50604Nairobi/ KampalaKenya’s bid to settle a month-long diplomatic row with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over new visa rules appears to have flopped, signalling that thousands of traders will remain locked out of their most popular source market fo...

50517The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh Friday decorated eight officers of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) who were earlier promoted to various ranks in the army.The promoted officers are Sering Modou Njie, promote...

505 14 The former Inspector General of police, Ensa Badjie, Lt Colonel Mam Matarr Secka and Major Kuluteh Manneh who are facing 30 criminal charges, Tuesday April 27th 2010 appeared before Justice Amadi of the High court in Banjul to take their pleas....

501 51Major concessionaires in Nigeria indebted the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria to the tune of N10 billion, the Senate Committee on Aviation has revealed.The revelation came yesterday during a budget defense session attended by the management ...

50621Over the last four years, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has highlighted employment creation as one of its budget priorities. But lack of a cohesive plan means most of the plans are yet to be realised, writes Kasozi Nasser: -In ...

50210APA-Nouakchott (Mauritanie) Youssef Al Qardaoui, célèbre prêcheur et président de l’Union mondiale des ulémas musulmans, est arrivé mardi soir à Nouakchott pour sa première visite dans le pays.Cette visite qui dure trois jours sera meubl...

50237Une jeune femme de 20 ans, violement battue et brulée par des présumes proches de son mari, non loin d’Aioun, a été admise hier, aux urgences de l’hôpital régional de cette ville dans le Hodh El Gharbi.Selon alakhbar, secourue par certai...

50284Près de 2000 candidats se sont présentés, aujourd’hui, à Zouérate et à Nouadhibou, pour participer à un concours de sélection, organisé par la Snim en vue de recruter une centaine d’employés au profit de la société minière.Les can...

50099 AfranIslamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a statement Tuesday in condemnation of the Monday bloody Israeli attack against Fleet of Freedom humanitarian aid ships, saying that the atrocity was an aggression against world ...

505 45 Towards a tobacco-free societyAs The Gambia joined the rest of the world to observe this year's World Tobacco Day, we wish to add our voice to the calls for people to distance themselves from tobacco usage so that the world can produce a healthy...

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...

“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...

The subject of "traditional family patterns in Africa" is so broad that it cannot be adequately addressed in one chapter. The cultural and physical diversity added with the dramatic social changes of the last three decades on the continent makes th...

Nigeria should be divided into two separate independent nations along the Muslims-Christian dichotomy to solve the unending recurring sectarian violence in the country, Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi has said.Gaddafi suggested this yesterday while de...

505 14 EX-IGP BADJIE WEEPS IN COURT Pleads not guilty as he, two others answer to 30 criminal charges The former Inspector General of police, Ensa Badjie, Lt Colonel Mam Matarr Secka and Major Kuluteh Manneh who are facing 30 criminal charges, Tue...

The Aziza Hotel, Tunisia When you touch down on Tunisian soil, the first thing that hits you is the diverse mixture of cultures. A French and Arabic speaking country, perched at the top of Africa, Tunisia is a world of delights for the keen t...

Zulu phrases: English isiZulu Hello Sawubona Hello (To more than one person) Sanibonani (pronounced, roughly, "San'bonaan") How are you? Unjani? I am fine Ngikhona Goodbye ("Stay well" - to one person, if he/she...

South Africa's power utility has moved cables in a wildlife sanctuary after several giraffes were electrocuted when they walked into the low-hanging wires, a conservation official said Friday. At least four giraffes have died since June 2011 i...

50066 AfranIran’s President Mahmood Ahmadinejad said here on Thursday that the UN Security Council, which should be guarantor of nations’ security, serves certain domineering powers.Addressing a press conference along with his Zimbabwean counterpar...

506088President Museveni on Friday night gave reasons why he kept outgoing Principal Private Secretary (PPS) Amelia Kyambadde for 31 years, praising her for being a loyal servant and keeping his “secrets.”While attending the official State House se...