Yearly Archives: 2013
Get active to get healthy
One year on from the Olympics and Paralympics more than half the adult population is doing the recommended amount of physical activity, but worryingly...
Africa's booming funerals business
From fish-shaped to beer bottle coffins, funerals in Africa are lavish affairs, providing a lucrative opportunity for insurance companies looking for business in some...
UK condemns attack at a mosque in Nigeria
Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds has condemned as “contemptible and cowardly” an attack on a mosque in northeastern Nigeria in which suspected Islamic extremists...
Carthage Eaglets eyeing new horizons
Though political instability has afflicted Tunisia in recent times, the nation’s U-17 team have been quietly and impressively getting on with things, securing a...
GOVERNMENT WARNS OF FORCED MARRIAGE RISK DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
The UK government issued a warning to teachers, doctors and airport staff to be alert to forced marriages over the school holidays.
The summer marks...
Ignore BME voters at your peril – Hughes
Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Simon Hughes has welcomed the findings of the Operation Black Vote (OBV) report into the effect that black and ethnic...
Malawi coach blasts Eagles again
Malawi coach Tom Saintfiet has dismissed African champions Nigeria as only “super” on paper.
Saintfiet, who last year was appointed technical director for Nigeria but...
Eto’o back in the Lions’ den
While the Indomitable Lions’ skipper is on his way out at Anzhi Makhachkala, he had his first training session this Tuesday in Paris with...
Fear of rebels still haunts Mali's herders
Despite the victory of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Mali's peaceful presidential elections at the weekend, sporadic violence continues in the north, where for months...
Muntari: We will make Ghanaians smile
With just one match remaining in the group stage of the African qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, Ghana are only a...
