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Nigeria Ethnic tensions mar consecration of Catholic bishop
Umuahia , reminded Christians that "acceptance of the papal appointment is respect for the Pope, while the outright rejection and inflammatory statements and protests are spiteful and disrespectful of papal authority," according to The Sun, a Nigerian daily. ...
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Fitch Affirms Cameroon at B Outlook Stable
U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April. However, even at 15.1%, asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch ...
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Kenya Egypt rebuilds its Energy sector after Turmoil
Egypt . "Coming on the heels of Cabinet-level approval for the project, the concession agreement between Mashreq and the Port Said Port Authority clears the way for the fast-tracking of this critical project, which stands as a backup to Egypt's national energy security," said Mashreq Petroleum Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Tamer Abubakr. Mashreq Petroleum is a core platform ...
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Expert US Foreign Policy in Retreat
A former senior advisor to the late Richard Holbrooke, who served as U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says when it comes to foreign policy, the U.S. is in "retreat." Vali Nasr, who is now dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), said the Obama administration has concluded that the best way forward for the United States ...
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British Security Services Scrutinized After Soldiers Murder
A police officer guards a block of flats in Greenwich following a raid in connection with the killing of a British soldier in nearby Woolwich, southeast London, May 23, ...
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Zimbabwe activist says prisoners are denied HIV 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 medications.Douglas Muzanenhamo said in court documents Friday he was denied anti-retroviral drugs when detained for a month in 2011 on treason charges. He was acquitted of involvement in ...
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Tunisias topless feminist faces jail for having pepper spray
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The lawyer of a Tunisian woman who gained notoriety for posting online topless pictures of herself as a protest says she faces six months in prison for carrying a dangerous object.Mokhtar Jannene said Friday his client Amina Tyler has been charged with possessing a pen-sized personal protection device containing tear gas or pepper spray.Tyler was arrested after she ...
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Attacks in Niger Underline a Spread of Islamist Extremist Groups in West Africa
Islamist militants set off two suicide bombings in Niger Thursday. One targeted a uranium mine run by a French company. The other hit a military base. About 20 people were killed in addition to the bombers. And Friday, French special forces helped Niger’s military secure the military base, where it turns out two militants were still hiding in a dormitory. They were shot dead in the ...
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Elected Leadership Struggles To Rule In Libya
In Libya, guns are still everywhere and the elected leadership is struggling to rule as militias use guns and intimidation when they don't get their way. Most recently they surrounded two ministries and state television to force through a political isolation law that bars former members of Moammar Gaddafi's regime from government ...
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Illinois African-American Caucus No Gay Marriage Bill
The President's home state of Illinois could redefine marriage next week. LGBT activists are pushing a gay marriage bill but not without a challenge. Illinois already recognizes civil unions. However, supporters of the same-sex marriage bill are finding major pushback from the African-American Caucus in the House. The bill has been stalled there since the state senate passed it in ...
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Nigeria Orders Curfew in Extremist Neighborhoods
Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that is the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network, as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign against insurgents in the region. Soldiers arrested some 65 suspected extremists who were "attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri" after military strikes on the camps in ...
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Google to bankroll build wireless networks across Africa -WSJ
Fri May 24, 2013 5:41pm EDT May 24 (Reuters) - Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt ...
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Algeria under pressure over energy industry
Algeria's government is under pressure to ease its foreign energy investment laws after BP warned it may delay important projects in the North African ...
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UNHCR Keep Borders Open to Fleeing Syrians
GENEVA -- The United Nations refugee agency is appealing to nations to keep borders open to refugees fleeing worsening violence in Syria. With Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq already hosting more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warns the number is expected to grow as the conflict intensifies. Responding to reports that Syrians ...
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Putting Slurplus Food to Good Use
With world headlines warning of increasing drought and a hunger crisis and almost 15 percent of U.S. households struggling to put food on the table, a religious group in the shadow of the nation's capital is quietly putting surplus food on empty tables. Every Monday, about 150 people line up in the parking lot of Christian Life Center in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Joan ...
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Opinion Which way for the civil society in todays Kenya
As such, civil society organisations have always had an anti-government streak, with an inherent predisposition "to speak truth to power." This was a strategy that worked well in fighting a widely unpopular government. But Kenya has changed. And in order for civil society organisations to remain relevant in the eyes of the public, they too must change. Recent political events have left ...
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Lifestyle New technology could end Kenyas historic land woes
Kilifi resident Pietro Cannabio knows too well the pain of owning land without having any access to it. He owns a seven-acre piece of land in Kilifi - plot L.R. No 17835 - that has since been transferred to another person who subdivided and sold ...
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IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde arrives for a second day of the court hearing at a special court house, in Paris, Friday, May 24, 2013. Lagarde faced questioning at a special Paris court Friday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister. (AP Photo/Thibault ...
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South Africa Celebrates AU 50th Anniversary
Pretoria, May 24 (Prensa Latina) South Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) with a national program to promote the role of its successor the African Union (AU), said local media. The governing political party African National Congress scheduled seminars, lectures and published different materials aimed at highlighting the importance of Africa's ...
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American Missionary Mysteriously Disappears in Africa
American missionary Jerry Krause has been missing for nearly two months. The 54-yr-old missionary pilot disappeared April 7 while flying his turboprop aircraft from South Africa to Mali. Jerry's wife, Gina Krause, served with her husband as a missionary to Africa for more than 25 years. Jerry worked with Mission Aviation Fellowship until the ministry left Mali back in 2009. They remained in ...
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Violence mars Guinea protests
Conakry - Clashes broke out between youths and police Friday in the Guinean capital, where opposition activists had called a ';ghost town'; demonstration a day after protests left up to six people ...
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Google eyes African Asian markets
GOOGLE is reportedly deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast ...
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Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda
forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...
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Glow-in-Dark Roach Worlds Smallest Frog Among Top New Species
A cockroach that glows in the dark, a black fungus that's ruining prehistoric cave art and a frog smaller than a child's fingernail. These are three in a top-ten list of newly discovered species for 2012. An international committee of taxonomists announced their annual picks this ...
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Nepal’s Tibetan Refugees Struggle Under China’s Shadow
KATHMANDU -- Tibetan refugees in Nepal say they face increasing restrictions from Nepalese authorities due to pressure from China. VOA correspondent Aru Pande talks to Tibetans who, for decades, have made the Himalayan country their home. Dolma Lama learned to weave Tibetan carpets from her mother - who fled Tibet and settled in Kathmandu after a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese ...
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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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