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Police easily cracks down Cameroon protests
Cameroon's nation-wide anti-government protests started modestly today, with calls for President Paul Biya to step down. But protesters in Douala and ...
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Libya rebels shoot down fighter jets
Sources in Benghazi insist that three pro-Ghaddafi fighter jets were shot down today. In an attempt to bomb the city, the jets had to fly low and were ...
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Namibias Sam Nujoma hospitalised
Former Namibian President Sam Nujoma "has been hospitalised, following a pacemaker procedure or pacemaker implantation," according to "highly placed family and medical ...
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Foreign intervention in Libya more probable
As the situation in Libya, especially Tripoli, is nearing a humanitarian disaster, a foreign intervention is becoming more probable. The reasons for a legitimate intervention have already been ...
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Niger attackers from Libya president
THE attackers who staged deadly bombings at an army base and French-run uranium mine in northern Niger came from neighbouring Libya, Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou says. "The attackers, according to all the information we have received, came from Libya, from the south of Libya," Issoufou told television channel France 24 on Saturday. "Libya continues to be a source of ...
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AU Marks 50 Years with Call for Stronger Future
ADDIS ABABA -- African leaders Saturday commemorated 50 years since the founding of a continental organization that would become the modern African Union. At AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, the organization’s leaders celebrated the achievements of the past and called for greater solidarity among nations going forward. At a ceremony marking 50 years to the day since the establishment of ...
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Kenya UK murder suspect Michael Adebolajo had been detained in Kenya last year.
Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend - one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby's murder in south-east London on Wednesday - had rejected the approach from the security ...
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Sudan suspends two newspapers as it clamps down on the media
The African country temporarily suspended two of its biggest newspapers to punish them for writing about army operations against rebels and the future plans of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, editors said on Saturday. Sudan clamped down on independent media, think-tanks and non-governmental groups since it discovered plans for a coup against Bashir's government in ...
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African Union leaders meet for 50th anniversary celebrations
International News: Addis Ababa: Stressing on unity and intensified efforts to render the continent free from poverty, conflict and social inequalities, African Union leaders on Saturday met for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the ...
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Chinese vice premier meets with AU rotating chairman in Ethiopia
Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn (R), who is also rotating chairman of the African Union (AU), meets with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang (L), who is also Chinese President Xi Jinping's special representative, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 24, 2013. (Xinhua/Liang ...
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Kerry accuses Sudan leader of repression in war-torn regions
US Secretary of State JohnKerrySaturday accused Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of repressing the people of the South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions and trying to impose Islamic rule on ...
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Nigeria Governors Forum and the Defeat of the Garrison Candidates A Prelude to 2015 By Salihu Moh. Lukman
By Salihu Moh. Lukman The election of Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) finally held on Friday, May 24 and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has emerged victorious. Polling 19 votes out of 35 and his opponent Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau got 16 votes. The election result was significant not just for the NGF but for the nation's democracy. One governor, Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe ...
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Sudan suspends two biggest dailies for critical coverage editors
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security services temporarily suspended the country's two biggest newspapers to punish them for writing about army operations against rebels and the future plans of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, editors said on ...
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African Union celebrates 50 years and looks to next half century
The 50th anniversary celebration of the organisation now known as the African Union has opened in the the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, in the presence of foreign dignitaries including heads of state from outside the continent. It began in 1963 as the Organisation for African Unity ...
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Kerry Presses Nigeria on Human Rights
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Kenya A Swiss National arrested while making a pornographic movie - girls were having sex with a dog in Mombasa
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Nigeria AU Endorses Country for UN Non-Permanent Seat
Addis Ababa - Nigeria yesterday recorded a major diplomatic victory at the on going conference of the African Union, AU, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as her candidacy for the non-permanent seat in the United Nations, UN, Security Council, was unanimously endorsed by member countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, who briefed newsmen on the development in Addis Ababa ...
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Southern Africa Civil Society Condemns Mobile Voter Registration
Fifty civil society organisations have issued a stinging condemnation of the recently-completed mobile voter registration exercise in Zimbabwe - highlighting a host of serious problems and concluding that it has to be re-started since it comprehensively failed to reach all prospective registrants. In a joint statement, the civil society groups lists some key concerns about the process that ran ...
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Zimbabwe Why PM Dislikes Chinese VPs Visit
The official visit this week by the People's Republic of China Vice Premier Wang Yang is a demonstration of the strong relations between the Government of Zimbabwe and China. VP Wang became the first high-level Chinese government official to visit Zimbabwe since President Xi Jinping took over from President Hu Jintao in March. His visit is also in keeping with China's Africa policy, ...
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Ghana GSFP Lack Legislation to Guarantee Status - Adamu
Takoradi - The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Mr. Seidu Adamu, has observed that though the programme was consistent with the developmental strategies of the government, and resonates well with many national institutions and the general public, there was no clear government policy or legislation that guaranteed its status. He said the need to develop a ...
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Ghana Contribution of Forests to Food Security Needs Attention
Governments, civil society and the private sector should ensure and strengthen the contributions of forests, trees and agroforestry systems to food security and nutrition, said participants in the first-ever International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition, organised by the FAO. Globally, millions of people depend on forests for their livelihoods - directly through the ...
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Nigeria How Amaechi Was Re-Elected
After many weeks of intrigues and horsetrading, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was re-elected as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF, beating his lone rival, Jonah Jang of Plateau State. It was even an anticlimax that Jang ended up as Amaechi's sole challenger, having not been in the frame throughout the preparations for the tensed vote. But Saturday ...
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Africa 36 African Countries Condemn Use of Cluster Bombs
Lom/New York - A delegation of 36 African countries meeting in Togo has condemned the continued use of cluster bombs worldwide and urged all African nations to sign up to an international ban. A statement issued today at a seminar organized in the capital, Lome, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Norway, says that African states are gravely ...
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Africa African Union Must Do More for Peace
Nairobi - "My husband and older son, unable to cope with the war, became mentally ill. Two of my sons became child soldiers and an eight-year-old daughter was abducted - they were never to be seen again," Mariamu Dong says, referring to the 21-year civil war between north and south Sudan, which are now separate countries. Her seven children grew up during those years of bloodshed, but ...
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Africa Continent Leads Fight Against HIV
With its youthful population, fast growing economies and an expanding middle class, Africa has much to celebrate on 25th May, Africa Day. This year Africa Day also marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. When IPS Africa spoke to a few health experts we found out that advances in health, especially treatment of HIV and Aids are some of the ...
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