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...

50286Le président de la République, Monsieur Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz a quitté Nouakchott dimanche matin à destination de Nice pour prendre part au sommet Afrique/France qui aura lieu le 31 mai courant et le 1er juin prochain.Le Président de la Ré...

505 47 ADWAC trains out-of-school youths on HIV/AIDS prevention, behavioural changeThe Agency for the Development of Women and Children (ADWAC) recently organized two days training workshop for 14 out of school youths on HIV/AIDS prevention in Kerewan,...

500119 AfranBerlin, June 11, IRNA -- European Union foreign ministers will look into the possibility of easing the Israeli siege of Gaza when they meet in Luxembourg on Monday, German foreign ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke told media representat...

500134 AfranThe second phase of Iran Khodro car-making factory to be launched in Senegal, French-language Le Soleil newspaper of Senegal wrote on its website.In order to boost cooperation between Iran and Senegal, the fourth common committee of coopera...

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...

500153 AfranParliament Speaker says the UN Security Council approach toward Tehran's nuclear program will not yield any result, as Iran will not surrender to pressure."We need a new plan in which Iran's rights are completely supported,"Ali Larijani ...

5060674Tullow Oil is yet to find a suitable date to start selling its shares at the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) where a dozen other companies are listed for tradingMr Jimmy Kiberu the company’s spokesman in Uganda said Tullow is reviewing new ti...

500162 AfranTehran, Aug 1, IRNA – The Zionist regime would be eliminated from the earth if it makes a mistake vis-à-vis Iran, a member of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) said Sunday.Tehran “will respond each anti-Iran move of the Zionist regim...

500166 - Afran1- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia (16 January 2006-Present)2- Ruth Perry, Chairwoman of the Council of State of Liberia (3 September 1996 to 2 August 1997)3- Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (18 July 1993...

Take a drive from the shores of the world's biggest lake called a sea, through rice paddies that wouldn't be out of place in Southeast Asia, and end up in a Central Asian village in mist covered mountains? It's not teleportation, but the trip to Masoul...

Elephants forage in the Serengeti national reserve in Tanzania in 2010. Poachers have slaughtered some 200 elephants in a national park in northern Cameroon, about a third of the population, and the massacre is still going on, according to a wildlif...

How was Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi Taleb born? "This was the time when all of us saw with our own eyes that the wall of Kaabah broke apart and Fatima bint-e-Asad entered into the Kaabah. Then the wall again united.We ran terrified and trembling to our ho...

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As health experts hail the VSV-EBOV vaccine study a turning point, MSF's medical director Bertrand Draguez calls for accelerated use of the vaccine in the affected countries. The vaccine was found to be 100 percent effective in a study of about 4000 people in Guinea.

WASHINGTON SAID THAT IT WAS AWARE THAT INDIVIDUALS LINKED TO AL SHABAAB WERE PLANNING BOMBING ATTACKS ON THE U.S. EMBASSY AND KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTERKenya’s security forces have stepped up anti-terrorism surveillance ahead of a key I...

Seven Heads of State and Government on Tuesday pressurised Sudan to ensure free and fair elections during its first democratic polls in 25 years, scheduled for next month. President Kibaki led his counterparts from the Inter-Governmental Authority and ...

50203 MauritaniaLe ministre malien des Affaires étrangères, Moctar Wane, est arrivé dimanche à Nouakchott pour une visite de travail de quelques jours en Mauritanie, a-t-on appris de source officielle. Cette visite survient dans un contexte marqué...

Senegal-50421DEFICIT DE PILOTES MARITIMESLe Sénégal annonce la création d’une académie des mersLe pilote maritime est un métier d’avenir. Mais, rares sont les jeunes qui acceptent de s’orienter vers cette formation qui peut durer plus de dix...