Latest North Africa News
RSS-
MLB Arizona 3 Miami 2
Paul Goldschmidt homered in the bottom of the ninth Tuesday to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 3-2 win over the Miami Marlins. Goldschmidt sent the second pitch ...
-
WorleyParsons shares rise on Nigeria deal
SHARES in mining engineer WorleyParsons are up three per cent after a South Korean shipbuilding giant awarded it a $US100 million ($A105.97 million) offshore oil and gas contract in ...
-
Western Sahara Western Sahara - the Inconvenient Uprising Nobody Wants to Talk or Hear About
London - The British digital common, Open Democracy has published yesterday, Monday, an article on the situation in Western Sahara where it affirmed that Western Sahara represents "the inconvenient uprising nobody wants to talk (or hear) about" HICHAM YEZZA, the articles writer confirmed that "In Oct 2010 - before Tunisia, before Tahrir Square, before Occupy Wall Street and Gezi ...
More North Africa News
RSS-
Somalia Somaliland Bars Federal Govt Authorized Aircraft From Landing
Hargeisa - Somaliland government rejected an aircraft attempting to land at Egal International Airport in Hargeisa on Tuesday, after Somaliland officials said the plane requested to use airspace from the Somali Federal Government (SFG), Garowe Online reports. Somaliland's Ministry of Aviation released a press release on Tuesday detailing the incident that forced a SS34 aircraft to double ...
-
Ghana Woyome to Strike Back ... As Duffour Explains Stance
The ramifications of the Supreme Court ruling on the €47 million paid as judgment debt to Waterville Holdings Ltd. and other judgment debts paid by the state in at least the last five years are becoming a subject of keen interest to many Ghanaians. The Supreme Court on Friday, 14 June, 2012, ordered Waterville Holdings Ltd. to return to the state the €47 million it claimed as judgment ...
-
S. Sudan Could Drop Austerity Budget as Oil Flows
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- South Sudan’s Council of Ministers has submitted a $5.6 billion dollar national budget to parliament for the new fiscal year, more than double the country’s current austerity budget. But officials warned that they are prepared to slash spending if oil production is shut down again over a new row with Sudan, which has accused Juba of backing rebels in the north ...
-
World Briefing | Africa 9 Students Killed at School in Nigeria
Militants opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the troubled northeast, killing at least nine of them, witnesses said Tuesday. The attack on Monday at a private school in Maiduguri was the second on a school in recent days. On Sunday, 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed during a five-hour shootout when extremists attacked a boarding school in ...
-
China Ghana work closely to tackle illegal mining
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 development of ...
-
US company to build 1000 MW thermal plant in Ghana
General Electric (GE) Group of the United States will partner the government of Ghana in the development of a 1,000 MW thermal plant, officials from the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum disclosed here on Tuesday.The project, under a program named "Ghana 1000MW Project" for the West African country, aims to introduce the Power Park Concept to ensure low cost of power and fast ...
-
8 Russian Sailors Acquitted in Nigeria Arms Smuggling Case
arrested near the West African country’s coast in October 2012 on arms smuggling charges. The sailors were the crew of the MV Myre Seadiver vessel owned by Moscow-based security firm Moran Security Group. Nigerian authorities detained the Myre Seadiver ship with the Russian crew in the port of Lagos on October 19 last year after finding weapons, including 14 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault ...
-
Chad Johnson Ive learned my lesson after jail
Chad Johnson wants another chance after seven days in jail and hopes to play football again. (Larry Marano/Getty Images) NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson said Tuesday morning in his first interview since being released from a Florida jail a day earlier that he knows some people may believe he doesn’t deserve a second chance, but he wants to ';finish my career off the right ...
-
UN envoy says Libya faces urgent challenges in move to democracy after decades of dictatorship
The top U.N. envoy to Libya warned Tuesday that the country faces urgent challenges as it struggles to instil democracy after decades of dictatorship, including growing political polarization, weak institutions that can't deal with escalating security problems and thousands of conflict-related detainees waiting to be charged or released. Tarek Mitri told the U.N. Security Council that ...
-
REFILE-Algeria probes state power boss over Alstom GE deals
Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:52am EDT By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS, June 19 (Reuters) - Algeria is investigating the head of its state power and gas utility, Sonelgaz, over contracts involving U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co and France's Alstom SA, sources told Reuters and Algerian local media reported. "The case is about inflating costs in deals with U.S. firm General Electric and French firm ...
-
Knotty cassava tubers can change Nigeria
Nigeria's cassava bread initiative is among an ambitious set of programmes designed to transform agriculture and rural livelihoods in this country of 170 million, the most populous of Africa's 55 nations. The sweeping plans include cutting corruption, rebuilding crumbling infrastructure, facilitating agro-processing industries and recapturing once-robust export ...
-
Shell uses sabotage claims to avoid blame for Nigeria oil spills
Shell's persistent claims that theft and sabotage are responsible for almost all the oil spills at its operation in Nigeria could have been exaggerated, an international watchdog has ...
-
20 killed in another attack in Nigeria
/enpproperty--> MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Hospital and local residents on Tuesday said 20 people may have been killed in another attack on students and fishermen by the Boko Haram insurgents in the Nigeria northeast Maiduguri city currently under a state of emergency. "Thirteen fishermen and tea sellers have been killed at Alau River. Gunmen numbering about five stormed the river area and ...
-
Indiscriminate Shelling Kills UN Peacekeeper in Sudans Oil Region
A deadly shelling of the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM) interim headquarters in Kadugli, Sudan's Southern Kordofan state has killed one United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) peacekeeper from Ethiopia. Reports say the shelling was perpetrated by the elements of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N). The shelling also ...
-
Ghana to begin GMO Testing
Although the politicians in Ghana’s parliament have done their bit and have allowed Monsanto lobbyists and scientists influenced by this corporate giant to pass the Bio-Safety Bill in Ghana, that does not stop conscientious objectors from continuing to point out the gross error these politicians in parliament have ...
-
UN Says Libya Continues to Face Difficult Transition
NEW YORK -- A senior United Nations diplomat says Libya continues to face a difficult transition from the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, whose 42-year rule ended in ...
-
Piracy in West Africa outstrips Somalia report says
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new report says piracy affected more ships and sailors off West Africa than off Somalia's coast last year.The report, drawing on data from the International Maritime Bureau, said nearly 1,000 seafarers and fishermen were attacked by pirates armed with guns or knives in the Gulf of Guinea. More than 200 people were taken hostage.The report said attacks on ...
-
Egypt and Ethiopia try to roll back threats of war
CAIRO, Egypt Egypt's foreign minister is in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa today to diffuse a diplomatic standoff over access to the Nile River that had led President Mohamed Morsi to threaten his Ethiopian counterparts with the prospect of "war." Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr's visit comes a week after Ethiopia's parliament voted to strip Egypt of its right to ...
-
Tunisia Situation in the Country Topping Agenda of Interim PMs Meeting With National Dialogue Follow-Up Commission
Tunis - The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Secretary-General Houcine Abassi said that the meeting held on Monday by Prime Minister Ali Larayedh with the National Dialogue follow-up commission members discussed the economic, social and security situation in the country in this transition stage as well as the furtherance of the National Dialogue. As to security situation, Abassi said after ...
-
Nigeria Year After Church Bombings Kaduna Struggles to Rebuild
ABUJA - Sectarian violence has plagued central Nigeria for decades and tens of thousands of people have been killed. Many mosques and churches are still rubble and in some cities the population has segregated itself out of fear. It is the first anniversary of triple church bombings that sparked sectarian riots in the central city of Kaduna. There is no roof on this mosque in Kaduna and no walls ...
-
North Africa AQIM Reportedly Confirms Commanders Death in Mali
The militant group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is reported to have confirmed the death of one of its top commanders. The Mauritanian news agency ANI says it received a statement from the militant group, saying that Abdelhamid Abou Zeid was killed while fighting French and Chadian troops in northern Mali. The statement says other jihadists also were killed in the clash, including another ...
-
Refugees leave Nigeria for Niger Cameroon U.N. says
The United Nations said Tuesday an ongoing crisis in Nigeria has caused more than 6,000 refugees to flee to neighboring Niger and Cameroon. A statement from the United Nations said in recent weeks, "anti-insurgent operations and general insecurity" have uprooted thousands during a state of emergency declared in May in Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. "Crossings of ...
Sudan Spotlight
-
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
News from around our Network
