Namibia has put on hold 50 capital projects that were supposed to be implemented during the 2016/17 financial year due to lack of funds. All the projects that have been suspended would have costed the government more than 300 million Namibian dollars (22 million U.S. dollars). The suspension of work on the projects came after […]

NAIROBI — Kenya’s anti-terrorism police on Wednesday arrested a male university student in the coastal city of Mombasa over links with the Islamist State militant group. Officers acting on intelligence report raided the student’s residence in a Mombasa suburb and caught Hassan Kassim. (Kenya-IS-Radicalized Students) – – – – WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama […]

Nana Oye Lithur told the media that her outfit had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Aarhus Social Health Care College of Denmark to support the introduction and mainstreaming of geriatrics at the various health training schools in Ghana. The MOU also includes financial and technical support for a trainer-of-trainers program to develop a […]

The latest development is expected to go a long way in reducing the power rationing hours which have been extended from four to eight in recent weeks. Bessie Banda, Zesco Limited senior manager for marketing and public relations, said 270 megawatts of power from the 300 megawatts power plant constructed by coal miner, Maamba Collieries […]

Public service vehicles will not be allowed to operate between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., effective from November 27, 2016, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Minister of Transport and Communications Brian Mushimba said a statutory instrument has been issued which was meant to avert road traffic accidents. The […]

The state-run radio reported that the taxi, which was coming from Rumonge town with a destination at Bururi town, had five passengers with its driver when it collided with a truck from Bururi town. According to the radio, the road became too small as both vehicles were over-speeding. The radio reported that two persons — […]

Amid a marathon upsurge in China, many marathons offer a “medal bonus” which has attracted many African students to take part in order to earn money.  African athletes competing in a marathon [Photo: Chinanews.com] A student from Kenya has even told China News Service that he can earn an average of about USD 3,000 per […]

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, on Wednesday agreed to further boost cooperation between the two countries in a variety of fields. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) holds talks with Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sooronbay Jeenbekov in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Nov. 2, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] Li is in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek for […]

China has started to build a prototype supercomputer system with an estimated peak performance of over 1,000 quadrillion calculations per second, ten times that of the current fastest computer, researchers said Wednesday. File photo of China’s Tianhe 2 supercomputer. [Photo: Xinhua] The exascale supercomputer is being developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer […]

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday appeared to criticize Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey’s decision to disclose new development of FBI’s probe into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email practices 11 days before the election. In his first comments on the FBI’s announcement that rocked the presidential campaign, Obama did not criticize […]