|
Written by Mustapha Maohoub
|
|
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 Jaipur - Seven near-simultaneous bomb blasts tore through crowded markets in the Indian tourist city of Jaipur on Tuesday, killing at least 80 people and wounding 150 in what police said was a terror attack. "We have information that 80 people have died," Rajasthan state home minister Gulab Chand Kataria told reporters.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Patrick Kigere
|
|
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 Hilton Hotel Kampala, potentially Uganda’s first “true” 5-star hotel and an architectural landmark is now set to be complete by September 2009, according to the project’s developers, AYA Group. The 23-floor edifice is being constructed on the former premises of Uganda Television at Nakasero, a prime Kampala suburb. “We are now progressing at full speed and we’ll maintain this tempo till finish time.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Stephen Jones
|
|
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
Addis Ababa - The African Union plans to increase the number of election observers it will deploy to Zimbabwe to monitor a yet-to-be announced presidential run-off, its executive chief said on Tuesday.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Ian Taylor
|
|
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 Maputo - The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Tuesday that 12-13 million Africans would leave the countryside to live in urban areas in 2008, increasing the challenge of providing food and other services in cities.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Christine Mugwampeke
|
|
Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
 TULLOW Oil, a company exploring for oil in western Uganda, said yesterday it had struck oil and natural gas deposits at Taitai-1 exploration well, located in Butiaba region, about 60km north of Hoima. The London-based company said in a statement on its website that exploration at Taitai-1 well encountered five metres of net gas pay and at least eight metres of net oil pay.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mustapha Maohoub
|
|
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
Chengdu - Thirty-seven tourists were killed when their coach was buried by a landslide after a catastrophic earthquake hit China and another 2 000 are unaccounted for, state media said on Tuesday. The tourists were travelling in Sichuan province in southwest China when the devastating quake struck, the official Xinhua news agency said, quoting local emergency authorities.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Leo Mutono
|
|
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
Mvurwi - Armed police tried to prevent the US ambassador to Zimbabwe and several other diplomats from leaving a hospital where victims of post-election violence were being treated on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent with the convoy said.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>
|
| Results 31 - 46 of 1134 |
