LUANDA, Angola, Sept. 5 -- Angola stumbled on the road to democracy Friday, as long lines and a shortage of ballots and voting officials marred its first elections in 16 years.

Accra (Agenzia Fides) "A declaration with progressivist rhetoric, but it is yet to be seen of it will be supported with concrete actions that will guarantee aid for the poor." This was how the representatives of the Churches and religious

Rome (Agenzia Fides) Over 8 million Angolans will go the polls on September 5 to elect 220 members of Parliament, from among candidates from 14 political parties in the first elections to be held since 1992. The two main contenders

Logistic problems yesterday disrupted the continued search for the black boxes of the missing Beechcraft 1900D plane which crashed at Busi village, Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State.

Looking back to the time they had just come, killing the monopoly of special hires and taxis, they were welcome to this city. We received them with wide open hands. If you had an appointment and needed to be there

An aircraft under contract to Air Serv International in the Democratic Republic of Congo, en route from Kisangani to Bukavu, failed to land and crashed about 15 kms away from Kavumu airport on 1 September 2008 at about 5:00 pm

The Mozambican Transport Ministry has apologised to the bus company Putco-Mozambique for the disruption to its operations caused by rivals who objected to competition on the routes from Maputo to the southern province of Gaza.

More than 500 wheelchairs are being held at Mombasa because Sh2.2 million port charges have not been cleared.

DR. Olapade Agoro, the National Chairman, Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has called on president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to imitate his fellow man, Colonel Muhamah Gaddafi of Libya by making life comfortable for Nigerians to live.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the House of Representatives will resume plenary Tuesday next week to be faced with a number of unfinished businesses, chief of which are the reconstitution of its dissolved standing committees, what to do with the power

Three days of deal-making and networking wrapped up today at the United Nations-backed Africa Carbon Forum in Senegal, aimed at improving the continent's standing in the global carbon marketplace.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni on Thursday commissioned prepaid electricity in Kanungu as he concludes his four-day tour of the district.

Hundreds attending the first all-African carbon forum agreed entrepreneurs in Africa need cash to break into the expanding international carbon emissions trading market.

WHEN oil was discovered in Hoima district, the Government started planning for an 'Oil City'. The district local government was directed to urgently identify land near the oil drilling sites for the city. This was two years ago

TWO people died on Wednesday after they were trapped in a quarry in Lukonge, Wakiso district.

Several boarding schools have been forced to send students back home because of the continuing teachers' strike. Teachers embarked on a 'work boycott' when schools opened on Tuesday, demanding salary increases that are commensurate with the hyper-inflationary environment.

Mr. Tesfai Gebreselassie, Minister of Energy and Mines, who is currently in Australia on a working visit, held discussion with mining companies and investors in the country on the available mining opportunities and prospects in Eritrea, especially in the mining

In Lagos, many of the so-called yahoo boys now do their 'yahoo yahoo' activities in the comfort of their homes, courtesy of internet services being offered by the fixed telephone operators in the country. Others go into partnerships of a

Nigeria ranks third among the cyber crime committing countries in the world, according to a 2007 internet crime report released by the Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3), which puts the country alongside the US, UK and Romania among the top