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Ghana Contribution of Forests to Food Security Needs Attention
Governments, civil society and the private sector should ensure and strengthen the contributions of forests, trees and agroforestry systems to food security and nutrition, said participants in the first-ever International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition, organised by the FAO. Globally, millions of people depend on forests for their livelihoods - directly through the ...
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Nigeria 18426 Youths From SSouth Employed Under Sure-P Scheme - Labour Minister
Asaba - OVER eighteen thousand youths have so far been recruited under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment (SURE-P) scheme from the South-South geopolitical zone of the country, Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu has said. Wogu who stated this in Asaba yesterday during the sensitization and appraisal tour named the South- South states that benefited from the SURE-P ...
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Ethiopia crackdown on opposition to prevent protests
The Ethiopian opposition reports that over 250 of its central members have been arrested during the week. The arrests are seen in connection with a planned mass ...
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Ethiopias Ogaden rebels issue famine alert
Rebel groups in Ogaden fighting the Ethiopian government warn of a "severe drought" in the region, which could develop into famine. They claim government is withholding ...
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Gabon opposition chief faces treason case
Mr Obame leads the one-year-old National Union party, uniting many of Gabon's main opposition parties. In the August 2009 presidential election, Mr Obame stood as an independent candidate, losing out to interim President Ali Bongo. The Gabonese opposition leader in January created international headlines as he declared himself winner of the elections held 17 months earlier. The declaration ...
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Cameroon limits social media services
The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ...
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African Union chief No comment on North Africa
The opposition of Equatorial Guinea today denounced President Teodoro Obiang Ngeuma, who is also the current African Union (AU) President, for keeping quiet on the North African ...
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Rush to recognise South Sudan
Headed by the US and (north) Sudan, there is an international rush to announce that South Sudan will be recognised as an independent state as soon as independence is declared in ...
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Cameroon new gorillas need protection
A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only living ...
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Kerry US Working with AU to Reduce SudanSouth Sudan Violence
ADDIS ABABA -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he is working with the African Union to end violence along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. America’s top diplomat met separately with Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Ethiopia. Kerry says Sudan and South Sudan "are in a very delicate place right now" and it ...
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Tunisia Yacht Worth About $ 5 Million Restored to Tunisia
Tunis - A yacht which belonged to Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of the deposed president, was handed over, on Friday, at the pier of the Navy in La Goulette Port. The pleasure boat had been confiscated then returned from Spain last April 28 by the Tunisian Stolen Asset Recovery ...
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Tunisia Countrys Security Situation Requires Maintaining of Emergency State Defence Minister
Carthage - "It is very likely that the emergency state is extended and firmly applied," National Defence Minister Rachid Sabbagh said on Friday. The Minister specified, after a meeting of the National Security Council, in Carthage palace, with attendance of the three Presidents, that the current security situation imposes maintaining of the emergency state which is presently applied ...
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Tunisia IBD to Hold First Investment Forum in Tunisia
Tunis - The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will organise, in June 2013, the first investment forum in Tunisia to be held as part of the Deauville co-operation. Minister of Development and International Co-operation Lamine Doghri commended the offer presented by the IDB concerning the completion of the elaboration of a strategic partnership document with Tunisia (2013/2015), a statement ...
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Ghana GHOSPA Against Setting Up of Committee
Kumasi - The Government and Hospital Pharmacists Association (GHOSPA) says the government's decision to set up a committee to look into its grievances, amounted to political interference. The association stated that setting aside the National Labour Commission's (NLC) ruling on the matter undermined the independence of the institution. At a press conference in Kumasi, Spokesperson ...
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Tunisia Tunisian-Qatari Company to Import Frozen Poultry Meat
Tunis - The Tunisian-Qatari Company of Food Industries voiced readiness to import important quantities of frozen poultry meat from Tunisia to Qatar. The decision was expressed by the executives of the company during their talk, in Qatar, with Trade and Handicrafts Minister Abdelwahab Maatar, a Trade Ministry's statement, published on Friday, ...
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Tunisia Tunis Hosts Third Joint Commission Meeting On Science and Technology Co-Operation
Tunis - The third Tunisia-India Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Co-operation was held on Friday in Tunis. Partnership activities as part of the India-Africa Initiative, particularly the project of support to the Tunis-based Institut de Pasteur and the post-doctoral scholarships programme topped the agenda of the meeting, a Higher Education Ministry press release ...
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France begins withdrawing from Mali
France began the first stage of a withdrawal from Mali Saturday in what it says is a plan to pull out most of its troops and equipment by the end of the year. A convoy carrying unneeded equipment and vehicles left a French base outside the capital, Bamako, headed for Abidjan ...
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Chadian troops kill jihadist leaders in Mali
The President of Chad, Idriss Deby, today announced that two of the key Islamist leaders recently terrorising northern Mali have been shot dead by his troops. At the same time, Chad mourns 26 casualties among its troops in ...
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Ghana con-men sell sand as fertilizer
Impostors in Ghana are giving new meaning to the expression of "selling sand in the Sahara." The gang managed to sell sacks of sand to poor farmers, telling them it was ...
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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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Nigeria farmers double cassava yields
Nigerian farmers have more than doubled the yield of cassava, thanks to new varieties and a little bit of "juju" delivered to the Oyo state after a food crisis in ...
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Large budget aid programme for Tunisia
The World Bank reveals it is working on a US$ 500 million programme in budgetary support "to provide a boost" for Tunisia's transitional ...
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African mercenaries in Libya Fact or racism
Protesters in Libya insist that "African mercenaries," mostly from Niger and Chad, are used against them. Other sources deny this, fearing a possible racist origin of the ...
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Libyas Foreign Minister defects
On a flight to the UK, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has asked for asylum, saying he wants to leave the Ghaddafi government. Mr Koussa was seen as one of Colonel Ghaddafi's most trusted ...
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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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