50017 AfranTehran, March 17, IRNA – The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Navy sent Wednesday a vessel (the 7th one) to the Gulf of Aden to fight pirates and protect the country’s shipping lines from piracy.A number of Iran’s Navy commanders as well a...

50032 AfranThe Chair of Iran's Red Crescent Society asserted that in the recent report of the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies, Iran was ranked fifth in disaster management. Ahmed Esfandiari said emergency encampm...

50023 AfranKuala Lumpur, March 29, IRNA – First Vice- Speaker of Iran’s Majlis Mohammad-Hassan Abutorabi-Fard said Monday Tehran will continue its programs to gain access to peaceful nuclear technology.Abutorabi-Fard made the remark while addressin...

 Iran's leading automaker, Iran Khodro, has unveiled its fourth domestically-built car — dubbed Dena — which will hit the markets in April 2012.Iranian Minister of Industries and Mines Ali Akbar Mehrabian told Press TV on Saturday that the ...

50007 AfranIranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday underlined Tehran's readiness to improve all-out ties with the south African state of Zimbabwe.Fortunately, the relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Zimbabwe are moving forw...

50035 AfranTehran, April 6, IRNA – The Foreign Ministry spokesman invited Tuesday the countries which advocate nuclear disarmament to attend Tehran’s nuclear disarmament meeting on April 17-18.Ramin Mihman-Parast made the remarks at his first weekl...

500150 AfranDamascus, July 15, IRNA – Sec Gen of Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine strongly condemned new US and EU sanctions against Iran Wednesday saying Iran has always been resistant when faced with such sanctions.According to IRNA ...

50031 AfranTEHRAN (FNA)- The secretary general of Iran's National Olympic Committee on Saturday urged the world Muslim states to protest at a FIFA ban on Islamic code of dressing for women in the First Youth Olympic Games to be held in Singapore this s...

50086 AfranTehran, May 2, IRNA – First Vice-President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said on Sunday that Tehran attaches great importance to expansion of ties with African, Latin American and Asian countries.He made the remarks in a meeting with Guinea's Fo...

50627 KampalaThe Global Competitiveness Report 2009, places Uganda at the 119th position underlining the fact that Uganda’s investment climate leaves a lot to be desired.This ranking is mostly attributed to infrastructural inefficiency.The report com...

500102 AfranThe 4th International gathering on Imam Khomeini and Foreign Policies kicked off in Tehran Wednesday morning.The gathering this year focuses on the status of justice in politics and international system and relations.The notion of justice i...

501 36The current state of infrastructural decay and incessant power outages at the airports in the in Nigeria has been condemned by the Airline Operators of Nigerian (AON).The AON also noted that besides huge economic losses, the national embarrassmen...

50324 -13042010Manufacturers are projecting improved growth in 2010 on the back of improvements in the economies of east African community member states and Comesa countries. The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) say economic growth projections ...

50624 KampalaTHE Indian community plans to build a multibillion 2,000-bed hospital, expected to be the country’s biggest.The development comes out of a co-operation between Devi Shetty, the chairman of the India- based Narayana Hrudalaya Hospitals an...

50616President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, in the second and last part of his exclusive interview with UBC Reporter for Parliament & international affairs, Kasozi Nasser, speaks about his son joining the army, denies being authoritarian, and hints at st...

50110Hundreds of Nigerian people have been reported to have died of food borne disease according to the country’s Consumer Protection Council (CPC) report.Director General of the Council Mrs. Ify Umenyi has said that already a total of 559 people die...

506051If you are a teacher looking for a job, a trader ready to do business or a citizen looking for residence, you can freely enter any of the five East African countries because the ground rules have been levelled, at least on paper.Yesterday, the fi...

5060100Together, they cut the image of four innocent youths—only until they narrated how they planned and executed the bomb attacks that left 76 people dead in Kampala last month.Paraded before journalists in Kampala yesterday by military intelligenc...

5060676Social networking may sound fluffy, until you begin to realise that it can actually boost your company’s profits. Aside from the light hearted moments people share with each other on social networking sites, many companies today rake in billio...

What are mercenaries doing in Libya and what is their connection to Moammar Gadhafi?Given the near media blackout in cities like Tripoli, reports are hard to confirm, but eyewitnesses say they have seen black, French-speaking mercenaries reportedly fro...