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ICC persecuting Africans S Sudan
JUBA - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Thursday his country would never become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying it appeared to be preoccupied with prosecuting African ...
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UPDATE 1-Ghana cabinet approves $1 bln Eurobond for July - fin min
Thu May 23, 2013 2:52pm EDT ACCRA May 23 (Reuters) - Ghana's cabinet has approved a Eurobond issue of up to $1 billion tentatively scheduled for July, Finance Minister Seth Terkper said on Thursday. "Based on anticipated market conditions and financing needs, a transaction size of up to $1 billion was recommended to, and approved by, cabinet," Terkper told reporters, adding that ...
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South Sudan says war crimes court persecutes Africans
South Sudan President Salva Kiir waits for the arrival of his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, who is on his first visit to the region as head of state, in Juba May 23, ...
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S. Sudan leader Intl court humiliates Africa
JUBA, South Sudan -; South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African ...
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The Gulf of Guinea Another Somalia
, a container ship flagged in Antigua and Barbuda, was about 160km (100 miles) off the Nigerian coast in the evening of April 25th when 14 pirates, armed to the teeth, boarded her and broke into the ship's safe room. They made off with an undisclosed sum of cash and five crew members, who were freed on May 13th, probably after a ransom had been paid. The incident is typical of piracy in ...
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Kenya South Sudan and Uganda Pipeline poker
IN MARCH last year the heads of state of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan met among mangroves in Lamu, a Kenyan town on the Indian Ocean, to launch the construction of a port and oil pipeline together costing $16 billion that would serve all their countries and vastly enrich them. Taxpayers were billed $350,000 for the celebratory meal, according to local officials, though it actually cost only ...
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Nigeria’s northern insurgency A city under siege
Just your friendly neighbourhood cops SOLDIERS sit sweltering in bunkers made from sandbags on the streets of Maiduguri, a town in north-eastern Nigeria at the centre of a four-year Islamist revolt. Around them, young boys on clanking bicycles carve through sand blown in from the Sahara, which has been slowly burying a town that was once, long ago, a thriving Islamic trading centre. It now ...
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Minister of Human Rights Bahrain and Morocco are on the Path of Reform Democracy and Reinforcing Rights and Freedoms
Rabat, May 23rd (BNA) -Minister of Human Rights, Dr. Salah Bin Ali Abdul Rahman met with Moroccan Minister of Interior, Mohanad Laenser within the official Bahraini delegation's visit to Kingdom of Morocco, in reply to the invitation received by Ministry of Human Rights from the Moroccan Government through the ministerial commissary in charge of human rights. At the beginning of the ...
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Sudan South Sudan vow to keep oil flowing differ on pumping problem
KHARTOUM/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan's oil ministers on Thursday vowed to continue cross-border oil flows but gave contradictionary opinions whether a technical problem at a pumping station which had cut output had been ...
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Liberia Several Top Govt Officials Snub LACCs Assets Verification Exercise
The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) has disclosed that several top officials of the Government of Liberia (GOL) have "deliberately refused to cooperate" with its Assets Verification Exercise. The LACC has the broad mandate to investigate, prosecute and prevent acts of corruption amongst other things (LACC Act of August 2008). Included in this mandate also is the mandate of ...
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Liberia Global Witness On Govt Back
The international watchdog, Global Witness, has challenged the Government of Liberia (GoL) to urgently address violations of Liberian laws recently published in a LEITI Audit Report. According to a Global Witness' statement issued Wednesday, 22 May 2013, the recently published LEITI Audit Report reveals significant violations of Liberia's laws that the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf led ...
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Ghana TOR Crashes Out in Oil Deals
One of the reasons why the Ghanaian Italian Petroleum Company (GHAIP), which later became known as Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), was established in 1960, was to process crude oil for the Ghanaian domestic market. But, 53 years down the line, the refinery is in a sorry state as a result of mismanagement and failure to procure modern machines to replace the obsolete ones. As a result of this, many of ...
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Ghana TWN Blames Scale Mining Menace On Weakling Economy
Third World Network-Africa (TWN), an Accra-based a research and advocacy non-governmental organisation (NGO), has blamed the recent gangsterism and other challenges in the artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) in Ghana on a weakling economy. The NGO argued that if the Ghanaian and African economies were creating enough jobs, no citizen of African would have engaged in illegal scale small ...
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Liberia Secrecy in Oil Gas and Mining Conspires Against Economic Development
The lives of over a billion citizens could be transformed if their governments managed their oil, gas and minerals in a more open, accountable manner, according to the Resource Governance Index released by the Revenue Watch Institute. The Index measures the transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries worldwide and finds that the vast majority surveyed fail ...
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Ghana Ghana to Use UK Technology for Street Naming
Ghana will use Intelligent Addressing (IA) technology from the UK to name streets and properties in Ghana. Mr. Tony Black, an IA Consultant who participated in a recent workshop in Accra, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at the weekend, that a national address gazetteer will be built alongside the street-naming project. He said IA employs the technique of Unique Property Reference ...
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Ten dead in Somalia after al-Shabaab clash with Ethiopian troops
About 10 people are believed to have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian troops and al-Shabaab insurgents in the Somali city of Beledweyn, officials say. The fighting began after al-Shabaab fighters opened fire on residents of a small town on the outskirts of the city, Shabelle Media Network reported Thursday. Ethiopian troops quickly arrived, causing the insurgents to retreat, said Isaq ...
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Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria
ABUJA -- Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds ...
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Violence in Somalia scares investors aid workers
MOGADISHU, Somalia -; A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in ...
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Suicide Bombers Kill 20 Soldiers In Niger Republic Nigeria Mounts Troops Across Borders With Niger
By SaharaReporters, New York Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an Islamic group which claims to be committed to the enforcement of Shariah law in West Africa, has claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing attack this morning at the Nigerian/Niger border in which over 20 Nigerien soldiers were killed. A journalist in transit in the area told SaharaReporters that the ...
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Chinua Achebe remembered as fearless writer in uncertain times in Nigeria feted in hometown
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ...
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Tunisia Salafist Movement Should Decide Its Position Regarding Violence and Terrorism- Prime Minister
Tunis - Prime Minister Ali Larayedh asserted that the Salafist movement should decide its position regarding violence and terrorism, calling it to abide by the law and the rule of law. "The Salafist movement should comply with the provisions of the legal organisation," he said to the press, on Thursday in Tunis, describing as "imprecise" the fact of blaming the religious ...
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Liberia Govt Silent Over Reported Sale of Japanese Donated Rice in Guinea
The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Commerce & Industry is yet to comment on the reported sale of a huge consignment Japanese donated rice to Liberia in neighboring Guinea. Last week, the Heritage, based on cogent reports obtained from officialdom, reported that the United Commodities Incorporated (UCI) recently sold huge consignment of the Japanese donated rice to ...
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Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ...
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Shura Council Chairman Receives Bahraini Ambassador to Morocco
Manama, May 23. (BNA) -- Chairman of the Shura Council Ali bin Saleh Al Saleh has lauded the tremendous efforts exerted by the Kingdom's ambassadors to strengthen ties with brotherly and friendly countries and open up new horizons of cooperation in various fields. Speaking as he received here today Bahrain's Ambassador to Morocco Khalid Salman Jabr Al-Musallam, Al Saleh asserted ...
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Emmanuel and St. Chad reach deal to stay open
The 134-year-old College of Emmanuel and St. Chad will remain open with the help of other Saskatoon seminaries, reversing its plan to suspend operations for three years.A deal with the two other members of the Saskatoon Theological Union - St. Andrew's College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary - allows Emmanuel and St. Chad to reduce its budget and remain open for the 2013-14 academic ...
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Sudan and the South
In January of 2011 the future of Sudan as a unified country will be decided. A referendum is due to be held in South Sudan that will decide whether the regional government of the area, which accounts for around a third of Sudan, should break away from the rest of the country and become a fully-independent nation.
South Sudan has a long history of being at odds with the rest of the country and this conflict of interests has been attributed in Western media to the fact that northern Sudan is primarily Muslim and Arab dominated, whereas South Sudan is made up of indigenous African cultures and ethnicities, this view has been reinforced by the ongoing violence in Darfur, a region of Sudan where a genocide is occurring and has led to President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan being charged with war crimes by the International Court at The Hague, a charge that the government in Khartoum categorically denies. Read more
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