50099 AfranIslamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a statement Tuesday in condemnation of the Monday bloody Israeli attack against Fleet of Freedom humanitarian aid ships, saying that the atrocity was an aggression against world ...

505 45 Towards a tobacco-free societyAs The Gambia joined the rest of the world to observe this year's World Tobacco Day, we wish to add our voice to the calls for people to distance themselves from tobacco usage so that the world can produce a healthy...

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...

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...

Sénégal-50415CULTURE D’ARACHIDELa production dépasse un million de tonnesLes agriculteurs sénégalais retrouvent le sourire. La production arachidière, principale culture de rente du pays, a dépassé, pour la première fois, depuis deux décenn...

50016 AfranTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stood up for Iran's nuclear program, saying it is "solely for peaceful purposes".In an interview with the BBC, Erdogan trashed Western claims that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program.Spe...

Sénégal-50425Indépendance énergique en AfriqueUne option sur le triomphe du thermonucléaireL’ancien directeur de l’enseignement supérieur, le professeur Momar Marème Dieng, a préconisé samedi à Dakar l’adoption d’un modèle énergéti...

50321 - 09042010African Union (AU) has embarked on a race to fight piracy, a major challenge for several coastal countries in the continent.An experts meeting on maritime security Ethiopia sought to develop a holistic policy to address the vice, which ...

50044 AfranIRI President receiving Iran's new ambassador to Norway spoke of fostering relations with every country in the world, except the Zionist regime, as basis of the Islamic Republic of Iran's foreign policy."Our ambassadors should notice that th...

50115The former governor of Delta State, James Ibori has filed a law suit against the Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, south-south Nigeria asking for N10 billion ...

50063 AfranTehran, April 21, IRNA – An IRGC commander said the Islamic Republic is to launch a joint exercise with Muslim nations in the Persian Gulf and Hormuz Strait soon.Spokesman of the military exercises of Holy Prophet 5 Brigadier General Ali-R...

50505In its and strive to transform west African into a borderless region, bringing citizens closer together and promote region integration, the Economic community of west African state (ECOWAS) in collaboration with the government of the Gambia throug...

505 13 Licence fee for Pedal bicycles introducedThe office of the Inspector General of police has announced that pedal bicycles with effect from May 1st, 2010, will pay a sum of D100.00 as licence fee, a news release from the police Headquarters reve...

50518Gambia Tuesday, May 04, 2010 Saint Joseph's Family Farms in Bwiam in collaboration with Concern Universal The Gambia recently conducted HIV/AIDS and gender training programmes for communities in the Fonis, Western Region. According to the trainin...