The baby was born and 12 days later died on a dilapidated upper floor of the Adjamé market in Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital Abidjan. The mother, Aminata*, is barely 15. She does not know who the father is. Aminata exchanges

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Cote D'ivoire striker Didier Drogba of England's Chelsea FC on Wednesday here announced the holding of a friendly game between a team of African stars and the Angolan national soccer team, in December, Angop has learnt.

A-MULTI-million Ghana cedis legal suit has been issued against Millicom Ghana Limited, operators of TIGO mobile services by two of its distributors over what is termed bad business practices on the part of the mobile telecommunication company, which had led

TELECOMS infrastructure company Dark Fibre Africa officially launched its network on Tuesday after laying 800km of fibre-optic cable to lease out to cellular operators and internet service providers.

The two prime city plots that Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire is accused of having tried to steal were taken from their original owners and given to a Megha Industries, a local mattress firm, in 2005, Daily Monitor learnt on Thursday.

IF ENGAGEMENT with private telecommunications operators was not effective in bringing down costs, the government would have to resort to regulation and legislation, Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda warned yesterday.

PIRATES off the coast of Somalia have scuttled plans for the long-awaited Seacom cable to be switched on this month because a cable-laying ship was unable to enter some treacherous territories.

TRANSNET, the transport parastatal, announced yesterday that the economic recession had hit its volumes, the key source of the group's profitability, and growth had recorded a double-digit decline.

Many people in East Africa must be delighted with the speed at which the governments of Tanzania and Kenya have managed to formalise arrangements to extend their exclusive economic zones in the Indian Ocean.

In yesterday's edition, Mmegi carried the story of our photographer based in our Francistown office, Moreri Sejakgomo.

A 70-year-old woman died and her husband sustained serious injuries when a private plane they were travelling in crashed in Lamu on Thursday.

Rwanda is in a process of filing a second request to have the pending genocide cases, being handled by the, Arusha based, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), be transferred to Kigali after the initial request was dismissed.

Five years after American activists began to call attention to the violence in Darfur, their movement has bloomed in size and sophistication, reaching out via the internet, enlisting Hollywood celebrities like George Clooney and Mia Farrow and touching everyone from

The government on Wednesday ruled out a military option to restore order in neighbouring Somalia. Internal Security minister Prof George Saitoti said Kenya respected the sovereignty of the lawless country.

Alliance des Patriotes pour un Congo Libre et Souverain (APCLS), a militia faction formerly aligned to the Mai-Mai fighters of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is said to joined forces with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of

The Kenyan Government's most powerful security organ met on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in war-torn Somalia.

Kabiru Mato, head of the political science department at the University of Abuja says President Yar'Adua is trying to bring about reconciliation in the Niger Delta