- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianFury over official response to al-Shabaab slaughter mounts as police air chief admits plane meant to fly commandos was taking his family home from holiday Criticism of the Kenyan authorities’ slow response to the Garissa massacre has rea...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaSouth Africa's xenophobic attacks prompt fear and shame
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from UN News Centre - AfricaA second meeting of Libyan political parties and activists, facilitated by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), concluded its deliberations today in the Algerian capital by reiterating the commitment to the political dia...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by CCTV AfricaChinese and S. African Musicians Partner Against Rhino Poaching South Africa has joined forces with China to battle rhino poaching - but not in the way you think. They've chosen music as a weapon to raise awareness around poaching. S...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsThe Guardian Nigeria UN, Reps, Soyinka, Utomi seek release of Chibok girls The Guardian Nigeria Ban Ki-moon ONE year after the abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok town in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents, a global voice wa...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaXenophobic attacks by South Africans against fellow African migrants have been continuing in Durban.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NYT > AfricaThe United Nations refugee agency said that shutting down the Dadaab complex, which holds more than 350,000 Somalis, would violate international law.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalThe Ebola vaccine trial program, known as STRIVE, is set to enroll at least 6,000 health and other frontline workers from districts in Sierra Leone where the Ebola outbreak affected the most people
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaBBC Radio 1Xtra's DJ Edu speaks with one of Botswana's top artists, hip-hop star Zeus.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianA school in Freetown is one of many reopening after the shutdown, which kept the country’s 1.8 million children out of education for the best part of a year For a school whose classrooms and hallways have been silent since the main gates...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaKatie Meyler went from operating a school for girls in Liberia to fighting Ebola.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from AFKInsider
South African toddler DJ AJ can't fully speak yet but can select and play music on a laptop. He has gone viral in South Africa and has sponsorship deals. The child's father is an aspiring DJ who downloaded educational apps for his child ... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaJust eight months ago, a young woman named Fatu Kekula was single-handedly trying to save her Ebola-stricken family, donning trash bags to protect herself against the deadly virus.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianThe Turkish foreign ministry’s criticism of the pope’s statement describing the Armenian genocide as the first genocide of the 20th century is revealing ( Report , 13 April). It has called the statement discriminatory because it only men...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianThe aftermath of an attack by militants from Islamist group al-Shabab in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Tuesday. At least ten people were killed in the attack on a government building that houses the country's higher education ministry and petro...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CCTV AfricaThe United Nations is calling on government to reconsider its order to close down the biggest refugee camp in the world. The Dadaab camp is home to hundreds of thousands of Somalis. The UN warns closing down the camp and sending refugees...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CNN.com - Africa
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaThe United Nations Refugee Agency has urged Kenya not to expel hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in response to al-Shabab student massacre.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from AFKInsider
Sierra Leone’s commercial banking industry is dominated by foreign players, making it an attractive destination for Nigerian banks. The Nigerian Stock Exchange Banking 10 Index dropped at least 16 percent in 2014. Fitch Ratings expects N... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaReigning London marathon champion Wilson Kipsang hits out at the sports authorities in Kenya for suspending his foreign agent without informing him.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from African SpotlightNo fewer than six countries have already refused to grant an asylum request by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, the Business Council for Africa (BCA) said in its just-released monthly report, noting that a...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NYT > AfricaThe assault in Mogadishu took place a day after the ministry said it would introduce centralized exams for all schools, witnesses and officials said.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from UN News Centre - AfricaThe United Nations refugee agency today urged Kenyan authorities to reconsider their decision to shut down within the next three months Dadaab refugee camps, a decision that would require some 350,000 Somalis to return to their country a...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from AFKInsider
The South African government blames criminals, not xenophobia, for much of the violence. But “we cannot ignore the fact that it’s stemming from South Africans saying that they don’t want foreign nationals in the country, so there’s an el... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from African SpotlightThe President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday said for too long Jonathan’s administration ruled, not governed, and in doing so had become so focused on own self-interest and embroiled in corruption that the du...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from African SpotlightPercy Sledge, who recorded the classic 1966 soul ballad When a Man Loves a Woman, has died aged 73. Louisiana coroner Dr William Clark confirmed that Sledge died early on Tuesday morning at his home in Baton Rouge. Sledge’s first recordi...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsIndependent Online Zuma calls for selfless healthcare service Independent Online Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged health professionals to selflessly serve South Africans to revive the citizenry”s hope. “The professionals ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Africa Review Africa ReviewConcern over the fate of Somalis fleeing violence at home
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from UN News Centre - AfricaThe United Nations human rights office today said it is “deeply disturbed” at the series of violent attacks that have occurred in the Gao and Kidal regions of northern Mali, making an already precarious security situation more ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaChildren in Sierra Leone go back to school for the first time in nine months, after they were closed to halt the spread of Ebola.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianYour piece ( Students celebrate as statue of Rhodes is taken down , 10 April) did not mention the surprisingly appropriate choice of ammunition hurled at the statue before it was removed. In 1885 Cecil Rhodes, “the notoriously racist min...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsIndependent Online Cops, courts okay, prisons not - StatsSA Independent Online Pretoria - A survey among 30 000 South African households found most South Africans are happy with services provided by the country's police and courts, b...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaThese are the top 10 places where the continent's ultra-rich call home.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Inter Press Service » AfricaSudanese President Omar al-Bashir is predicted to roll up an easy victory in national polls this week, adding another five-year term to his already 26 years in office. Voting began Monday and will continue for three days. More than 13 mi...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Africa Review Africa ReviewFinance minister says situation to be reviewed in in the 2017 budget
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianUsing foreigners in the east African country’s delegation to world’s biggest art event is a ‘monumental embarrassment’, say critics. Contemporary& reports Kenyan artists have expressed their frustration after it was announced that si...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from International Business TimesEconomic development has lifted more than a billion people from extreme poverty in the last 25 years, and the number of citizens living on less than $1.25 per day has declined in every region of the globe except one: sub-Saharan Africa.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from African SpotlightFollowing a report Monday morning that PDP Governorship candidate in Oyo State, Oloye Teslim Folarin, removed the transformer he donated to a community after he lost in the election, the politician has explained what actually happened. F...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianIt pumped out hugely successful cowboy films, heist dramas and Bond-style thrillers. It launched a Hollywood career and made the world’s first Zulu-language film. So does it matter that the explosion of black cinema in apartheid South Af...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from UN News Centre - AfricaOn the one-year anniversary of their abduction by the extremist group Boko Haram, the kidnapped girls of Chibok, Nigeria must not be forgotten, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared today as he reiterated his call for the...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top StoriesPeter Montalto is struck by the lack of panic around the situation at Eskom-no panic by households, industry & business and SA's government.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from NYT > AfricaMore than 8,000 schools were reopening, although attendance at many was poor amid some skepticism that the crisis was over.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from AFKInsider
More Africans describe themselves as religious than people in any other region of the world and income appears to exert an influence, according to a new Gallup poll. Among those with a medium-high and high income, less than 50 percent gl... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking news from AFRICA, Maghreb and Sub-Saharan AfricaAbout 400 migrants died in a bid to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where the death toll from shipwrecks has surged this year.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsTimes LIVE Flames of hate engulf Durban Times LIVE KNIFE EDGE: An immigrant waits for gangs of locals that attacked foreign shop owners in the Durban city centre yesterday. At least three people were stabbed and one burnt. Image by: TEBO...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[AI London] In September 2014, a 19-year-old woman whom I will call Aisha was celebrating a friend's wedding in a small village in northeastern Nigeria when Boko Haram attacked. The fighters killed the groom and many of the male guests. ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[allAfrica] Cape Town -Attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa were a symptom of "Afrophobia" in South Africa, the police minister, Nathi Nhleko, told a parliamentary briefing on Tuesday.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsBDlive Eskom gives in and reinstates Medupi staff BDlive EMBATTLED power utility Eskom has extended an olive branch to about 1,700 workers who were either dismissed or suspended en masse at its troubled Medupi construction site — the emp...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from African SpotlightPetroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has denied seeking asylum in any part of the world, as widely reported. A report by the Business Council for Africa (BCA) on Tuesday said that the minister had been rejected by six countri...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsTimes LIVE Lee-Ann Liebenberg 'shaken' after driveway hold-up Times LIVE She issued an alert for the white Mercedes the attackers were driving when they held her up‚ in the Sandton area. File photo. Image by: Candice Dorman / Gal...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsA Kenyan court has sentenced three men to 15 years in jail for the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in 2013, after protests erupted when police had initially made the suspects cut grass at their compound as punishment.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsMozambique’s president Filipe Nyusi yesterday said that, although Gaza province has no problems producing food, the Government wants it to produce more and more. For this purpose, mechanized agriculture is needed, Nyusi said, cited by Fo...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsBrazilian business people seek investment opportunities in Mozambique's mining, energy, transport, health or agriculture, among other areas that have proved attractive to the Latin Americans participating in the Brazil-Mozambique Week in...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsChina aims to turn Mozambique into a centre for natural gas exploration, according to Portuguese researcher Gustavo Placido dos Santos, who notes the East African country has a lot to gain from Chinese involvement in natural gas exploita...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsThe Parliament approved today, Tuesday, the Government’s Five-Year Programme (QGP) 2015-2019, which was debated in Parliament for four days.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsThe World Bank on Thursday forecast Kenya's economy to grow by 6 percent in 2015 and 6.6 percent in 2016 buoyed by falling oil prices and massive infrastructure projects being undertaken in the country.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsThe World Bank cut its forecast for gross domestic product growth for sub-Saharan Africa to 4.0 pct in 2015 from 4.5 pct in 2014 due to fall in oil and other commodity prices.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsA young teenage boy died after being shot three times during a looting spree in Lindelani in KwaZulu-Natal, hit by deadly xenophobic violence that broke out over the weekend.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsPresident Jacob Zuma issued a directive on Tuesday to protect all human life as police had running battles with looters and angry foreign nationals in Durban.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsRussia paved the way on Monday for missile system deliveries to Iran and started an oil-for-goods swap, signaling that Moscow may have a head-start in the race to benefit from an eventual lifting of sanctions on Tehran.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Mmegi Online - Editorial
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiMighty Be Forward Wanderers has released the much touted Nigerian player Olashipe James Tolulope after failing to impress coach Elias Kananji on trials. Kananji said Olashipe failed to make the grade. “We have selected a strong squad and...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiGolf Union of Malawi (GoUM) president Gabriel Kambale, on. Tuesday commended Airtel Malawi for bankrolling the union to enable the national team travel to Uganda to participate in the Zone IV event from 15 to 18 April, this year. Airtel ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Malawi VoiceMalawi President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika is not in Washington DC for vacation but serious business. On Thursday, he is going straight into office where he is scheduled to meet Dana Hyde the Chief Executive Officer for the Millen...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiGrajoh Entertainment, a Ugandan artist management and public relations company which also manages manages popular comedians Annie Kansiime and Idringi Salvado, has announced that it has signed the United Kingdom (UK) based Malawian singe...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The NamibianChile international Arturo Vidal struck a second-half penalty as Juventus laboured to a 1-0 win over a stubborn Monaco in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final in Turin on Tuesday.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The NamibianAtletico Madrid and Real Madrid will fight it out for a place in the Champions League semi-finals next week after the two couldn't be separated in a feisty 0-0 first-leg draw at the Vicente Calderon on Tuesday.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The NamibianThe Namibia Premier League on Tuesday condemned Black Africa supporters for threatening match officials with violence and harassing a national broadcaster camera man at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Saturday.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The NamibianThe Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) and Air Namibia announced a partnership agreement on Monday through which Air Namibia will be the official carrier of Namibian rugby for 2015.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The NamibianNamibian water skiers gave an impressive performance at the recent South African National Waterski Championships, winning a total of nine gold, three silver and six bronze medals.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiThe Anglican Church in Malawi has appealed to all Malawians to take part in protecting people living with albinism and reporting any criminal acts by any suspects in our society. The Church said it is sickened with reports that people li...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Zambia Daily Mail » NewsYANDE SYAMPEYO, Lusaka PRESIDENT Lungu has appointed Justice Esau Chulu as chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) subject to ratification by Parliament. Mr Justice Chulu takes over from Mrs Irene Mambilima who was recent...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Zambia Daily Mail » NewsKELVIN CHONGO, Lusaka MINISTRY of Local Government and Housing permanent secretary Stanford Msichili yesterday protested over remarks by Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member January Zimba that Kitwe City Council management lacks intell...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Zambia Daily Mail » NewsSHIKANDA KAWANGA, Livingstone GOVERNMENT has not abandoned plans to re-establish a national airline, Minister of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Yamfwa Mukanga has disclosed. Mr Mukanga said plans to establish the airline are...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Zambia Daily Mail » NewsCATHERINE MUMBA, Lusaka THE United States (US) Embassy in Zambia has established an information resource centre (IRC) to enable Zambians access information about that country. And Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and E...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Zambia Daily Mail » NewsKELVIN CHONGO, Lusaka SPECIAL assistant to the President for economic and development affairs Hibeene Mwiinga says Cabinet’s approval of changes to the mineral royalty tax regime will avert job losses and save the mines from collapse. Mr...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Zambia Daily Mail » NewsKABANDA CHULU, Nalolo PEOPLE should stop listening to falsehoods being peddled by the United Party for National Development (UPND) and other opposition political parties that Government will not construct King Lewanika University and Mon...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Zambia Daily Mail » NewsNANCY SIAME, Lusaka THE Department of Immigration has arrested 26 suspected illegal immigrants countrywide. Immigration public relations officer Namati Nshinka said in a statement yesterday that the suspects are in police custody and wil...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Zambia Daily Mail » NewsSTEVEN MVULA, Lusaka PRESIDENT Lungu has urged Patriotic Front (PF) members to remain peaceful and tolerant regardless of the outcome of yesterday’s three parliamentary by-elections. The electorate in Lusaka’s Chawama, Senga Hill and Mas...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Herald » Local News
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter The Zanu-PF Mashonaland East province interim executive committee has passed a vote of no-confidence in acting provincial chairman Cde Aeneas Chigwedere on various charges that include failure to con... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Herald » Local News
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter By-elections to fill in vacant seats in the National Assembly will proceed on June 10 without any hindrance after the Constitutional Court yesterday threw out an application in which some 21 members ... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Herald » Local NewsFrom George Maponga in Masvingo An outbreak of cholera has hit Chingwizi where nearly 3 000 Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims are resettled with three cases of the deadly disease recorded last week. This forced the Government to deploy surveil...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldBarack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday that its fighters must respect Iraq's sovereignty and answer to the government in Baghdad in the battle against Islamic State militants.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Herald » Local NewsAndrew Chimedza Herald Reporter Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission received a boost for its internal operations after the European Union and two Nordic countries donated four vehicles worth $120 000.The commission’s chairperson Mr Elaso Mu...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Herald » Local News
Simiso Mlevu in Victoria Falls Postal and Telecommunications Regulation Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) is working on major legislative measures that seek to protect internet users and curb cyber bullying in the country, an official has s... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Herald » Local NewsFidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission chairman Mr Elasto Mugwadi is seeking renewal of term of office for four commissioners whose tenure expired last month.The term of office for the Commission deputy...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Herald » Local NewsHerald Reporter At least 48 faith and traditional healers have so far been de-registered by the Traditional Medical Practitioners Council while 15 others are under probe for improper and disgraceful conduct.The 48 were de-registered betw...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldPresident Barack Obama told Congress on Tuesday that he plans to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News24 WorldAbout 400 migrants have died in a shipwreck after leaving Libya in an attempt to reach Italy.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News24 WorldPresident Barack Obama has told Congress he plans to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News24 AfricaNigeria's President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to make every effort to free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants a year ago.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News24 AfricaAn Egypt administrative court has upheld the decision banning a Libyan student from the country for being gay.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Business Day LiveUN warns Kenya against closing Somali refugee camp in bid to flush out al-Shabaab after brutal attack in Garissa
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News24 WorldA 20-year-old man accused of killing his former supervisor at a North Carolina community college carried out a calculated plan, according to police.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News24 WorldJurors hearing the Boston Marathon bombing trial are barred from attending this year's race, a federal judge has told the panel.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from LusakaTimes.comGovernment has started receiving fresh bids for the installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera on the streets of Lusaka. In September last year, then Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu was forced to cancel a...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News24 WorldEyewitness accounts and evidence collected from Syria's northwestern Idlib province "strongly" suggest regime forces dropped toxic chemicals on civilians several times last month.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News South Africa Category RSSTwo men were injured in a two vehicle collision on the N1, between Malibongwe and Beyers Naude Drive in Randburg, ER24 said.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from News24 AfricaThe UN's refugee agency has urged Kenya to reconsider an order to close the teeming Dadaab refugee camp, warning that sending Somali refugees back to their homeland would have 'extreme humanitarian and practical consequences'.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from LusakaTimes.comVice President Inonge Wina has called for transparency in the distribution of relief maize. The Vice President has also warned that segregation should not be entertained in the distribution of relief maize as everyone must...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by NTANewsGood Morning Nigeria on NTA 15-04-2015 Live News Broadcast from Nigerian Television Authority. Abuja, Nigeria More from NTA at Website: http://www.nta.ng/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NTANewsNow Facebook: ... From: NTANews Views: 0 0 ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com14 April 2015 - A second meeting of Libyan political parties and activists, facilitated by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), concluded its deliberations today in the Algerian ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comFormer Dutch international midfielder Clarence Seedorf has praised the development of Barcelona forward Neymar and said the Brazilian is yet to reach his physical peak. Neymar has scored 27 goals ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comCAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - SpaceX launched a shipment of groceries to the International Space Station on Tuesday, including the first espresso maker bound for orbit. But the company's third attempt ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Cairo PostLUEBECK: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday he was confident U.S. President Barack Obama would be able to negotiate a final nuclear deal with Iran after a framework accord was agreed between Tehran and six world powers ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com14 April 2015 - With human trafficking now a global criminal enterprise generating billions of dollars every year, United Nations officials stressed today during a high-level event at the UN Crime ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesAbout 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where the death toll from shipwrecks has surged this year. The boat, carrying ab...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Zawya.com - Egypt Top StoriesArab countries are expected to grow by 3% in 2015 according to Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) first edition of "Arab Economic Outlook" report.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesThe Kuwaiti government has deposited $2 billion in the Central Bank of Egypt to support the country's economy, Egypt's ambassador to Kuwait Abdel Karim Soliman said Tuesday. "Kuwait's previous fin...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by SaharatvWole Soyinka Speaks on #Chibok1Year: Anniversary of Conscience Wole Soyinka Speaks on #Chibok1Year: Anniversary of Conscience. From: Saharatv Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 06:51 More in News & Politics
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe London Metropolitan Police have extended Altaf Hussain's bail, the chief of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, by three months in a money laundering probe. MQM leaders in London ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Frontpage Slideshow - Graphic OnlineThe President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has announced the commencement of action to give legal backing to the various codes of conduct for political appointees and public officials.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Frontpage Slideshow - Graphic OnlineBoxing legend, Azumah Nelson has tipped Filipino boxer, Manny Pacquiao to defeat Floyd Mayweather if their May 2, bout travels the full distance although he admits that the American was a slight favourite for the clash.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsKuwait News AgencySaudi Arabia Defence Minister Prince Mohammad bin Salman affirmed Tuesday on Egypt's role as one of the main active powers in maintaining security
- The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results of candidates who took the maiden edition of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for private candidates
- Cervical cancer is caused by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the most common viral infection of the reproductive tract
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsBEVERLY HILLS, April 14, (THEWILL) Fresh crisis has erupted in Ogidigben, Warri South West Local Government of Delta State as Ijaw and Itsekiri youths engaged themselves in gun battle over the controversial $16billion Export Processing Z...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com14 April 2015 - Despite huge challenges in getting access, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has managed to deliver much-needed humanitarian supplies to Qamishli in north-east Syria, a ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsSuleiman Hashimu or The traveller as I prefer to call him is an indigene of Katsina state, Funtua to be precise. He was born in Osun state but lives in Ibadan. The traveler promised two years ago to walk from where ever he is to the capi...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Morocco World NewsThe post White Man Carrying Rifle Taunts Police And They Back down appeared first on Morocco World News .
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Morocco World NewsRabat- In a move that is likely to raise eyebrows both in Morocco and abroad, a Moroccan Minister who is already married has officially asked for the hand of one of his colleagues in the government . According to Moroccan newspaper Akbar...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CameroonOnline.org » EnglishDefence Minister, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o yesterday in Yaounde received in audience a delegation from the Russian Federal Service of Technical and Military Cooperation. The Federal Republic of Russia will in the days ahead concretise its...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe UN Security Council (UNSC) has "condemned in the strongest terms" the terrorist attacks on the embassies of South Korea and Morocco in Libya's capital Tripoli. "The members of the Security ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CameroonOnline.org » EnglishDavid Koulbout Aman insists that the process will only resume when the authorities produce a proper master plan for the city’s development. The Kumba City Council has been suspended from issuing building permits by the Senior Divisional ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsPresident Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the amendments made to the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly, The PUNCH has learnt. A top government official who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent on Tuesday that Jonathan vetoed ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe US space agency on Wednesday successfully launched SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft that is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) with two tonnes of supplies, research and technology -- ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com14 April 2015 - The United Nations called for a swift investigation into the shooting death of a Chilean peacekeeper in Haiti whose killing prompted strong condemnations from the UN mission on the ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comUS President Barack Obama pledged continued support with training and equipment to help combat the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. The ongoing fighting against the extremist group dominated Obama's ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has agreed to sign a modified controversial legislation that allows the United States Congress a say in the potential Iran nuclear deal. This ends the months of ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsThe head of the Third Police Station in Al-Arish, North Sinai, was shot in the leg by unknown assailants on Tuesday, just two days after
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsTelevision broadcast in Egypt was interrupted for most of the satellite channels, following the power failure since few, for the Egyptian Media Production City.According to
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com14 April 2015 - The United Nations Deputy Special Representative for South Sudan visited Malakal today, meeting with local officials and community leaders of some 26,000 internally displaced people ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA passenger plane of South Korea's Asiana Airlines skidded off the runway when landing at the Hiroshima Airport in Japan late Tuesday, leaving at least 22 people slightly injured. The Airbus A320 ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsA self-acclaimed pastor, John Ojebe, 50, has been charged before an Oshodi Magistrate's Court in Lagos for allegedly obtaining N390,000 from one Hawo Umoru under the pretense of selling her Adonai oil to wash her private parts with. Ojeb...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsThe former Nigeria captain has predicted a bright future for the Flying Eagles forward should he keep up his impressive performance Kanu Nw ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by NTANewsTuesday Live 14/04/2015 From: NTANews Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:53:18 More in People & Blogs
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsSAN FRANCISCO, April 14, (THEWILL) The Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, Tuesday noted that the reports so far turned in by nearly every observer whether local, regional or international on the Governorship/House of Assembly ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Frontpage Slideshow - Graphic OnlineThe Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ms Christine Lagarde, has stated that what Ghana needs now to restore its economic health is strict implementation of measures agreed on under the new IMF programme.
- Ghana would host the West Africa Insurance Companies Association (WAICA) 37th Annual General Meeting and education Conference slated for Monday, April 20, in Accra
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsAll AfricaEgypt's administrative prosecution referred on Tuesday former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and former Finance Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali to the public prosecution for embezzlement.Nazif
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CameroonOnline.org » EnglishFury over official response to al-Shabaab slaughter mounts as police air chief admits plane meant to fly commandos was taking his family home from holiday Criticism of the Kenyan authorities’ slow response to the Garissa massacre has rea...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsDo you recognize room for improvement in your appearance, communication, or behaviour? Have you decided to upgrade your image, but are wondering how to proceed? Are you a business owner who s wondering if your employees are living up to ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsBEVERLY HILLS, April 14, (THEWILL) A District Head in Gombe State, Alhaji Saleh Tinka, has alleged that he was assaulted by a Council Chairman in the state during last Saturday's elections. Tinka who is a District Head of Bodor in Funaka...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsThe rumours of fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease which have making the round have been refuted by both the Federal and Lagos State governments. The management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, sa...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comMOGADISHU, Somalia - Several people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday when suspected Al Shabaab militants detonated a car bomb outside the higher education ministry building in Mogadishu, the ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsAl-ArabiyaSaudi Arabia’s Minister of Defense Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz arrived in Cairo on Tuesday where he met with the country’s President Abdel Fattah
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsIn an urgent and timely need to restructure PMAN and ensure that all the stakeholders benefit from the association under a new leadership, the organisation had decided yo pay former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, a visit at his Ota home. ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comROME - Several hundred African migrants are believed to have died when their boat headed for Italy capsized off the Libyan coast, survivors said on Tuesday. Survivors told aid group Save the ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comWASHINGTON - There is optimism about strengthening relations between the U.S. and Japan days ahead of a state visit April 28 by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the United States. This ...
- Ghana FA president Kwesi Nyantakyi has branded retired Stephen Appiah as the most successful Black Stars captain ever
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by NTV UgandaMan mistaken for thief, killed at Makerere University A former student of Makerere University was brutally killed by a mob of students on Sunday night at the Nkrumah Hall of residence. The police say, David Otim Ojok was beaten on suspic...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsThe Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has sought the help of the National Land Commission in the investigations into the sale and transfer of the Integrity Centre building.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on SudanApril 14, 2015 (JUBA) – Minister of education in Warrap state has accused members of the South Sudanese army of agitating for protests by students in the state capital, Kuajok, on Tuesday. Students of high school (senior three) staged a ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsJournalists who were battered by suspended Old Kampala DPC Joram Mwesigye on Tuesday expressed their dissatisfaction with the slow pace that the court is taking to hear their case
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsPOLITICAL parties in the country have been urged to avoid carrying their members from one place to another when organizing their rallies instead they should use citizens of the surrounding areas.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The CitizenNews>Tuberculosis and landmine detection by use of rats in Tanzania is now headed for a global stage with the opening of a new office in Geneva, Switzerland to further the project.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from M&G Africa Index FeedTroops to storm forest camp ahead of handover of power to incoming president Muhammadu Buhari
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsMAALIM Seif Sharif Hamad, First Vice-President of Zanzibar, has expressed displeasure at reported conflicts in mosques. “We have acceptable ways of handling and resolving disputes.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Bartamaha » Latest Somali NewsAl Jazeera — At least 12 people have been killed in an assault on Somalia’s Higher Education Ministry in the centre of the capital Mogadishu. The attackers stormed the ministry after a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsAN ambitious project to modernise and expand Dar es Salaam Port to handle 22 million metric tons and reduce ship’s dwell time from the current 9-10 days to five days by 2020 has finally started.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by NTV UgandaGeneral Sejusa meets with DP officials For more news visit http://www.ntv.co.ug Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ntvuganda Like our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/NTVUganda. From: NTV Uganda Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsA delegation from a local NGO, Uganda Women Network, yesterday petitioned the Nigerian High Commission, asking a top diplomat stationed here to urge his government not to give up the search for the abducted school girls from Chibok
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by NTV UgandaPromoting agro-processing key to strengthening shilling A deliberate policy may be required to promote investments in agro-processing as a partial intervention towards saving the further weakening of the local currency. Experts speaking ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The CitizenNews>At least 970 people died and over 2,470 others injured in road accidents in the past four months, police said.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsPREPARATIONS ahead of the May Day celebrations scheduled to be marked nationwide in Mwanza region this year are in top gear.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesAn MP Tuesday sensationally claimed Majority Leader Aden Duale was in the know about the Al-Shabaab terror attack on the Garissa University College.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsABOUT 900 people died and 2,363 others sustained injuries in 2,116 road accidents that occurred countrywide between January and March, this year, the police announced in Dar es Salaam.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
April 14, 2015 (WASHINGTON) – An African Union (AU) panel tasked with evaluating the pre-elections environment in Sudan had concluded that it would not be possible to hold credible polls in the East African nation and recommended that th... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsVendors at Wandegeya market have spent the last two months without electricity after Umeme disconnected the power to the market over a more than Shs288 million debt
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Daily Nation RSS Feeds: Africa‘Move an admission by government that it had failed to turn around the economy’
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
April 14, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - In the second day of elections, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) shelled the capital of the South Kordofan state, Kadugli, a Sudanese official confirmed on Tuesday. The official who reques... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsAmani Coalition leader Musalia Mudavadi has poked holes in the Jubilee Administration two years since it took power and explained the difference he would have made if Kenyans voted him to presidency.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsThe Midwestern US state of Missouri executed a black man Tuesday who had been sentenced to death by an all-white jury, despite numerous protests claiming the penalty smacked of racism
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesSexologist and relationship expert says skin lightening; bottom enlargement and virginity product are not real and does not work even if a woman uses it for more than a year.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsTwo senior judges want a court to dismiss papers filed by Attorney General (AG) Githu Muigai in their case against Judicial Service Commission.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesHer perfect combination of beauty and brains is the reason she scooped a spot in the top ten positions in the Miss World competition.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from M&G Africa Index FeedTensions remained high on Tuesday, with local media reporting that about 2,000 armed migrants were engaged in a tense stand-off with police in Durban
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesDeputy Speaker Joyce Laboso Tuesday rejected a bid to derail debate on the report of the Committee on Privileges because of a case filed in court.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsThe High Court in Kampala has summoned Rubaga Hospital to respond to a lawsuit in which a woman is seeking Shs50 million as damages following a tear on the vagina that she suffered during delivery as a result of alleged negligence by the...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsPRESIDENT Ali Mohammed Shein has urged people not to hesitate donating, even little money one possesses. “Normally, when donating, give out what you can afford; do not hesitate even giving out a small amount of money,” said Dr Shein at a...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsA 70-year old herdsman in Kaliro district has been remanded to prison for allegedly raping a 14-year old dumb girl
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsSaudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded an Indonesian domestic worker who knifed to death a Saudi woman described in press reports as her employer.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
April 14, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Saudi ambassador in Sudan Faisal bin Hamed al-Mualla said today that his country has not provided any cash assistance to Khartoum but is focusing instead on expanding agricultural investments to meet the n... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsEmbattled Kitgum Diocese Bishop Benjamin Ojwang is protesting the Church’s withdrawal of his official car, arguing that the move has crippled his pastoral duties
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from » News EnglishMogadishu, 14 April 2015 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, condemns today’s terrorist attack on the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education in Mogadishu city that resulted i...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Bartamaha » Latest Somali NewsForeign policy – AIROBI, Kenya — Eastleigh is bursting at the seams. This Nairobi neighborhood of some 350,000 people is overrun with food stands, clothing stores, and electronics shops, packed so tight the booths and tables are p...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsDifficulty in accessing clean water is affecting smooth military operations along the Uganda-Kenya border
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by K24TVInterview: K24WeekendEdition From: K24TV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 11:31 More in News & Politics
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by K24TVKiplagat's Move To Name Successor At Athletics Kenya Challenged By Stakeholders The move by Athletics Kenya chairman Isaiah Kiplagat to name his successor has met opposition from different quarters. Retired athlete Moses Tanui who is...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsChurch of Uganda Archbishop Stanley Ntagali has urged bishops to stop burdening Christians with their needs, forgetting they too have many other responsibilities
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsA team has been appointed to investigate how and why the Garissa University College massacre happened even after security officials there had been alerted.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsThe suspect in a fatal shooting at a North Carolina college campus was arrested Tuesday after being found asleep on a Florida beach 500 miles (800 kilometers) away, police said
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsThe Democratic Party (DP) has said the party is ready to work with the Former Coordinator of Intelligence Services, Gen David Sejusa, to cause regime change in the country
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
April 14, 2015 (JUBA) – A leading government official in South Sudan has accused international relief agencies and troika countries (United States, United Kingdom and Norway) of allegedly interested in political interference instead of h... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesA male member of the ruling Jubilee coalition was heard telling all and sundry in the corridors of the House that it was "normal" for men to seek sexual favours
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by K24TVSocial Hour : Reday Made Partners From: K24TV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 53:16 More in News & Politics
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsTANZANIANS have been assured of food availability as the country has surplus amounting to 3.2 million tonnes following the bumper harvest recorded in the last farming season.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Uploads by NTVKenyaRAW: G4S guards rough up NTV Journalists outside UNHCR offices For more news visit http://www.ntv.co.ke Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ntvkenya Like our FaceBook page http://www.facebook.com/NtvKenya. From: NTV Kenya Views: ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The CitizenNews>Amina Ali , the mother of Rashid Charles Mberesero, the Tanzanian detained in Kenya over the killings of 148 Garissa University students, has appealed for help to enable her visit her son.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Uploads by kenyacitizentvYou Have 10 Days to Surrender, Nkaissery Tells Radicalized Youth The government has given ten days to youth who have been radicalized and would like to disassociate themselves with extremism to do so failure to which they will be dealt w...
