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Britains Obama urges stronger economic ties with West Africa
ACCRA, Ghana - A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies. During a trade mission to West Africa last week that included a stop in his father's home country Nigeria, Umunna, a member of the British Parliament, ...
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Algeria Algeria Censors Daily Newspapers Over Bouteflika Coma Claim
Algeria censored reports by two daily newspapers that claimed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in a Parisian hospital since last month, would be flown home in a coma after his health deteriorated on Sunday. Hichem Aboud, managing editor for the opposition French-language 'Mon Journal' and the 'Arabic Djaridati', told AFP the reports cited French medical sources claiming that ...
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Zambia Road Traffic Accidents - Drivers Share Blame
MUCH as road traffic accidents are bound to happen 'accidentally', the calibre of many drivers wheeling vehicles on Zambian roads can be questioned, with three accusing fingers return at them. Belsam Driving School and Transport Consultancy Ndola branch manager Jeffrey Samuhandu said if statistics showed that 90 per cent of road traffic accidents were caused by human error, then the ...
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Kenya MPs urged not focus on salary increment at the expense of service delivery
"We all made pledges to the people of Kenya and we should work together irrespective of party affiliation to deliver on those promises including growing our economy by double digits," the President ...
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With Algerias president ill country prepares for new era
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, believed to have suffered a stroke, has not made a public appearance in three weeks. The country must now prepare for their first leader from a generation too young to have fought for independence from ...
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Report Says Iran Hangs 2 Spies Working for Israel US
DUBAI, UAE -- Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at ...
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S.Africa’s NUM seeks wage hikes
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Sunday it would seek pay hikes of up to 60 percent from the country's gold and coal producers in upcoming wage talks which are expected to be among the toughest ever.NUM said it was seeking an entry-level minimum monthly wage of 7,000 rand ($750) for surface workers and 8,000 rand for those underground in a submission to the ...
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Nigeria attack on Islamists escalates in major city
Nigerian soldiers on Sunday sealed roads heading out of a key northeastern city, blocking supply routes to remote towns where Boko Haram Islamists have taken power as a massive offensive against the insurgents spreads across the region.The campaign against Boko Haram, which has said it wants to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is aimed at re-establishing Nigeria's ...
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Whistleblowers Not Enough Done to Stop Libya Attack
Three witnesses from the State Department told a House panel not enough was done to prevent the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans in the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. "None of us should ever again experience what we went through in Tripoli and Benghazi," Gregory Hicks, the former deputy of mission in Libya, ...
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Gupta family wedding scandal South African officials used President Zumas name
This picture courtesy of the Gupta family shows Vela Gupta and her husband Indian-born Aaskash Jahajgarhia posing with relatives and guests during ceremonies for their wedding in Sun City, South Africa, on May 1, 2013. (AFP ...
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South Africa finds collusion manipulation in Gupta scandal
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding to obtain permission for a plane chartered by a rich family close to President Jacob Zuma to use an air force base to ...
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Salafists clash with police in Tunisia after rally is banned
10/10/2012 19:23 CET Police have clashed with hardline Islamists in Tunisia after the government banned their annual rally. The Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group, who openly support Al Qaeda, were due to hold the gathering in the central city of Kairouan but told their Facebook followers to gather in the Ettadamen district of Tunis instead, where tensions boiled over. As some 500 protesters ...
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South Africa Govt Issues the Gupta Wedding Investigation Report
South Africa: Press Statement of the JCPS Ministers On the Report of the Investigating Team Examining the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft At Air Force Base Waterkloof On 30 April ...
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Zimbabwe Bulawayos Water Woes Deepen
BULAWAYO residents have resorted to hoarding water to deal with the many days they go without supplies as the water situation in the city remains critical. The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) introduced water shedding last year, resulting in water supplies being cut off for 72 hours a week. The move however, is doing little to save water since residents are filling up many containers, whenever ...
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Namibia Inflation Slows Down to 61 Percent
ANNUAL inflation was estimated at 6,1 percent in April 2013, compared to 6,4 percent recorded during the same period last year, the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) said yesterday. The monthly inflation rate for April stood at 0,2 percent, compared to the March figure of 0,4 percent, a difference of 0,2 percentage points. The main driver of inflation for both March and April was housing, water, ...
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Zimbabwe Govt in Dilemma Over Illegal Chinese Mining Activities
THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development says it is in a dilemma over how to deal with some Chinese nationals who are carrying out mining activities without licences and destroying the environment. Deputy mines minister, Gift Chimanikire said some Chinese nationals were illegally carrying out mining activities. He said the Chinese claimed they had been given the green light to do so by the ...
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Zimbabwe Tempers Flare in Mutare Over Diamond Looting
Mutare - Tempers flared at a mines and mineral policy workshop held in Mutare last week when participants expressed anger at the alleged looting of diamonds in Chiadzwa. Participants at the workshop who included Zanu PF youth groups and war veterans said the former ruling party would lose elections unless President Robert Mugabe intervened to stop the looting. Small-scale miners and ...
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Zimbabwe Chinas Vice-Premier to Visit Zimbabwe
Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang is expected in the country this week for an official visit, it has emerged. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Friday the vice-premier will make the visit at the invitation of Vice-President Joice Mujuru. Minister in VP Mujuru's office, Sylvester Nguni yesterday confirmed to The Standard Yang's visit, but could not give details as he was ...
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Kenya Mueke Supports Ward Representatives Demand for Higher Pay
Nairobi - Nairobi Deputy Governor Jonathan Mueke has supported the County Ward Representatives' (CWRs) demand that their gross pay be increased to Sh275, 000. Mueke argued that the current CWRs gross pay of Sh79,000 is not commensurate to the work they are expected to do and does not reflect the current cost of living. Mueke was insistent that County Ward Representatives should not still ...
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Zimbabwe Patient Disappears From Hospital
Chinhoyi - A patient admitted at Chinhoyi hospital, Melody Masuwa has mysteriously disappeared from the health institution with authorities and family members unaware of her whereabouts. Chinhoyi hospital superintendent Collet Mawire confirmed the disappearance of Masuwa from the female ward almost a month ago under unclear circumstances. "It is the first case of a disappearance, although ...
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Zambia Zambia Chamber of Mines Role Questioned
IT is difficult to believe that the Chamber of Mines in Zambia airs its views or opinions only through the voice of the chief executive of the organisation. Seeing that the mining industry in Zambia has citizens or nationals from every continent holding key positions in it, it is doubly difficult to accept that where these people come from there is no national provision for checking on foreign ...
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Zambia RTSA Responds to the Logicians Article
WITH reference to the said article in Sunday Times of May 12, 2013 citing several inadequacies in road safety management by the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA), it is now clear that The Logician believes that the functions of the RTSA are an academic exercise that needs to perpetually be expounded in public media rather than focus on bringing change in human behaviour with regard to the ...
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Zimbabwe No Respite for Burley Tobacco Farmers
SEASONAL burley tobacco prices were averaging US$1,48 per kg at the auction floors last week amid fears that low prices obtaining would drive away farmers from growing the crop. Statistics from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) showed that total seasonal sales were 55 499 kg on Friday, up 83% on last year's figures. The value of the burley tobacco auctioned so far was US$82 ...
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Zambia Forcing Employees to Work Double Shifts Unlawful
LABOUR and Social Services Deputy Minister Ronald Chitotela has advised security guards who are being forced to work double shifts to report their employers to district officers so that Government can take action. And Mr Chitotela has condemned the practice by some security firms who are in the habit of letting their guards work double shifts. Mr Chitotela said the practice was against Zambian ...
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South Africa E-Tolling - Sanral Misleading Public About Lack of Funds
Two independent studies by the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) and the Southern African Bitumen Association (Sabita) confirm that the South African Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) is misleading the public. SANRAL has argued that a fuel levy to fund road infrastructure and maintenance is insufficient, and that e-tolling is therefore necessary. However, two independent studies confirm ...
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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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