The death of veteran Gabonese leader, Omar Bongo Ondimba aged 73, in a private clinic in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday June 8 sent shock waves not only through the Central African sub region but throughout the continent.

When a great man or ruler dies, a lot is written or said about him. Many have written about Omar Bongo and there is a glaring unanimity about what all think about him.

President Paul Biya and the First Lady, Chantal Biya today in Libreville pay last homage to departed Gabonese President Omar Bongo Ondimba.

IN Africa, the death of a big man, like Gabon president Omar Bongo, is a reminder of the continent's worst excesses.

The concern shown by Nigerians and the subsequent rejection of the Bill for a Law to provide for Reproductive Rights of Women otherwise known as "Abortion Bill" by the Imo State House of Assembly last week has been commended by

Recent report from the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey has revealed that only 4% of children in Liberia have birth certificates, while birth registration is recognized as a fundamental right by Liberia as a signatory to the Convention on the

FIFTEEN women who claim that doctors at State hospitals across the country sterilised them against their wishes will soon get their day in court.

THE Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity yesterday said there was never any intention on its part to go against the provisional High Court order in the case in which four freelance journalists were challenging the legality of accrediting with

A 75-year-old Sironko woman with a swollen stomach is not pregnant, a doctor has said.

A tsetse fly that transmits sleeping sickness has a penchant for lizard and pig odour - a preference that could be used to produce traps to control fly populations.

An HIV test using dried blood samples is fast, inexpensive, and could aid the testing and treatment of HIV-positive babies in the first year of life, scientists say.

Dr Gabi Schneider, director of the Ministry of Mines' Geological Survey, says the journey of the rhino fossil found at Lake Guinas remains a mystery, as people are reluctant to reveal who was behind the illegal transportation of the bone

Malawi's newly re-elected president has promised increased investment in science as part of a plan to transform the country into a net exporter of goods and services.

The United Nations refugee agency today voiced its grave concern over the escalating violence and worsening displacement crisis in the Somali capital, where local hospitals report that over 250 civilians have been killed and nearly 1,000 others wounded since fighting

Leaders from northern and southern Sudan are currently meeting in Washington against the backdrop of a series of bloody clashes between rival ethnic groups in the south in recent months.

The following is the prepared testimony of Ted Dagne of Congressional Research Service before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health on June 25, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing was entitled, "Somalia: Prospects for

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Liberia, Ms. Ellen Margrethe Løj has urged Nepalese peacekeepers serving the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to be exemplary in their conduct. Quoting from a Nepalese teaching which says, "Know well what

The Islamist organization of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a has imposed a curfew in Abudwak town in Central Somali Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Friday.

The elimination of deadly aflatoxin, which contaminates food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa, is a step closer now scientists have shown that a control method works well in large-scale field trials.