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Urgent Appeal: $7.7 Billion urgently needed to save desperate human be...

August 28, 2012 no comments

Just for comparative purposes, it is estimated that the U.S. has spent some $4 trillion spent on its war on Iraq, while the world spends well over 1,6 trillion dollars a year on weapons. At the same ...

Death toll of UG’s helicopter crash hits seven

August 16, 2012 no comments

The number of bodies discovered from the helicopter crash incident in Mt. Kenya has now reached to three. Five more bodies were found on Thursday evening during the rescue mission carried out by Keny...

Think before you Twit

August 4, 2012 no comments

Sierra Leone attained its independence in 1961, but prior to this epoch making “achievement”, the country was fondly renowned for its role as the bastion of education; courtesy of Fourah Bay College,...

“Beware of fake Olympic websites!” Kenya Police warn

August 2, 2012 no comments

The Kenya police have issued a warning alerting all citizens of the latest tracked fraudulent websites that have been set up by con men targeting unsuspecting Kenyans during this time when the Olympi...

Senegalese President Macky Sall marks 100 days in office

July 26, 2012 no comments

The fourth President of the West African State of Senegal, Macky Sall, who convincingly, won the last general elections on a RUN OFF, has celebrated his 100 days in office, with what has been describ...

President Mwai Kibaki lashes out on any possible Presidential endorsem...

July 24, 2012 no comments

With the current power output in Kenya staggering at 1,533 MW, it’s now projected that the new Olkaria geothermal power project- the biggest of its kind in Africa- will boost the capacity by pumping ...

Butlins Bognor Regis – For the fun-filled short break you will f...

July 21, 2012 no comments

The holiday season is here, and there is no better place for the entire family to have unlimited fun than Butlins. The Butlins idea is a magical one, designed to offer not only entertainment for the ...

Kenya’s Catholic Church raps Minister over mini-skirt remarks

July 21, 2012 5 comments

Kenya’s Catholic Church has expressed its outrage to remarks made by its Education Minister Mutula Kilonzo in support of calls by some girl students clamouring to be allowed to wear miniskirts in the...

Goodluck Jonathan hopeful of a peaceful coexistence contemplating defe...

July 20, 2012 1 comment

Nigerian President has expressed hope on ensuring that the spate of deadly attacks being carried out by the Islamist sect Boko Haram would soon come to pass. While chairing a meeting held by his ruli...

Kuwaiti government offers scholarships for Imams and students with an ...

July 19, 2012 no comments

Sierra Leone’s envoy to the State of Kuwait and other Gulf States has successfully negotiated with the Under Secretary of the Ministry of “Awqaf” (Endowment and Religious Affairs) in the ...

The tribal support of gargantuan crimes in Ghana

February 22, 2012 no comments

The mind-set of fifteen traditional chiefs and queen-mothers, from the Tongu area in Ghana’s Volta Region, descending on the National Police Headquarters in Accra, to sympathize with their tribes-man...

Economic justice and democracy is interdependent, says new Swazi campa...

February 17, 2012 no comments

“At the centre of poverty is the question of power,” Musa Andile Nsibande of the Swaziland Economic Justice Network (SEJUN) tells Africa Contact. “When we tell people to stand up for their rights, th...

The truth and dirty politics of the opposition SLPP in Sierra Leone

February 14, 2012 2 comments

Since last year, Sierra Leone’s grand old party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has been having political running battles with the ruling All Congress Party (APC) as the country readies to ho...

Student leader Maxwell Dlamini out on bail

February 3, 2012 no comments

President of the Swaziland National Union of Students, Maxwell Dlamini, has been released on bail today [3. February]. The money for the 50,000 Rand bail (€5000) – the largest bail ever in Swazi lega...

A call for justice – Sierra Leone’s Attorney General must ...

January 27, 2012 1 comment

The Publisher and Managing Editor  of the Sierra Leone Daily Mail online Newspaper, Mr Foday Morris Ceesay, has launched a campaign to fight for justice for all concerned in Rokel Village, Tainkatopa...

Polluters win and the people lose as the Durban climate talks end

December 11, 2011 no comments

DURBAN, South-Africa, December 11, 2011 – African Press Organization (APO) – On the closing of the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban Greenpeace today declared that it was clear t...