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Angry Proteas fans slams arrogant Brit coach for Anderson more skilful than Steyn claim
South African fans have slammed England bowling coach David Saker for claiming that English pace star James Anderson was 'more skilful' than Proteas bowler Dale Steyn. Saker had said that although Steyn is an outstanding bowler and faster than Anderson, he lags behind the English bowler in terms of skill, Sport24 reports. Saker's view has stirred a hornets' nest in South Africa, with offended ...
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African Leaders to Meet As AU Celebrates 50th Anniversary
African leaders plan to meet this weekend at a summit in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).The Theme of the summit is pan-Africanism and renaissance. "Under this theme, Africa will be looking at that spirit of pan-Africanism that inspires through solidarity, unity of purpose for us to ...
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UN official highlights positive trends in Africa to protect indigenous peoples rights
23 May 2013 150 A United Nations official today stressed that Africa has taken positive steps to protect the rights of indigenous people, adding that the continent must continue making progress and avoid repeating mistakes made by other regions. "Africa has been consolidating and strengthening the legal framework protecting indigenous people," Senior Specialist on Indigenous Tribal Peoples' ...
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DR Congo In Goma Secretary-General hails regional accord as best chance for peace in years
23 May 2013 150 Arriving today in restive eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all the leaders of Africa's Great Lakes region to throw their support behind a recently-signed peace accord which aims to ensure security, as well as development, for the long-troubled country. "We have the best chance in many years to bring peace ...
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South Sudans President Says Never to ICC
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN South Sudan President Salva Kiir said Thursday that he would "never acceptrdquo; the International Criminal Court. He spoke during a visit from new Kenyan president and ICC indictee Uhuru Kenyatta, who pledged the creation of roads, rail and pipelines to deepen economic ties between Kenya and the new nation. It was Uhuru Kenyatta's first visit to South Sudan since ...
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Kenyas mental hospital drugs confines patients
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male ...
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Death toll from Guinea opposition march rises to four
CONAKRY (Reuters) - The official death toll from Thursday's clashes between Guinean opposition protesters and police and government supporters rose to four on Friday, meaning at least 22 people have now been killed in unrest since ...
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Nigeria Senate Discusses Urgent Need for Rivers Dredging
This program will include: urgent need for dredging and desilting of the River Niger, the Cross River, River Benue and other inland waterways in Nigeria; and accordingly resolved to mandate the relevant Committees of the Senate to ascertain the level of preparedness of the Ministries in tackling this menace. The Senate commenced the consideration of the NOSDRA amendment Bill Committee Report. ...
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Nigeria Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria
Abuja - Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds of ...
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Africa Africa Tempts High-Tech Companies
Multinational High - Tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa's relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more optimistic. "Africa is that frontier right now," said Canada-based New Media marketing strategist Douglas ...
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Africa New Standards Approved for Extractive Industries
New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards at a meeting in Sydney, Australia. Created in 2003, the initiative includes government, business and civil society representatives. Among those ...
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Africa AGRA Welcomes African Unions Renewed Commitment to Agriculture
Nairobi - Jane Karuku, President of AGRA, said: "We share the African Union’s vision for an Africa that is free of hunger; an Africa that boasts a strong agricultural sector that provides food, labour and wealth for all groups of society. The theme of this year’s summit - ‘Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance’ - is fitting. We are optimistic about ...
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Zimbabwe Managing Local Content Via Your Websitemag
IN the last instalment TechnoMag had an opportunity to talk to executives behind the wheels of Zimbabwe's technology growth at a broadband forum sponsored by Telecel Zimbabwe and organised by TechZim. Among the notable directors were Zol CEO and Liquid Telecomms director David Behr, chief commercial officer of Africa's largest undersea fibre laying consortium WIOCC, James Wekesa and ...
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Africa Pan-Africanism To Unlock Our Future
Debates by Africans from all walks of life are reaffirming pan-Africanism as a guide to action and the foundation for Africa's renaissance, African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said on the eve of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU). Addressing the 23rd Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council in ...
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Africa Pan African Business Conference Opens in Addis Ababa
Pan African Business Conference organized in connection with the 50th Anniversary of the OAU/AU opens on Friday at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa. Speaking at the opening of the Conference, African Union Commission Deputy Chairperson, Erastus Mwenca said Africa's private sector has a pivotal role in the continent's development. He said Africa ...
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Africa USAID and Bill Melinda Gates Foundation Announce Seven New Development Innovation Ventures Grantees
Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced seven new winners in the Agency's open competition for development ideas. These projects are co-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID's Development Innovation Ventures WASH for Life Partnership - an initiative to support DIV grantees improving water, sanitation, and ...
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Ghana Strong Impetus for Sino-Ghanaian Relations
On May 3, the first turbine of the Bui Hydroelectric Power Station in the Republic of Ghana, financed and built by China, started generating electricity, adding 133 megawatts to Ghana's electricity grid. Funded with a concessional loan and buyer's credit by the China Export-Import Bank and constructed by the China Sinohydro Corporation, the Bui Hydroelectric Power Station, with a ...
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U.N. humanitarian head Situation in Darfur extremely worrying
The 300,000 people fleeing fighting in Sudan's Darfur region so far in 2013 is more than those displaced in the previous two years, a U.N. official said Friday. "Whether it is Darfur, South Kordofan or Blue Nile, what is needed above all else is for the fighting to stop and for the conflicts to be resolved by peaceful means," Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs ...
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Kerry goes to Ethiopia for security talks African Union anniversary
John Kerry 's agenda on a trip to Ethiopia. The State Department said Kerry's three-day visit, beginning Friday in Addis Ababa, would include meetings with senior Ethiopian officials, Voice of America reported. Discussions were expected to include efforts to battle Islamic extremists in countries such as Mali and northern Nigeria, the State Department said. On Saturday, Kerry will ...
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ABB to Commence Production of Central Photovoltaic Inverters in South Africa
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, plans to start production of central inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local photovoltaic (PV) market and local content ...
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Uganda president ousts army boss amid dispute
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Uganda's president fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over President Yoweri Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of ...
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Human Rights Minister Meets with the Chairman of Morocco’s National Human Rights Council
Rabat, May 24. (BNA) - On the sidelines of the on-going visit of the Bahraini official human rights delegation to Morocco, Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman met here today with the Chairman of the Moroccan National Human Rights Council (NHRC) Idris Al-Yazmi, in the presence of and NHRC's members, as well as former members of the Equity and Reconciliation ...
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Zimbabwe activist Prisoners denied Aids drugs
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS ...
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Responding To The Challenge Of Sex Work In Ghana
Sex work by definition is any transaction in which sex is exchanged for money or gifts.The consistent and persistent focus by the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) and its partners on high impact HIV interventions for sex workers in Ghana over the years is gradually paying off. In 2006, HIV sero-prevalence among sex workers was 38 per cent and this reduced to 25 per cent in 2008 and in 2011, it has ...
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Zimbabwe Mugabe Trip to Tokyo to Gobble Millions
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will next week gobble millions of dollars when he takes a huge entourage of more than 50 government officials to attend the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad) from June 1 to 3, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. Top government sources said Mugabe is expected to take a high-powered delegation of cabinet ministers, directors of ...
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Sierra Leone has a challenge on its hands
Sierra Leone is relatively unknown on the international stage, it is a tiny country of just 6 million people, perched on the edge of West Africa with its coastline gazing out into the Atlantic, a body of ocean that has played as important a part in the country’s history as the natural resources that have brought the state such infamy.
Sierra Leone, unfortunately, is known abroad, for those that have heard of the country, as a war-torn little state where social cohesion and everything that goes with it has collapsed entirely. World headlines in the 1990s were filled, appropriately, with stories of the civil war raging in the country at a time when the Revolutionary United Front was trying to overthrow the military dictatorship headed by Joseph Momoh. Read more
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