The 24 year old is the first Kenyan to win an Olympic gold medal in the men’s marathon eventKenyan long distance runner, Sammy Wanjiru, died on Monday morning after jumping from a balcony at his Rift Valley home, police said.As at the time of report...

Central Africa stretches from the Tibesti mountains in the north to vast rainforest basin of the Congo River, and has remained largely free of culinary influences of the outside world, until the late 19th century, with the exception of the widespread a...

Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court yesterday 9th February 2010 convicted and sentenced one Mustapha Gaye, a resident of Latrikunda Sabiji, to death. After a marathon trial, the court found the accused, Mustapha Gaye, guilt...

50409-SénégalRetrait de militaires français au SénégalLa base transformée en pôle de coopération militaireA en croire Hervé Morin, la base militaire française de Dakar sera transformée en pôle régionale de coopération militaire (Pecm). Il...

The strong arm tactics employed by security officials in the so-called hunt for illegal aliens is a violation of the constitution and a form of ethnic and religious discrimination on a section of the population. A joint statement released by Muslim lea...

50202 MauritaniaLa China Poly Group Corporation va construire une usine de traitement et de transformation des produits halieutiques en Mauritanie, pour un investissement de 100 millions de dollars, annonce-t-on de source officielle. L'accord en ce sen...

50313 18032010There is excitement among residents on whose land in Manda Bay the port is set to be constructed. Now living in the sprawling slums on Lamu Island after they fled Manda Bay due to insecurity, these residents hope to be compensated for the...

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...

Sénégal 50428Inauguration du monument de la Renaissance AfricaineLe symbole d’une nouvelle destinéeLe président de la république du Sénégal, son excellence Me Abdoulaye Wade a inauguré samedi dernier (3 avril) en présence de chefs d’Etat a...

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 ...

50323 - 13042010The Common Market for Eastern and Southern African states converge in Cairo this week with more than 500 industry leaders, international investors and ministers from more than 19 countries in the continent to weigh emerging opportunitie...

50325 - 19042010The Kenya Government has put on hold a Legal notice issued last year on testing of petroleum products imported in to the country.The move follows an outcry by oil marketing companies that the process was costly and the operators were fo...

50071 AfranZimbabwe International Trade Exhibition opened on Friday in the presence of Iranian and Zimbabwean presidents.Fifteen countries over the world presented their last industrial and agricultural products in the Exhibition, IRIB reported from Zi...

505 07 Hippos on the rampage in JanjanburayThe hippopotamuses on Tuesday, April 22 destroyed over 40 nursery beds at Moriba rice filed in Janjanburay, CRR. The nursery beds, which were due for transplanting, were seriously damaged by the hippos caus...

50122The total aggregate accumulation by all contributors to the contributory pension fund now reached N1.6 trillion as at the end of March 2010, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Pension Commission (PENCOM), Mr. Muhammad Ahmad has disclosed....

50128The former Governor of the old Kaduna State, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, has warned President Goodluck Jonathan, not to aspire to contest the presidential election in 2011.Kaita who spoke in Katsina after commiserating with the family of the late presiden...

505 26 Monday May 3, 2010 was World Press Freedom Day and the occasion was observed by the Gambia Press Union who organised a symposium at the Alliance Franco Gambiene institution along the Kairaba Avenue.The gathering was chaired by Mrs. Ami Bojang ...

501 40The opposition in Nigeria under the aegis of Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) yesterday advised President Goodluck Jonathan to drop the idea of setting up a facebook account as his contribution to the debate for electoral reform.CNP...

501 47Members of the Federal House of Representatives yesterday passed through second reading a bill seeking to repeal the Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority Act 1992 to give way for the establishment of the Nigerian Free Trade Zone Commission....