President Museveni has said the recent arrest of three Buganda officials should have occurred much earlier because they had been making unlawful statements for long.

CardBoardFish, thelow-cost SMS specialist, today launched FishText, a mobile applicationthat substantially reduces the cost of national and internationalad-free texts from a mobile phone. FishText is Java-based and runs onmost handsets. There is also a web-based version at www.FishText.com.Both bypass a

CBOSSnrtrde will enable telecommunications companies to fulfillrecommendations of the GSM Association and minimize losses associatedwith roaming fraud.

1 August 2008 - Nairobi, Kenya - Zain Group, the leading telecommunications mobile operator servicing over 50 million customers in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, today announced it has re-branded its entire African operations from Celtel to

A roadside bombing kills at least 20 people in Mogadishu, most of them women working to clean the street, reports say.

Mukoni Ratshitanga, spokesman for mediator President Thabo Mbeki, said talks were under way at an undisclosed location in the South African capital, Pretoria. It was not immediately possible to confirm this with either side. Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai

Rita Abbey, spokeswoman for Rivers State police, said the two had been seized at Onne port. Lieutenant-Colonel Musa Sagir, a spokesman for the military taskforce that polices the Niger Delta, confirmed the kidnapping. No further details were available. There was

President Museveni has said the recent arrest of three Buganda officials should have occurred much earlier because they had been making unlawful statements for long.

THE new information age has provided Africa with an opportunity to increase and accelerate development for the benefit of its people through utilisation of information and communication technology (ICT).

Thembile Kanono scored the only goal of the game to hand Orlando Pirates the Telkom Charity Cup after beating Kaizer Chiefs 1-0 in the final at Mmabatho Stadium in Mafikeng on Saturday.

A negotiated political settlement that addresses the problems besetting Zimbabwe could be agreed to as soon as this week, The Standard has heard.

Official results from the July 2008 local council elections in Sierra Leone have been announced by the chairperson of the country's National Electoral Commission. Despite numerous reports of harassment and intimidation, more women were elected to councils than in polls

There are increasing numbers of single mothers in Kenya. Is it a sign of growing independence of women, or a consequence of poverty and lack of sexual education?

THE new information age has provided Africa with an opportunity to increase and accelerate development for the benefit of its people through utilisation of information and communication technology (ICT).

Thembile Kanono scored the only goal of the game to hand Orlando Pirates the Telkom Charity Cup after beating Kaizer Chiefs 1-0 in the final at Mmabatho Stadium in Mafikeng on Saturday.

There are increasing numbers of single mothers in Kenya. Is it a sign of growing independence of women, or a consequence of poverty and lack of sexual education?