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Penned up in the royal kraal, the bull trotted around for a while, looking nervously for an escape. Then it hesitated, and the warriors — all in their late teens or early twenties — moved in, their hands reaching for...

Zimbabwe National Students Union President Clever Bere says unknown assailants severely beat a former student thinking he was the group's leader. The gang started assaulting him indiscriminately using clenched fists and booted feet, mistaking him for me," Bere told the...

Secretary General Pagan Amum and his deputy Yasir Arman among some other party officials were arrested in the national capital by the police, under the directive of the ruling NCP, for leading a peaceful procession. The two were later on...

The National Election Commission today announced Southern Sudan as the leading region in voter registration with 82% describing it as highest number in the country. The commission which will announce the definitive figures of the voter registration on Thursday, said...

An explosion went off at Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu, where a graduation ceremony for medical students from the Banadir University was underway. Radio Shabelle reporter Mohamed Amin Adan Abdulle, Al-Arabia TV cameraman Hassan Zubeyr Haji Hassan and freelance fixer and...

He was imprisoned in 2008 and fined US$640,000 for writing a song critical of Cameroonian President Paul Biya. Freemuse and the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN have been campaigning for his release since he was jailed in...

Alusine Bangura was freed yesterday on charges that he sexually assaulted and beat a girl in Couva last month. Yesterday, the alleged victim, an 18-year-old, told Couva Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar she was not interested in pursuing the case. She had...

Red Bull Street Style qualifiers next week Wednesday, December 9th 2009 Red Bull are calling all streetstylers. The national qualifier for Red Bull Street Style 2009 in Trinidad and Tobago is December 15 at Fiesta Plaza, Movie Towne, Invaders Bay...

One of the major agreements arising out of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was a formal Memorandum of Understanding between the Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana on energy cooperation. The agreement covers investments and services in new gas processing...

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who have been displaced by LRA rebels from Northern Uganda are confronting food shortages and inaccessible public services in their self-identified centers. At the same time they are under growing pressure to fetch food in their...