Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi says Tripoli should take responsibility for the abduction of a Lebanese leader, who went missing on Libyan soil more than three decades ago. “If an Israeli soldier hides somewhere, the issue is immediately investigated, but on the abduction of a great character like Imam Moussa al-Sadr there is no action,” [...]

South African ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, Ted Bikhany, has declared his solidarity with the Jerusalem parliamentarians and former Jerusalem minister threatened with deportation. This came during a visit by the Ambassador, accompanied by the embassy’s first secretary Edgar Mutzeysi, Monday morning to the officials’ sit-in tent at the Red Cross headquarters in Jerusalem. “On [...]

Sudan is planning to build a nuclear reactor and its first nuclear power plant for peaceful electricity purposes by 2020, state media say. Director-general of the Sudanese Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed Ahmed Hassan el-Tayeb, said on Sunday that his government had begun the plan for the development of the nuclear reactor at the beginning of [...]

Amid efforts to strengthen cooperation between developing countries, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran earnestly welcomes ties with African nations. “Iran is taking firm steps toward the expansion of ties with all African nations — especially Senegal,” Ahmadinejad told Senegalese Foreign Minister Madicke Niang. “The expansion of bilateral ties in various fields would mutually benefit [...]

International Book Fair begins in Tehran the Iranian Capital on Saturday the 7th of August 2010. Modern and ancient scripts of the Holy Qur’anic, translation and commentaries by scholars were on display during the annual event. Also on display were pens, inks and other items such skin bags for the Holy Qur’an. Ihsanul Mannan a [...]

An Algerian aid ship carrying 60 containers of medical supplies is ready to set sail to the Gaza Strip, WAFA Palestinian news agency reported Thursday. Sources said that the campaigns was organized by the Algerian Union of Muslim Scholars, national characters, businessmen, NGOs and Algerian citizens from all over Algeria. The humanitarian aid will include [...]

Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi in a meeting with her Malian counterpart Oumar Ibrahima Toure here in Tehran on Monday announced Iran’s readiness to export drugs and medical equipment to the West African country. “Iran is one of the most successful world countries, which produces more than 96% of its needed medicines and drugs [...]

A number of African countries have called on Iranian giant carmaker Iran Khodro (IKCO) to increase its car exports to the impoverished continent. According to the company’s website, Mahboub M. Maalim, the executive secretary of Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said African markets, particularly the Somali’s are interested in IKCO cars. He further lauded both [...]

Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak has held separate meetings with head of Palestinian Authority (PA) and Jordan’s King to push for “progress” in the Israeli-Palestinian talks. Jordan’s King Abdullah and Mubarak called on the world community “to intensify efforts to ensure the accomplishment of the two-state vision,” said a joint statement carried by Petra news agency. [...]

A tripartite meeting is to be held in Egypt on Thursday to discuss the US call to start direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas, Jordanian King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will meet in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Abbas’ political adviser Nimer Hammad said. “The three-way [...]

Ghana’s deputy president has called for further development of cooperation between his government and Iran in various fields especially the energy sector. “Accra is interested in benefiting from Iran’s know-how in oil exploration and production, both on land and offshore,” said John Dramani Mahama in a meeting with Iran Agricultural Jihad Minister Sadigh Khalilian in [...]

Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria has stressed the significance of the Holy month of Ramadan, and called on Muslims to intensify acts of worship to attain God’s forgiveness and blessings. Sayyed Zakzaky made the remark during the Nahjul Balagah Lesson at F.I.C on Monday the 9th of August 2010. He quoted a Hadith [...]

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People has called for unity and cooperation among Muslim nations, reiterating Iran’s readiness to offer assistance in developing African countries. In a meeting with Guinea-Bissauan President Malam Bacai Sanha, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei called on Islamic nations to reaffirm their “friendship and unity” in every part of [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Guinea-Bissau counterpart Malam Bacai Sanha have stressed the need to further ties between the two countries. Speaking at a joint press conference in Tehran on Monday, the two presidents agreed that economic ties between the two nations should be further improved via the expansion of cooperation in various fields. [...]

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir says foreign organizations including aid agencies would be expelled if they fail to respect the authority of the Sudanese government. Bashir’s warning comes as the African Union (AU) peacekeepers refrain from handing over to Sudan six Darfurians who have been accused of fomenting deadly skirmishes in the southern Kalma Camp in [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has expressed Iran’s readiness to help resolve the ongoing crisis in Somalia and restore security in the African nation. In a meeting with the head of an African organization on Sunday in Tehran, Mottaki said that the time has come for stability and peace in Somalia. The Iranian minister met [...]

Several bases belonging to al-Shabab fighters have been destroyed during attacks by government forces in the Bakool region in central Somalia, says a senior Somali official. Somali government troops carried out the massive operation during the past 24 hours, Deputy Interior Minister Abdi Rashid Xidig told a Press TV correspondent by phone late Friday. In [...]

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has fired a verbal salvo against the US and the European Union over sanctions imposed on the country’s ruling party. Noting conspiracies by the Western countries to oust him from office and to impose their own will on the Zimbabwean nation, Mugabe said on Sunday the West refrains from recognizing the [...]

Iran has extended a 40-million-euro line of credit to Zimbabwe to finance energy, banking and industrial projects in the African country, a diplomatic source says. The funds would be used to rehabilitate the country’s main power station to increase electricity supplies and reduce rationing, the Panafrican news agency quoted Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Iran as saying [...]

South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Wednesday that he supports the Olympia Food Co-op’s boycott of Israeli products. The Olympia Food Co-op, located in Olympia, Washington, the hometown of the International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie who was killed seven years ago in Gaza, announced last week that no Israeli products would [...]