The municipal administrator of Tombwa, João Guerra, appealed Thursday to citizens to keep their township quarters clean, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the environment of the city.

The National Environment Management Authority (Nema) has approved a controversial plan to grow sugarcane on an important coastal wetland - the Tana River Delta.

The governor of Luanda Province, Francisca do Espírito Santo, Thursday here met with a group of youths belonging to the United Methodist Church, with a view to discussing partnership projects that employ youths in socially useful activities.

Women entrepreneurs from across the country showcased their goods and crafts at a week-long National Women's Exposition that ended at the weekend.

The Chief Registrar of the Lands Commission, Mr. Owusu Sarfo, says frantic efforts are underway to improve on the registration system of land title in the country.

One of the problems posing as a security threat to this country is the multiple sale of land by individuals and Institutions, either for housing or other purposes. Land has become a vexed issue in this country and there seem

Black business groups are headed for a clash with the government over its decision not to oppose a Pretoria High Court ruling that gave Chinese South Africans access to black empowerment.

The Civil United Front (CUF) has called for "an in-depth investigation" of allegations of corruption within the Bank of Tanzania (BoT).

Amid talk that the government is seeking to rein in media through tougher laws; on Thursday, June 19, the United States Embassy hosted a dialogue of media practitioners at its Chancery in Nsambya to discuss press freedom. On this occasion,

The Acting Director of the Center For Law and Human Rights Education (CLHRE) Edward Z. Solu has called on the Liberian government to conduct more education on the rape law.

Interventions by the UN have made it possible for a 10-year-old Congolese girl - who fled her Philippi home with her grandmother when the xenophobic attacks began - to be reunited with her mother in the DRC.

The South African government has pledged it will do everything necessary to ensure that Africans, regardless of their origin, will once more live together in peace with one another.

The United Nations refugee agency has interviewed nearly 180 Eritrean and Ethiopian asylum-seekers detained in Egypt to assess their claims for refugee status, and urged the authorities to continue to provide unhindered access to others who are being held.

The former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Jean-Pierre Bemba, has been transferred to The Hague in the Netherlands for trial on war crimes charges - including accusations of sexual crimes committed in the Central African Republic

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggested on Thursday that the international community could send a peacekeeping force to stabilise Zimbabwe.

We received reports from the Murehwa district that villagers are being forced to 'donate' scarce commodities like maize meal, cooking oil and soap, to ZANU-PF's youth militia and war veterans.

Jennie Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu have finally been released on bail after spending six week at Chikurubi maximum prison for holding a peaceful protest.

AGAINST the backdrop of the stiff opposition to the appointment of Prof Ibrahim Gambari to chair the steering committee of the Niger Delta Summit, the National Association of Seadogs (NAS) Bayelsa State chapter has called on the Federal Government to