A new enthusiasm amongst UK learned societies to reach out to scientists in the developing world led to a meeting last week to discuss how best to do it.

The West African International Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology Exhibition (W.Afri.Tel) and the West African Information Communications Technology (WAFICT) Congress which ended last week has been assessed as pivotal to driving continous ICT development and chart the course for growth

Qualcomm Incorporated from South Africa will be showcasing its' Kayak PC alternative that allows for availability and affordability of high-speed wireless internet access at the West and Central Africa forum scheduled for Abuja next week.

THE Constitutional Court yesterday ordered three government bodies responsible for monitoring the development of genetically modified organisms to pay the costs of nongovernmental organisation Biowatch in its 2005 high court application.

Few days after former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah had criticised his successor, Chief Godswill Akpabio over prioritisation of projects, the State House of Assembly has set up a 9-man investigation ad-hoc committee to probe the N6

Once again, a border dispute has flared up between Uganda and its western neighbour, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Congolese musician, Lulendo Matumona, better known in the music circles as Le General Defao is still in the country, with immigration officials professing ignorance of his whereabouts.

TENSION is brewing along the Uganda-DR Congo border in Nebbi district after the Congolese started constructing a Police post in a contested area near the Ugandan customs point at Goli.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Congolese military (FARDC) have agreed to strengthen their joint operation against illegally-armed groups in the vast African nation's far east.

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have kidnapped more than 200 villagers, including 50 children, in Dakwa, a village in northeastern Congo, about 200km from the border with the Central African Republic.

Rwanda will host Kwita Izina, the renowned annual gorilla naming gala, on June 20.

The rare score of chimpanzees currently numbering at about 700 are the next endangered animal species in Tanzania after rhinoceroses, the Tanzania National Parks Authority has revealed.

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority will be buying salt consignment and distribute it free-of-charge to the pastoralists living in the locality.

ZIMBABWE, Zambia and Mozambique are working on a US$3 million project to create a wildlife transfrontier park aimed at boosting tourism in the three countries.

A pack of three Rhinoceroses from the Czech Republic arrived in Tanzania last weekend and were sent to the Mkomazi Rhino sanctuary in Kilimanjaro region.

With Mr. Charles Taylor expected to take the stand on 29 June in his own defence, one of his lawyer, his Liberia-based lawyer Cllr. J. Lavali Supuwood, says the Court's decision in curtailing his (Taylor's) privileged" communications here is a

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which is responsible for the brutal killing of a British tourist on May 31, 2009, should immediately and unconditionally free a second hostage in its custody, Human Rights Watch said today.

U.S. African Chamber of Commerce said Obama's visit to Africa is the beginning of a new US- African Muslim relationship - however Africa needs more investment, increased trade opportunity and access to markets and export. The White House said President

TRADE economists are alarmed at prospects that SA may break up the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu), warning that this could have devastating economic and humanitarian consequences for countries in the region that could spill over into SA.

Several leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement stand accused of plans to form an "international network of organisational cells." Its leaders say the charges are blatant fabrications.