A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions on Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during his appearance before the...

FREETOWN, Aug 28 (IPS) - Sierra Leonean rights activists have served notice on the government that they will campaign against any attempt to retain the death penalty in the new constitution and...

A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters once appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during an appearance before a public...

Senators Barack Obama (right) and Joe Biden (left) were officially nominated Wednesday by the Democratic National Convention as the party's ticket for the November presidential elections. Photo by...

Seventy would-be African immigrants perished when their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea, according to eight companions rescued off Malta on Wednesday. This is contrary to previous reports that...

The Guinean President Lansana Conte appears to have arbitrarily sacked his Mines Minster, Ahmed Kante, who had launched a major review of the country's mining development...

Up to 3,160 people have now contracted cholera and 73 people have died across the country and health minister Camilo Simoes Lopes told IRIN the authorities are struggling to win the fight again the...

Top United Nations envoy toLiberia Wednesday called on Liberian families to make their children's education a priority as the country rebuilds after years of civil war. "All children -- girls...

They are here to launch the first ever State of Human Rights Report for Sierra Leone; Zainab, 12, is in the midst of another day on the narrow, muddy streets of the area, selling groundnuts to help...

A former warlord whose drugged fighters appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during his appearance before the country's Truth...

SYDNEY — A skeleton thought to belong to a World War II pilot has been discovered dangling in the jungle canopy in Papua New Guinea, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported Thursday. Hikers...

Governments Turn Against Media, Nigerian Killed Nigeria: Police Involvement Suspected In Killing Of Journalistsenegal: Government Vehicle Seen In Attacks On Newsroomsalso: The Gambia, Ghana, Sierra...

Papua New Guinea to Improve Power Supply MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Papua New Guinea will draw up a detailed plan to improve power supply in the country where 90% of the population still has no...

The Kenyan government on Wednesday called on African parliamentarians to be at the forefront in sensitizing the society on the importance of conserving the environment. Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo...

Sonya Grier, associate professor of marketing at American University's Kogod School of Business, was the lead researcher on the project. That's according to an article in the September issue...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters once appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during an...

Eager to put their best foot forward when hordes of soccer fanatics descend on South Africa for the FIFA World Cup in 2010, Cape wine producers have embarked on what might be called a wild...

The border fence between Egypt and Israel. Egyptian authorities have arrested 33 African migrants, including four children, who were trying to cross the border illegally into Israel, a security...

to overthrow Doe but Johnson, who has already made allegations about Washington's dubious role in the 1989-1997 war, insists he was secretly set free by the authorities. Taylor and Johnson were...

Risk management has been defined as the process of identifying and analyzing loss exposures, evaluating the feasibility of risk management techniques to address the loss exposures, selecting and...

Police personnel at the eastern police station Tuesday obtained statements from the medical superintendent at the princess christian maternity hospital (PCMH) Dr. Ibrahim Thollie and his storekeeper...

The 65th annual Venice International Film Festival opens this week and this year it is dedicated to the one of Africa's greatest film makers - the late Youssef Chahine of Egypt who died recently. The...

Sierra Leonean striker, Sallieu Bundu aka Little, playing in the United States of America in the USL Second Division Championship has helped his club; Cleveland City Stars win this year's...

A law court in Sierra Leone will soon entertain a case filed by Sierra Leone Commercial Bank against the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) for failing to meet up stipulated financial obligations if...

Various unstoppable forces contribute to the failure, not least political and economic beliefs and systems coupled to greed. However, as the late Peter Drucker pointed out many years ago, "Capitalism...

Secretary general of Sierra Leone People's Party has confirmed that they still owe the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank a huge amount of money; a development observers say could lead to a court action...

Right To Play (RTP) an international non-governmental organization yesterday donated 10 addidas footballs to the national U-17 team, Sierra Stars at a ceremony held at their headquarter in...

Australian high commissioner to Sierra Leone has pledged his country's commitment to ensuring that Sierra Leone attains the Millennium Development Goals by...

"We are all one people and Sierra Leone is one country. We should forget about individual gains and work in the interest of developing our respective communities," he...

Police has confirmed that the Nigerian national, Nwadialor Ifeanyi Ifezuo from Lagos state, arrested with 35 balls of powdered substance suspected to be cocaine in Bo would be sent to Freetown after...

Speaking at the ceremony, Africell's chief commercial officer Joe Amara Bangali Jr. said the gesture was not the first, adding that the company has sponsored previous table tennis programmes in the...

The assailants were arrested following a violent August 15 attack on a small island in the district leaving some 12 houses burnt down and property worth millions of leones...

Johannesburg - A South African member of parliament found himself staring the country's violent crime in the face for 15 kilometres as the victim of an assault clung to the bonnet of his moving...

Nairobi/Khartoum - The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur UNAMID has slammed the Sudanese government for killing dozens in a refugee camp in the restive province,...

ISTANBUL - Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that African continent, with its natural resources, agricultural fields, rich water and mineral...

In December 2007, unrest broke out in the diamond mining region of Kono in the east, between kimberlite mining corporation Koidu Holdings and locals in the lease...

ISTANBUL - Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Tuesday urged international community to show more interest in problems of the African continent. Addressing the formal opening of Turkey-Africa...

ISTANBUL - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Tuesday prime ministers of several African countries currently in Turkey to attend Turkey-Africa Cooperation Summit. Erdogan met Moroccan...

Wow, so you guys are basically all racists huh? Maybe the comparison should've been between Saffers and Sharks players. Ask 'wheels' graham and george smith who's worse, Burger or...

(AFP)--South African lawmakers Tuesday announced the shelving of legislation aimed at speeding up the flagging land reform program by allowing the expropriation of...

MADRID: At least 20 African migrants died at sea while trying to reach Spain by boat according to survivors of the ill-fated voyage who arrived overnight in the southern port of Malaga, local...

MONROVIA, LIBERIA — One of Liberia's most infamous warlords admitted Tuesday that he had trained in Libya and helped topple the government of Burkina Faso before overthrowing Liberia's...

Since Monday August 8, men of the Sierra Leone Roads Transport Authority (SLRTA) have been busy on most streets of eastern region headquarter town of Kenema as they carry out vehicle census...

In the absence of striker, Kei Kamara and left-full back Gibrilla Woobay, due to yellow cards suspension, five new faces are expected to join the national team as they face Equatorial Guinea for the...

Chairperson's Health and Sanitation committee Kenema district council Saturday disclosed to Concord Times that the district needs severe health care delivery...

Honourable Foday Rado Yokie of Constituency 61, Bo town II, over the weekend donated sporting equipment to referees, premier, first, second and non-division football teams in...

UN ambassadors held an informal meeting from last Saturday to Monday in Austria's western village of Alpbach, to discuss the peace-building process in Africa, local media reported Tuesday. State...

Osman Nyallay, a senior secondary school pupil of Nasir Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School in Kenema was on Sunday announced 15th winner in the ongoing Africell Le 2billion mega prize promotion at a...

SciDev.Net African scientists have uncovered how one of the world's most economically devastating crop diseases emerged, and hope to genetically engineer disease resistant crops using the ...

The huge complex is a skills acquisition centre which was formally handed over to the government of Sierra Leone by the Nigerian high commissioner to Sierra Leone, Chief Godson O. Echegile late last...