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Kenya Cabinet Secretary meets Liberia President at Jomo Kenyatta Airport
The President was received by Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru. They held discussions at the Presidential Pavilion before the President and her entourage left the country for AddisAbaba the venue for the five-day AU meeting. The Liberia President was accompanied by Senior Officials in her Government including among others Hon. Lewis G. Brown, Liberian Information Minister ...
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Uranium mine attacked by suicide bombers in Niger
By Abdoulaye Massalatchi, Reuters NIAMEY, Niger - Suicide bombers struck a mine run by French nuclear group Areva and a military barracks in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks that underline the widening threat posed by Islamist militants across West Africa.Military sources said several soldiers were killed in a gun battle with Islamists following a car ...
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Troops to build roads in Africa
>Editor's note: Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Faculty Chair of Innovation for Economic Development Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Twitter @calestous.(CNN) -- As Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity, the focus of the celebrations is renewing Africa's vision for continental unification as ...
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Frances Areva says 13 wounded in Niger twin
French nuclear reactor producer Areva on Thursday the bombing attach which struck its plant in northern Niger and left 13 of its employees wounded."A terrorist attack targeted Somair mine, operated by AREVA, this morning at around 5:30 local time (0400GMT)," said Areva in a statement while confirming that 13 employees were injured in the attack."The group condemns this heinous ...
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Ban Ki-moon urges M23 rebels and DR Congo army to end fighting
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday appealed to the Congolese national army and the M23 rebels to end the fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).The UN secretary general made the appeal when he addressed the media on Wednesday evening in Kinshasa, the DR Congo's capital."I am deeply concerned by the resumption of fighting in the ...
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Cambodia to print 12 mln ballot papers for Julys polls
Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) is to print 12 million ballot papers for the general election on July 28, its Secretary General Tep Nytha told reporters Thursday.He said the upcoming election would cost about $21 million , which is under the responsibility of the government of Cambodia.Eight political parties have officially registered with the NEC to run in the forthcoming ...
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Suicide bombings hit military base Areva plant in northern Niger
Casualties were feared after two suicide bombs hit a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, the Nigerien military said on Thursday.A car bomb exploded on Thursday morning targeting a military base in Agadez, the largest city in northern Niger. The number of victims has not been disclosed yet.Another explosion hit Areva's Nigerien subsidiary Somair ...
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Frances Trade Minister to Visit Algeria on Tuesday
Algiers, May 23 (BNA) - French Minister for External Trade Nicole Bricq is to pay a two-day visit to Algeria on Tuesday , May 28 with the aim of enhancing trade partnership between the two countries, the Algerian Commerce Ministry has announced . The ministry said in a statement issued here last Wednesday that during her visit, Bricq will meet with a number of Algerian officials and will also ...
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Nigeria State of emergency must not lead to more human rights abuses
Nigerian authorities must not use the state of emergency imposed in the north of the country as an excuse to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International urged today as the military continued its assault on Islamist armed group Boko Haram.Several people have reportedly been killed and hundreds arrested since a state of emergency was declared in the northern states of Adamawa, Borno and ...
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Oil flows again from South Sudan through Sudan
Juba accused Khartoum of instructing oil companies to stop production from some oil fields South Sudan's oil minister said late on Wednesday that it had resumed oil production and flow to the international markets through the territory of neigbouring Sudan after a temporary blockage at Jebellen.Minister Stephen Dhieu Dau did not provide any reason for the blockage, which sparked uncertainty ...
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SA didn’t sell weapons to Sudan says Radebe
The minister of justice, who chairs the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), said on Thursday that weapons worth R25.5 million were sold to the UN in Sudan and another R6.9m to the government of South ...
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Hometown salutes literary giant Chinua Achebe whose works spoke eloquently of Africa
Hundreds of mourners gathered in the hometown of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe) for the funeral of the man regarded as the father of modern African literature and the author of the widely praised ‘Things Fall Apart.’ The novel is estimated to have sold more than 10 million copies and was translated into 40-plus languages. Heavy security was in ...
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BRIEF-S.Africas HCI FY headline EPS up 7 pct at 860 cents
JOHANNESBURG | Thu May 23, 2013 7:15am EDT JOHANNESBURG May 23 (Reuters) - Hosken Consolidated Investments Ltd : * FY headline earnings per share at 860,07 cents * Declare a final ordinary dividend of 84 cents per ...
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African Unity at 50 Renaissance and the rising south - Helen Clark
As the African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary, UNDP's administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark argues that tackling inequalities on the continent is central to lifting human development. Fifty years ago, on 25 May 1963, leaders of independent African countries signed the charter founding the Organisation of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The OAU ...
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UN chief arrives in Goma Congo a day after rockets strike city
The town of Kanyaruchinya is seen from the last United Nations peacekeeper outpost along the road leading north, into M23 rebel territory, from Goma in eastern Congo, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Congo's capital far to the west for a two-day visit expected to take him to Goma, where a new U.N. military brigade is being formed to attack rebel groups ...
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Zambia Subsidy Removal Debate Rages
THE decision to remove subsidies on fuel and maize has raised a debate in Zambia with some sections of society calling on the Government to rescind its decision. Students from the Copperbelt University (CBU) and University of Zambia (UNZA) even staged protests against the removal of subsidies leading to the arrest of a number of UNZA students who were later released. National Restoration Party ...
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Nigeria Jonathan Gets Sweeping Powers Under Emergency
Governors of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe are now to take orders from President Jonathan on the administration of their respective states following the proclamation of emergency rule, according to official gazettes published by the Federal Government. Copies of the two gazettes, exclusively obtained by Daily Trust, show that whereas the three affected governors are allowed to remain in office for ...
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Nigeria Nasarawa Massacre - Director Arrested Accused of Leaking Information to Cultists
Abuja - Still trying to fish out the masterminds of the massacre of dozens of policemen and security agents in Alakyo in Nasarawa State about two weeks ago, security operatives have arrested a senior director working with the state government in connection with the killings. The officer was alleged to have passed strategic security information to the cultists thereby enabling them to strike ...
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Nigeria Customs Intercepts Vehicles Conveying 56750 Live Ammunition
Ibadan - FEW hours after the Oyo State Police Command arrested a man with 3,500 live cartridges, the Oyo/Osun Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service also impounded a vehicle loaded with 56,750 rounds of ammunition at Saki in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. The Customs Area Controller, Mr Richard Oteri, said the vehicle conveying the ammunition was arrested along the Igboho road in Saki. ...
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Liberia Prince Johnson Accuses Sirleaf of Vote Rigging in 2011
Nimba County is said to be in a state of shock following a live radio confession by the county's Senior Senator Prince Y. Johnson (PYJ), detailing how he influenced elections officials in the county to cheat for his NUDP's candidates. He alleged that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to whom he pledged his support in the November 2011 presidential runoff, was also instrumental in ...
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Nigeria Ancient Tree Tragedy - Tears Condemnations Trail Multiple Deaths
Owerri - This is not the best of times for Imo State and its people given the harvest of tragedies recorded in the state recently. The most recent is the ancient ancestral tree that fell in Umudagu, Ihitte Isi Mbieri community, Mbaitoli local council area of the State late Thursday night of May 16, killing no fewer than 50 people, with a yet to be ascertained number critically injured. The tall ...
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Nigeria Why Jonathan Ordered Release of Boko Haram Women Children Others - Okupe
The presidency on Wednesday explained its decision to authorise the release of women, children and other suspected Boko Haram members currently being detained by Nigeria's security agencies. The Nigerian military on Tuesday said it had received a directive from President Goodluck Jonathan to release all the women being held in connection with insurgent activities. The military also said ...
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Kenya Kenya Turns to Mobile APP to Stop Motorbike Mayhem On the Roads
Mobile phones, often cited as a major cause of road traffic accidents, are being used to try to stem Kenya's rising death toll from motorbike accidents. A campaign launched by the Kenyan NGO El-Friezo this month will trial an interactive phone app targeted at the growing number of motorbike users, particularly young men working as drivers of "borda-borda" taxis. The app has been ...
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Liberia Audits Verifications Without Prosecution a Waste of Liberias Taxpayers Money
THE LIBERIA ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission released its Verification report Tuesday in which it is purported that some officials of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led government misrepresented the facts and lied in their declaration of assets. ONE OF THE MAJOR discoveries in the findings is that the managing director of the National Port Authority, Matilda Parker lied about the value of her assets and ...
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Nigeria Anamabra Stands Still for Achebe - Obi Leads Mourners in Awka
Awka - AWKA, the capital of Anambra State stood still, Wednesday as the body of the literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe arrived the state for its final journey to Ogidi, his home town, in Idemili North local government area where it will be interred tomorrow. What happened at the Alexander Ekwueme Arcade, Awka, was simply mind blowing. The remains of the famous writer of Things Fall Apart, ...
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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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