Romania hosts some 65,000 immigrants and their numbers are growing fast. Most immigrants are African, Indian, Afghan or Iraqi and are all administered at a center in Somcuta…
Kenya seizes massive ivory haul: Some of the tusks and rhino horns suspected to have come from Tanzania
KENYAN wildlife authorities have impounded nearly $1m worth of elephant tusks and rhino horns suspected to have been smuggled by poachers from Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa and…
Solar Thermal Power Project connecting Africa with Europe
An interesting (if not entirely new) idea is being followed through by Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurance company, this month to form a consortium called Desertec to…
Nollywood loses half of film profits to piracy, say producers
Nigeria's huge film industry, Nollywood, may have overtaken Hollywood as the world's second largest producer of films, but piracy is threatening to cut off the industry in its…
2 French Advisers Kidnapped In Somalia
Two French security advisers posing as journalists were abducted from their hotel in Mogadishu on Tuesday by Somali gunmen, according to the Foreign Ministry and reports from the…
Woman raped in Angolan hospital
An Angolan man has been arrested for raping a woman in intensive care in a Luanda hospital, state radio said on Monday, in what is seen as the…
Nigeria oil rebel group MEND declares 60-day ceasefire
Nigeria's largest rebel militia group declared a 60-day ceasefire Wednesday, following the release by the government of their leader. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta…
For the first time a Morocan swims accross the Gibraltar Channel
Belcaid Jali-Mounir is the first Morrocan who swam across the Gibraltar Channel.
Szudánban nadrágot viseltek az asszonyok, ezért megkorbácsolták őket
Az iszlám törvénykezést azóta tartják be szigorúan az afrikai országban, hogy a jelenleg kormányzó iszlamista erők 1989-ben katonai puccsal hatalomra kerültek.
Le Guen to take on Cameroon job
Cameroon are to appoint Paul Le Guen as their new coach, to replace Otto Pfister.