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Catholic Information Service for Africa 2 September 2008 Libreville Health and environment ministers in Africa have resolved to build a strategic health and environment alliance to reduce environmental threats ...

"The African continent is rich in natural resources and has a potentially strong human resource base to sustain flourishing economies.

A COALITION of health and environment ministers in Africa has adopted new strategies to check environmental threats to human health.

Sunday, 31 August 2008, 3:54 pm Press Release: United Nations African health and environment ministers attending a United Nations-sponsored conference concluding today in Gabon have agreed to form an alliance ...

A British national whose identity was not revealed was nabbed in Limbe, 74 Kilometres from Douala, south-western Cameroon, in possessi o n of two giant tortoises, sources told PANA here Friday.

NEW YORK : I got an e-mail the other day from a friend at the New America Foundation, a Washington public policy institute, inviting me to participate in a panel on "whether the media can handle good news - ...

The offensive launched by the ethnic-Zaghawa militia is part of the president of Chad's huge pre-arranged ethnic-cleansing plan, rebel spokesman Djede Koultou Gamar told AFP by phone from Libreville.

Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon, on August 14 on the occasion of the 48th ...

NDJAMENA: A Chadian criminal court has condemned exiled former president Hissene Habre to death in absentia for crimes against humanity, judicial officials said.

The newly found olive-backed forest robin was named by the scientists for its distinctive olive back and rump.

I T is the constitutional duty of governments all over the world to protect and secure the lives and property of both citizens and non-citizens domiciled within their geographical borders.

The government of Sao Tome & Principe has approved a plan of the Sao Tome Telecommunications Company to connect its network to the West African Festoon System submarine cable network, reports MacauHub.

Shortwave station Africa No. 1 staff on strike Text of report by Gabon-based pan-African radio broadcaster Africa No 1 on 1 August Following the strike by its staff, Africa No 1 is unable to broadcast its ...

'France sees itself as a world leader in fighting corruption and yet now it is not only refusing to lift a finger against Bongo and other dictators, but is greeting their money with open arms' President's ...

By Donwald Pressly There is little argument that South Africa needs to succeed in a programme of social transformation.

Jeremy Weate at Naijablog posted an article on Gabonese President Omar Bongo's taste for luxury.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said President Kibaki was not "a Robert Mugabe" as Britain opened its purse strings for the two leaders, whose bitter feud over the outcome of last year's presidential elections ...

Canada will not seek the return of a young detainee at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Wednesday, a day after the release of a video showing the teenage prisoner sobbing for his mother and pleading for Canada's ...

A police sting in Gabon brought down a ring of grave robbers suspected of selling human skulls to makers of traditional medicines and amulets, officials said Wednesday.

Private jets, Bugatti cars, a shark-filled aquarium and enough bank accounts to paper the new luxury yacht - the extraordinary capacity of some African leaders and their families for apparent self-enrichment ...