South Africa to co-sponsor LGBT forum
PRETORIA: The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold the first-ever formal inter-governmental debate on violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) ...
View ArticleGalaxy and Nigeria defense headquarters set to host ICT forum in Abuja
LAGOS: Galaxy Backbone is collaborating with the Defense Headquarters to host an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) forum for the defense sector next week. This forum is set to hold on ...
View ArticleChad Kreuter Fight At Wrigley
Chicago Cubs’ infielder Bill Mueller heads for home as Los Angeles Dodgers’ catcher Chad Kreuter waits for the ball. (Photo credit should read TANNEN MAURY/AFP/Getty ...
View ArticleNigeria’s Telecoms market to expand by 5.9 percent
LAGOS: According to a recent industry study carried out by Pyramid Research, London, there is heightened expectation that Nigeria's highly competitive telecommunications market will expand by ...
View ArticlePDP asks court to revoke MTN’s license
LAGOS: The People's Democratic Party has approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for an order to compel the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC) to revoke the license of the leading ...
View ArticleIncorporate ICT from design stage of your home
LAGOS: ICT experts have called for the incorporation of ICT (Information and communications technology) from the design stage of homes. This issue was tackled at a one-day seminar organized by Hafol ...
View ArticleEast Africa still struggling three weeks into cable outage
CAIRO: East African companies and businesses are still frustrated that full Internet and telecommunications have not returned to normal, three weeks on since an underwater cable off the Kenyan coast ...
View ArticleLeading African IT, Telecom officials to join Dubai conference
CAIRO: Top African telecom and IT officials and leaders are to attend a late March conference on broadband Internet and telecommunications issues in Africa and the Middle East. The Executive Summit ...
View ArticleTunisia - Need to defuse tension after violent attacks on journalists by police
Reporters Without Borders condemns the many direct physical attacks by police on journalists that took place when the media were filming their use of violence and tear-gas to disperse a ...
View ArticleCall for Anti-Government Protest
About 300 armed men have gathered in a northern town in Mozambique, some for weeks, and they say they are awaiting orders from the country's main opposition leader to launch anti-government ...
View Article'Bitter ironies' of Sirte destruction
Months after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's death, the city of Sirte - where the Libyan leader was born and died - lies in ruins. In the area of the city which saw the worst of the fighting, known ...
View ArticleHuge Congo fire 'under control'
An arms depot fire that raged for two days in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville is now under control, officials say. The blaze has claimed some 200 lives, with many more people ...
View ArticleEthiopia rebels 'release Germans'
Ethiopian rebels say they have released two German tourists who were taken captive during a gun-battle in January. Five other Europeans were killed when the rebels ambushed their tour in the Afar ...
View ArticleTurkey Begins Historic Flights to Somalia
For the first time since the collapse of the government in 1991, a non-African carrier will make regular flights to the previously war-torn city. The Turkish airline will make twice-weekly flights ...
View ArticleAfrica's ambitious mega-port project shrouded in skepticism
Residents and environmental activists participate in a demonstration against the construction of the proposed Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia (LAPSSET) project in Lamu island, Kenya, March 1, ...
View ArticleTropical storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – As word reached Madagascar's capital that 65 people were killed in the southeast in landslides and floods caused by a tropical storm, the prime minister set out ...
View ArticleLibya may bar UK police from visiting to investigate Lockerbie bombing
The Libyan interior minister, Fawzi Abdel A'al, said of British interest in Lockerbie and Yvonne Fletcher: 'Why did they shut up all these years and bring it up now?' Photograph: ...
View ArticleSouth Africa's last tea farm tries to bounce back after costly pay dispute
Thulami Mtembu has worked at Magwa tea farm for 33 years. For him it's more than a job. "It's the smell. Every day I come here I feel so refreshed," he says. "I love the ...
View ArticlePenguin in 'Madagascar'-style daring escape
THE hunt was on today for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo and was last seen swimming in a river in the Japanese ...
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