SENEGALS president Abdoulaye Wade has unveiled plans for the Senegalese telecommunications agency, that is expected to “develop new information and communication technologies” nationwide. Launching the “Internet Caravan,” on Tuesday in Dakar, he described new technology as “the domain of democracy as it enables everybody to move at the same speed.” The Internet Caravan, is to […]

FRENCH Prime Minister Lionel Jospin arrived in Cape Town early on Thursday for a two-day official visit to South Africa that will see him hold talks with President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela. Jospin was due to meet Mbeki in Cape Town on Thursday before addressing parliament and flying to the former prison […]

CONSERVATION officials from around the world have gathered in Cape Town for a workshop to focus on the protection and management of African shark populations. Sponsored by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the three-day IFAW Shark Conservation Workshop 2001 gathered over 50 delegates from more than 18 countries including Eritrea, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, […]

AFRICAN linguists from Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, America and Europe, have agreed to create an Academy of African Languages in Mali. Following a three-day meeting on the project, participants said on Monday that the objective of the institution is to promote African languages. – Pana

Local business leaders want to build a gigantic statue of Nelson Mandela – bigger even than the Statue of Liberty .

THERE are some 93 women including 13 teenagers among 3_600 prisoners currently detained in the Abidjan Prison, the ruling Ivorian Popular Front-run newspaper, Notre Voie reported on Wednesday. It said the 93 female detainees are divided into two groups because of the lack of sufficient cells. The 93 women are serving sentences for ”stealing, assault […]

BRITISH actress Emma Thompson is to take a year off work to travel round Africa with her family to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS. The two-time Oscar winner will be going to Africa on behalf of the charity Action Aid, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. ”We have always wanted to do some voluntary […]

A BURKINA Faso court has sentenced a male nurse to two years in prison for having sexually assaulted 207 women, most of them college students, a court official said on Wednesday. The 29-year-old was convicted after the court in Gaoua examined complaints from a dozen of the victims. The Sidwaya newspaper said the man used […]

BRITISH bomb experts and Sierra Leonean soldiers have defused 13 bombs in Sierra Leone’s northwestern Port Loko district. The bombs were discovered during cordon and search operations of the area and defused between Saturday and Tuesday, it said. Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group and the state-backed Civil Defence Forces (CDF), made up […]