Wailing into the microphone and feigning an exaggerated limp, singer Tominem pleaded with corruption-weary Tanzanians in the audience to assert their rights when fighting graft.

With election campaigns on the homestretch, western Kenya is grabbing the country's attention for all the wrong reasons - violence.

With 17 days to the General Election, surveys by pollsters are showing that the top presidential candidates draw near-fanatical support from their home areas.

Vusumuzi T. teaches Science as well as Science

Like King Midas who turned everything he touched into gold, James Chamanga turned everything he touched into goals during Moroka Swallows' emphatic 6-2 Premier League victory over a hapless Platinum Stars at the Germiston Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

SIX members of the European Union did not send their heads of government to the EU-Africa summit in Lisbon in protest against the presence of President Robert Mugabe, it emerged yesterday.

It hardly required a soothsayer to forecast the goalless draw in the Premier League game between "goalless-draw champions" Santos and Kaizer Chiefs at a windswept Athlone Stadium on Sunday evening. "We played against the wind in the first half," complained

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has ordered the newly confirmed Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, to re-open investigations into all unresolved cases of assassinations, particularly those concerning prominent personalities. He said the investigation should continue "until there are breakthroughs".

SIX members of the European Union did not send their heads of government to the EU-Africa summit in Lisbon in protest against the presence of President Robert Mugabe, it emerged yesterday.

Mr. Mugabe predicted that Europe won't accept the results of March presidential and general elections "because they don't like the winner"

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M-Cel, which is still 100 per cent publicly owned, intends to ensure that 90 per cent of the Mozambican population are within reach of its network by 2009.

As the world observes the UN International Anti-corruption Day today, recent reports paint a grim picture of Kenya's fight against the vice.

An Islamic scholar and leader of Islamic Democratic Progressive Party (IDPP), Sheikh Al-Mansur Williams has said the proposed military base by the United States Government in the continent of Africa is not in the interest of Africa and Nigeria in

From living on hand-outs from State House and humble earning from odd jobs, Mr Robert Oulanya, brother of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, has now decided to join the hunted rebel chief in the Garamba Forest, DR

Islamist-led insurgency also continued Sunday in Somali capital, Mogadishu, with clash at Bakara market

Suspected cases of the lethal Ebola haemorrhagic fever have been reported in seven more districts, the Ugandan government announced on Friday.

M-Cel, which is still 100 per cent publicly owned, intends to ensure that 90 per cent of the Mozambican population are within reach of its network by 2009.