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Tunisia enters semifinal in Junior Handball worlds
Tunisia reached the semifinals of the World Junior Handball Championship held from July 17 to 31 in Thessaloniki, Greece, beating Spain 31-30 in a quarterfinal match on Tuesday, the official press agency TAP reported on Wednesday. Tunisia's Amine Bennour topped the scoring list with 10 goals to help his team grab the narrow victory. Tunisia will play against Denmark on Thursday, while Egypt ...
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Ghana slips in FIFA world rankings
Ghana dropped further three places in the latest FIFA world ranking, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) announced here on Wednesday. A statement on the website of the country's footbal association said Ghana had slipped three places to 36th position in the world ranking from the previous 33rd position it was ranked in last month, on the world stage, while ranking 3rd on the continent ...
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Somalia UN envoy horrified by attack on world bodys compound in Mogadishu
Print 19 June 2013 – The top United Nations envoy in Somalia has condemned today’s massive attack on the world body’s compound in Mogadishu, calling it a ';desperate'; attempt to derail the country’s recovery and development efforts. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), a pickup truck rigged with explosives was detonated outside the ...
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Juventus sign Ghana midfielder Asamoah from Udinese
Juventus' Kwadwo Asamoah kicks the ball during his Italian Serie A soccer match against Siena at the Juventus stadium in Turin February 24, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Giorgio ...
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Miss Algeria to resume after ten-year break
Liberte , adding that with this show he hoped to "restore the image of Algeria". The judges include stars of Algeria's cinema, notably the actress Bahia Rachedi, as well as Genevieve de Fontenay, an 81-year Frenchwoman who has presided over the Miss France contest for more than 50 years. It is too late for the winner to participate in this year's Miss World contest, due to ...
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Early endgame for Uruguay Nigeria
Uruguay must take something from this game if they are to have any chance of progressing. To achieve that, Oscar Tabarez's will need to reproduce the kind of form they showed late on against the world champions, when they rallied after being very much second-best for fully 70 minutes. With that idea in mind, ...
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Fracking Nigeria Economy On The Bed Of Shale By Ehi Oyabure
The outcome of last OPEC meeting held in Vienna, Austria on the 31st of May 2013 was an unexpected departure from the past, openly admitting for the first time, the threat to its dominance in global oil supplies – hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Fracking is indisputably changing the geopolitical dynamics of global energy supplies and challenging the survival of oil export ...
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Nigeria bans sat phones in northeast after attacks
Nigeria's military on Wednesday banned the use of satellite phones in much of the restive northeast after cutting mobile phone service, further isolating the area after a series of fresh attacks. The military claimed in announcing the ban that Islamist extremist group Boko Haram had used satellite phones to plan attacks on schools. The insurgents have attacked two schools in the northeast ...
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Denel workers killed in Somalia
Johannesburg - South African state weapons firm Denel said two of its staff were killed in an attack on Wednesday on the United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu.A spokesperson for South Africa's largest manufacturer of defence equipment said the identity of the workers was not yet known."We have sent someone to Somalia to inform us from the ground," Vuyelwa Qinga ...
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Hayaat To Hit Ghana TV Screens
Hayaat TV show, a new series that seeks to make public the beautiful sides of the zongo communities and further patch up the violent area that it is perceived to be, will soon hit the Ghanaian television screens. Hayaat, which literally means 'life' in Arabic, will be more of an innovative Islamic TV show, which concept is aimed at informing, educating and entertaining the general ...
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U.N. office in Mogadishu attacked by al Qaeda-linked Somalia militants
Somalis carry on June 19, 2013 an injured person after al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab insurgents shot and blasted their way into the United Nations compound in ...
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Tunisia Works of Conference Against Violence Terrorism Resume With Marzouki Larayedh Absent
Tunis - The national conference against violence and terrorism resumed works, on Wednesday morning at the seat of the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) under the motto "All together against Violence and Terrorism." This second day of works was held in the absence of Caretaker President Moncef Marzouki and Interim Prime Minister Ali Larayedh who sent their ...
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Nigeria Boko Haram Declares War On Borno Yobe Youth Over Vigilante Activities
A spokesperson for the Boko Haram, Abu Zinnira, has said his group will launch a manhunt for youth in Borno and Yobe states who partake in vigilante activities to identify and arrest members of the terrorist group. Some youth in both states have formed vigilante groups to assist the Nigerian military to identify and arrest the terrorists in the towns. Their activities have been commended by the ...
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Nigeria Jonathan Drags Tambuwal Before Journalists
"Why are you hiding?" the president asked the speaker. A mild drama occurred at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa on Tuesday night as President Goodluck Jonathan dragged the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, before television cameras, shortly before the commencement of the closed-door meeting of the National Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). ...
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Cameroon Maritime Securit - US Promises Support For Summit
The US Ambassador to Cameroon says his country will send experts to the country. Experts from the US are expected in Cameroon in the days ahead to share experiences with those of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) when Cameroon hosts the first-ever ECCAS, ECOWAS and Gulf of Guinea Commission summit on maritime safety ...
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9 militants 3 guards killed in fighting a U.N. building in Mogadishu
An attack by al-Shabaab gunmen on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital of Mogadishu Wednesday left 12 people dead, including nine militants, officials said. A soldier in the Somali National Army told The Wall Street Journal gunmen wearing suicide vests detonated a car bomb opening up the outer wall of the compound so the militants could enter. The African Union Mission in Somalia said the ...
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Will historic ceasefire help put Mali back together again
People attend a protest urging Mali and France to retake the Kidal region of far northern Mali, in Gao May 30. Under a new deal, Malian troops would gradually begin to occupy the northern stronghold of Kidal, now held by various Tuareg rebels ...
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Africans hunted down in liberated Libya
As defected army units and civilians in "liberated" eastern Libya are eager to demonstrate unity, "African mercenaries" are increasingly singled out as the enemy. Africans are systematically hunted ...
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Al-Qaida-linked fighters attack UN base in Somalia
Somali government soldiers gather in front of the main U.N. compound, following an attack on it in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi ...
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FEATURE-Security risk clouds Libyas tourism ambitions
Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:00am EDT * Libya looking at diversifying revenues via tourism * Industry professionals say sector neglected under Gaddafi * Precarious security keeps foreign visitors away By Marie-Louise Gumuchian SABRATHA, Libya, June 19 (Reuters) - The ruins of a grandiose Roman theatre behind them, two foreigners taking pictures in the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha make a rare sight ...
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Miss Algeria contest resumes after 10 years
ALGIERS: After an absence of 10 years, the Miss Algeria beauty contest is to resume on Friday in the western city of Oran, organisers said.A total of 20 women aged between 18 and 26 have been carefully selected from Algeria's main cities to line up for the beauty pageant, co-organiser and jury member Hamza Ameziane ...
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Nigeria bans satellite phones in Islamist battleground
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria's military banned the use of Thuraya satellite phones on Wednesday in northeastern Borno state, a step it said was designed to stop Islamist militants ...
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Ghana’s Hunger Reduction Thrills FAO
By: Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh Email: mk68008@gmail.com FAO Director-General Jos Graziano da Silva has formally recognized 38 countries including Ghana for reducing hunger by half well ahead of international targets for the year 2015. During a high-level ceremony attended by several heads of state, 18 countries received diplomas for early achievement of targets set by both Millennium ...
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Islamists fight troops inside UN complex in Somalia
14/04/2013 18:04 CET Fifteen people are said to have been killed in an attack by Islamist militants on a UN compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The dead are said to include foreign security staff and local guards. Somali police say security forces backed by African Union troops succeeded in killing the assailants and re-taking control of the buildings. The attack began when a car ...
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Four foreign security staff among 15 dead in Somalia U.N. attack
United Nations by Somali Islamist militants in years, including four foreign security staff, local guards and insurgent fighters, the Somali government said on Wednesday. Providing details on the death toll, Interior Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled told reporters: "So far we have confirmed four UNDP foreign staff who were responsible for security, four Somali guards and seven ...
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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