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Remembering The Late JAY SAIDY 9 Years After His Death

Thursday, August 20, 2009

He died August 15/ 2001 and was buried the next day at Janjanbureh his place of Birth. In the years that came after 2001 a lot of people...

Gambians among Libya boat disaster

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Dozens of Gambians are reported to have perished in the Mediterranean sea in the wee hours of Friday when a boat carrying illegal migrants heading...

Three Nobels launch prize for Spanish-language woman writers

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=18192

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Three Nobel laureates threw their support Monday behind a prize to be awarded to Spanish-language women writers 35 or younger living in the United...

Anti-apartheid activist, businessman Motlana dies

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=275970

Monday, December 01, 2008

POLITICAL parties and others paid tribute yesterday to anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana, who died on...

Dr Nthato Motlana dies of cancer

http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=896078

Monday, December 01, 2008

Anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana has died after a long battle with cancer. Nelson Mandela Foundation...

Aids activist calls for Mbeki-Manto ‘trial’

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=274887

Thursday, November 27, 2008

FORMER President Thabo Mbeki has been accused of having blood on his hands following a study that claimed 365000 people had died as a result of...

SOMALIA: Dozens die in diarrhoea outbreak

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81522

Saturday, November 22, 2008

NAIROBI Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 100 people have died in the past four weeks after an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in...

TANZANIA: Cholera kills four in northern districts

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80274

Saturday, November 22, 2008

DAR ES SALAAM Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Four people have died of cholera and dozens were admitted to health centres in the northern...

Amie Sowe Mbenga Dies

Picture: The Late Amie Sowe

Friday, October 10, 2008

Amie Sowe-Mbenga, one of their most outstanding comedians with the National Drama Group commonly known as Group Garr has died last week. Amie...

Carnage at Burumang Bridge

Monday, September 29, 2008

Five people died and two sustained injuries when a 20-seater geleh geleh plunged off the Burumang Bridge, in Kalagi, in the wee hours of Friday. ...