The 156 is not beautiful. This locomotive started life in the 1920s pulling timber down the Mulobezi Railway to the old Zambian capital of Livingstone. To be honest, 156 is snub-nosed with an ugly lamp on its funnel, but Ben

ANC leader Jacob Zuma, boosted by the support of Nelson Mandela at a final election rally, dismissed accusations his ruling party planned to change South Africa's constitution and appealed for national unity.

The notorious Somali pirates whose activities have threatened international shipping coast carried out most of their recent activities from a seized Nigerian ship - MV Yenegoa Ocean - which has remained in their captivity for the past 18 months THISDAY

Somali pirates hijacked a Belgian-owned ship off Somalia on Saturday but a Dutch naval frigate foiled an attack on a Greek-owned chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden.

M-Net Electronic Media Network has quietly invested in buying all rights for 450 plus African films which it sees as bringing the rights back to Africa.

MONUC's chief military spokesman Lt. Col. Jean-Paul Dietrich on Thursday declined to back-up recent claims on BBC by one of their officers, Capt. Karl Fuller, that the joint Rwanda-DRC military operations earlier this year had failed to neutralise the FDLR

NATIONAL Coordinator of the Niger-Delta Re-orientation Project, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, has said that Niger-Deltans were skeptical about the amnesty offered militants in the Niger-Delta because of the insincerity of the Nigerian government towards the region.

A total of 177 firearms were handed over voluntarily, in the past three months, by citizens who owned them illegally, in municipal commands and stations of the National Police in the central Benguela province.

NEW ties between the European Union (EU) and the African Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP) have a risk of undermining regional integration by fragmenting countries into numerous blocs, trade experts have warned.

Neighbouring nations Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have begun talks on the return home of their 150,000 nationals taking refuge in each other's country, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Each year in Cameroon at least 45,000 children die due to malnutrition, according to the UN Children's Fund.

Chairman of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review (JCCR), Ike Ekweremadu, raised hopes of Nigerians living outside the country voting from countries of their residence in future elections in the country.

A controversial constitutional amendment to empower the central government to intervene in the affairs of local government without having to change the law each time was approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday at its last meeting before the general election.

When heads of districts describe efforts to fight sexual violence as a waste of resources, it raises questions about the leadership's commitment to deal with the matter.

Sheik Muse Abdi (Arale), a spokesman of the Islamic organization of Hisbul Islam (Islamic party), the wing led by Dr. Omar Iman Abu Bakar has welcomed on Sunday yesterday's decision in Mogadishu which the Somali parliament unanimously endorsed the Sharia

The Senate yesterday revealed that it was in the process of amending some relevant sections of the constitution to enable Nigerians living outside the country to vote from countries where they reside.

A Somalian captured by the United States navy during a confrontation with pirates earlier in the week is to be taken to the US to face trial, US officials said yesterday.

The United Nations envoy to Somalia today condemned the latest spate of violence aimed at members of the strife-torn nation's fledgling Government after unidentified gunmen shot dead a lawmaker and attempted to kill a member of Cabinet this week.