500146 AfranTurkey warned 'Israel' Monday it will cut ties unless it gets an apology for a deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships.An adamant Zionist regime however said it will never apologize for the deadly attack against civilian peace activists which i...

506066The 2010 summit of African heads of state and government opens in Kampala today. It is the latest in many summits by African leaders that go back to the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963 as Kasozi Nasser reviews:...

500158 AfranTehran, July 31, IRNA – IRI president said here Friday enemies are after propagating an atmosphere of pessimism at Iranian universities and are worried now that hope, dynamism, and jubilance prevails at them.According to IRNA, the info...

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...

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...

Addressing a large gathering of people in the holy city of Mashhad on the first day of the Iranian new year, Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution referred to the recent developments in Libya and said that Iran utterly cond...

Africa's natural habitats are suffering from human interference. One of the most serious problems occurs in areas such as the Sahel where scrub and forest clearance, often for cooking, combined with overgrazing, is causing...

Zulu phrases: English isiZulu Hello Sawubona Hello (To more than one person) Sanibonani (pronounced, roughly, "San'bonaan") How are you? Unjani? I am fine Ngikhona Goodbye ("Stay well" - to one person, if he/she...

Hundreds of Sudanese have staged a demonstration in the capital Khartoum to protest against an airstrike on a weapons factory blamed on Israel. On Wednesday night, the protesters chanted slogans against the Israeli regime and the United Stat...

       

50407 Afran Sénégal Les chefs religieux de la cité de Tivaouane exigent de la part des politiques un dialogue national La religion n’a pas uniquement été le seul sujet de conversation des hommes religieux du Sénégal lors de la célébratio...

50007 AfranIranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday underlined Tehran's readiness to improve all-out ties with the south African state of Zimbabwe.Fortunately, the relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Zimbabwe are moving forw...

Sénégal-50418INTEGRATION AFRICAINEL’Union africaine veut promouvoir les langues africainesLe développement de l’Afrique passera nécessairement par l’utilisation des langues africaines. C’est en tout cas l’avis des experts de l’Académie...

50019 AfranAccording to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), The Rwandan Muslim community, in partnership with Aid Africa Muslim Agency (AAMA), yesterday donated foodstuff and clothes worth Rwf 7m to 100 families in Nyarugenge district affected by floods ...

50021 AfranHe made the remarks while addressing the 17th meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Culture Ministers which started in Sanya resort in Hainan Province south of China this morning. He said the SCO meeting undoubtedly plays a ...

The Acting President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, yesterday, dissolved the federal executive council (FEC) and directed the ministers to handover to the permanent secretaries in their respective ministry.It was gathered that Jonathan waited until the e...

50038 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Friday that there is no barrier to Iranian nuclear scientists today in the field of nuclear energy and they can meet related national requirements.Addressing National Nuclear Festival, President Ahmadi...

50047 AfranTehran, April 11, IRNA -- Minister of Defense Ahmad Vahidi inaugurated Iran’s first advanced medium-range air defense missile system in a ceremony held on Sunday.The system, called ‘Mersad’ (Ambush), would hit any modern aircraft flyin...

50118In order to promote access credit by manufacturers and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved the establishment of a N200 billion Small and Medium Enterprises Credit Guarantee Scheme (SME...

50602KampalaUganda will today take a precarious wade into the murky waters of international diplomacy by playing host to a man Kampala’s friends in the West revile. Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, accused of seeking to possess a nuclea...