- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Al Jazeera] Nigeria's 2015 general elections, which drew to a close this weekend, have been hailed as historic.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsMail & Guardian Online Zuma: Mbeki offered me a R20m bribe Mail & Guardian Online The president claims in court papers that his predecessor offered him R20m to go quietly. President Jacob Zuma has effectively accused Thabo Mbeki, then pr...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaForeign-owned shops in South Africa are attacked and looted overnight in Johannesburg, despite thousands rallying against xenophobia on Thursday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsNews24 Montecasino murder case to continue News24 Johannesburg - The trial of two people accused of the murder of Dustan Blom, whose body was found in a car boot in Johannesburg's Montecasino, is expected to continue in the South Gau...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from CCTV AfricaAfrica’s tourism sector may be facing some severe challenges, but it is proving resilient and even showing signs of growth. That was the broad consensus among delegates gathering at the annual World Travel Market Africa exhibition ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianYou are absolutely right ( Editorial, 16 April ) to assert the need for urgent humanitarian and compassionate action by the European Union to address the causes and the effects of the appalling tragedy of the people who are fleeing ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[SAIIA] Combating gender-based violence was a key theme raised by African countries at the March 2015 session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from African SpotlightThe warmer weather appears to have gone to some people’s heads. This couple didn’t mind getting down and dirty in playing fields in Crawley, West Sussex, yesterday. An office worker took the picture of the pair in Three Bridges playing f...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from African SpotlightAnother suspect arrested in connection with the kidnap of the three Orekoya children – Demola, 6; Adedamola, 4, and Aderomola, 11 months – has said that the victims were drugged and kept in sack.... The post VIDEO: Another su...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Vanguard] Abuja -United States has spoken of its readiness to support President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to rescue the over 200 girls seized by Boko Haram militants from Chibok school in Borno State one year ago.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Leadership] The #BringBackOurGirls group yesterday, celebrated the inclusion of one of its leaders, Dr Oby Ezekwesili in the 2015 TIME magazine 100 influential people in the World.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Leadership] Nigeria's president-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and three other Nigerians have been named among the world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine. The three other people on the list are former minister of education,...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from International Business TimesA Nigerian lawmaker appointed a commission Thursday to probe the election-related killings in Rivers state. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, governor of Rivers state, said the nine-member body will investigate why the victims were killed, who ki...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from AfricaTens of thousands of people are trying to flee Africa by boarding rickety and often overcrowded boats for the journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Many ships capsize or are abandoned by smugglers, and hundreds have already die...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaNigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is among seven Africans listed by Time magazine as the world's 100 most influential people.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Aswat Masriya] Cairo -Security forces killed three suspected militants they accused of complicity in an explosion in North Sinai earlier on Thursday which left a soldier killed and another injured, the armed forces spokesman said.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from International Business TimesOutgoing Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected international forces from the United Nations to help fight Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, Agence France-Presse reported. Jonathan said Thursday that the West African nation inst...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from African SpotlightKhartoum – Polling stations closed across most of Sudan on Thursday after nationwide elections that President Omar al-Bashir is widely expected to win were extended by one day. The elections for the presidency and state and nationa...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Inter Press Service » Africa
An expose published Thursday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners has revealed that in the course of a single decade, 3.4 million people were evicted from their homes, torn away from ... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsNews24 Top cop due in court for racketeering, corruption - reports News24 Cape Town - A top Western Cape police officer and five others are expected in court on Friday to face charges of racketeering, money laundering and corruption. Nat...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaSepp Blatter is likened to Jesus and Nelson Mandela as Concafaf members give him their backing for May's Fifa election.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaA Sicilian fishing boat with seven crew has been seized by armed men 65km (40 miles) off the coast of Libya, a Sicilian fishing co-operative says.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from AfricaSpain has two tiny enclaves in North Africa, separated from Morocco by fences. Both of them are hugely tempting targets for migrants from across Africa who are desperate to reach Europe.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from International Business TimesMuslim migrants aboard a migrant-smuggling vessel threw 12 Christian migrants overboard, likely killing them, after a fight broke out on the craft carrying 105 people from Libya to the Italian coast, according to a CNN report made Thursd...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from African SpotlightFormer head of state and Chairman of National Peace Committee for 2015 Elections, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, yesterday led embattled Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to a private audience with President Goodluck Jonathan...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsThe Zimbabwe Daily Zwelithini likens immigrants to lice, ants The Zimbabwe Daily ZULU King Goodwill Zwelithini likened foreigners living in South Africa to ants and lice in a recent public speech which was a throwback to the inflammatory...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from AFKInsider
Known as “Algiers the White” because of its beautiful white buildings that overlook the sea, Algiers dazzles all who venture here, despite being rough around the edges. The city has great tourism potential and is rich in cultural and sce... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaVoting in the Sudanese elections ends, with only a third of the electorate casting their ballots, according to African Union observers.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[African Arguments] The humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, in which thousands of migrants have drowned attempting to cross into Europe, highlights the urgency there is to find a solution to tackling certain forms of migration from...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AFKInsider
Brait, a South African investment firm is buying an 80-percent stake of Virgin Active, the health-club chain partly owned by billionaire Richard Branson, New York Times reports. Virgin Active has 267 health clubs in nine countries on fou... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Togonews] The Ecowas Commission is to deploy 100-member Election Observation Mission headed by former Liberian Interim President, Prof. Amos Sawyer to monitor Togo's 25th April 2015 Presidential elections.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from AFKInsider
On and off-grid market opportunities in West Africa will be explored April 21-22 in Accra, Ghana, at the Solar & Off-Grid Renewables West Africa Conference. The conference aims to accelerate solar in West Africa and break down barri... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Addis Standard] Michelle Ndiaye Ntab is the program director for African Peace and Security Programs (APSP), a joint program of the Addis Ababa University and the Institute for Peace and Security (IPSS), with the support from GIZ. Befor...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from African SpotlightTwo persons have been killed and several property worth millions of naira destroyed as Bororo-Fulani traders clashed with Yoruba natives of Oro-Ago in Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state. Investigations conducted in the area re...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from CCTV AfricaA collection of unique and innovative African art is on display in New York this month. A new exhibit called Grains of Paradise is giving visitors the chance to explore the work of four African designers, each with a different take on co...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Al Jazeera] More than 5,800 Burundian refugees have crossed into Rwanda so far this month amid fears of violence before elections later this year, the UN refugee agency has said.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from International Business TimesThe U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee announced legislation Thursday designed to augment U.S. trade relationships with developing countries, according to a press release.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsBDlive Zuma wants faster state action to deal with attacks on foreigners BDlive THE effect of xenophobic attacks on SA's international reputation and currency on Thursday prompted President Jacob Zuma to take the unusual step of maki...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[SciDev.Net] More people in India use mobile phones than toilets - that means nearly 600 million people still practise open defecation. There is a long way to go to a clean India.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from AfricaTwo years ago, Israel ended with great fanfare a program that brought tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. But many are in limbo, separated from family, the result of stricter religious law.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Al Jazeera] Thousands have marched in South Africa's coastal city of Durban against xenophobia following attacks on foreign nationals in the country.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top Stories - Google NewsThe Rakyat Post S.Africa's Eskom imposes rolling power cuts for 6th straight day Reuters Africa JOHANNESBURG, April 17 (Reuters) - South African power utility Eskom restarted rolling blackouts on Friday, the sixth straight day of pow...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from CCTV AfricaIn the past, most migrants have been mostly adults. But now there is a stable flow of teenage immigrants being witnessed. Thousands die each year, but a few lucky ones survive and live to tell their harrowing stories The post Teenage mig...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[allAfrica] The second in a series of reports on the stand-off between South Africa and the United States over what to do with fuel left over from Pretoria's apartheid-era nuclear weapons programme. The report, from the Center for Public...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from CNN.com - Africa
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaKenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday gave the United Nations' refugee agency three months to relocate refugees from the Dadaab camp -- the world's largest -- to Somalia, or "we shall relocate them ourselves."
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Africa | The GuardianNew mobile phone services are providing farmers in developing countries with agricultural advice on challenges such as how to get rid of moles An SMS pops up on Joseph Mburu’s screen in a Nairobi call centre. “I have mulberry trees kwa s...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from UN News Centre - AfricaIntense efforts to control the Ebola outbreak in the three most-affected West African countries in will continue, the United Nations health chief said in Washington, DC today, adding that the international community is also looking for w...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Uploads by CCTV AfricaSomalia's Banana industry soars thanks to improving security Banana farmers in Somalia are a happy lot thanks to growing demand for their produce. As CCTV's Vauldi Carelse reports, agriculture sector reforms and much better secur...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from International Business TimesWhen it comes to mobile money, the world’s biggest hotspot isn’t where you might expect. The concept of using cell phones to move cash around is just catching on in Europe and North America with apps like Venmo and Evenly, but there’s on...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TimesLIVEAbout 300 US paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine to train the Ukrainian National Guard which is fighting pro-Russian rebels in the east, the US Army said in a statement.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TimesLIVEPrince William and his wife Kate's second baby will be a girl, bookmakers predicted Thursday, with Alice tipped as the most likely name for Britain's new royal baby.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News24 WorldA Tibetan man has burned himself to death in China, reports say, the second such protest reported against Beijing's policies in the region in two weeks.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News24 WorldGermany will hold a memorial service to mourn the victims of the Germanwings crash, blamed on a depressed co-pilot believed to have deliberately steered the plane into a mountain.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Seychelles News Agency - WorldTop European officials and Greece's finance minister were on Thursday forced to play down fears that the country was poised to exit the eurozone, after the IMF rejected suggestions that Athens would postpone loan repayments. But the peri...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News24 WorldA Jamaican judge has ruled that a teenager suspected of hoping to join Islamic extremists in Syria must remain in police custody until next week.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News24 WorldA Somalia-born man living in the US travelled to Syria and trained alongside terrorists, then returned with plans to attack a military base or a prison, according to a federal indictment.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News World Priority RSSGermany will hold a memorial service to mourn the victims of the Germanwings crash, blamed on a depressed co-pilot.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News World Priority RSSDutch investigators have recovered human remains at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine, the Netherlands announced.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News World Priority RSSTwelve migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean were thrown overboard because they were Christians, it was claimed.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News World Priority RSSAustralia is struggling to convince refugees held in offshore detention to voluntarily resettle in Cambodia, a refugee advocate group said.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News World Priority RSSAn Indonesian Batik Air flight with 122 on board made an emergency landing in Makassar after a suspected bomb threat, an official said.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Business Day LiveFormer Federal Reserve chairman to become a senior adviser to the Citadel Investment Group
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedSouth Africa's small businesses can now easily grow their basic Web sites into fully-fledged cloud-based online retail businesses, says MTN Business
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Business Day LiveLeading mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson may buy optical networking operator Ciena or fellow US group Juniper
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Business Day LiveAircraft sales slump casts doubt on how long production can be sustained, write Alwyn Scott and Tim Hepher
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Business Day LiveTen-year yields rise to the highest in more than two years after a media report says IMF has rejected a Greek request to delay repayment
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Business Day LiveThousands of miners and their families protest in Athens in sign of domestic discontent under new regime
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldDouglas Mark Hughes faces up to four years in prison on charges of unlawfully operating an unregistered aircraft and violating national defense airspace.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldEmerging unhurt from the plane, the wayward baggage handler told authorities he had dozed off inside the forward cargo hold before take-off.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News24 WorldA passenger plane in Indonesia has been forced to make an emergency landing after air traffic control received a bomb threat, an official says.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldAn air traffic controller in Ambon had received a bomb threat via text message as the plane headed toward its intended destination of Jakarta.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from News World Priority RSSLabour leader Ed Miliband appears to have come off strongest in the final TV debate before Britain’s election.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TimesLIVEUS president Barack Obama, rapper Kanye West, reality star Kim Kardashian and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen were among those named the 100 most influential people by Time magazine yesterday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TimesLIVESome people like the sound of knuckle-cracking and others loathe it, but for years there has been disagreement among scientists about what actually causes it.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TimesLIVEIts nickname is "predator porn", and Paul Rolfe used to watch it 12 hours a day. Sometimes it was horrific, sometimes it was life affirming, mostly it was just dull.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TimesLIVEThe search area for flight MH370 will double in size to encompass a vast Indian Ocean corridor if wreckage remains elusive, Malaysia, Australia and China said yesterday.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Herald » International
LONDON. — Some of the most senior judges in Britain withdrew from a legal conference in Glasgow after the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, was booked to speak by video-link. Assange, who has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in ... - Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Herald » InternationalNIAMEY. — The Nigerien health minister says a meningitis epidemic that broke out in the West African country last January has so far killed 75 patients. Speaking yesterday in a televised address, Health Minister Mango Aghali announced th...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Herald » InternationalROME. — Italian police say they have arrested 15 Muslim migrants after they allegedly threw 12 Christians overboard following a row on a boat heading to Italy. The Christian migrants, said to be from Ghana and Nigeria, are all feared dea...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Herald » InternationalKIEV. — A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views was gunned down in broad daylight in Kiev a day after a pro-Russian lawmaker was found dead, local police said. Oles Buzyna (45), who worked as editor-in-chief of a leading d...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Herald » International
RUSSIA. — Iran has announced its readiness to co-operate with Russia, China and India on the issue of NATO’s missile shield and related threats from the military bloc, the head of its defence ministry said in Moscow. “I’d like to support... - Thursday, April 16, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldOpposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband won the final TV debate of Britain's election campaign on Thursday.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedTransformation must take root in university syllabuses if Rhodes’s legacy is to be definitively banished.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedI have given up on the health body. I hope the minister’s investigative team has better luck.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedJames Selfe's apparent bid to decide the next leader of the party by introducing a new rule has not gone down well.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedTactically Sundowns were outsmarted by Clinton Larsen, the Celtic coach who had travelled to Mbombela in the last week to spy on the opposition.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedThe going is extremely tough for the Sharks right now as the Lions and Stormers surge ahead.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedReaders write in on free university education, Nigeria and Benedict Daswa.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedSenior executive Harry Lekalakala resigned after being served with a precautionary suspension over allegations of corruption and gross misconduct.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedMarzieh Afkham, who is the country's first foreign ministry spokesperson, will head a mission in an unnamed East Asian country.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedA few artists take time out of their rock 'n roll lifestyles to offer teenagers guidance.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedThe Chinese government has developed a new tool to prevent its citizens from accessing the internet freely.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedThe Sirex wasp and its deadly passenger have brought the prospect of ruin to the pine industry, but geneticists have a shrewd plan to fight back.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedPower load shedding could last up to 12 hours at a time, as giant aluminium smelters consume discounted electricity with abandon.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedCape Town Vegan Challenge is an invitation to try veganism for a month and several restaurants have taken up the gauntlet, writes Brent Meersman.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedThe next Spike Lee joint needs to do more than add to the growing list of reductive and voyeuristic features and documentaries about the tough city.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedNot an easy man to have on your side, Günter Grass was a writer who had the gall to spit into the soup of the high and mighty.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedThe imagining of a friendship between Sol Plaatje and Cecil Rhodes feels particularly relevant right now.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedA leaked document shows the crippling effect of powerful unions and cronyism on basic education.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comWildcard tennis pair of Benoit Paire and Stan Wawrinka accounted for the Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor as the Indo-Canadian combine lost their men's doubles second round match to be ousted from the ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comIt's becoming increasingly clear that only professional managers can preserve this Taj city's heritage, experts say. The parliamentary committee on environment, headed by former union minister ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA nosy co-worker read my screen over my shoulder and was shocked that I had 12,141 unread emails. I told him: "The intelligence agencies read our emails these days. Why duplicate the work?" He ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comJailed Azerbaijani investigative reporter and RFE/RL contributor Khadija Ismayilova has been awarded PEN American Center's 2015 Barbara Goldsmith Freedom To Write Award, given annually to "an ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsCairo criminal court sentenced on Wednesday former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's chief of staff Rifaa El-Tahtawy to three years in prison on charges of forgery.El-Tahtawy
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comStories picked up from Ruskin Bond's body of work to a journey into the intoxicating city of Varanasi - the IANS bookshelf this week has a melange of options for bookworms. Take a look. 1. Book: A ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comIndia would strengthen vigil along its border with Myanmar to check drugs and arms smuggling besides movement of inimical elements, including militants, officials said on Thursday. "We would further ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsThe head of Egypt’s the liberal Wafd Party has criticised the prime minister’s meetings with political parties on the country's electoral laws, describing them as
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe UN special representative on sexual violence says she is making her first trip to the Middle East. Zainab Bangura told the UN Security Council she was leaving on April 16 for Syria, Iraq, Jordan, ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsHundreds of citizens have organised a protest in Egypt's Nile Delta city Kafr El-Sheikh in reaction to the attack that took place earlier today leaving
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comFaster increases in life expectancy do not necessarily produce faster population ageing, according to a new research. This counter-intuitive finding was the result of applying new measures of aging ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesSocialist Popular Alliance Party Acting President Medhat al-Zahed said that the so-called community dialogue that was held by the Prime Minister to consider the proposals made by political parties over election law amendments was a psedu...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe outspoken and blunt Rakhi Sawant detests any comparison with adult film star-turned-Bollywood actress Sunny Leone, and says she should instead be compared to the likes of international icons ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comLeading IT consulting and services firm Mindtree has posted a Rs.129 crore profit for the fourth quarter (January-March) of just-concluded fiscal 2014-15, registering 31 percent year-on-year (YoY) ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: “Arab investments have increased after the Egypt Economic and Development Conference (EEDC) held in Sharm el-Sheikh last March, and about 1,076 Arab companies have been established,” stated Hassan Fahmy, Chairman, Gene...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comPrime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Khalsa Diwan Gurudwara and the Lakshmi Narayan Temple here. He was accompanied by his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper. At the Khalsa Diwan Society's Sikh ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comAn immigration officer who has allegedly harassed a woman passenger at the airport here by asking objectionable questions has been arrested, police said on Thursday. Immigration officer Vinod Kumar ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comCanada's Green Party has expressed serious concern over the country's uranium deal with India. Under the deal, which was signed here with the witness of visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe two-day Business amp; Climate Summit to be held in Paris next month is about collaboration between business and the governments in the area of decarbonisation of the economy, an official of the ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com16 April 2015 - The centrality of energy in a new global development agenda is clear and critical, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said today as he delivered the opening ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comTo reap the dividend of India's "major demographic shift", the country has to target a double digit growth rate, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Wednesday. "India is on the brink of a major ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, Rodrigo Rato, who was also the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund was arrested on charges of fraud, concealment of assets and money ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comIndia's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has assured foreign investors that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working on a more modern tax regime as part of ongoing reforms to increase ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comNewly-appointed Melbourne Stars skipper and current Australia Test captain Michael Clarke on Friday said he is confident he has the game to help bring a first Big Bash League T20 title to the club. ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comROME - Italian police said they have arrested 15 African Muslim migrants after witnesses said they had thrown 12 Christians overboard following a row on a boat heading to Italy. The Christian ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA search and recovery operation restarted on Thursday at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed last July, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board. A team of ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comNegotiators from Iran and a group of world powers will hold their next round of talks on Iran's nuclear program next week in Vienna. The European Union announced the April 22 and 23 talks on ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday it would take a decision in June on appointing Pakistan's Najam Sethi as its president to fill the vacancy caused by Mustafa Kamal's ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: An army officer was killed and a conscript injured Thursday after a bomb went off nearby their armored vehicle while inspecting areas south of North Sinai’s town of Sheikh Zuwayed, security sources told Youm7. The bomb was remotel...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com16 April 2015 - With over 10 million people in prisons worldwide, prison overcrowding has reached epidemic proportions in many countries, a senior official from the United Nations Office on Drugs ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesTemperatures across the country are expected to gradually increase on Friday, bringing moderate weather to the Northern Coast. Low-and medium-level clouds are expected in the north, with reduced visibility in the morning on the No...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA student from Super 30 in Bihar, who is a son of a low-wage earner, was awarded a scholarship by a Japan university for pursuing higher education. Super 30 is known for providing free coaching and ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comGurvinder Singh's Punjabi film "Chauthi Koot" and Neeraj Ghaywan's debut feature "Masaan" are among the Indian films that have been chosen to be screened in the official UnCertain Regard section of ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA Slovenian citizen, suspected of being infected with Ebola, was admitted on Thursday to the Ljubljana University Medical Centre (UKC). The patient has been running severe fever after he recently ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com16 April 2015 - Only through a strict adherence to international human rights standards can the world"s counter-terrorism strategies ultimately succeed, two United Nations human rights experts have ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comDURBAN, South Africa - Thousands of people have been forced out of their homes and are seeking refuge in temporary shelters after anti-immigrants mass attacks in the South African city of Durban, ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.com16 April 2015 - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that it will, along with partners, reach some 105,000 displaced people in Yemen"s main southern city of Aden over the ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsThe families of civilians killed in terrorist attacks will be entitled to special pensions in accordance to a decision issued by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The government in Malaysia Thursday said that if the missing MH370 airliner is not found by May it will double the search area for the aircraft that disappeared in the Indian ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comGeorgia is set to adopt amendments to the country's Criminal Code that will set tougher punishments for those found guilty of participating in illegal armed groups abroad or of recruiting others to ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: A 3,300 year-old ancient Egyptian pillar fragment that once stood at Karnak temples in Luxor and was illegally smuggled to London, will return to Egypt in the next few days, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty said in a stateme...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comOver 2,000 families have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Ramadi owing to heavy clashes between the Islamic State (IS) militants and government forces. Most of the displaced families headed to ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comIndia's men's team which won the gold medal at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games has been nominated for the Asian Squash Federation's (ASF) "Outstanding Team of the Year" award. Cyrus Poncha, the coach ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Egypr.com - Egypt NewsA policeman was killed and another injured as a bomb hit an armoured vehicle in Egypt's North Sinai city of Sheikh Zuweid, Al-Ahram Arabic news
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA new round of Libyan political dialogue, hosted by Morocco and facilitated by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) with the aim of ending the political crisis and military conflict ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comEven as Sourav Ganguly chose not to comment on the issue, BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya on Thursday kept the speculation alive about former Indian captain taking over the reins as coach of the ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comUNITED NATIONS - In September 2013, after a sarin gas attack on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta killed hundreds of people, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution demanding ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comIndia's shuttle queen Saina Nehwal has regained her position as the No.1 ranked singles player in the latest Badminton World Federation's (BWF) rankings, released on Thursday. Saina has 80191 points ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe Communist Party of India-Marxist's on-going Congress has saluted 104 "martyrs" who sacrificed their lives in West Bengal and has alleged that subversion of democracy and democratic rights is ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comKYIV, Ukraine - A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views was shot dead by unknown gunmen in a broad daylight near his home in Kyiv on Thursday, officials said. Oles Buzyna, chief ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The CitizenNews>Chadema national chairman Freeman Mbowe yesterday declared that the opposition coalition will not crumble even in the wake of fears that a bruising nomination process could end their current cooperation.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Uploads by K24TVGovernment Seeks To Hire 1,500 New Warders This Year To Rein In Poaching More than one thousand youth in Nakuru county came out to try their luck when the KWS recruiters came calling, with only 14 candidates being picked at the end of th...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesSenators and county assembly speakers have said devolution is under threat from "imperial governors" and called for financial independence to enable them to carry out their oversight role.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsTANZANIA is among seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have achieved universal primary enrolment, according to the just released Global Monitoring Report of 2015.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsSURFACE and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (SUMATRA) plans to conduct another study on the state of road accidents in the country, as it admitted it was facing an uphill task in tackling the ever increasing tragic road accidents.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsThe public trusts the media as an important tool for promoting democracy, a study has revealed.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesControversial blogger and social media commentator, Robert Alai Onyango,has been in the news severally because of his bare-knuckle face off with public officials
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The CitizenNews>Two Tanzanians living in South Africa have been killed in what has been linked with the ongoing xenophobic violence that rocked the country recently.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsThe National Assembly's Budget and Appropriations Committee Thursday asked MPs to reject a proposal by the Senate to increase allocations to counties by Sh7.7 billion.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsAn Afghanistan-born strategist in peace and development has advised East African governments to create a platform for dialogue with terrorists in order to combat the vice
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily Nation RSS Feeds: AfricaProtesters from a local hostel demanded foreign nationals leave South Africa, setting cars alight and clashing with police.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesMedical experts now warn that emergency pill is not 100 per cent effective, citing cases of fake ones finding way into chemist shelves
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsMWANZA Regional Commissioner, Mr Magesa Mulongo, has called on the Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (Sumatra), Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA), Ilemela Municipal Council and Mwanza City Council to observe transparency in ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesThe Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) Thursday appealed to parents whose children may have gone to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab to convince them to return and surrender to Kenyan authorities.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsA couple will serve a two-year probation sentence after they were found guilty of trying to extort one their parents.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from M&G Africa Index FeedTwelve people arrested overnight as as anti-foreigner attacks spread to parts of downtown Johannesburg,
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Uploads by NTV UgandaForeign investors ask government for efficient licensing regime A cross section of development partners are asking Uganda, to ensure an efficient regulatory and licensing regime increase its attractiveness to foreign direct investments. ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Uploads by K24TVEvening Edition :Skype interview 16 April From: K24TV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 04:21 More in News & Politics
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesCould Thursday's press conference mark the beginning of the end for Majority Leader and Garisaa Township Member of Parliament Aden Duale, or could it just be a blip on his already controversial political career?
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Bartamaha » Latest Somali NewsAFP Nairobi enyan youths have begun construction of a security barrier along the vast and porous border neighbouring war-torn Somalia, although critics have dismissed the project as infeasible, reports said Thursday.The proposed barrier ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsFIVE Tanzania Railway Limited (TRL) top officials including the Managing Director, Mr Kipallo Kisamfu, have been suspended indefinitely over alleged dishonesty in a 230bn/- wagon deal.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsPope Francis Thursday appealed to Somali Islamist militants who killed 148 people at Garissa University College two weeks ago to stop their brutality and “come to their senses”.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsA small Brussels-based brewery has embarked on a project to make beer from leftover bread, harking back to antiquity, when bread, rather than barley, was the main ingredient.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Uploads by K24TVOpposition Accuses Gov't Of Making 'Knee-Jerk' Decisions About Serious Matters Leaders from the opposition Cord coalition have has criticized the ruling Jubilee Alliance over what they termed as making unwarranted decisions o...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsDoctors working in public health facilities now want the Government to implement a 300 per cent pay hike agreed on two years ago.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Uploads by K24TVKMTC Nyeri Forced Shut As Lecturers, Management Feud Over Pay Students of the Kenya medical training institute in Nyeri county have called on the government to intervene in the current standoff pitting the lecturers against the instituti...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesThe sassy daughter-in-law who has been in the news lately for using a police plane on the date of the Garissa terror attack, is surprised by the fuss that it has created.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Garowe OnlineAYAN HASAN works as a medical professional in Minnesota to support...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from » News EnglishA dozen African migrants have died after being thrown overboard by fellow passengers, Italian police say, and another 41 boat migrants are feared to have drowned in a separate incident. Police in the Sicilian port of Palermo said on Thur...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsEIGHTEEN-year-old Juma Selemani Mlanzi, a bodaboda rider and Zainab Abubakari (27), a tax collector from Kinondoni Municipality, were arraigned before the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam charged with possessing govern...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Bartamaha » Latest Somali NewsXINHUA DADAAB, Kenya enya’s directive last week giving the UN refugee agency three-month to repatriate all Somali refugees in the country’s Dadaab refugee camp has caused anxiety with opinion divided over whether they should ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
April 16, 2015 (JUBA) – South Sudan's ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) agreed on Wednesday to drop criminal charges against leaders detained at the start of the December 2013 conflict. The ex-political detainees, among th... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsNational Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has criticised the Government for failing to put in adequate measures to deal with drought.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The CitizenNews>The International Court of Justice says it was not aware of a dispute between Tanzania and Malawi over the Lake Nyasa border.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Uploads by NTVKenyaAIrtel trace music stars coming soon 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: 1 0 ratings Time: 00:27 Mo...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsThe body of fallen Kibuli-based Supreme Mufti Zubair Kayongo has arrived at Entebbe Airport
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsScientists insist the country has an effective mechanism to regulate Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to ensure safety contrary to a statement by Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia citing lack of adequate biotechnology structures.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesLabour leader Ed Miliband battles it out live with Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, UKIP's Nigel Farage, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsTANZANIA skilled labour is set to hit 50 per cent in the next ten years from the current 16 per cent, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT), Prof Sifuni Mchome, has said.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsTwelve people were arrested overnight as anti-foreigner attacks in South Africa spread to parts of downtown Johannesburg, police said Friday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Uploads by K24TVJoho: EACC Graft Report Is Of No Consequence, A Political Gimmick Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho has dismissed the corruption report presented by the president before the national assembly as a mere political gimmick Joho who is among ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Garowe OnlineAbout 5,000 people take to the streets of Durban in solidarity with foreigners following attacks.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsOVER 20 families have been rendered homeless following heavy rains accompanied by strong winds that pounded Katumba-Azimio in Sumbawanga Municipality, Rukwa Region, for two hours on Monday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesThe University of Nairobi (UoN) is planning to raise Sh10 billion to boost its research and scholarships kitty.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesDavid Cameron and Nick Clegg weren't involved in Thursday night's "challengers" debate.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesMatiba dreamt so big and invested so heavily in hotels and the education sector that in 1978, while aged 48 he was one of Kenya's youngest indigenous millionaires
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle April 16, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – Leaders from South Sudan's armed opposition (SPLM-IO) are in the United States to attend a humanitarian conference organised by South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Agency's (SSRRA) cha... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsTHE Government has embarked on plans to repatriate Tanzanians living in Yemen as competing forces battle for control of the country.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesEven as the war on terror is causing ripples in Jubilee, things are not so rosy in its rival, CORD, where affiliate parties are tussling over who to nominate to head a reconstituted Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesFour people including an engineer, a designer and the owner of a building have been arrested following the collapse of a seven storey building that killed seven people in Roysambu area, Nairobi.
