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At Least 5 Dead in Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
Authorities in Texas say at least five -- possibly as many as 15 -- people have been killed in the southwestern U.S. state as a result of Wednesday's massive explosion at a fertilizer ...
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Slave cabin to get new home in African-American history museum
An 1850s South Carolina slave cabin is getting a new home in the nation’s capital. The Smithsonian Institution is dismantling it, plank by plank, and moving it to the National Museum of African-American History and ...
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North Korea Launches Short-Range Missiles Into Sea
(CNN) — North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast Saturday; South Korea’s semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap reported. The missiles were fired in a ...
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String of explosions in Libyas capital and eastern city cause minor damage
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security official says one bombing targeted an abandoned church in Benghazi that had been previously damaged by fire. The explosion damaged only a car parked outside. The official says two other explosions targeted parked security ...
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Kenya Civil society opposes restrictions on funding
A new report by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association says arguments put forward by the States to restrict foreign funding do not meet the threshold for restricting activism in the interest of national security or public safety. The report released this week and authored by ...
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Kenya Is Balalas Cabinet post a blessing or a poisoned lace
Najib Balala takes his place as Mining Secretary in the Jubilee Cabinet analysts in Coast are divided over whether the plum job will end or spur his political influence in the ...
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Kenya Uhuru and Ruto face insecurity nightmare
Governors from affected areas have raised the alarm over escalating insecurity. They argue their hands are tied since security falls under national government. Responding to the national outcry on insecurity, President Kenyatta on Thursday assured Kenyans the Government would make every effort to curb runaway crime. He met top security chiefs and pledged to support the Police ...
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Kenya As second in command will Ruto break the VP jinx
It may interest newly elected Deputy President William Samoei Ruto to note that latest occupants of the Number Two slot have not been lucky enough to survive a second term in office. They have all fell by the wayside, the latest victim being ...
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Lifestyle Kenya walks a tightrope in Somalia as Kismayo gets new leader
Somalia 's clan elders have created a new mini-state and elected a Kenyan ally as its leader, a move likely to anger Mogadishu and sour ties between the two neighbouring ...
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Bomb explosion near three embassies in Libya
Members of the military police and security gather at the scene of an explosion in front of the Greek embassy, right, in Tripoli on May 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny) OTTAWA - Greek foreign affairs officials report no injuries following a small explosion Saturday outside the Embassy of Greece in Libya's capital Tripoli. Officials say a "low power explosive device" was placed ...
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The Boss For OrphanAid Africas Chief a Life-Changing Journey
MY parents came from a working-class area in the north of England. Being bohemians at heart and wanting to follow the sun, they quit their jobs in London in the mid-1960s and moved to the Mediterranean coast. I was conceived on the Italian Riviera, in Lerici. My father, a painter, felt that Italy was already overexploited so they moved to ...
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Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
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Magazines UKs East African settlers hit by language crisis
English language teaching for immigrants ahead of funding for translating non-essential information into their mother tongues. Currently, such information is translated into many ...
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Vodafone Promises A Thrilling Ghana Music Awards Ceremony Tonight
R2Bees Vodafone has promised Ghanaians that this year's Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) would be a memorable one for patrons and music lovers across the country. This year's awards ceremony, according to the organizers, Charter House, would take place at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) tonight in Accra, Saturday, May 18. In line with the theme, 'The Next ...
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Upcoming water footprint training courses in the Netherlands Korea South Africa Spain
Water Footprint Network announced Global Water Footprint Standard training courses in four countries. The courses are designed for professionals from businesses, governments, and academia including consultancies advising corporations or ...
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Ghana to begin GMO Testing
Although the politicians in Ghana’s parliament have done their bit and have allowed Monsanto lobbyists and scientists influenced by this corporate giant to pass the Bio-Safety Bill in Ghana, that does not stop conscientious objectors from continuing to point out the gross error these politicians in parliament have ...
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Politics bribery charges swirl around Ugandan...
KAMPALA: Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the government millions in legal fees, and the alleged interference of a president whose firm control of the sector worries transparency campaigners.Uganda, which has confirmed oil deposits of about 3.5 billion barrels, wants to extract at ...
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Charles Kanjama Kenyas civil society has reached a turning point
The elements of the growing crisis of Kenya's civil society are several. One is a crisis of identity. Are they part of us, or are they foreign ...
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Kenya Hiring of new envoys raises eyebrows amid claims of bias
NAIROBI, KENYA : An ongoing process of hiring new envoys is clouded in mystery with claims of nepotism and favouritism, which, informed sources say, is being done behind the back of the President and his ...
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Kenya Judge on the spot over Pattni ruling
Goldenberg scandal . The Judicial Service Commission has petitioned President Uhuru Kenyatta to form a tribunal to investigate Mutava's conduct relating to three complaints of misconduct made against him. The JSC says it had received 13 complaints against the judge, between March 2012 and March 2013 calling for his removal. Yet through due diligence, Mutava, who was only appointed judge on ...
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Journalist found dead in eastern Congo as threats to media increase
GOMA, Congo - The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said Saturday. "We found his body yesterday in an advanced state of decay. It showed signed of strangulation according to the doctor who examined him on the scene. We couldn't move him further as it was very decomposed ...
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Algeria pilots strike grounds national carrier
ALGIERS (AFP) - Air Algerie planes were grounded for several hours on Saturday when the national carrier's pilots staged a wildcat strike over pay, officials in the North African country said.Air Algerie said in a statement that the strike caused delays for the airline and other carriers that lasted a few hours until normal operations resumed in the afternoon, after negotiations between ...
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Tanzania Mwakyembe Spits Fire At Port Staff
Dodoma - THE Minister for Transport, Dr Harrison Mwakyembe last evening gave a two week ultimatum to Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) to automate the payment system and curb rampant theft of public money at the port. He directed the TPA Director General, Director of Finance and Administration or IT Manager to ensure that the computerised payment system is working by June 1 or submit resignation ...
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Tanzania Pension Funds Stable Assures Jk
Dodoma - PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete on Friday allayed public fears that pension funds were cash strapped, noting that they were doing far better than ever. Speaking at the climax of the Pension Funds week on Friday, the president pledged that the government would pay all money it owes pension funds so that they are able to do their work effectively including paying the retired elderly. His ...
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Somalia Aweys Blames Al Shabaab Chief for Targeting Foreign Fighters
Mogadishu - In an audio recording distributed to Somali media on Friday, high-ranking Al Shabaab member Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has blamed Al Shabaab chief Ahmed Abdi Godane for "targeting foreign fighters" and for "unilateral decisions" that led to the militant group losing territory to Somali government forces aided by AMISOM peacekeepers, Garowe Online reports. Sheikh ...
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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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