50325 - 19042010The Kenya Government has put on hold a Legal notice issued last year on testing of petroleum products imported in to the country.The move follows an outcry by oil marketing companies that the process was costly and the operators were fo...

50071 AfranZimbabwe International Trade Exhibition opened on Friday in the presence of Iranian and Zimbabwean presidents.Fifteen countries over the world presented their last industrial and agricultural products in the Exhibition, IRIB reported from Zi...

505 07 Hippos on the rampage in JanjanburayThe hippopotamuses on Tuesday, April 22 destroyed over 40 nursery beds at Moriba rice filed in Janjanburay, CRR. The nursery beds, which were due for transplanting, were seriously damaged by the hippos caus...

50123The Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that the northern part of the country will still produce the next president in 2011 when the current tenure of President Umar Yar’adua who is sick is finished next year.The statement cam...

50091 AfranVienna, May 6, IRNA – IAEA chief Yukiya Amano is calling on all the agency’s member states for their viewpoints on how to persuade the Zionist regime to sign up to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.In a letter, dated April 7 and circulated...

505 25The World Health Organization (WHO) country representative in The Gambia, Dr. Thomas Sukwa has saluted Gambian Journalists for their giant strides in covering health issues. He said that the WHO Country Office has been closely monitoring the acti...

501 39The federal government has again restated its backing to the management of the Brass LNG Limited in taking Final Investment Decision (FID) on the project this year to enable the company to fast-tracking commercial exploitation of the country's na...

501 44The Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has called on the federal government to use the agreement between Nigeria and Germany to obtain a copy of judgment in the case of Siemen’s bribery allegation...

501 59An opposition party in Nigeria, the Action Congress (AC) has advised President Goodluck Jonathan against appointing Information and Communications Minister, Dora Akunyili as the Independent National Electoral Commission ([INEC) chairman, as being...

501 64 The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved a 400 percent increase in price of gas to power for the domestic market.President Goodluck Jonathan on behalf of Nigeria approved the increased price on gas from $0.2/ ...

50221Selon des sources bien informées, la police a arrêté, mercredi, les trois présumés auteurs de la fausse alerte à la bombe donnée mardi dans une agence bancaire à Tevragh Zeina.Dans la journée d’hier, des unités cynophiles de la police ...

50278Le taux de mortalité maternelle a connu une baisse de 50%, passant de 800 cas de décès pour 100 000 en 2002, à 404 cas de décès pour 100 000 accouchements en 2009, indique un rapport récent du ministère de la Santé, publié jeudi.Cette di...

50295APA-Nouakchott (Mauritanie) Les journalistes mauritaniens n’ont plus le droit de publier des informations relevant du domaine du secret militaire ou susceptibles d’être considérées comme telles, a averti le ministre mauritanien de la Défen...

505 44 CJ Agim wants magistrates to live up to expectations The chief justice of The Gambia, His Worship, Mr. Emmanuel Agim has hailed the UNDP for their support in training magistrates on leadership skills, as he called on Gambian magistrates to live ...

500118 AfranBeirut, June 11, IRNA – Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in Cairo that the sole key to problem over Iran’s nuclear issue is dialogue not sanctions.Aboul Gheit said in a statement on Thursday that former sanctions have...

500133 AfranTehran, June 20, IRNA – A Tanzanian publisher said here Sunday that Muslim publishers should be provided with necessary financial support in order to survive.Director of Tanzania Al-Etra Foundation, Mehboob Jafferal Somji, said as for...

506051If you are a teacher looking for a job, a trader ready to do business or a citizen looking for residence, you can freely enter any of the five East African countries because the ground rules have been levelled, at least on paper.Yesterday, the fi...

500152 AfranHezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called on Friday to execute the death sentences against the spies without delay, praising in this context the stance of President Michel Sleiman who expressed readiness to sign any death se...

The International Trade Centre has partnered with Africa’s trade consultants to increase the exporters’ competitiveness at the international market.Ms Aicha Pouye, the ITC director of business and institutional support, said in Entebbe on Tuesday t...

500161 AfranTehran, Aug 1, IRNA – An Iranian expert here on Sunday warned that if the Zionist regime attacks Iran, the regime will be targeted by short-range and mid-range missiles of Hezbollah.A trategic affairs expert, Reza Sadrolhosseini, told ...