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Nigeria Nine Minor Informants to Kidnappers Assassins Nabbed
Sapele - Nine minors, all males, suspected to be members of four different dreaded cult groups that have been disguising and acting as informants to kidnappers and assassins in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, were Tuesday arrested and paraded in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, by men of the Nigeria Army, Koko Barrack, in conjunction with the Joint ...
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Nigeria Shell Community Disagree Over Cause of Bayelsa Oil Spill
The Ikarama Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has disagreed with Shell Petroleum Development Company over the cause of the reported oil spills from nearby oil wells. The spill has contaminated the Taylor Creek in Yenagoa; and residents of Biseni/JK4 Road told the News Agency of Nigeria that they disagreed that the spills were caused by oil theft. Officials of ...
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Ethiopia Construction of Ethio-Kenyan Electric Highway to Commence
Miherete Debebe CEO of EEPCo, Guang Z Chen, WB Country Director for Ethiopia, Alemayehu Tegenu, minister of Water and Energy and Lamin Barrow, resident representative of the African Development Bank after the signing ceremony at the Hilton Hotel. The construction of the Ethiopia - Kenya interconnector high-voltage electric highway line will start in September 2013. The project has secured ...
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Nigeria Country to Achieve Carbon Neutrality By 2025 Says Alison-Madueke
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has said Nigeria will by 2025 bring down its gas flaring by at least two per cent. Alison-Madueke disclosed that by 2010, the country had recorded a downward gas flaring rate of 30 per cent as well as against the current rate of 11 per cent, adding that it aspires to bring it further down to two per cent by 2020 and beyond. The ...
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Ghana Work Now Starts At Permanent Site of Volta Varsity
Ho - Chinese contractors have started work on the permanent site for the University of Health and Allied Sciences at Sokode near Ho. The work being undertaken at the site includes laying of a foundation for the building of temporary accommodation and offices for the foreign workers, pegging and erecting of a security fence wall, surveying, and raising of pillars. Speaking to the media at the ...
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Ethiopia ETH Switch Opens Financial Proposals of Two Firms
The development of a national Electronic Funds Transfer System will make inter-bank processes easier EthSwitch SC is choosing between two companies - BPC Banking Technologies BV and Compass Plus Limited (Great Britain) - for the award of a turnkey contract for the supply and implementation of a National Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Switch Clearing Settlement and Reconciliation System. It ...
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Nanotechnology Expert Chad Mirkin Selected for Linus Pauling Medal Award
Northwestern University scientist Chad A. Mirkin has been selected to receive the 2013 Linus Pauling Medal Award from the Oregon, Portland and Puget Sound local sections of the American Chemical ...
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Kosmos Comes Up Dry Onshore Cameroon
Kosmos Energy Ltd. said it failed to find commercial reservoirs at an exploration well onshore Cameroon, sending the oil-and-gas company's shares falling after hours. The Sipo-1 exploration well, drilled on the Ndian River Block in the Rio del Rey Basin, was targeting the Miocene Isongo Formation. Oil and gas shows evidenced during drilling indicated a working petroleum system, but no ...
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Lebanese farmland firm to invest up to $800 million in Sudan
Tue May 21, 2013 7:32am EDT * Arab firms lease farmland in Sudan to secure food for Gulf * Lebanon's GLB to invest up to $800 million in Sudan By Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM, May 21 (Reuters) - Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday. Arab investors have launched farmland and ...
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Etisalats Nigeria affiliate signs $1.2 billion loan
DUBAI | Tue May 21, 2013 7:26am EDT DUBAI May 21 (Reuters) - Etisalat's Nigeria affilate has signed a $1.2 billion loan with 13 Nigerian banks, the United Arab Emirates' No.1 telecom operator said on Tuesday. The medium-term facility will be used to refinance an existing $650 million loan and bolster Etisalat Nigeria's network, Etisalat said in a statement to the Abu Dhabi ...
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Human Rights delegation meets in Morocco
Manama, May 21 (BNA) - Bahraini delegation led by Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman met with the inter-ministerial delegate in charge of human rights in the Kingdom of Morocco, Dr. Mahjoub Al-Hayba, in response to the invitation received from the Moroccan government to be familiar with the Moroccan experience in the field of human rights and to exchanging experiences in ...
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Deadly SARS-like virus spreads to Tunisia 3 cases confirmed 1 death
Saudi Arabia , according to a Health Ministry statement.The man's two children were also diagnosed with the virus but have since undergone treatment and recovered.It's the first case of the SARS-like virus in Tunisia and shows how the virus is slowly spreading throughout the Middle East, where 30 cases have been reported, AP reported. In this latest outbreak, 9 people have died in ...
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Cross River State Rural Access and Mobility Project in Nigeria
Cross River State has an enviable history in Nigeria, yet until 2008, most rural roads were in poor, impassable conditions. They had a negative impact on the local economy, especially agricultural activities, with poor rural roads resulting in exorbitant vehicle operating costs and unquantifiable travel times. The situation was worse still in far-flung villages where logs of fallen trees often ...
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AfDB Project Integrates Nomadic Peoples into Mainstream Education in Nigeria
Spanning at least 20 different countries across the African continent, nomadic peoples constitute about six per cent of the total African population, or some 50 million people. This large population, categorized into three major groups, as pastoralists, migrant fishing folks and farmers, has a common wandering lifestyle. Shrinking grazing lands, constant blocking of grazing paths, increasing ...
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EU mission seeks to rebuild Mali army after U.S. faltered
By David Lewis KOULIKORO, Mali (Reuters) - Under a blazing sun and the critical gaze of British and Irish instructors, a line of 11 Malian soldiers lie prone in the dust firing AK-47 rounds at targets, one-by-one. "One out of 10 - not very good," Captain Ibrahim Soumassa, commander of the Malian unit, tells one of the men. "We're at 25 metres. When we're at 100, ...
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Tunisia says Sars-like virus killed elderly man
(21 mins ago) Tunisia's Health Ministry says a 66-year-old man has died after being infected with the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia. The ministry's statement reported that his son and daughter were also diagnosed with the virus but have been treated and since recovered, AP reports. The cases are the first for Tunisia and indicate that the virus is slowly ...
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Ex-Dolphin Chad Johnson bonds out of Broward jail | Video
Chad Johnson was jailed briefly Monday after he was accused of violating his probation on a domestic violence charge. Johnson, 35, pleaded no contest last year to a battery charge after his wife, reality TV ...
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Tunisia Man back from Saudi Arabia dies from coronavirus 2 children treated and recovered
TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's Health Ministry says a 66-year-old man has died after being infected by the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia. The ministry's statement reported that his son and daughter were also diagnosed with the virus but have been treated and since recovered. The cases are the first for Tunisia and indicate that the virus is slowly trickling out of the ...
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Tunisia Ansar Al-Sharia Defies Government
Najjar in Tunis - Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh for the first time on Sunday (May 19th) linked Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia to terrorism, AFP reported. "Ansar al-Sharia is an illegal organisation which defies and provokes state authority," Larayedh told Tunisian state television during a visit to Qatar. "It has ties to and is involved in terrorism," he said -- ...
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North Africa Maghreb Olympic and Athletic Festival to Be Created
Tunis - The idea of creating a Maghreb athletic and Olympic festival was broadly discussed at a working session held on Monday in Tunis between Tunisian National Olympic Committee (TNOC) President Mehrez Boussayene and members of the Executive Committee and President of the Algerian Olympic Committee Mustapha Berraf. The two sides agreed to establish contacts with national Olympic committees in ...
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Nigeria Survey - 30 Percent of Girls Get Raped
At least three in 10 young girls have sex for the first time ever through rape, says a survey. The survey by Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA) investigated reasons for high HIV prevalence and lower age of first sex among adolescents aged between 10 and 19 and found "forced sex was the third main reason for sexual debut" after love and peer pressure. More than 31.4% of ...
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Nigeria Passengers Stranded At Lagos Airport As Aviation Workers Begin Strike
Scores of air passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) as unions at the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) embarked on an indefinite strike. The workers, who spoke to our correspondent, said the strike was to press home their demand for the implementation of the salary structure approved by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages ...
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Liberia Multi-Million Dollar Medical College in Sight
A former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan has disclosed plans for the construction of a multi-million dollar medical college in Tappita, Nimba County. Dr. Sullivan who is also president emeritus of Moore House School of Medicine said his visit to Liberia is geared towards working with Doctor Karteh in the development of a medical college in the country. He ...
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Nigerias military takes back five rebel strongholds
Several thousand troops were last week deployed across three states where Islamic insurgents seized territory in the volatile region, and fighter jets have pounded Boko Haram camps as the military tried to rid the country of "terrorist activities". The military has "secured the environs of New Marte, Hausari, Krenoa, Wulgo and Chikun Ngulalo after destroying all the ...
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Algeria ‘in limbo’ before polls
Before the president's latest illness, supporters within the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) had made known their desire to see him seek a fourth term in the election scheduled for next ...
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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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