Category: Africa

The government of Muammar brought the Libyan government from poverty and debt, to prosperity and debt-free status in 41 years.Jehad Before Gaddafi, literacy in Libya was only 10%. Since Gaddafi’s...

The planned rebasing of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to raise Lagos State to Africa's 13th biggest economy by 2014, a report assessing the respective economies of the...

South Africa’s premier soccer league have stopped one of their clubs from playing a prestige friendly against Liverpool this month saying it would take publicity away from the country’s cup...

Like Soud Qbeilat, an artist, would say, “When there is no freedom, there is no creativity”. No doubt, press freedom in Nigeria has become increasingly worrisome as cases of journalists...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all...

A woman died and 44 people were seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in a Roman Catholic church in northern Tanzania, a Tanzanian police official said Sunday. The woman died...

There is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Five people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a four-member Qatari...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The African National Congress responds to a barrage of criticism over broadcasting video of a visibly frail Nelson Mandela by saying it wanted to share the anti-apartheid...

CONAKRY, Guinea (Codewit) — Health officials say a meningitis outbreak has killed at least 40 people in the West African nation of Guinea. Conde Lansine, a doctor in the eastern...