Shiraz was one of the most important cities in the medieval Islamic world and was the Iranian capital during the Zand dynasty (1747-79), when many of its most beautiful buildings were built or restored. Through its many artists and scholars, Shiraz ...

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...

A corpse buried on Byrsa Hill, above the Gulf of Tunis, is at the heart of a groundbreaking exhibit that opened Friday (October 15th) at the Carthage Museum.The story began in 1994 when a tree-planter fell into a grave. French archaeologist Jean-Pau...

TODAY is a special day for every Zambian whereever they may be. In the history of any nation, Independence Day is a defining moment when the collective sense of nationhood shifts back to recollect the genesis of an auspicious start at being an equal...

Pride of Africa £10,600 per personThere are certainly choices you can make when you’re deciding on a way to get from Point A to Point B, or when you are planning a holiday away from the rat race of everyday life. Train travel is a popular means of...

CityCountryPopulationLagosNigeria8,714,228CairoEgypt7,734,334KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the Congo6,301,100NairobiKenya4,000,911AlexandriaEgypt3,806,300Addis AbabaEthiopia3,627,934CasablancaMorocco3,344,300AbidjanCote d’Ivoire3,310,500KanoNigeri...

In the 1968 Mexico City Olympic games, a young African runner from Tanzania, named John Stephen Akhwari, would compete in the last event of the games - the 26 mile, 385 yard marathon. Although he would ultimately finish last, nearly an hour behind t...

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...

5060104While Uganda tries to wring some money out of Heritage, the firm’s owners are laughing all the way to their offshore banks,Nasser reports,As far as investments go, this must be one of the most profitable ever.Anthony Leslie Rowland “Tony” ...

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 ...

5060101The mission looked accomplished. Suspects had confessed to the crime but silently, a war was simmering. Who was to take the credit for arresting suspects behind the 7/11 bomb attacks that left 76 people dead?Yesterday, this clash came to the for...

5060100Together, they cut the image of four innocent youths—only until they narrated how they planned and executed the bomb attacks that left 76 people dead in Kampala last month.Paraded before journalists in Kampala yesterday by military intelligenc...

500165 AfranPresident of the Guinea-Bissau Malam Bacai Sanha and his accompanying delegation paid tribute to the late Imam Khomeini on Saturday afternoon.The visiting president laid a wreath at the mausoleum of the late Imam Khomeini and signed the mem...

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...

5060695Former Ugandan leader Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa went to see his physicians for a routine visit on Monday. Family sources informed this newspaper yesterday that Mr Binaisa’s blood sugar levels had fluctuated prior to his visit but his doctors sa...

5060694Former President Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa’s death on Thursday means Uganda is one of only a handful of democracies without a living ex-president. Former Ugandan leaders General Tito Okello Lutwa, Apollo Milton Obote, Field Marshal Idi Amin Dad...