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5 Serbs released from Libya after 21 months
Authorities say the men went to Libya to work as construction workers, but were captured by rebels who accused them of being mercenaries fighting alongside Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Serbia had in the past had close economic and military ties with Gadhafi's ...
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Europa Gives Up Romanian and African Licenses
UK Junior Europa Oil & Gas reported Tuesday that it was giving up its licenses in Romania and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in line with its strategy of focusing on offshore Ireland and onshore projects in the UK and France. Europa is relinquishing the EPI-3 Brates license in Romania and its rights to the Bir Lahlou and Hagunia license areas in the SADR. Europa CEO Hugh ...
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Oscar Pistorius brother cleared of road crash death
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News The brother of Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was acquitted on Tuesday of the unlawful killing of a motorcyclist in a traffic accident.Oscar Pistorius is currently facing a murder charge after shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home near Pretoria on Valentine’s Day. He says he mistook her for an intruder while she was in a ...
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South Africa plans water pipeline to supply northern coal mines
- South Africa will begin building a 70-kilometer (44-mile) pipeline this year to supply water from a reservoir in the north to local coal mines, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said. The De Hoop Dam in Limpopo Province is almost complete and water storage has begun, the minister said today in Cape Town. Work on a separate pipeline that will supply other parts of the ...
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Malawi sells presidential jet
Bohnox Enterprise beat three other bidders for the 14-passenger aircraft used by president Bingu wa Mutharika, who died last year. "We have accepted their offer and we are waiting to hear from them," Cabinet clerk Ernest Katchetche said in a statement on Tuesday. The 15-year-old Dassault Falcon 900-EX had been described as being in "perfect flying condition". ...
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DR Congo waits on funding for Grand Inga
The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo River with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and ...
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Ghana spends 70 million dollars annually on disasters-Dr. Norman
Dungu (N/R), May 21, GNA - Dr. Ishmael Norman, Director of the Center for Disaster Resilience and Leadership Studies of the University for Health and Allied Science (UHAS) has revealed that Ghana spends 70 million dollars annually on disasters ...
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Former Prez Kufuor back home from South Africa Switzerland
Accra, May 21, GNA - Former President John Agyekum Kufour on Monday returned home from South Africa and Switzerland after engagements to woe investors to ...
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Youth Bridge Foundation represents Ghana at 72nd European Youth Parliament
Accra, May 20, GNA - The Youth Bridge Foundation (YBF), a Non-governmental organisation, is representing Ghana at the 72nd International Session of the European Youth Parliament (EYP) in ...
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Ghana hosts AFRA workshop on Learning Management Systems
Accra, May 20, GNA - Ghana is hosting a five-day African regional workshop on the implementation of e-learning platforms for networking nuclear education and ...
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Algeria Algerian Press Demand Truth On Bouteflikas Health
Algerian newspapers on Tuesday denounced a news blackout by the government over the state of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been in a French hospital for three weeks. The government has accused local and international media of publishing false information as rumours circulate that the president may even be in a coma. Pointing out that Bouteflika's Algerian doctor, Rachid ...
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Africa Cwusa Wishes to Express Its Disappointment At the Organizing of the AUs 50th Celebrations
The Creative Workers Union of South Africa is deeply disturbed by the manner in which Motale Group has been conducting itself as the middleman/labour broker entrusted with the role of procuring the services of artists and creative minds from South Africa for the 50th Celebrations of the AU's existence. This is in the wake of the AU been led by one of our struggle icons, the honourable Dr ...
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Central Africa In Africas Great Lakes Region Peace Dividend Must Follow Peace Deal
Washington, DC - Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades. It can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbors, educate millions of out-of-school children, empower women, and create economic opportunities that will help the countries forge a path to prosperity, good governance, and lasting ...
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Africa New Rapid Diagnostic Test for Worm Infection
Deerfield, Il - A new diagnostic test strip to rapidly detect lymphatic filariasis - also known as elephantiasis - in human blood has significant advantages over the standard card test that has been used for more than a decade to map, monitor and assess the success of the massive global campaign to eliminate the disease. "Like a compass, this new test will help guide global public health ...
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Africa Calls for Rhino Horn Legalisation Grow
The poaching of rhinoceros in Africa is a growing problem. The increasingly prevalent photos of brutally-slain beasts in conservation reserves or African savannahs provide an insight into the cruelty of the trade, but dramatic numbers reveal its extent. ...
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South Africa Green Light for Eskoms Sere Wind Farm
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has given state company Eskom a licence to go ahead with its Sere wind farm near Koekenaap in the Western Cape. "Sere is our first large-scale renewable energy project," Eskom chief executive officer Brian Dames said in a statement on Monday. "It demonstrates our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint and to investing in a ...
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Kenya cases International Criminal Court Presidency decides on new composition of Trial Chamber V
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Ratification of Mozambique Petroleum Law Seen By Year-End
The Mozambique government currently is revising its legal and fiscal packages for exploration and production, but anticipates its new petroleum law to be ratified by year-end in time for the upcoming licensing round, said Arsenio Mabote, chairman of the Instituto Nacional de Petroleo. Mozambique will seek to promote exploration in offshore areas 4, 5 and 6 in its upcoming licensing round. The ...
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Sudan South Sudan Start Talks Over Former National Oil Company Assets
Oil producing Sudan and newly independent South Sudan started talks on Monday aimed at resolving a dispute over the sharing of assets belonging to former national oil company Sudapet, said officials. A South Sudanese delegation from the oil and mining ministry has arrived in Khartoum for talks with their Sudanese counterparts, said Sudanese government spokesman Rabie Abdelaty, as the two ...
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Nigeria arrests 120 militants as they plan funeral for slain commander
About 120 extremist militants were arrested in northern Nigeria as they planned the funeral of a commander killed earlier in the week, military officials say. The arrests came Monday in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, where military authorities have relaxed a 24-hour curfew after they said the security situation in the state had improved, the Nigerian Tribune reported Tuesday. Brig. Gen. ...
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Uganda news editor cries foul over raid
A police raid on a daily newspaper in Uganda is evidence of government-backed media harassment, the newspaper's managing editor said. Two radio stations were closed Monday and police raided the offices of The Daily Monitor, the largest independent newspaper in Uganda. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba told Bloomberg News that authorities had a court order to search the newspaper's ...
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Attacks Kill 8 in Iraq
New attacks in three Iraqi cities have killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more -- a day after more than 70 died in assaults on Shi'ite Muslims, stoking fears of all-out sectarian war with minority ...
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S.African court clears brother of Oscar Pistorius
The brother of murder-accused Olympian Oscar Pistorius cried tears of relief as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a car ...
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Tunisia Salafist group calls for Friday demo
Saif Eddine Errais, center, spokesman of radical Islam Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia speaks during a press conference, Thursday, May 16, 2013 at the "Errahma" mosque in Cite Khadra, near Tunis. (AP Photo/Amine ...
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African Development Bank to host Innovative Financing Seminar on Infrastructure and Diaspora bonds
AfDB's annual meetings in Morocco on May 29, 2013. One of the main objectives of the seminar to be at held at the Palmeraie Golf Palace in Marrakech, themed "Financing African Structural Change - Infrastructure and Diaspora Bonds" is to raise awareness of all stakeholders in the role that infrastructure and diaspora bonds can play in catalyzing financing to address the existing ...
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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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