500119 AfranBerlin, June 11, IRNA -- European Union foreign ministers will look into the possibility of easing the Israeli siege of Gaza when they meet in Luxembourg on Monday, German foreign ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke told media representat...

500134 AfranThe second phase of Iran Khodro car-making factory to be launched in Senegal, French-language Le Soleil newspaper of Senegal wrote on its website.In order to boost cooperation between Iran and Senegal, the fourth common committee of coopera...

506052Tullow Oil has joined Katalemwa Cheshire Homes in raising funds for children with disabilities in Uganda. A last week Tullow sponsored show in Kampala that raised close to Shs30 million, marked the start of a relationship with the child care cent...

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...

How was Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi Taleb born? "This was the time when all of us saw with our own eyes that the wall of Kaabah broke apart and Fatima bint-e-Asad entered into the Kaabah. Then the wall again united.We ran terrified and trembling to our ho...

Journalists from African Nations gathered recently in Tehran in the Islamic Republic of Iran for a Three (3) days course. The session was organized by the AFRAN Institute for Study and Research to assist Iranian Investors to go and invest in Africa nat...

Sénégal-50411Génocide RwandaisQuand les français et les Rwandais se rejettent la fauteLe Rwanda avait rompu ses relations diplomatiques avec la France, en 2006, à la suite d’un mandat d’arrêt international émis par un juge français qui accu...

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...

50203 Mauritania Le ministre malien des Affaires étrangères, Moctar Wane, est arrivé dimanche à Nouakchott pour une visite de travail de quelques jours en Mauritanie, a-t-on appris de source officielle. Cette visite survient dans un contexte marqu...

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...

50051 AfranIn a meeting with members of the IRI parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, Rabbi Mashallah Golestaninejad said, "I have repeatedly declared that we are against pro-Zionism rabbis and the books containing their decrees ...