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Somalia Government Claims Victory in Bakol Fighting
El Barde - News sources from El Barde in Bakol region report that a fierce battle occurred today at a place not far from the town of El Bar between government forces and Alshabab militia. Colonel Hassan Baidoa the commander of government forces in Bai and Bakol region who contacted Shabelle media in Mogadishu said that Alshabab militia launched an attack at a government base near the town. The ...
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Somalia Jubaland Leaders Host IGAD Committee in Kismayo Meeting
Kismayo - A delegation from the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) arrived Saturday in the Somali southern port city of Kismayo and was warmly received by Jubaland President Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) in Kismayo, Garowe Online reports. The delegation, led by IGAD General Secretary Mahboub Maalim, plans to hold meetings with Jubaland leaders and community elders in ...
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Nigeria Imposes Curfew in Military Campaign
Nigeria's military has imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri, as security forces continue to pursue suspected Islamist militants in the region. The military on Saturday listed more than 10 areas in Maiduguri under curfew. The armed forces have locked down the city and closed roads. Maiduguri, the original home of the Islamist militant group Boko ...
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China Provides Tunisia with A Grant Worth $13 Million
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) China offered Tunisia a grant worth nearly 13 million , about 20 million Tunisian Dinar, for developmental projects to be specified later, the Tunisian foreign ministry said in a statement . The statement, which was issued yesterday, said Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Al-Jarnadi and China's ambassador to Tunisia Hio Zankde supervised the signing ...
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Tunisia Sweden to Extend 15mtd in Aid to Tunisia to Support Electoral Process
Tunis - "Sweden will extend 7 million Euros (i.e. about 15 million Tunisian dinars) in aid to Tunisia to support its electoral process," announced Swedish Ambassador to Tunisia Jan Thesleff. During a news briefing held on Friday on the occasion of a three-day visit in Tunisia of a Swedish parliamentary delegation led by elected representative of the Moderate Party in the Swedish ...
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Curfew as Nigeria moves against Islamists
NIGERIA'S military has imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of a northeastern city as it pressed on with a campaign against Boko Haram Islamists that has sent residents fleeing the region. Locals in a remote insurgent stronghold near the border with Cameroon have begun fleeing their homes after military fighter jets and helicopters carried out air strikes on Islamist camps. Nigeria launched the ...
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24-hour curfew in Nigeria’s Maiduguri
Nigeria - Nigeria's military on Saturday imposed a round-the-clock curfew in parts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the home base of Boko Haram Islamists, as a massive offensive against the insurgents presses on across the ...
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World Nomads Tunisia FIAFs Biennial Celebration Highlights The Countrys Changing Art Landscape
World Nomads festival is echoing this sentiment by choosing Tunisia as their country of focus for the 2013 biennial celebration. For the fifth edition of the festival, ...
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Europe Weekly donors dig deep for Mali
International donors meet in Brussels with a view to raising funds for Mali; French President Franois Hollande calls in on the European Commission for talks, whilst tax evasion and fishing reform are also on the agenda. That’s all in this edition of Europe ...
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Nigeria Insurgents Disguising in Military Camouflage - Army
The Nigerian Army yesterday accused Boko Haram gunmen of disguising themselves in fake army camouflage to carry out attacks on civilians at Bama, Borno State and Daura in Katsina State. Chief of Civil/Military Relations of the army, Major-General Bola Koleosho, told pressmen in Abuja that the Boko Haram gunmen were responsible for the dastardly acts that were being blamed on soldiers. ...
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Ghana I Will Sue Vanderpuije
The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ahafo Ano South, Mr. Balado Manu, has threatened to sue the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Dr. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, if he goes ahead to construct a modern market at the burnt Kantamanto Market, as he has been preaching. According to the former MP, any move to turn Kantamanto into modern market would mean that the idea to modernize the railways ...
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Nigeria Nigeria First Bank Targets 10 Percent Loan Growth This Year - CEO
Nigeria's FBN Holdings Plc aims to grow loans 10 percent this year for its banking unit, down from 23 percent growth in 2012, as it tries to balance its capital needs with creating risk assets, the head of the banking unit said on Friday. The CEO of First Bank, Bisi Onasanya, told a conference call the lender had a capital adequacy ratio of 21 percent and it wanted to balance its capital ...
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Nigeria DBanj Now Face of Bank of Industry
Award-winning artist, D'banj, has been appointed as the face of the Bank of Industry (BOI). The G.O.O.D Music artiste is the first musician to be appointed ambassador of the Bank headed by Ms. Evelyn Oputu. The unveiling/media presentation took place earlier in the week and was performed by the BOI boss herself. The value of the contract is unknown but it's speculated to mean more ...
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Ghana Names Beach Soccer Team
Yaw Ampofo Ankrah A squad of 15 players has been announced by the Ghana Beach Soccer Association (GBSA) for the upcoming beach soccer World Cup qualifiers in Morocco. Ghana will attempt to qualify for the2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Tahiti later this year by aiming for a spectacular first time entrance onto the beach soccer stagenext week. The team commenced non-residential training in ...
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Somalia President Madobe Nominates Gen. Fartaag As Jubaland Vice President
Kismayo - The newly elected president of Jubaland state in southern Somalia has nominated Gen. Abdullahi Ismail Fartaag as the state's new Vice President in accordance with the adopted State Charter, Garowe Online reports. Jubaland President Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) nominated Gen. Fartaag as Jubaland Vice President after consultations with community elders, politicians and ...
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Somalia Five Killed in Clash Between Govt Forces and Militants in Bakool Region
Baidoa - At least 5 persons were killed during clashes on Thursday night in Bakool region, of southwestern Somalia, Garowe Online reports. The fighting erupted Thursday night around 11:30pm local time in El Barde town of Bakool region, near the Somali-Ethiopian border, witnesses said. All the dead and wounded were fighters, according to local reports. Al Shabaab militants attacked Somali ...
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Nigeria Akwa Ibom Orders Closure of Illegal Motor-Parks
Uyo - The Akwa Ibom Government has directed operators of commercial vehicles and tricycles to relocate to government- owned motor-parks across Uyo so as to check criminal activities. The Commissioner for Transport, Mr Bassey Abia gave the directive while interacting with newsmen in Uyo on Thursday. Abia said that the relocation should be carried out immediately. "A tax force committee ...
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Armed Tuareg and Arab groups clash in northern Mali
Tuareg separatists and local Arab-led gunmen, only days after the African country won a $4.2 billion aid pledge to help it recover from a conflict with Islamists affiliated ...
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Liberia Liberias Legislative Branch Urged to Summon EPS Boss Over Terrorists Journalists
The Plenary of Liberia's House of Representatives have been asked to invite the Director of the Executive Protection Service (EPS) to answer to questions of terroristic threat against Journalists. Two separate communications were written by Representatives Munah Pelham Youngblood (CDC-District #9 Montserrado County) and Richmond Anderson (LP-District #12 Montserrado County). Defending ...
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Morocco to harness the wind in energy hunt
TARFAYA, Morocco (AFP) - Morocco is ploughing ahead with a programme to boost wind energy production, particularly in the southern Tarfaya region, where Africa's largest wind farm is set to open in 2014.The kingdom, which has no hydrocarbon reserves of its own, hopes to cover 42 percent of its energy needs with renewable sources by 2020, and has launched a plan to produce 4,000 ...
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Liberia Woman Faints - During Police Sand Mining Raid
A woman who claimed to be owner of molded blocks Thursday fainted in the hands of residents of the 11TH Street Community after police confiscated several pieces of her blocks in a sand mining raid instituted by the Ministry of Lands and Mining. "Please don't carry my blocks. I have documents to prove that I molded these blocks from river sand," the weeping woman said as she ...
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Switzerland to support Ghana’s export capacities
Switzerland has provided $ 5.35 million to support Ghana's export capacities in the fruits, cocoa, fish, wood and furniture value-chains. A statement issued by Swiss Embassy in Accra said the support forms part of United Nations Industrial Development Organisation trade capacity building programme. The beneficiary organisations include Ghana Standards Authority to increase its ...
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Nigeria Rebels Could Face War Crimes Charges for Population Cleansing - UN Rights Office
Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram and other extremist ...
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NYT Morgue overflowing as Nigerias dirty war rages
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. "They were not properly shot," recalled a security official here. "I had to call the J.T.F." -- the military's joint task force -- "and they gunned them ...
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Tunisia Setting Election Date Helps Ease Tensions - Bouchamaoui
Tunis - Chairwoman of the Tunisian Industry, Trade and Handicrafts Union (UTICA) Wided Bouchamaoui underlined on Thursday that it is necessary to set the schedule of the next elections and complete the drafting and the promulgation of the Constitution to ease tensions in the country. During the inaugural session of the second round of the National Dialogue Conference organised by the Tunisian ...
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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