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Algeria censors newspapers for president in a coma reports
ALGIERS // An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers. Hicham Aboud, the editor of the My Journal and Djaridati newspapers, said that the publications were censored after he rejected an order from the communication ministry on Saturday night. They had told him to remove an article claiming Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ...
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Militiamen attack gas complex in western Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya -; A Libyan gas company official says militiamen have attacked a natural gas complex in the country's west, injuring two guards and stealing weapons and military ...
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Algeria to set up first nuclear power plant in 2025
(MENAFN) The Algerian Minister of Energy and Mines, Yousef Yousfi, stated that in order to meet growing demand for electricity, the North African country will establish its first nuclear power plant in 2025, reported Xinhua News citing official APS news agency.Yousfi added that the use of nuclear power is part of the government's renewable energy program aimed at diversifying energy sources ...
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Kenya Lobbies Mahama Over Somalia
Prez Mahama and Kenyan envoy President John Dramani Mahama has accepted a request from Kenya tochampion their cause for an expansion of Amisom troops at this week’s African Union (AU) Summit, noting that peace and security remain vital to the growth of the continent. Kenya’s Deputy President, William arap Ruto, in a discussion with President Mahama in Accra on Sunday, said that his ...
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No Friendly For Ghana…Before World Cup Qualifiers In June
Ghana black stars players Ghana have ruled out playing any friendly match before next month's World Cup qualifiers against Sudan and Lesotho. The Black Stars will be preparing for two crucial World Cup qualifiers which could determine whether they will reach the final phase of the qualifiers. They had previously arranged a friendly against Kenya but pulled out of the game citing the late ...
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Chad Johnson back in custody
Johnson received a year of probation last September after pleading no contest to a domestic violence charge involving his former wife, reality TV star Evelyn ...
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“Nigeria Will Become History …” Nigeria Is Already History By Bayo Oluwasanmi
During the briefings, he threatened fire and brimstone if he was arrested for the threats he made regarding the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, "Nigeria will become history." As we watch helplessly the slow but steady destruction of Nigeria, those who refused to listen to the words of truth will expedite its final fall. It is a case of terrible blindness and ...
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UPDATE 1-Libyas ports reopen after protests gas complex attacked
Mon May 20, 2013 12:32pm EDT (Adds Eni quote, detail) TRIPOLI May 20 (Reuters) - Libya's oil terminals at Tobruk and Zueitina re-opened over the weekend after protests forced both ports to shut, Libya's deputy oil minister Omar Shakmak said. However, fresh trouble arose at Libya's gas-exporting Mellitah complex, he added, where guards were again attacked overnight after clashes in ...
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Nigeria eases curfew in northeast fights on against Boko Haram
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria relaxed a curfew on Monday in parts of the northeast where its troops are mounting their biggest offensive yet against militants from the Islamist group Boko ...
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Ghana Stampede Over Healing Holy Water Leaves Four Dead
BBC News . "The church was also caught by surprise Nobody can apportion blame [at this stage]."The stampede occurred at the Ghana branch of the Synagogue Church of All ...
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Burkina Faso foreign minister Talks to resume soon with Mali government Tuareg rebel group
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - The foreign affairs minister of Burkina Faso says talks will soon resume with a Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in northern Mali. Djibril Bassole made the announcement Monday, days after the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad said it would meet with the Malian government. Jihadists have been forced out of other major towns in ...
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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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Former Miami Dolphins receiver Chad Johnson Arrested at Fort Lauderdale Courthouse
Former Miami Dolphins receiver Chad Johnson was arrested about 10:30 a.m. today in Fort Lauderdale when a court hearing at the Broward County courthouse turned out nasty for the out-of-work NFLer.For more, see the story ...
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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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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 ...
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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