Thousands flee Nigeria from military sweep
Source: Reuters At least 10,000 people have fled northern Nigeria for neighbouring Niger and Chad to escape a military sweep targeting members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, officials said. ...
View ArticleTurkish football team to assist Congo Republic in launching league
The Turkish football team Genlerbirligi will assist the Democratic Republic of the Congo to start a professional league in the country, Anatolia news agency ...
View ArticleDemocratic Republic of Congo - Kinshasa-based broadcaster back on the air...
Franais (JED/IFEX) - Kinshasa, 1 March 2012 - On 29 February 2012, Kinshasa-based broadcaster Radio Lisanga Tlvision (RLTV) was finally allowed back on the air. In a letter signed by ...
View ArticleTunisia - Journalists attacked by police while filming union protest
Franais (RSF/IFEX) - 1 March 2012 - Reporters Without Borders condemns the attacks on journalists by police when the media were filming the police force's use of violence and tear-gas to ...
View ArticleRural School Running on Methane Bio-Gas
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Mar 1, 2012 (IPS) - Tucked against the rolling hills of South ...
View ArticleMugabe admits allies have died of Aids
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe admitted on Thursday that some of his political allies have died of Aids, as he launched a programme urging parliamentarians to lead by example in fighting the ...
View ArticleZimbabwe ministers disagree on indigenisation, Zimplats and missing diamond...
Tsvangirai: "There is no grabbing, there is no nationalisation", but Kasukuwere seems yo have a differeny scenario in mind, particularly with respect to impala's Zimbabwe platinum ...
View ArticleKenya and Ethiopia sign rail pact
Kenya and Ethiopia Thursday signed an agreement for the construction of a standard gauge railway line from Lamu Port to Addis Ababa as the two countries engage in major infrastructure development to ...
View ArticleStop this single story descriptions that do injustice to Kenya’s female...
In all these cases, one cannot help but observe that critics blame the women's gender for their "bad behaviour", while apportioning a collective burden to the rest of the womenfolk ...
View ArticleDeadly cyclone likely to hit Madagascar again
PHOTO/AFP/ ANDREEA CAMPEANU A woman looks at her collapsed home after the passage of Cyclone Giovanna, in a village near Brickaville, in eastern Madagascar, on February 16, 2012. The cyclone is ...
View ArticleNine arrested after Nigeria jail break
Nigeria's police in central north Niger State has arrested nine suspected inmates who escaped from Koton Karfe Prison on Thursday. State police spokesperson Richard Oguche said the suspects ...
View ArticleBlame game over falling education standards
PHOTO | FILE Pupils in a Ghanaian school enjoy a meal. Teacher absenteeism, poverty and cultural impediments are being cited for an alarming dip in education standards in the West African ...
View ArticleAde absence brief reprieve for Kenya
PHOTO | MOHAMMED AMIN | NATION James Situma (left) scores against Togo during their Africa cup of Nations qualifier against Togo at the Nyayo National Stadium on February 29 2012. Kenya won ...
View ArticleZambia arrive for women’s match
Zambia coach, Martha Kapombo, led her 18-member squad into Nairobi on Thursday evening to face Kenya in the second leg of their Under-20 Women's World Cup qualifier at the Nyayo National ...
View ArticleIndia ropes in Tharoor for diplomacy with Africa
New Delhi, March 1: India Thursday once again relied on the diplomacy skills of former minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor to impress upon the African continent to forge science ...
View ArticleDamaged Ocean Cable Cripples Internet In East Africa
March 1, 2012 In East Africa, the Internet has slowed to a crawl thanks to a disruption of the telecommunications pipeline serving the region. Over the weekend, a ship dragging an anchor severed ...
View ArticleCuba, Algeria Close Inter-Governmental Commission
Havana, Mar 1 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and Algeria will conclude the 17th Session of the Cuba-Algeria Intergovernmental Commission for Technical, Scientific and Economic Cooperation on Thursday, when ...
View Article4 police on patrol killed in oil-rich Nigeria
Police spokesman Eguavoen Emokpae says the officers killed Thursday were on a boat patroling the Nembe river in Bayelsa State. It was not immediately clear if the gunmen shot from land or also were ...
View ArticleMogadishu terror continues, despite Al-Shabab "withdrawal"
Although Al-Shabab insurgents announced their withdrawal from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in August 2011, insecurity in the city has continued, as evidenced by the targeted killing of a ...
View ArticleA lean season ahead
The maize growing on John Gapare's three-hectare plot in rural Mutoko, some 90km northeast of the Zimbabwean capital Harare, is of uneven height and yellowing, with some plants already wilting, ...
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