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...

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:...

500158 AfranTehran, July 31, IRNA – IRI president said here Friday enemies are after propagating an atmosphere of pessimism at Iranian universities and are worried now that hope, dynamism, and jubilance prevails at them.According to IRNA, the info...

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...

Along the Nile terraces and in the desert oases. In the 10th millennium BC, a culture of hunter-gatherers and fishers replaced a grain-grinding culture. Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Eg...

Addressing a large gathering of people in the holy city of Mashhad on the first day of the Iranian new year, Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution referred to the recent developments in Libya and said that Iran utterly cond...

Africa's natural habitats are suffering from human interference. One of the most serious problems occurs in areas such as the Sahel where scrub and forest clearance, often for cooking, combined with overgrazing, is causing...

Zulu phrases: English isiZulu Hello Sawubona Hello (To more than one person) Sanibonani (pronounced, roughly, "San'bonaan") How are you? Unjani? I am fine Ngikhona Goodbye ("Stay well" - to one person, if he/she...

Hundreds of Sudanese have staged a demonstration in the capital Khartoum to protest against an airstrike on a weapons factory blamed on Israel. On Wednesday night, the protesters chanted slogans against the Israeli regime and the United Stat...

       

50407 Afran SénégalLes chefs religieux de la cité de Tivaouane exigent de la part des politiques un dialogue nationalLa religion n’a pas uniquement été le seul sujet de conversation des hommes religieux du Sénégal lors de la célébration, la ...

50008 Afranthe Presidential Office website reported President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying so in a meeting here Monday evening with Zimbabwe’s Government Minister for Presidential Affairs, Didbemos Mutsa, while discussing expansion of comprehensive ...

Sénégal-50419ACCUSE DE CRIME CONTRE L’HUMANITELe procès de Hissène Habré retardé pour manque d’argentL’ancien président tchadien, Hissène Habré, sera-t-il, jugé, un jour, en Afrique, tel que souhaité par l’Union Africaine (Ua) qui a ...

50310 18032010Oil companies have increased pump prices and are withholding fuel from the market to protest at a controversial decision to increase import inspection fees by 28,000 per cent. On Friday, the firms increased pump prices by between Sh3 and ...

Afran 50022Kuala Lumpur, March 29, IRNA -- South African Parliament Speaker Hon Max Vuyisile Sisulu said on Monday that his country calls for expansion of all-out relations mainly in economic fields with the Islamic Republic of Iran. He made the remar...

50601 UgandaIran's top nuclear official is holding talks in China amid signs that Beijing has relaxed its opposition to a new round of UN sanctions against Tehran.The US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said China was ready to hold "serious" talks wit...

50039 AfranTehran, April 9, IRNA – The main test needed before operation of Bushehr nuclear power plant will start on the day marking National Nuclear Festival, said the official in charge of the project.Jaafari said the “warm-water test” at the ...

50048 AfranTehran, April 11, IRNA – Three Somalian pirates were disarmed and arrested by Iranian seamen who have later handed them over to Iran’s Coast Guard, it was reported Sunday.Commander of Iran’s Coast Guard Brigadier General Hossein Zolfaq...

50056 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here on Saturday underlined the need for materialization of durable security and peace for all.He made the remarks while addressing the 1st International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation which sta...

50066 AfranIran’s President Mahmood Ahmadinejad said here on Thursday that the UN Security Council, which should be guarantor of nations’ security, serves certain domineering powers.Addressing a press conference along with his Zimbabwean counterpar...