2004.Kategaya revealed tha...

506052Tullow Oil has joined Katalemwa Cheshire Homes in raising funds for children with disabilities in Uganda. A last week Tullow sponsored show in Kampala that raised close to Shs30 million, marked the start of a relationship with the child care cent...

The Aziza Hotel, Tunisia When you touch down on Tunisian soil, the first thing that hits you is the diverse mixture of cultures. A French and Arabic speaking country, perched at the top of Africa, Tunisia is a world of delights for the keen t...

500140 AfranAnkara prevented an Israeli aircraft making its way to Poland to fly in its airspace, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported.The cargo plane was carrying more than 100 officers and non-commissioned officers to a tour of Auschwitz camps.Civilia...

500146 AfranTurkey warned 'Israel' Monday it will cut ties unless it gets an apology for a deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships.An adamant Zionist regime however said it will never apologize for the deadly attack against civilian peace activists which i...

500104 Afran'Israel' must be punished for its bloody massacre on aid ships bound for Gaza, Turkey's Prime Minister said Tuesday, urging international sanctions against the regime's lawlessness.Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks came a day after Ankara reca...

50016 AfranTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stood up for Iran's nuclear program, saying it is "solely for peaceful purposes".In an interview with the BBC, Erdogan trashed Western claims that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program.Spe...

500148 AfranTurkey's Prime Minister Recep Teyyip Erdogan Monday called Israeli forces' attack against Int'l Peace Flotilla a "piracy" urging Zionist regime to beg to be pardoned.Erdogan made the comment after a meeting with his Serbian counterpart at a...

50280Les dockers de ville continuent de vivre le calvaire d’une répression dont tous les Mauritaniens (partis politiques, société civile, citoyens…) sont les témoins indignés : des dizaines d’arrestations, de nombreux blessés.Malgré les ex...

50602KampalaUganda will today take a precarious wade into the murky waters of international diplomacy by playing host to a man Kampala’s friends in the West revile. Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, accused of seeking to possess a nuclea...

506054Cocoa growing is one of the cash crops that can earn Uganda a lot of foreign exchange, a cocoa investor in Uganda, Mr Philip Betts has said.“Uganda has a lot of advantages over other countries of the world in cocoa production because of its fer...

50057 AfranTehran, April 18, IRNA – Uganda Minister of State for International Cooperation underlined all countries' rights for access to nuclear technology.In a meeting with Secretary of Supreme National Security Council ( SNSC) Saeed Jalili, Henry ...