505 30Barry L Wells, the US ambassador to The Gambia yesterday wrapped-up his three-day tour of project sites in the country with a visit to projects in the Upper River Region (URR).At Demba Kunda in Jimara District, the community named their health ce...

505 37The Community Driven Development Project (CDDP) Tuesday disbursed 28 cheques amounting to three million nine hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-nine dalasi, ninety-four bututs (D3,943,399. 94b) to 22 villages and 6 wards i...

501 50Two commissioners of Police were promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police. The Police Service Commission approved promotion at its 15th plenary meeting held in AbujaThe officers promoted to the rank of AIGs are Messrs Mohamm...

501 63Lagos State Government in the South-west Nigeria has warned that henceforth any individual found wanting of violating the rules at play on sanitation day would be fine to the tune of N50, 000.The government also reiterated that the monthly enviro...

50209Nouakchott, Mauritanie (PANA via Mauritanie-web) - Le procès des terroristes présumés qui a débuté dimanche à Nouakchott, la capitale de la Mauritanie, se déroule «dans de bonnes conditions», affirme le parquet général dans une déclara...

50241La France « est reconnaissante à la Mauritanie de ses efforts pour retrouver et juger les auteurs de l’assassinat » de quatre de ses compatriotes, mais rappelle son « opposition de principe à la peine de mort », a déclaré mercredi le min...

50283Les fonctionnaires mauritaniens disposant de logements administratifs viennent de recevoir des contrats de résiliation de leur logement. En effet, la date du 1 er juin, date butoir, arrive à grands pas et l’inquiétude gagne du terrain chez pl...

50098 AfranAhlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), The Iranian Culture Center in Zimbabwe will organize the event which is expected to be attended by scholars, cultural experts, university students, religious figures and Iranians residing in the African c...

505 50 (ATA congress ends with pledge to build new partnership for tourism developmentThe Africa Travel Association's 35th Annual Congress ended with a commitment among Africa's tourism stakeholders to boost efforts to develop new public-private partne...

500122 AfranArmenian Prelacy Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian in Tehran and a number of Armenian MPs on Monday met and conferred with Ayatollah Mohseni Gorgani, Head ofIRI Supreme Court.Ayatollah Gorgani said, "Noting that we have a common enemy who tries ...

506 040Exiled Rwandan top military officer, Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa was yesterday discharged from hospital in South Africa after the doctors at Morningside Clinic in Johannesburg said he was expected to gain full recovery.He left hospital sho...

506056Employees working in the East African Community will be shielded from double taxation since member states are working on a common law in regard to income tax payment.The law is a relief since many questions have remained unanswered in regard to a...

506061 KampalaICC Intercontinental ShieldUganda v NambiaUganda Cricket Association were left cutting a ‘hands-on-head’ posture appealing to the International Cricket Council (ICC) after the latter moved their Intercontinental Shield home fixture w...

5060681Members on the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee want the Libyan Leader to fulfil his promise to pay about Shs2.6 billion used in feeding and accommodating Afro-Arab youth conference delegates in Kampala in 2008. Col. Muammar Gadaffi is cu...

5060691The government has declared five days of mourning fallen former president Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa, starting today. According to the funeral programme released by the government yesterday, the late Binaisa is to be buried on Wednesday at a yet t...

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

Sami al-Misrati, a member of the opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, stated in a phone conversation with Al-Alam: “A small airplane left the Al-Abraq Airport yesterday carrying someone who looked like Imam Musa Sadr.”Issa Abd al-Majid Mansur, a promi...

Animals A to Z List The jungles on this planet are full of wild animals which vary in terms of appearance, habitat, food habits, etc. Compiling a jungle animals list is a tough task, considering that each animal belongs to a species or sub-spe...