50240Un rapport de la Direction générale de la sécurité nationale (DGSN), daté du 24 janvier 2008, consigne les auditions des trois Mauritaniens condamnés, mardi 25 mai, à la peine de mort pour l’assassinat, en 2007, de quatre Français.Ces au...

50282Le président sud-africain a invité tous les chefs d’Etat africains à honorer par leur présence, les cérémonies du coup d’envoi et de la finale du Mondial 2010. Le président de la république Ould Abdel Aziz sera-t-il aux abonnés absent...

505 49 (64th Ecowas Council of Ministers Session opens)The 64th Ordinary Session of the Ecowas Council of Ministers opened Monday at the conference hall of the sub-regional body headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.The two-day meeting brings to...

500136 AfranA ship carrying Iranian humanitarian aid will set sail for the besieged Gaza Strip next Sunday, an IRI Red Crescent Society spokesman said Tuesday.Abdora'uf Adibzadeh said the ship ferries a 1100-ton load of aid, including 50 tons of medici...

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...

500155 ?AfranTehran, July 21, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday held the US, Britain and the Zionist regime responsible for raising terrorists to escalate sectarian Shia-Sunni tension in Iran....

5060676Social networking may sound fluffy, until you begin to realise that it can actually boost your company’s profits. Aside from the light hearted moments people share with each other on social networking sites, many companies today rake in billio...

500164 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he is ready to confer with his US counterpart President Barack Obama on global developments at the upcoming UN General Assembly.President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian nat...

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...

This past Sunday I preached on the 10 plagues of Egypt during the reign of history’s most ego-maniacal pharaoh; Ramses II. It will air in a few weeks and I predict it will have you saying, “Oh my”, “Oh ya” or “Oh no.” I specifically ...

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50502 The GambiaThe soaring food prices and high cost of energy has put the Gambia’s inflation outlook at the risk despite the Dalasis stability and growth in Agriculture, Central bank Governor said in a recently tightly-held press briefing at the ba...

50205 MauritaniaAl-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique a annoncé vendredi que l'humanitaire espagnole gardée otage 100 jours en Mauritanie avait été libérée car elle s'était volontairement convertie à l'islam. Dans un communiqué diffusé sur les sites...

Senegal-50423OPERATION TEMPETE DU DESERTL’Etat du Sénégal attrait devant la Cpi par des anciens militairesLe président Abdoulaye Wade, est le premier chef d’Etat sénégalais à être attrait devant la Cours pénale internationale (Cpi) de la Ha...

50032 AfranThe Chair of Iran's Red Crescent Society asserted that in the recent report of the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies, Iran was ranked fifth in disaster management. Ahmed Esfandiari said emergency encampm...

50319 – 09042010MUSLIM LEADERS remained cautious on going public with their stand on the Proposed Constitution.They said they were still consulting and holding meetings before taking a position. Prof. Abdullghafoor H.S. Elbusaidy, Chairma of Supreme ...

50114Nigeria’s acting president Goodluck Jonathan has left the shores of the country on his first foreign trip to the United States of America where he is expected to meet with US president Barrack Obama.Jonathan’s fly to the United States was his ...

50054 AfranIRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Central African Foreign Minister Antoni Gumbi said Iran is ready to boost its cooperation with the country in all fields.Referring to numerous potential and resources of Central Africa, he ...

50120About ten inmates were said to have been killed in a failed jailbreak yesterday at the Kaduna Convict Prisons in Kaduna state, north-central Nigeria when they attempted to escape during the rancor that greeted the prison in early morning hours.The...