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Castle Minerals confirms Ghana prospect as a gold and zinc discovery
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Castle Minerals (ASX: CDT) has confirmed that its Bundi Prospect in northwest Ghana as a new gold discovery with associated zinc mineralisation.Reverse circulation drilling had intersected a coherent zone of gold mineralisation over at least 1100 metres of strike.This occurs within a zone of sulphide alteration that has a strong correlation with elevated ...
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Qatar Tunisia negotiate possible CB deposit
(MENAFN) Tunisia's Prime Minister, Ali Larayedh, stated that the government is currently negotiating a Qatari deposit in the North African country's central bank, reported Arabian Business.Larayedh said that officials from Qatar are also planning to increase investments in Tunisia, which reached a USD1.75-billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in April to ...
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China offers to provide peacekeepers to Mali
/enpproperty--> China will play a constructive role as a part of international efforts to help Mali realize early ethnic reconciliation and stability in the face of many remaining challenges. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the remarks on Thursday in response to media reports saying that China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN peacekeeping forces in ...
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Nigeria’s Northern Elders Will Soon Come Home To Roost By Paul Omoruyi
Lately, there has been so many "elderly rascality" taking place in Nigeria. From Gabriel Igbinedion’s complete disregard for the law of the land on election-day in Edo State to the recent preposterous and outlandish statements by Northern Elders Forum (NEF) regarding Nigeria’s Government fight against Boko Haram, elderly rascality is on full display all over ...
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International Institute for Peace through Tourism announces launch of Peace Tours Morocco
STOWE, Vermont; TORREMOLINOS, Spain & CASABLANCA, Morocco - The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) is pleased to announce the launch of Peace Tours Morocco as its second "Legacy Project" commemorating the 25th anniversary since its first global conference, "Tourism - A Vital Force for Peace," held in Vancouver in 1988. Peace Tours Morocco is a ...
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OICs Mali meeting to be held in Jeddah
Mali Contact Group of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation set to convene on Monday ANKARA - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is set to host a ministerial meeting of its Mali Contact Group in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on Monday. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will represent Turkey at the meeting. In a written statement released on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry ...
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Nigeria struggles to shift maternal care to tackle mortality rate
At large public hospitals in Nigeria, overworked nurses snap at crowds of pregnant women, who wait hours to receive quality care. With 630 deaths for every 100,000 live births, Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Government officials urge women to seek care at local clinics, but expecting mothers say they are unaware they ...
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South Sudan leader says International Criminal Court designed to humiliate African leaders
South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders. Salva Kiir spoke Thursday during a visit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces ICC charges related to Kenya's post-election violence in 2007-08 that killed more than 1,000 people. Kiir said that South Sudan -- the world's newest country -- ...
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Cardinal Onaiyekan Nigeria is in Jeopardy
Nigerian Prelates Meet With European Union Representatives to Discuss Rise in Corruption and ViolenceBy John NewtonROME, May 03, 2013 (Zenit.org) - NIGERIA'S leading bishop has told the European Parliament and other politicians that his country is being jeopardised by "the twin monsters of corruption and insecurity".In a meeting organized by Aid to the Church in Need, Cardinal ...
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Sudan UN humanitarian chief urges stronger bridges between humanitarian development work
UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos arrives in El Fasher en route to the Zam Zam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in North Darfur. Photo: UNAMID/Albert González ...
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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 ...
Sudan Spotlight
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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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