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African Football Chief Hayatou Faces Challenger In Bid For 8th Term
Issa Hayatou, the last of the old generation leaders in world football, faces a rare and determined challenge when he...
Act Now To Help Starving Children In East Africa
Sir Mo Farah has said it "breaks his heart" to hear how families are facing starvation in East Africa as he backed a UK...
Disasters Emergency Committee Makes East Africa Appeal
UK aid agencies have launched a fundraising appeal to help millions of people facing hunger in East Africa. The...
Liberia Hydro Plant Powers Businesses Left In Dark By War
Liberia is making a giant leap into an electrified future with the rehabilitation of a hydropower plant damaged during...
Dubai Hosts Largest Regional Contemporary Art Expo
Dubai on Tuesday prepared to open its 11th annual art fair, billed as the largest contemporary art show in the Middle...
Up On the Roof, Revamping Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar
Atop Istanbul's iconic Grand Bazaar -- the scene of a high-speed motorbike chase in the 2012 James Bond film "Skyfall"...
Syria War: 2016 Deadliest Year Yet For Children, Says Unicef
Syria’s children “hit rock bottom” in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, the United...
Kenyan Stocks At Its Worst This Year, Set To Fall Even Further
Kenya’s stock market, which is the biggest in East Africa, has seen its fortunes turn negative with the decline...
Check Full List of Winners
The fifth edition of the prestigious Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCAs) was held on Saturday March 4, 2017....
2017 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA)
The movie, ’76, which was directed by Izu Ojukwu, emerged the biggest winner at this year’s The Africa Magic...
What If Germany Had Not Lost Its Colonies In Africa?
The Germans were latecomers to the scramble for Africa. Even if there may have been individual Germans scouring the...
Somalia Says 110 Dead In Last 48 Hours Due To Drought
Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhea resulting from a drought,...
More Than 100 Die From Hunger In One Region
Somalia's Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Haire, says 110 people have died from hunger in a single region in the past 48...
Under Trump, Arab-Americans Think Twice About Census Visibility
Arab-Americans have long sought to be recognized as a distinct ethnic group by the US census. But with President Donald...
Wind Energy Project To Be Established To Generate 75 Megawatts Power
Emerging Markets Power-Ghana, (EMP-Ghana), a company that is into wind energy production, is to establish a wind farm...
Kenyan Journalist Names Son After Michael Essien
Astute Kenyan Sports Journalist Collins Okinyo has out of love and admiration named his son after former Chelsea and...
Kenya To Start Direct U.S. Flights After Security Clearance
The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) has achieved the Category One status that will allow for direct flights...
Eutelsat Hits New Milestone of 1,000 HD Channels
High Definition TV continues to gain ground across the broadcast satellites operated by Eutelsat Communications with...
Cameroon ‘expels’ Nigerians
Most of the refugees are at the Minawao camp in north-eastern Cameroon Cameroon has expelled 517 Nigerians, including...