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Nigeria Govt Rushes Food to Suffering Nigerian Troop in Mali As Army General Threatens to Arrest Premium Times Reporter
The Federal government has today hurried food to Nigerian troop in Mali twenty-four hours after this newspaper reported that the 873-man contingent were being poorly fed and had not been paid allowances in the last three months. Defence sources in Abuja and Lagos told PREMIUM TIMES Wednesday that the defence headquarters was terribly embarrassed by the report and immediately ordered that food ...
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Nigeria Thanks Youths Against Terrorism
Young men in terror-afflicted Borno State recently decided to collaborate with the federal government's military Joint Task Force (JTF) to identify and, if necessary, arrest suspected terrorists and hand them over to the authorities. They know most of the Boko Haram members because they live/lived together with them. As a result of this effort of the courageous youth in Maiduguri and other ...
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Nigeria PDP Spokesman Olisa Metuh Resigns
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has formally announced his decision to resign his position. Mr. Metuh announced his resignation at a brief press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, saying he would throw in the towel on Thursday at the party's National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting. "I want to inform you that I am resigning as the ...
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South Africa Two SA Somalia Attack Victims Named
Soldiers and emergency personnel search through rebels at the UN office in Mogadishu after an Al-Shabaab attack. Johannesburg - Denel has released the names of two of three employees who were killed after an attack on a United Nations facility in Somalia on Wednesday. They were Morne Lotter, 42, of Oudtshoorn and Alan Simpson, 35, of Port Elizabeth, spokeswoman Vuyelwa Qinga said on ...
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Somalia Multiple Fatalities As Al Shabab Attack UN Somalia Base
Soldiers and emergency personnel search through rebels at the UN office in Mogadishu after an Al-Shabaab attack. Militants linked to al Qaeda have caused multiple deaths after breaking into the United Nations' main compound in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu. The rebel group al Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. Islamist rebel gunmen were reported to have detonated explosives ...
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Ghana China Ghana Work Closely to Tackle Illegal Mining
Accra - China and Ghana are working closely to properly handle the issue of Chinese nationals engaged in illegal gold mining in the West African country, a senior Chinese official said here on Tuesday. Gong Jianzhong, the Chinese ambassador to Ghana, told a press conference that the issue of Chinese nationals involved in illegal mining activities in Ghana was a disharmony in the course of ...
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India’s Exim Bank lends Ethiopia $300m for rail to Djibouti
- Export-Import Bank of India will lend $300 million to Ethiopia to help construct a railway to a planned port on the Red Sea in neighboring Djibouti. Exim Bank will open the credit line once technical studies are completed on the 210-kilometer (130-mile) link from Asaita in northeastern Ethiopia to Tadjourah, Managing Director T.C.A. Ranganathan said in an interview yesterday in Addis Ababa. ...
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Tunisia Decision to Reduce Number of Tunisian Pilgrims Does Not Depend On SNR - Moez Boujmil
Tunis - National Services and Residences Company (SNR) Chief Executive Officer Moez Boujmil said that the decision to reduce the number of Tunisian pilgrims "is not the company's." The decision rests with the Saudi authorities, as they reduced the number of pilgrims in view of the extension works carried out in the Mecca Grand Mosque, he pointed out to TAP news agency, on ...
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Nigeria Nigerians Support Anti Same-Sex Bill - Poll
A new weekly poll has revealed that 92 per cent of Nigerians are in support of the proposed Anti Same-Sex Bill. The weekly poll conducted by NOI Polls Limited from June 4 - 6 in Nigeria also revealed that the reason behind their support revolve around morality and religion. According to results of the poll, most Nigerians are of the opinion that the proposed bill is not an infringement on the ...
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Nigeria Condemned Criminals - Waiting for Governors and Hangmen
The call by President Goodluck Jonathan last Sunday on state governors to sign death warrants of condemned inmates in prisons across the country has again brought to the fore the lingering controversy on the issue. At a special ceremony to mark the 2013 Fathers' Day organized by the Aso Villa Chapel, President Jonathan urged governors not to run away from their statutory responsibility by ...
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Brazil demonstrators promise biggest protests yet
Reversing public-transit fare hikes failed to defuse Brazil's anti-government protests, with organizers vowing to hold the biggest demonstrations yet Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators -- angry about political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament -- are expected on the streets of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, ...
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Tunisia Mersin MG 2013 - Fixtures for Tunisias U-19 Team
Tunis - Fixtures for Tunisia's national U-19 football team at the Mediterranean Games Mersin 2013 football tournament which will begin on Wednesday: Round 1 Group B: Wednesday, June 19, 2013: Tunisia - Italy ...
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Tunisia Youths Education to Citizenship Theme of Forum in Tunis
Tunis - Youths' Education to Citizenship is the theme of a two-day forum whose works were opened, on Wednesday in Tunis. The forum is organised at the initiative of the Citizen Education Task Force, which was established in 2012 and gathers the Education Ministry, the Arab Human Rights Institute, the National Commission for Education, Science and Culture and 6 UN agencies: UNDP, UNESCO, ...
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Tunisia 26th International Festival of Plastic Arts June 29-July 9 in Mahres
Tunis - The 26th International Festival of Plastic Arts of Mahres (governorate of Sfax) will be held from June 29 to July 9, 2013. Ongoing preparations for this yearly event to be organised in the coastal city of Mahres were discussed during a working session held on Tuesday at the seat of the Ministry of Culture in Tunis between the Steering Committee of the Festival and Culture Minister Mehdi ...
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Militants storm United Nations compound in Somalia 20 killed
Somali soldiers walk through rubble after insurgents blasted into the U.N. compound in Mogadishu. IPTC: Somali National Government (SNG) soldiers are pictured after Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents shot and blasted their way into the United Nations (UN) compound in Mogadishu on June 19, 2013. It is the most serious attack on the UN in the troubled country in recent years. Three foreigners and ...
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Somalia Five Foreigners Including Three South Africans Confirmed Dead in the Mogadishu Attacks
Mogadishu- - Almost 10 armed men belonging to the Alshabab militia attacked UN headquarters in Mogadishu today. the gunmen battled with the UN guards for almost 30 minutes before federal government troops and AMISOM troops came to their rescue. A local who was arround when the incident occured told Shabelle radio station in Mogadishu that a suicider detonated a bomb at the gates of the UN ...
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Somalia Somaliland Turns Away Airplane Cleared By Somali Govt
The Somaliland regional Ministry of Civil Aviation and Air Transport Tuesday (June 18th) denied a small private charter plane to land at Hargeisa International Airport because it had been cleared by the Somali federal government. "The plane, which was an SS34, tried to land in Hargeisa International Airport in the early morning, but when the tower discovered that it had permission from ...
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Ethiopia World Bank - Ethiopia Can Achieve Middle-Income Status By 2020
The World Bank Ethiopia Office released a report on Tuesday (June 18th ) detailing the country's current economic situation and forecasting future prospects. According to the report, the World Bank acknowledged that Ethiopia had the capability to achieve its target of becoming a middle income country by 2020. The report said that in spite of all the challenges, if Ethiopia continued its ...
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Morocco Royal Message to the Diplomatic Conference for Facilitating Access to Published Works By Visually Impaired Persons
Marrakech - Full text of the message addressed by HM King Mohammed VI to the Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities that opened on Tuesday in Marrakech. " Praise be to God May peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, His Kith and Kin Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, We ...
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Somalia Al-Shabaab Suicide Unit Attacks UN Compound in Mogadishu
Mogadishu - Al-Shabaab suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the United Nations compound in Mogadishu Wednesday (June 19th), leaving at least eight dead. At least three civilians were killed in the streets outside the compound as Somali and African Union troops forced their way into the complex to end the hour and an half siege, AFP reported, adding that three foreign contractors and at least two ...
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Libya Chad row over mercenaries
Libyan revolutionaries and human rights group insist "mercenaries" from Chad are playing a vital role in the fighting. Chadian sources vehemently deny this, pointing to "naturalised ...
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No money to stop Ghana child trafficking
The sad new was announced by the Accra office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) today. The IOM has been the key coordinator in rescue operations freeing Ghanaian children from trafficking and slavery-like working conditions. "Many thousands of Ghanaian child victims of trafficking will continue to work in dangerous, exploitative conditions with little chance of escape as ...
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S. Sudan Uganda to Step up Border Road Patrols
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- South Sudan and Uganda have agreed to step up security patrols on their common border and on the highway linking Juba to Kampala after a spate of attacks against motorists, officials said Wednesday. "They agreed to proceed to enforce the deployment of more security forces to provide security on the border areas," South Sudan police spokesman James Monday Enocka ...
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Keshi wants Nigeria to step up
Nigeria head coach Stephen Keshi has challenged his team to go to 'another level' in their FIFA Confederations Cup clash with Uruguay. Keshi was left underwhelmed by his team's finishing ability in their tournament opener against Tahiti, which Nigeria won 6-1, the 51-year-old coach feeling his forwards should have converted more goal-scoring opportunities. Although Nigeria ...
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S.Africa says to repatriate assets to Libya
The South African government would repatriate to Libya assets reportedly stashed by slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.This would be done according to the UN protocol, Zuma told the National Assembly (parliament) in Cape Town.The South African government announced on Friday that it would repatriate Libyan funds and assets under an agreement reached with ...
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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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