Elephants forage in the Serengeti national reserve in Tanzania in 2010. Poachers have slaughtered some 200 elephants in a national park in northern Cameroon, about a third of the population, and the massacre is still going on, according to a wildlif...

The man suspected to mastermind the 1998 terrorist attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam is believed to have taken over the leadership of al-Shabaab in war-torn Somalia, Kenyan counter-terrorism officials say.Ahmed Al Fazul took charge o...

Sénégal-50420La corruption discrète hypothèque l’avenir du continentLa corruption discrète constitue un frein au développement socio-économique de l’Afrique. C’est du moins la conclusion d’un rapport que vient de publier la Banque mondia...

50029 AfranDakar, April 3, IRNA – Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in Dakar, capital of Senegal, Friday evening and was received by his Senegalese counterpart at the airport.Mottaki is scheduled to hold meetings with a number of...

50034 AfranIslamic Republic of Iran's Naval Force has foiled a Somali pirates' attack on an Iranian oil tanker.The IRI's Naval Force announced on Tuesday that the Somali pirates attacked on the Iranian oil tanker at 5:45 local time in Aden Gulf by four...

50111The bill prohibiting the operation of commercial motorcycles also known as “Okada” within Jos-Bukuru metropolis of the crisis-ridden Plateau state was signed into law by the state Governor Jonah Jang at government house yesterday.The signing o...

50327 - 19042010Kenya Government has challenged the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to improve efficiency at the Mombasa port.PM Eng. Raila Odinga took KPA to task over its failure to deliver goods to the importers on time. At the same time criticised the ...

50073 AfranIRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni discussed expansion of cooperation in regional and international arenas.The two presidents urged for using current capabilities for consolidation of...

505 10 Gambia’s Ex-Drug Chief & co Deny Charges The former National Drug Enforcement Agency boss, Mr. Ibrahim Bun Sanneh and four other drug enforcement officials were yesterday arraigned before Justice Emmanuel Ahmadi of the Banjul High Court...

50087 AfranDefense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said on Sunday that design and production of medium-sized passenger planes with 100-150 seats have earlier begun in the country.According to a report by the Publicity Department of the ministry...

50092 AfranThe 8th conference of Palestinian nationals in Europe was held in Berlin, Germany.The conference with the motto of "Our return and the liberation of our prisoners is definite" focused on the difficulties that Palestinians refugees were facin...

505 28The increase in human rights violation in Africa the systematic denial of democratic change and the refusal to recognize the fundamental rights of the human being as well as the unacceptable reversal of constitutional order with no regard for the...

Nasser 50609 KampalaSmall and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda employ more than 2.5m people, constitute up to 90 per cent of the private sector and contribute over 70per cent to total GDP. It must be noted that the newly launched National Developmen...

501 49The recently awarded N64 billion contract for the construction of the Abuja Airport runway project to Julius Berger Plc should be revoked, the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has recommended. The committee argued that the contract...

50207Nouakchott (PANA via Mauritanie-web) - Une table des bailleurs de fonds et des partenaires au développement sur la Mauritanie aura lieu les 22 et 23 juin à Bruxelles, la capitale de la Belgique, indique un communiqué publié mercredi à Nouakch...

50239Le ministre de la Défense a appelé aujourd’hui, au cours de la journée de réflexion organisée par son département sur le thème « la relation entre l’armée et la presse », les journalistes à être très vigilants dans le traitement d...

50281L’élection de la Mauritanie au conseil exécutif de l’organisation arabe des industries et des mines a eu lieu ce jeudi matin au cour d’une réunion ministérielle de l’organisation tenue dans la capitale qatari, Doha.Selon des sources é...

50096 ARANTehran, June 1, IRNA – IRI Foreign Minister here Monday night talked on phone with OIC secretary general over recent Israeli criminal act of attacking in international waters a sea peace caravan killing over a dozen.The international flo...

505 48 Tamba says PW1 is an avowed liar, PW2 a confirmed drug dealerThe former chief of defense, Lt. Gen Lang Tombong Tamba has called upon the Banjul High Court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Amadi to discountenance the testimony of the prosecutio...