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Tunisia PM to Attend Doha International Forum
Tunis - Prime Minister Ali Larayedh will pay a two-day visit to Qatar as of Sunday. He will have a series of talks with Qatari leaders to look at means to strengthen co-operation and partnership relations. Mr. Larayedh will attend the 13th session of the Doha International Forum, according to a Prime Ministry communique released on Friday. Several heads of State and government, political ...
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Tunisia AD Hoc Commission to Speed Up Recovery of Assets Abroad
Tunis - Speeding up the procedures of the recovery of properties and asserts abroad will be the task of an ad hoc commission created to this effect, a Prime Ministry's statement published on Friday reads. After a meeting of the Higher Council of Fight Against Corruption and Recovery of State's Assets and Properties, under the chairmanship of Interim Prime Minister Ali Laaraydh, it was ...
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North Africa Instability Affects European Energy Security
According to the International Energy Agency, Algeria's oil is still suffering from the four-day siege on the In Amenas gas plant in January. (Photo: ...
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Ivory Coast massacre suspect arrested by army
Soldiers are seen patrolling a street in Abidjan in December of 2010, following violent clashes after the election outcome. The Ivory Coast army now says it has detained a militia leader responsible for the 2010-11 postelection violence. (Luc ...
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3 abducted in Sudans Darfur
"An armed group belonging to the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)/Jibril Ibrahim faction on Saturday abducted three people, including a policeman belonging to the central reserve forces at Al-Kuma town in North Darfur state," Suleiman Rabih, commissioner of Al-Kuma locality, told ...
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German FM visits Algeria to boost ties
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Saturday that his visit to Algeria aims at deepening the bilateral relations both on the political and economic levels between Algiers and ...
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Ivory Coast Militia Leader Arrested for 2011 Massacre
Soldiers in Ivory Coast have arrested a militia leader who was allegedly involved in a 2011 massacre of political opponents. Military officials say Amade Oueremigave himself up Saturday as soldiers began to converge near his hideout. Oueremi and his fighters backed President Alassane Ouattara in the violence that broke out after the 2010 election when former president Laurent Gbagbo ...
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US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time
US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time Libya-USA, Politics, 8/26/2011 US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns led the U.S. delegation to the August 25 Libya Contact Group meeting in Istanbul, where representatives from 28 countries, the UN, EU, NATO, AU, OIC, Arab League and GCC came together to demonstrate the international community's firm commitment to ...
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Libya unrest Armed groups attack Benghazi military posts
Unidentified gunman attacked three military posts in Benghazi on Saturday, highlighting the Libyan government's struggle to establish ...
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Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in Maiduguri
curfew on Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents. A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas ...
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Ghana to adopt Intelligent Addressing system
Accra, May 18, GNA - Ghana is expected to adopt the technological mechanism of Intelligent Addressing (IA) of the United Kingdom as the cardinal structure in the street naming and property addressing ...
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Ghana to pilot climate change and health projects
Dr Yaw Ofori Yeboah, Gomoa West District Director of the Ghana Health Service announced this when he briefed members of the Assembly on the project at Apam in the Central ...
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Ghana loosing exports to EU and US
Accra, May 17, GNA -The Swiss Ambassador on Friday said more Ghanaian exports are rejected at the European Union and United States borders because of non-compliance with international ...
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Ghana gets first E-health online service
Accra, May 17, GNA -E-health initiative, an electronic health delivery system, was launched on Friday to enable doctors reach their patients online and bring health care to the door steps of the ...
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UK Chamber of Commerce trade delegation in Ghana to explore opportunities
Accra, May 17, GNA - A trade delegation, from the London Chamber of Commerce and the United Kingdom (UK) Trade and Investment North West, has met with representatives of Ghanaian companies at a reception in ...
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String of explosions in Libyas capital and eastern city cause minor damage
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security official says one bombing targeted an abandoned church in Benghazi that had been previously damaged by fire. The explosion damaged only a car parked outside. The official says two other explosions targeted parked security ...
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Lifestyle Kenya walks a tightrope in Somalia as Kismayo gets new leader
Somalia 's clan elders have created a new mini-state and elected a Kenyan ally as its leader, a move likely to anger Mogadishu and sour ties between the two neighbouring ...
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Bomb explosion near three embassies in Libya
Members of the military police and security gather at the scene of an explosion in front of the Greek embassy, right, in Tripoli on May 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny) OTTAWA - Greek foreign affairs officials report no injuries following a small explosion Saturday outside the Embassy of Greece in Libya's capital Tripoli. Officials say a "low power explosive device" was placed ...
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OICs Mali meeting to be held in Jeddah
Mali Contact Group of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation set to convene on Monday ANKARA - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is set to host a ministerial meeting of its Mali Contact Group in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on Monday. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will represent Turkey at the meeting. In a written statement released on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry ...
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Vodafone Promises A Thrilling Ghana Music Awards Ceremony Tonight
R2Bees Vodafone has promised Ghanaians that this year's Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) would be a memorable one for patrons and music lovers across the country. This year's awards ceremony, according to the organizers, Charter House, would take place at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) tonight in Accra, Saturday, May 18. In line with the theme, 'The Next ...
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French first lady tells of huge feelings for Mali
BAMAKO--France's first lady Valerie Trierweiler said at the end of a 48-hour tour of war-torn Mali on Friday that the experience had brought up "huge" feelings in ...
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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 ...
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Ivory Coast arrests militia chief accused over massacre
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Authorities in Ivory Coast on Saturday arrested a militia leader accused of participating in one of the worst massacres committed during the West African nation's post-election violence in 2011, a military official and witness ...
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Algeria pilots strike grounds national carrier
ALGIERS (AFP) - Air Algerie planes were grounded for several hours on Saturday when the national carrier's pilots staged a wildcat strike over pay, officials in the North African country said.Air Algerie said in a statement that the strike caused delays for the airline and other carriers that lasted a few hours until normal operations resumed in the afternoon, after negotiations between ...
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Somalia Aweys Blames Al Shabaab Chief for Targeting Foreign Fighters
Mogadishu - In an audio recording distributed to Somali media on Friday, high-ranking Al Shabaab member Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has blamed Al Shabaab chief Ahmed Abdi Godane for "targeting foreign fighters" and for "unilateral decisions" that led to the militant group losing territory to Somali government forces aided by AMISOM peacekeepers, Garowe Online reports. Sheikh ...
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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