Africa, World

BUJUMBURA Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - A weeklong strike by health workers in Burundi has cut services in key hospitals to a bare minimum, with...

Police acted fast to arrest two young men and a teenager on Friday, following the kidnapping of a Sandton businessmans son in an attempt to claim a...

Although important work is carried out in this field, we certainly don't hear enough about holding corporations accountable for the profits they...

The first-ever MTV Africa Music Awards held in Abuja, Nigeria delivered a heavily Afro-centric show and winners' list that has been welcomed by the...

The United States Ambassador to The Gambia, H.E Barry L. Wells, recently presided over the presentation of an ultrasound-scanning machine to The...

The president of The Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC), Imam Alhagie Momodou Lamin Touray, has appealed to the Muslim Ummah to support his...

A two-day national consultative meeting for the developing of a national sanitation policy commences yesterday at the Baobab Hotel. Speaking at the...

As part of its week-long campaign for blood donation within the Greater Banjul Area, The Gambia Association of Blood Donors yesterday held a blood...

One of the tenets of press freedom is for journalist not to disclose their sources. When a journalist does so, he or she wittingly puts their sources...

Professor Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, president of the Republic of The Gamba, has urged secretaries of state to employ their own initiatives in taking care...