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Several wounded as rubber bullets fired at striking South African miners
Wendell Roelf - 21 May 2013 Ten striking South African miners were taken to hospital today after being hit by rubber bullets, police said. It is the latest incident in a series as labour strife spread ahead of mid-year pay ...
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Middle East North Africa - Restricting speech restricts Arab freedom
The sight of hundreds of thousands of Arabs marching on the streets of a number of Arab countries, demanding their dignity and rights, will remain among the iconic images of the twenty-first century. The willingness of so many citizens to take such tremendous risks to their own lives, with thousands dying for their freedom, stunned a world long accustomed to the image of the resigned, ...
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Two foreigners die while descending from Everest
Two foreigners, one Bangladeshi and another Korean died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest Monday night, a Nepali government official informed Tuesday.According to Gyanendra Shrestha, an official at mountaineering department at the Ministry of Tourism, two dead foreigners have been identified as Mohammad Khalid Hussain of Bangladesh and Sung- Seo of Korea.Both of them were ...
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African American community Neglected by finance
Half of African Americans say their financial situations have improved from a year ago, compared to 33% of the general population, according to a Prudential report released Tuesday. The survey polled 1,153 people who identified as African American or black and a general sampling of 471 ...
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African Americans more financially confident but underserved
Half of African Americans say their financial situations have improved from a year ago, compared to 33% of the general population, according to a Prudential report released Tuesday. The survey polled 1,153 people who identified as African American or black and a general sampling of 471 ...
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Tunisia announces 3 cases of coronavirus including 1 death
A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia and two of his adult children were infected with it, the Tunisian Health Ministry reported. His sons were treated and have since recovered but the rest of the family remains under medical observation, the ministry said in a statement ...
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Obamas Africa tour leaves ancestral homeland of Kenya as loser
Kenya .Not even a relatively peaceful election earlier this year is enough to tempt Obama back to his ancestral homeland. The big problem is the winner, Uhuru Kenyatta, who is facing charges of crimes against humanity at the international criminal court (no matter that the US is yet to sign up to the ICC).At least the ...
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Whats Behind Nigerias Escalating Bodycount
People pray near the graves of victims of a suicide bomb attack during a memorial service at St. Theresa's Church in Madalla, on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria on December 23, 2012. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters) New data from the Council on Foreign Relations' Nigeria Security Tracker (NST) shows that April was the second-bloodiest month in Nigeria since President Goodluck Jonathan's ...
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African Unity at 50 Integration is the only way - Samia Nkrumah
By rejecting continental unity Africa is depriving itself of wealth and autonomy, says Nkrumah's daughter. Pan-Africanism is crucial for our development on the continent and for the restoration of the dignity of Africa.The main objective of linking up with the African diaspora is to restore the dignity of Africans that was diminished after slavery and colonialism. We came to realise that ...
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Uganda Media takes a hit in presidential grooming affair
A siege on media houses by Ugandan security forces entered a second day on Tuesday, as they searched for a letter by an army commander that claimed President Yoweri Museveni was grooming his son to be ...
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South Sudan cuts oil output citing problem with exports to Sudan
JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan has almost halved its oil production due to a problem with oil exports to Sudan, it said on Tuesday, adding it suspected its rival had closed the cross-border pipeline in a possible sign of new friction between the ...
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Peace debate exposes deep rifts in Israeli government
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, head of the centrist Hatenuah party, during their joint statement at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 19, ...
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Chad Johnson in Custody Judge Rips NFL Star After Probation Violation Arrest
Chad Johnson is receiving widespread support from fans who are eager to see his return to NFL Chad Johnson was reportedly jailed in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. after turning himself into police on Monday.The former NFL star, 35, was arrested on suspicion of violating his one-year probation in relation to a domestic assault incident involving ex-wife Evelyn Lozada. An arrest warrant was issued in ...
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Man accused of rape and murder that shocked South Africa is released
African prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against one of the two men charged with raping, mutilating and killing a teenage girl in a crime that outraged a country hardened by some of the world's highest rates of sexual violence. Prosecution spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said the man had been released from custody because there was not enough evidence to take him to trial. The victim, ...
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In Uganda fury over a generals letter reveals battle over the presidents political legacy
KAMPALA, Uganda - An army general's concern that officials are at risk of assassination if they oppose President Yoweri Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him has stirred controversy in Uganda because it challenges the popular view of Museveni as a moderate leader, analysts said Tuesday. Police continued their search Tuesday of a daily newspaper's offices to find ...
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Kenya Sh180 for Roads Repair
The Kenya Rural Roads board will spend Sh180 million to repair roads in Narok county.Kerra's chairman Joe Wanyoike said every constituency will receive Sh30 million. The county has six constituencies.Wanyoike said they have released 75 per cent of the money. He was speaking during a courtesy call to Narok Governor Samuel Tunai after carrying out a routine inspection of ...
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Kenya No More Strikes
The Kenya National Union of Teachers yesterday said it will not give any further strike notice to the government over shelved allowances. Union officials Wilson Sossion and Mudzo Nzili asked the new education secretary Prof Jacob Kaimenyi to ensure the 2012 parliamentary approval is implemented. Speaking in Kapsabet during the Nandi Central Annual General Meeting, the Knut officials expressed ...
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President at home on trial abroad How Kenyas new leader is coping
Kenya's new president and deputy say they are cooperating with the International Criminal Court's investigation against them, but the ICC prosecutor says that's simply not ...
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Diplomats Iran Acts to Expand Sensitive Nuclear Capacity
VIENNA, AUSTRIA -- A U.N. nuclear agency report due this week is expected to show Iran further increasing its capacity to produce material that its adversaries fear could eventually be used to develop atomic bombs, Western diplomats said on Tuesday. But they said it also is likely to indicate that growth in Iran's most sensitive nuclear stockpile has been held back because some of it has ...
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Russia Says Senior Islamist Insurgent Killed
MOSCOW -- The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next February. Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, a senior figure in a group fighting to establish an Islamist state, was killed along with another militant in a shootout in ...
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Rescuers Dig for Survivors After Deadly US Tornado
U.S. search and rescue crews are digging for survivors in miles of wreckage, after a massive tornado leveled neighborhoods Monday in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, killing at least 24 ...
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Seven Feared Trapped in Cambodian Gold Mine Collapse
PHNOM PENH -- A gold mine shaft has collapsed in the Preah Vihear province of Cambodia, trapping at least seven miners, officials said Monday. Police said late Monday they are trying to rescue the trapped miners, near Romtum village, Rovieng district, but the shaft is very deep and old, making rescue efforts difficult. "We don’t have the identities or the exact number of people, ...
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Afghanistan Sees Sharp Rise in Women Imprisoned for Moral Crimes
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost 12 years ago. Running away from home, usually from abuse and forced marriage, and alleged adultery, which often involves rape, have landed most of the 600 women in prison. That figure is an increase of 50 percent over the last 18 months. "That increase reflects a shameful lack and ...
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Nigeria Seeks Help from Niger in Battle with Militants
NIAMEY -- Nigeria has asked neighboring Niger for support in a week-old offensive against Islamist insurgent bases in its semi-desert frontier region, underlining moves towards West African cooperation against jihadis seen as a cross-border threat. Concerns grew particularly after Islamist militants associated with al-Qaida seized the north of Mali last year and were dislodged only after ...
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Emergency Response Grows in Chad
Emergency water supplies are being rushed to southeastern Chad where about 50-thousand people have fled fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region. Several Arab tribes have been battling for control of mining operations there. to De Capua report on Darfur displaced The refugees and migrants have been gathering around the village of Tissi since January. Felix Leger is the country director ...
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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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