CAIRO: Egypt on Wednesday lifted a travel ban preventing 19 American and two German pro-democracy activists currently on trial in Cairo from leaving the country, judicial sources told Bikyamasr.com. “Egypt’s general prosecutor ordered the cancelling of the travel ban on all activists,” the source said. A total of 43 activists are facing charges of receiving [...]
Washington (dpa) – A Guantanamo detainee pleaded guilty to war crimes charges on Wednesday as part of a deal with the US government that would see him testify against other terrorism suspects, court documents showed. Majid Khan, 32, had faced charges of war crimes including murder, attempted murder, spying and providing material support for terrorism, [...]
Los Angeles (dpa) – Monkees singer Davy Jones has died from a heart attack at the age of 66, celebrity website TMZ.com reported Wednesday. According to the report, officials in Martin County, Florida confirmed the death, which occurred when the singer suffered a heart attack at home. He was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. [...]
LAGOS: Airtel Nigeria has announced the roll-out of 3.75 Generation(3G) services across the 36 States in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The newly-launched service was done in a bid to deepen the network’s capacity and quality. With the pan-Nigeria launch of 3.75 services, the company is set to boost customers’ experience with high [...]
LAGOS: One of Nigeria’s leading telecoms, UAE’s Etisalat has revealed that its business increased from a subscriber base of about 6.8 million at the beginning of last year to 10.8 million subscribers at the end of December 2011. A statement from the company said the Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Nigeria, Steven Evans made the remarks [...]
LAGOS: Africell mobile company has taken the sole responsibility to construct the Makeni clock tower. This earned them showers of praises from Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma recently. The president told dignitaries and the people of the township at the commissioning of the ultra-modern edifice that Africell’s intervention was very timely otherwise, the architect’s [...]
LAGOS: Nigeria’s federal government has stated its interest in developing a holistic ICT master plan for the fast-growing country. The government promised that as soon as the aggregation of comments and suggestions on the draft Information and Communication Technology policy for the country has been discussed, they would embark on the process. The master plan [...]
CAIRO: Botswana and Zambia’s telecom operators have agreed to establish a new fiber-optic cable through Kazungula. Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) and Zamtel in Zambia announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding for the new cable. The new project will cost approximately $260,000 and should take between three and four months to construct and be [...]
CAIRO: Internet users in East Africa began to see a reduction in speeds on Tuesday after two undersea fiber optic cables delivering broadband service to the region were severed by ships’ anchors off the coast. It could take as long as two weeks or more to fix the problem, companies involved said on Tuesday. Cables [...]
CAIRO: The liberal Free Egyptians Party named their chairman Ahmed Said as the new head of its parliamentary bloc on Wednesday, replacing Mohamed Abu Hamed, following the latter’s resignation, also as the Vice President of the Party, however a statement by the Party said that Abu Hamed will continue to be a member of the [...]
Cairo: Cairo court on Wednesday imposed a fine of 75,000 Egyptian pounds on the former Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly, who is currently facing charges of ordering the killing of the protesters during the 25 January Revolution and three other police officers, in compensation for a student who claimed he was tortured by the three police [...]
CAIRO: Mohamed Barakat, the Head of Banque Misr, said on Wednesday, that the bank had not yet received instructions from the government on applying the maximum wage, which was announced by Dr. Kamal Ganzouri, the Prime Minister. The law was due to be enforced since the beginning of this year. The Ministry of Finance said [...]
CAIRO: Egypt announce that it will hold its first presidential elections since the ouster of Hosny Mubarak on May 23-24, with a possible runoff scheduled for June 16-17, state television reported Wednesday quoting an election commission official. The new president would be announced on June 21, said Farouk Sultan, the head of the commission. Sultan [...]
CAIRO: Hundreds of students at Egypt’s German University in Cairo (GUC) are protesting outside the administration building inside the campus, demanding the return of expelled students to the university. The university expelled two students this week indefinitely and three others for two weeks, for attempting to screen footage from the “military liars” campaign, or Kazeboon, [...]
SANA’A: With its economy left reeling from a catastrophic year, Yemen government is now pinning its hopes on the coming donors’ conference, seeking to raise an estimated $15 billion to stabilize its runaway deficit and palliate to the needs of its people. In its weekly Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the government announced that Prime Minister [...]
Washington (dpa) – North Korea has agreed to implement a moratorium on its nuclear activities, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday. Pyongyang will also allow inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog to verify the moratorium, Nuland said. The announcement follows recent talks between US and North Korean diplomats in Beijing. “To improve the [...]
Lake Placid, New York (dpa) – The tropical central American country of Panama aims to compete in the 2014 Olympic bobsleigh competition in a story which appears to be a remake of the Jamaican sensation from the 1988 Games. Swiss lawyer Christoph Zollinger readily admits he had the amazing Jamaican story, later adapted in the [...]
The Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) is hosting a conference entitled “Women and the Sustainable Built Environment: Qatar Prospects.” The event features female architects and engineers and hopes to discuss problems and solutions regarding the built-environment as well as to promote the growing influence of women in the field. Speakers include Kathryn Findlay who founded [...]
CAIRO: A liberal German member of Parliament submitted questioning recently over the recent anti-military junta protests at the German University in Cairo (GUC). MP Kleine Anfrage asked the government if it had knowledge about the students’ protests calling for democracy and transparency in the country, according to German reports. The federal government said it was aware [...]
CAIRO: United Arab Emirates leading telecommunications company Etisalat announced on Tuesday that it was boosting its capacity on Intelsat 22, to be launched next month in an effort to boost its presence in Africa. The Abu Dhabi-based company said in a press release that the new multi-transponder agreement will “utilize the satellite’s capacity to expand [...]
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