BEFORE the ink even had a chance to dry at the signing of an agreement that saw an official end to the strike by employees at the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF), it was clear that many issues remain unresolved

THE highly anticipated boxing bonanza by Dolph No Limit Boxing Promotions was reduced to a low-key affair, after several boxers failed medical tests ahead of their fights on Saturday night.

THE Swapo Party Youth League not only plans to have a say in the compilation of Swapo's list of candidates for the National Assembly election later this year, but also wants to publish a list of people it considers to

NEW YORK - Perhaps no country on earth - not even Iraq, Afghanistan, or Sudan - has suffered more gravely from armed conflict in the past decade and a half than the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Several million people

THE Namibia Area Round Table has announced it will be staging 'The Winter Knights of Round Table' this weekend to raise donations of food, clothes and blankets for the under-privileged.

The second edition of the Pan African Cultural Festival, otherwise called Panaf 2009, last Saturday evening, officially opened at the Sofia Square on Hivert Street in Algiers, capital of Algeria.

A huge pan-African festival gathering more than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa including Togo, as well as Brazil and the United States, got under way here on Saturday.

There were fears at the weekend that the multi-billion dollar Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project being midwifed by Nigeria, Algeria and Niger is now a target for sabotage by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

The President of the Republic, His Excellency Paul Biya, chaired an important Council of Ministers meeting today, Friday, 3 July 2009 at 11 a.m. The meeting was attended by the Prime Minister, Vice-Prime Ministers, Senior Ministers, Ministers and Secretaries of

Barely three days after the June 30, 2009 Cabinet reshuffle, President Paul Biya in the first meeting with the new government prescribed measures aimed at redressing a disturbing trend of national affairs.

The chair of the association of local business people spoke at a press conference last week.

Total energy production in Cameroon today, according to authorities of the Ministry of Energy and Water, stands at 928 megawatts. Of this amount, 723 come from three main hydroelectric dams (Edea, Songloulou and Lagdo). This amount is far less than

With the wake-up admonitions to an under-achieving government made by the President of the Republic last Friday, is serious enough to imagine that the new Prime Minister Philemon Yang will make the security of Cameroonians a top priority. For good

It was the RPF under the leadership of Paul Kagame that liberarated Rwanda. End of the story.

The United States will focus on boosting farm productivity, through sustainable agricultural development assistance under its foreign assistance programme to Ethiopia, its Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Recourses Jacob J. Lew disclosed.

Disagreement is brewing between officials in the marine sector in Ethiopia and Djibouti over the use of the Port of Djibouti, and whether or not Ethiopia's flagship carrier should continue to pay security fees, reliable sources disclosed to Fortune.

The meeting between members of the business community and authorities from the federal tax office on Thursday was characterized by collective miscalculations, observed Tamrat G. Giorgis, Fortune Staff Writer.

Housing development, road construction and water supply, the three areas Addis Abeba's city government says are its top priorities, remain dominant in this year's budget. Plans for brand new mega projects have been incorporated into the city's draft plan for

Just two weeks before the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) holds its 33rd congress in Kanye, it is apparent that party operatives have abandoned the stringent regulations often associated with elections.

Kenya Airways (KQ) is expected to launch a direct flight between Nairobi and Gaborone in the next four weeks, press reports say.