| | Daily Beast | - 1 hour ago | | |
Welcome to the first big weekend at the box office. Fast & Furious 6 looks likely to win the box office, with an $100 million over the four-day weekend projected. |
| | New York Times | - 4 hours ago | | |
ZAM ZAM CAMP, Sudan - They are the new faces in a place they would rather not be, and the meager scraps sheltering them from the blazing desert sun are a testament to their sudden arrival: tents of scruffy tarpaulin propped up on crooked wood branches ... |
| | euronews | - 21 hours ago | | |
Two suicide bombers have struck Northern Niger, injuring at least 16 people. A subsequent gunbattle with suspected Islamist militants has claimed the lives of up to 10 soldiers. |
| | Myjoyonline.com | - 34 minutes ago | | |
President John Mahama has left Accra for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to attend the 50th anniversary of the African Union (AU). At the Kotoka International Airport to see the President off on Thursday, were the Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur; the Chief ... |
| | South African Broadcasting Corporation | - 40 minutes ago | | |
President Jacob Zuma has expressed condolences to the relatives of initiates who've died in Mpumalanga during circumcision rites of passage in the past two weeks. |
| | euronews | - 5 minutes ago | | |
The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon announced 3000 more UN troops will be deployed in the area, during a visit to the eastern city of Goma. |
| The Observer | - 10 hours ago | | |
The NRM is trying a radical approach in an attempt to resolve the long-running standoff between the lord mayor and the KCCA executive director. |
| The Observer | - 11 hours ago | | |
Sheema South MP Yorokamu Katwiremu has said the level of debate in Uganda's Parliament today is embarrassing compared to that of the 1960s. |
| The Observer | - 11 hours ago | | |
Kasese district local government is to fire over 30 health workers who have consistently skipped work. The district which has been struggling with a 24% health staffing gap for at least five years, recruited 333 health workers early this year to fill the gaps. |
| The Observer | - 11 hours ago | | |
Police in Mayuge are holding a 70-year-old man identified as Jafari Kayeyera, for defiling a 14-year-old girl in his Wamulongo village. |
| | Myjoyonline.com | - 42 minutes ago | | |
Economist Dr Kwesi Jonah has said that whatever direction the Supreme Court (SC) ruling on the presidential election petition takes, Ghana will never be the same. |
| | News24 | - 42 minutes ago | | |
Johannesburg - Cosatu plans to go ahead with a go-slow protest against e-tolling on Friday, despite failed attempts at getting permission. |
| | iAfrica.com | - 50 minutes ago | | |
The Afrikaners-only community Kleinfontein outside Rayton, east of Pretoria, insisted in a debate with the DA on Thursday that the criteria for its residents were not based on race. |
| | Nigerian Tribune | - 3 hours ago | | |
THE Federal Government has identified a total number of 84 legitimate and legal routes through which people could come or go out of Nigeria, while about 1,497 illegal routes that entered the country had also been uncovered. |
| | iAfrica.com | - 7 minutes ago | | |
No solution has been reached at the CCMA between platinum producer Lonmin and trade union Amcu on a new recognition agreement, the company said on Thursday. |
| CONSTITUTIONAL experts yesterday hailed the adoption of a new constitution, but warned that the document could be rendered a paper tiger in the absence of a culture of constitutionalism. |
| | BBC News | - May 20, 2013 | | |
Police say they were overwhelmed by the large crowd when a stampede killed four people at a church in Ghana's capital, Accra, on Sunday. |
| | The Observer (blog) | - 11 hours ago | | |
With just less than two months to the end of the financial year, the tax body is thinking of how it will collect money to bridge the Shs 157.08bn cumulative deficit for a period spanning between July last year and April 2013. |
| | Mail & Guardian Online | - 15 minutes ago | | |
Cosatu affiliate NUM is in the middle of tough wage negotiations, a conflict with a rival union and debates over the future of Cosatu. |
| | Herald Sun | - 1 hour ago | | |
BEACH Energy will invest $11.5 million to take a half stake in an exploration program in the Cooper Basin's far east. The Adelaide company has struck a deal with Bengal Energy to acquire half of ATP 732 in the Queensland section of the basin. |
| | Financial Times | - 14 hours ago | | |
A 30 per cent increase in full-year operating profit in its banking division helped boost overall growth at Investec, the South African bank and asset manager. |
| Herald Scotland | - 3 hours ago | | |
HOPES that the UK economy might at last be establishing a slightly firmer footing have been dealt a significant blow by official figures showing household spending grew just 0.1% in the first quarter, while exports and investment fell sharply. |
| Activision's Eric Hirshberg isn't worried about negative reactions over the Xbox One reveal's lack of focus on gaming, stating that the console is “a games machine first and foremost. |
| | The Australian | - May 22, 2013 | | |
SIX carmakers made it into the annual top 100 brand ranking by market research company Millward Brown released this week, with Toyota heading the list at 23 with a value of $US24.5 billion ($25bn). |
| AllAfrica.com | - 24 minutes ago | | |
It was wine tasting last Tuesday at Club Silk, so I went to the event not knowing what to expect, I sat nervously waiting for the wine tasting to unfold, then I waited and then I waited a little more until a few people trickled in. |
| AllAfrica.com | - 1 hour ago | | |
This weekend, the search for the central region beauty will take us to Masaka's Maria Floor hotel. This is the first time the regional pageant is going to this district. |
| | Trend.az | - 53 minutes ago | | |
Yarat! Contemporary Art Space will take part at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition "Love Me, Love Me Not". Love Me, Love Me Not is an unprecedented exhibition of contemporary art from Azerbaijan and its neighbours, featuring recent work by 17 artists ... |
| | Myjoyonline.com | - 18 minutes ago | | |
Thousands of mourners have paid their last respects to renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in his home town in Anambra state. A host of dignitaries attended the funeral including Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. |
| The Observer (blog) 10 hours ago | | | | |
Milutin Sredojevich 'Micho' is the Uganda Cranes tenth coach since the dawn of the millennium. Following his unveiling by Fufa President Lawrence Mulindwa on May 21 at Fufa house in Mengo, the Serbian tactician follows in the footsteps of the late Paul ... |
| | New Vision | - 6 hours ago | | |
WITH Uganda's top amateur golfers Willy Kitatta and Peter Ssendawula in action, bringing the Burundi Open title to Kampala is a realistic expectation. |
| | Telegraph.co.uk | - 26 minutes ago | | |
One calls itself with no false modesty “a Club Less Ordinary”, the other just invites you to embrace its motto, “Real Love”. |
| | AzerNews | - 22 hours ago | | |
The International Dialogue for Environmental Action (IDEA) held a seminar on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity, May 22. |
| | Patch.com | - 10 hours ago | | |
Four students from Lexington-Richland School District Five participated last week in the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest high school research competition. |
| | Ghana Broadcasting Corporation | - May 21, 2013 | | |
In most African countries, stigmatization is still a big challenge in the fight against HIV and AIDS. This, the Co-ordinator, Society of Aids in Africa, Luc Bodea attributes, largely to ignorance about the disease. |
| | The Guardian, Belize | - 8 hours ago | | |
On Friday, May 17th, the National AIDS Commission will be holding a Solidarity Walk for persons living with HIV. Since 1983, the Candle Light Memorial is celebrated in May to remember the countless lives lost to illnesses associated with advanced HIV. |
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