Sierra Leone’s envoy to the State of Kuwait and other Gulf States has successfully negotiated with the Under Secretary of the Ministry of "Awqaf" (Endowment and Religious Affairs) in the [Read more]
South Africans celebrated Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday Wednesday by participating in good deeds nationwide to honor the legacy of the famous statesman. The frail icon has not appeared in public [Read more]
Delegates at the just-concluded African Women Economic Summit (AWES) held in Lagos, and co-organised by the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org), have proposed ways to end the financial exclusion of [Read more]
Ghana’s economic surge has come with it service delivery challenges. With socio-economic inequality widening and much of the population rural bound, the delivery of goods and services still remain a [Read more]
Two British women in their 100s have been named the oldest sisters in the world, after one celebrated a record breaking birthdays. Marjorie Ruddle, who recently turned 105, and Dorothy [Read more]
The BBC has today announced its first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences. The new programme, BBC Focus on Africa, brings together the expertise of the [Read more]
ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 6, 2012/ — Africa's Top Bankers gathered in Arusha, Tanzania, to celebrate the 6th edition of the African Banker Awards, under the patronage of the African Development [Read more]
A passenger plane carrying 153 passengers between Abudja and Lago has crashed in a residential area, no hope for survival. Authorities have declared three days of national mourning for the [Read more]
A cargo plane has crash-landed in Ghana's capital Accra, hitting a bus full of passengers, officials say. Ten passengers on board the bus were reported to have been killed while [Read more]
CAIRO — Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib al Adly, were sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters during the [Read more]
PRESS RELEASE AfDB President Kaberuka thanked the Japanese Government for their continued support ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 31, 2012/ — Japan's Senior Vice Minister of Finance, Yukihisa Fujita, [Read more]
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor listened today with his eyes closed as he heard the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, sentence him to prison for 50 [Read more]
KAMPALA, Uganda, May 24, 2012/ — Airtel Uganda (http://www.airtel.com) has today announced new harmonized calling rates to all African destinations, cutting costs for Ugandans who communicate with family, friends and [Read more]
On 16 May, convicted war criminal, Charles Taylor, delivered a 30-minute speech – part plea for clemency, part lubricious defence of his actions, and part grandstanding – before his trial [Read more]
A day after his social media company went public, Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday. The news was announced nowhere else [Read more]
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