500153 AfranParliament Speaker says the UN Security Council approach toward Tehran's nuclear program will not yield any result, as Iran will not surrender to pressure."We need a new plan in which Iran's rights are completely supported,"Ali Larijani ...

5060674Tullow Oil is yet to find a suitable date to start selling its shares at the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) where a dozen other companies are listed for tradingMr Jimmy Kiberu the company’s spokesman in Uganda said Tullow is reviewing new ti...

500162 AfranTehran, Aug 1, IRNA – The Zionist regime would be eliminated from the earth if it makes a mistake vis-à-vis Iran, a member of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) said Sunday.Tehran “will respond each anti-Iran move of the Zionist regim...

500166 - Afran1- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia (16 January 2006-Present)2- Ruth Perry, Chairwoman of the Council of State of Liberia (3 September 1996 to 2 August 1997)3- Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (18 July 1993...

Take a drive from the shores of the world's biggest lake called a sea, through rice paddies that wouldn't be out of place in Southeast Asia, and end up in a Central Asian village in mist covered mountains? It's not teleportation, but the trip to Masoul...

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...

50061 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Islamic Republic of Iran has no belief in nuclear weapons and considers it as ineffective adding that a lofty human, Islamic culture as Iran has is as much powerful as atomic bomb.President Ahmadinejad ...

50074 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that President Obama will sustain a loss more than anybody else by issuing a new possible resolution against Iran, because the philosophy of his presidentship was changing inhuman and harsh face of the US g...

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...