Togo has held presidential elections on March 4th and according to preliminary ballot results, President Faure Gnassingbe is in top of the list and certainly will be re-elected for a second term.Some Togolese experts closed to decision-making...

South Korea’s STX Group said Thursday 4th March, it plans to make inroads into the Ghanaian infrastructure sector as part of a bid to solidify its presence in western Africa.The group signed a memorandum of understanding with...

Libyan Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. charge d’affaires in Tripoli on Wednesday March the 3rd to protest remarks by a spokesman for U.S. State Department on Libyan leader’s call to declare Jihad against Switzerland amid a diplomatic row...

Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden with 14 crew members on board, a regional maritime official confirmed on Wednesday, March the 3rd .Andrew Mwangura, East Africa Coordinator of Seafarers’ Assistance Programme...

Cote d’Ivoire authorities announced last week the establishment of a new government to relieve the country from the dangerous crisis, which has threatened all the hard-won gains in recent years in the peace process.Prime Minister Guillaume Soro...

A Tanzanian ship has been rescued after a United States warship deterred an attack by suspected pirates and arrested the eight suspected pirates, the U. S. embassy said in a statement on Tuesday the 23rd of February.The...

Algeria has opened a judicial inquiry into the killing of its national police chief Ali Tounsi.A judicial enquiry has been opened to determine the circumstances of this distressing event,”  official statement said.The inquiry comes a day after...

Nigeria’s vice-president will continue to lead the nation while the ailing president recuperates, a presidential adviser has said.In a statement issued last week, Olusegun Adeniyi, a presidential spokesman, said Goodluck Jonathan would continue to serve as acting...

The Japanese government is planning to introduce a global warming bill in the Diet. But environmental organizations are worried that the proposed emissions trading scheme will be compromised.The bill includes a provision to establish an emissions trading...

A group of 46 Japanese individual investors sued the Tokyo Financial Exchange Inc. and Germany’s second-biggest bank Commerzbank AG for inappropriate pricing of South frica’s rand versus the yen.The investors are seeking 221 million yen ($2.5 million)...