50033 AfranTehran, April 4, IRNA – Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki wound off his African tour and arrived home on Sunday.During his five-day African tour, Mottaki visited Algeria, Gabon and Senegal and conferred with the countries’ high ranking...

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...

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...

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...

506065President Museveni on Friday night met intelligence chiefs over the July 11 attacks on civilians and pressed them to individually explain why they had failed to detect and prevent the attack.According to intelligence sources, the President met hi...

50607Kampala.Visiting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said it is treason and betrayal of mankind to deny nations who need access to nuclear energy that right.“We think it is the right of all nations to use nuclear en...

506050The wrangles in the Muslim community yesterday went a notch higher with the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council secretary general Sheikh Siraj Kavuma disowning his chairperson, Mr Hassan Basajjabalaba.Accompanied by over 40 district kadhis at the UMSC ...

50319 – 09042010MUSLIM LEADERS remained cautious on going public with their stand on the Proposed Constitution.They said they were still consulting and holding meetings before taking a position. Prof. Abdullghafoor H.S. Elbusaidy, Chairma of Supreme ...

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 ...

Veteran wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio made a bizarre discovery while visiting Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve: a mysterious “bearded” antelope. While one expert suggests the animal might only be suffering from hypertrichosis, a cond...

500152 AfranHezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called on Friday to execute the death sentences against the spies without delay, praising in this context the stance of President Michel Sleiman who expressed readiness to sign any death se...

501 41The National Environmental Standards and Regulatory Enforcement Agency (NESREA) yesterday disclosed the agency has again intercepted another ship loaded with toxic waste headed into Nigeria.Some weeks back, NESREA also discovered a shipment full ...

501 48The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said it will start the process to enforce operational standards to aim at reviewing the country's electricity grid code and distribution code to meet present realities.Administrator of NERC, M...

50520Alhagie Alasan David Cham, the chief of Nianija district in the Central River Region has raised concerns over what he described as the mismanagement of the Njau and Niamina Maro bird hunting camps in his district.According to Chief David Cham, the...

501 64 The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved a 400 percent increase in price of gas to power for the domestic market.President Goodluck Jonathan on behalf of Nigeria approved the increased price on gas from $0.2/ ...

501 61The federal government of Nigeria has pledge to give the country’s Armed Forces more support in the areas that will in discharging their duties.Speaking on behalf of the federal government, Minister of State for Defence, Alhaji Murtala Yar’Ad...

501 57In an effort by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to ensure hitch-free Hajj this year, the Commission went to Malaysia to learn about the Malaysia’s model of hajj operation.NAHCON Chairman Muhammad Musa Bello disclosed this when ...

501 54As Nigeria released its 2020 national planning document, the Federal Government said it will require an electricity power generation of 35,000 megawatt to be able to realize Vision 2020.The target of the country to produce the stated megawatt was...

50119The creation of Sovereign Wealth Fund by the Nigeria’s government is underway to carter for some of the earnings from the foreign transactions to serve as another reserve for the country for future needs.Already, the Nigeria’s National Economi...

501 60The federal government of Nigeria has disclosed that the current 2010 budget as it stand is unrealistic and hence will review it to a more realistic position for better implementation.The budget which stand at N4.6 trillion and with only five out...