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Ghana con-men sell sand as fertilizer
Impostors in Ghana are giving new meaning to the expression of "selling sand in the Sahara." The gang managed to sell sacks of sand to poor farmers, telling them it was ...
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Mayotte issue to split or join Comoros France
Despite heavy protests from Comoros, the Comoran island Mayotte soon will become a department and an integrated part of France. The move could further divide France and Comoros, or bring them closer ...
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Libya Chad row over mercenaries
Libyan revolutionaries and human rights group insist "mercenaries" from Chad are playing a vital role in the fighting. Chadian sources vehemently deny this, pointing to "naturalised ...
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Mauritius budget to secure nations wealth
Presenting the 2011 budget, Mauritius' Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth today announced the downgrading of ties with Europe and the set-up of a US$ 500 million Sovereign Wealth ...
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Comoros presidential poll results published
Three candidates for the Comoros Union presidency elections on Sunday have emerged to compete in a second round in December. Ruling party candidate Ikililou Dhoinine received most votes in the first ...
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Southern Africa to get infrastructure master plan
The long-awaited launch of the Regional Infrastructure Master Plan for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) later this year is expected to guide development in key infrastructure such as road, rail, ports and ...
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Protest concerns spark Angola arrest wave
Responding to a possible wave of pro-democracy protests, the government of Angola not only organised a large pro-regime march, but also is arresting journalists and harassing ...
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First university for Western Sahara refugees being built
The Sahrawi exile government, located in refugee camps in Algeria, has announced the construction of the first university of Western Sahara. The education unit will be built in the small liberated zone of the ...
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No money to stop Ghana child trafficking
The sad new was announced by the Accra office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) today. The IOM has been the key coordinator in rescue operations freeing Ghanaian children from trafficking and slavery-like working conditions. "Many thousands of Ghanaian child victims of trafficking will continue to work in dangerous, exploitative conditions with little chance of escape as ...
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Nigeria farmers double cassava yields
Nigerian farmers have more than doubled the yield of cassava, thanks to new varieties and a little bit of "juju" delivered to the Oyo state after a food crisis in ...
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Mauritius breeders hit back at UK campaign
Over the last weeks, UK animal welfare activists have flooded the web with "shocking pictures" of cruelty against macaque monkeys trapped and bred in Mauritius. Local firms now hit back, documenting they take animal welfare ...
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Large budget aid programme for Tunisia
The World Bank reveals it is working on a US$ 500 million programme in budgetary support "to provide a boost" for Tunisia's transitional ...
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African mercenaries in Libya Fact or racism
Protesters in Libya insist that "African mercenaries," mostly from Niger and Chad, are used against them. Other sources deny this, fearing a possible racist origin of the ...
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BUAV answers to Mauritius campaign reporting
The UK activist group BUAV, which is running a campaign against alleged mistreatment of monkeys by Mauritian breeders, threatens afrol News with "legal consequences" over its reporting of the ...
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Ghaddafi row in The Gambia
Gambian Dictator Yahya Jammeh has issued a surprise call for his old ally Moammar Ghaddafi to stop betraying his people and step down immediately. A shocked opposition thinks Mr Jammeh is desperate to avoid riots in The ...
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Libyas Foreign Minister defects
On a flight to the UK, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has asked for asylum, saying he wants to leave the Ghaddafi government. Mr Koussa was seen as one of Colonel Ghaddafi's most trusted ...
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Coral deaths reach Mayotte Comoros
Scientists find that the corals on the Comoran island Mayotte are rapidly bleaching, which leads to a death of the reef. The situation on Mayotte was "the worst seen in the Indian Ocean," they ...
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Malta airport not open for Libya strikes
Malta, Libya's closest European neighbour, denies its airport will be open for "any military strike against Libya" by the coalition preparing to implement the no-fly ...
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Mass FGM ceremonies planned in Tanzania
While Tanzania outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM) in 1998, mass FGM ceremonies are still going on, in particular in the November-January season. Activists expect over 5,000 girls to be cut "this holiday ...
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Finally credible elections for Nigeria
Will the upcoming general elections in Nigeria become a repetition of the 2007 sham, or can the country finally organise a credible poll? There are both good and bad ...
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Major gas discovery off Mozambique
A US oil company has announced "a string of major deepwater natural gas discoveries off the coast of Mozambique." The discoveries believed to be are large enough to secure commercial ...
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Cold War secrets of Namibia Angola revealed
Journalist David Lush in the February 2011 edition of Namibia's ground-breaking monthly 'Insight Magazine' has interviewed Nghiyalasha Haulyondjaba, a veteran of SWAPO's long fight against the South African occupation of Namibia, later the Police Commissioner for northern Namibia and now retired. In Namibia, still ruled by the SWAPO party 21 years after independence, there is ...
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Sudans president hails relations with UAE
WAM ABU DHABI, May 25th, 2013 (WAM) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan el-Bashirhas expressed his appreciation to the UAE leadership and people for their support to the Sudan in all fields, hailing the distinguished relations between the two countries. The remarks came when el-Bashir received the UAE delegation, led by Abdullah Al Muwaiji, member of the Federation of United Arab Emirates ...
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11 Dead in Philippines Clash
Authorities in the southern Philippines say at least 11 people have been killed in a clash between government troops and a Muslim militant gang. Military spokesman Brigadier General Domingo Tutaan said seven Philippine marines and at least four members of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group died early Saturday in a firefight on the outskirts of Patikul town on the island of Jolo. Tutaan ...
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Assault on Qusair Intensifies Ahead of Hezbollah Speech
Syrian anti-government activists say Syrian troops have launched the heaviest barrage of gunfire yet in a week-long battle to re-take the strategic town of Qusair from rebel ...
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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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