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Tunisia ANHRI Demands the Authorities to Protect the Journalists During Their Work and Denounces the Assaulting During a Press Conference
Cairo On - The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the physical assault suffered number of the journalists by a group of unknown people who destroyed their camera and intimidated them in order to ban them from doing their work. This took place last Friday while the journalists tried to cover the press conference organized by "nidaatounes movement" in one of ...
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Ghana Mahama Got It Wrong - Abu Ramadan
Kumasi - The National Youth Organiser of the People's National Convention (PNC) and leading member of the Alliance For Accountable Government (AFAG), Abu Ramadan, has challenged a remark made by His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, that sought to suggest that the Supreme Court was being given the opportunity to hear the electoral petition currently before it. The PNC youth leader ...
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Chad Johnson taken into custody
Former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson turned himself in to the Broward Sheriff's Office on a violation of probation charge on Monday ...
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Cycle of Violence Spikes High in Nigeria
Following President Jonathan's declaration of a state of emergency in the Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, violence has spiked higher in the African country. Reports say Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan declared emergency in states after losing control of certain areas to Boko Haram, an Islamist movement. President Jonathan reportedly ordered more troops to be sent to the north-eastern ...
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Chad Johnson Arrested In Probation Violation
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson has been arrested for a probation violation stemming from an altercation with his now ex-wife, TV reality star Evelyn Lozada. Broadcast reports say a Broward County judge ordered Johnson jailed until he posts a $1,000 bond. Another hearing was set for June 3. An arrest warrant was issued earlier this month when Johnson failed ...
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North Africa Maghreb Student Organizations Urge UN to Enable Saharawi People of Self-Determination
Algiers - Maghreb student organizations from Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania urged Sunday from Algiers the United Nations for "urgent and immediate application" of the dictates of international law in order to enable the Saharawi people to exercise self-determination. In a letter addressed to the UN General Assembly Ban Ki-moon, the organizations said that the critical situation ...
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Morocco Human Rights in the Occupied Western Sahara
On 30 April, the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) - which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa's longest territorial dispute between Morocco and the Sahrawi Polisario Front - was yet again renewed. The UN body was initially set up to facilitate a referendum for self-determination promised to the ...
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Western Sahara On Eve of Anniversary of Outbreak Armed Struggle - Parliament Ratifies Conventions and Protocols Related to AU
Tifariti - On the eve of the celebrations commemorating the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of armed struggle in Western Sahara to take place tomorrow in the liberated town of Tifariti, the Saharawi National Council (Parliament) ratified Sunday a range of conventions and protocols related to the African Union (AU). The approved documents include the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and ...
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Morocco Trade Deficit Has Increased Almost Five-Fold Between 2000 and 2012
Morocco - Morocco's trade deficit has increased almost five-fold from 44 billion dirhams (1 euro = 11 DH) in 2000 to 201 billion dirhams in 2012 due to the growth rate of imports such as energy products and food. In its report on the "Competitiveness of Moroccan exports: what balance", Moroccan Department of Economic Studies and Financial Forcast (DEPF) noted that the economic ...
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Ethiopia Country Earns U.S.$2.2 Billion From Exports
Ethiopia secured close to 2.2 billion dollars from export during the last nine months of the current fiscal year, which only shows a 2.8pc increment compared to the same period last year. Coffee still remains the country's main export item generating 513.8 million dollars; followed by gold, which generated 432.1 million dollars. Oilseeds came third generating 314.5 million dollars for the ...
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Ethiopia IMF Projects 5.5 Percent Growth Rate for Ethiopia in 2014
Following a year of strong growth in 2012 the near-term outlook for Ethiopia remains broadly positive, with growth projected to accelerate modestly to around 5.5pc in 2014, according to International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Regional Economic Outlook published last week. Last year, the IMF said Ethiopia's economy is expected to maintain a growth rate of seven percent in 2012/2013, which ...
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51 die in two South Sudan clashes
TWENTY-FOUR people have died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighbouring Sudan, officials say. At the same time a tribe-on-tribe cattle-raiding attack elsewhere in the country killed 27 people. A battle in Jonglei state on Sunday killed 20 rebel fighters and four government troops, said Colonel Philip Aguer. Aguer said ...
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Nigeria naira firms after cbank meets fx demand at auction
LAGOS | Mon May 20, 2013 11:02am EDT LAGOS May 20 (Reuters) - Nigeria's naira firmed against the U.S. dollar on the interbank market on Monday after the central bank met demand for the greenback at its currency auction, traders said. The unit firmed to close at 158.35 naira to the dollar on the interbank, after weakening to 158.50 naira intra-day, compared with Friday's close of ...
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Benin–Nigeria Power Interconnection Project Sharing Energy in West Africa
The Electricity Authority of Benin-Nigerian Electric Power Authority power interconnection project, jointly financed by the African Development Bank, the West African Development Bank, and the Economic Community of West African States, is one of the sparkling flagship projects for regional integration and cooperation in West Africa. Financed under the West Africa Power Pool program, the project ...
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South Sudan army recaptures Boma town
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (right) welcomes his Sudan counterpart, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, outside his office in Juba on April 12, 2013. File photo: ...
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We Have Most Biting Laws The Anarchy In Ghana
By I. K. Gyasi ';We have strict statutes and most biting laws, The needful bits and curbs to headstrong steeds, Which for this fourteen years we have let slip'; – The Duke, in Shakespeare's play, MEASURE FOR MEASURE Duke Valencia in William Shakespeare's play, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, compares the laws of a country to the devices a horse rider needs in order to control ...
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Western Sahara Spanish Left Party for Freedom and Independence of Saharawi People
Murcia - The General Coordinator of Spanish United Left Party Mr. Cayo Lara affirmed his party's position of support to the right of Saharawi people to freedom and independence, disapproving the positions of successive Spanish governments, wether right-wing or socialist, vis-a-vis the Western Sahara issue. Addressing the 13th congress that kicked off Friday, Mr. Lara recalled to the ...
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NigeriaTunisia Enugu Rangers Grab Dramatic Orange CAF Confederation Cup Victory
Enugu Rangers of Nigeria snatched a dramatic 1-0 win over CS Sfaxien of Tunisia Sunday in an Orange CAF Confederation Cup play-off. Severely weakened by the absence of stars Chigozie Agbim and Sunday Mba, Rangers broke the deadlock just three minutes from time. Ugonna Uzochukwu was the toast of eastern city Enugu as he scored to keep alive hopes of the trophy coming to Nigeria for the first ...
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Nigeria To Capture Fleeing Boko Haram Fighters - Army Imposes 24-Hour Curfew On Maiduguri
Maiduguri - The Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, Borno State, yesterday imposed a 24-hour curfew on parts of Maiduguri metropolis, saying it is part of the efforts to sustain the ongoing special operation against Boko Haram insurgents. The spokesman of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt Col Sagir Musa, who disclosed this in a statement, said, "The Joint Task Force (JTF), in order to sustain the ...
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Liberia Bishop Francis Dies
Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, the outspoken cleric who became the conscience of the society during the tyranical regime of late President Samuel Doe and the tumultous years of the civil war, died at his 8th Street residence yesterday following a protracted illness, aged 77. The shocking news of Bishop Francis' death, who was regarded as indifatigable fighter for peace and justice in ...
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Nigeria First Bank CEO Highlights Nigerias Investment Opportunities At World Economic Forum
The FirstBank of Nigeria impressed delegates at the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa about opportunities for Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria, reports Adeola ...
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Nigeria Foreign Investors Take U.S.$2.7 Billion Out of Nigeria in Three Months
Foreign investors took $2.74 billion out of Nigeria in the first three months of 2013. This was indicated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in its economic report for the first quarter of 2013. According to the report, foreign exchange outflow from the economy in the first was $6.54 billion. This outflow was dominated by foreign exchange outflows for 'invincibles'. Invincible ...
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Nigeria Investors Confidence in Nigerian Economy Surge
Investors' interest and confidence in the Nigerian economy is surging, Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Lawan Ngama has disclosed. Citing 14 million hits and download of data from the website of the Nigerian Federal Office of Statistics, FOS, as a pointer, the minister observed too, that the percentage of non-filers in Nigeria of companies income tax regime declined from 54 per ...
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Liberia Give Jobs to Liberians - Pro-Tempore Urges Concessionaires
Concession companies and other foreign investments in the country have been urged to use the expertise of Liberians in carrying out their duties. At the Grand Royal Hotel where he delivered a statement at the official unveiling ceremony of the partnership between the ROSNA Service Inc. and ANSAMBLE, two local and international catering companies, Sen. Gbezohngar M. Findley, Senate President ...
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UPDATE 1-Nigeria to divest 3 nationalised banks by Q3 2014
Mon May 20, 2013 10:08am EDT * AMCON to complete sale of 3-nationalised banks next year * To pay off 2 trln naira worth of bonds from loan recoveries * Cbank to refinance 3.6 trln naira outstanding AMCON bonds (Adds details, quotes) By Chijioke Ohuocha LAGOS, May 20 (Reuters) - Nigeria's "bad bank" expects to complete the sale of its shares in three lenders nationalised by the ...
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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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