As diplomats prepare to leave for Africa where the U.N. Security Council is due to meet next week, calls from activists are growing for strong international action to address the worsening human rights situation in many parts of the continent.

REGIONAL Bus Services has started a daily trip to Juba from Kampala at a cost of sh75,000.

Long a trading town, the good times have returned to Arua, and other towns adding not just money and new languages but new challenges and opportunities of doing business with neighboring Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This weekend's soccer World Cup qualifying match between Chad and Sudan has been called off, news agencies are reporting.

The real journey to the 2010 World Cup/African Cup of Nations begins this weekend with the opening matches of the preliminary rounds. Forty-six countries will be involved in heated battles across the continent in search of representatives for the two

Libya is getting the backing of Ukraine to build nuclear reactors. Mustafa Adam-Noble looks at the implications of an oil-rich country going nuclear and the possible impact on Libyan people.

The Liberian Students Association in Morocco (LISAM) has commended President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her outstanding support towards education.

Libya is getting the backing of Ukraine to build nuclear reactors. Mustafa Adam-Noble looks at the implications of an oil-rich country going nuclear and the possible impact on Libyan people.

Egyptian authorities have enforced media licensing laws to punish a company associated with broadcasting information critical of the government, Human Rights Watch said today.

Egyptian Government has donated a drug shipment consisting of special ointment for burns and First Aid Kits for the victims of the pipeline fire incident at Ijegun, Lagos which occurred recently.

Three out of nine Egyptian medical doctors recruitedby Taraba State government for the state Specialist Hospital, who sat for the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council (NMDC) assessment failed the test.

The Washington- based 'Institute for the Economics of Peace' has recently issued the second edition of its report entitled the "Global Peace Index" for the year 2008.

Following her qualification 7-5, 6-2, against the Canadian Stephanie Dubois, ranked 160, by the Professional Tennis Association (PTA), Selima Sfar, Tunisia's only professional woman tennis player, ranked 241, will play against Venus Williams ( ranked 7 th ) on Tuesday