50620Uganda has urged India and other countries to invest in the fast-growing communications sector in Uganda. Addressing delegates at the ongoing World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) 2010, Uganda’s High Commissioner to India, His Ex...

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...

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....

50211Note d’information sur le mécanisme de l'impunité.Le cadre :Yacine mint Jaavar, une mineure hartania[i], âgée de 14 ans et née à M’bout, département du Sud de la Mauritanie, a échappé, de justesse, sur la plage, de Nouakchott, au plan...

50117Newly appointed Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has suspended further allocation of lands across Abuja due to what he described as gross abuse of delegated authorities, deficiencies and misuse of public thrust i...

501 39The federal government has again restated its backing to the management of the Brass LNG Limited in taking Final Investment Decision (FID) on the project this year to enable the company to fast-tracking commercial exploitation of the country's na...

50112The newly sworn-in Minister of State for Finance Mr. Remi Babalola has placed a ban on government officials and other public servants especially working in the various agencies under the ministry to stop using public funds to pay for first class t...

50326 - 19042010Cancellation of flights by Kenya Airways (KQ) from the City Nairobi to destinations in Europe entered another day as flower farms continued to count losses, running into million of shillings. The most affected are daily flights to Londo...

50027 AfranIran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Friday that Iran and Gabon strongly support elimination and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and legal right of the NPT signatories to use peaceful nuclear technology.Addressing repo...

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 ...

50518Gambia Tuesday, May 04, 2010 Saint Joseph's Family Farms in Bwiam in collaboration with Concern Universal The Gambia recently conducted HIV/AIDS and gender training programmes for communities in the Fonis, Western Region. According to the trainin...

50026 AfranForeign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due in Libreville, Gabon, on Thursday after a visit to Algeria on an official invitation by the Gabonese counterpart, Paul Toungui.“The visit is in response to Gabonese Foreign Minister’s prior Tehr...

506090Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa, the last surviving former Ugandan head of state died at his home in Kampala yesterday. He was 90. Mr Binaisa, who famously declared that the chair (power) is sweet, with the statement: Entebbe ewooma, during his 11month ...

50109Nigeria’s immediate former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has returned back to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a party he left due to political disagreement between him and the former president Olusegun Obasanjo.Atiku’s media ...

505 28The increase in human rights violation in Africa the systematic denial of democratic change and the refusal to recognize the fundamental rights of the human being as well as the unacceptable reversal of constitutional order with no regard for the...

500130 AfranFreedom Fleet activists say that the Israeli forces who took them hostage, also stole some of their personal possessions and have still not returned them.The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Fleet in international waters in the Mediter...

50322 - 13042010The first phase of negotiations over $385 million claim France Telecom has slapped on Kenyan government has ended amid secrecy even as it emerges that the French have now indicated that they may pull out of Telkom Kenya if the matter is...

Sami al-Misrati, a member of the opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, stated in a phone conversation with Al-Alam: “A small airplane left the Al-Abraq Airport yesterday carrying someone who looked like Imam Musa Sadr.”Issa Abd al-Majid Mansur, a promi...

505 46 Gambia confident Africa integration could be realityThe government of The Gambia has said it is confident that the dream to have Africa politically integrated could be achieved if every section of the African society is committed to this dream a...