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...

50692Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa, a lawyer, former President and Attorney General in the post independent government, died yesterday in Kampala, Fred Guweddeko writes about his life;The late Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa was President of Uganda from July 1979 ...

Pride of Africa £10,600 per personThere are certainly choices you can make when you’re deciding on a way to get from Point A to Point B, or when you are planning a holiday away from the rat race of everyday life. Train travel is a popular means of...

African Tradition is expressed through many different art forms, such as music, dance, art, sculpture and beadwork. These traditions are deeply ingrained into the whole African culture. Many African languages are “tone languages,” mean...

Police officers claim they killed 34 striking miners in self defence at Marikana platinum mine owned by UK company  

Nigeria can be the center of regional cooperation in Africa, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said here Monday.         Zarif made the remarks in a meeting with his visiting Nigerian counterpart Geoffrey Onye...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that the independent countries should get well-prepared for dramatic change in world order owing to imminent collapse of the capitalist system.In a meeting with the visiting Speaker of National Assembly of t...

50004 AfranIranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Friday that Tehran is ready for cooperation and consultation with others on restoration of peace in east of Africa.Mottaki, who is on an official visit to Uganda, told his Ugandan counterpart ...

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...

“The media has discriminated against Muslims.” This was the message from Abdullatif Esajee the Treasurer of Jamia Mosque Committee when he complained about the unfair coverage of Muslim issues before and in the aftermath of the January 15th demonst...

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 ...