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Boko Haram Islamist militants kill nine school children in northern Nigeria as punishment for youth gangs working with the army
Members of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group have killed at least nine children at a school in northern Nigeria - the second attack on students in the area this ...
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After 10-year absence Miss Algeria contest resumes
(46 mins ago) After an absence of 10 years, the Miss Algeria beauty contest is to resume on Friday in the western city of Oran, organisers said. A total of 20 women aged between 18 and 26 have been carefully selected from Algeria's main cities to line up for the beauty pageant, co-organiser and jury member Hamza Ameziane told AFP on Wednesday. The women must be "at least 1.7 metres ...
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Armed gang kills 48 in raid in Nigeria
Map locating Zamfara state in northern Nigeria. An armed gang has raided a village in the state and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a local official ...
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Mali gears up for reunification
A United Mali under one government is under construction, as Tuareg rebels who control the northern part of the country, have agreed to ceasefire and submit to a legal government.? ?Northern Mali, under Tuareg rebels and Southern Mali under the Malian government, have been holding talks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, for the past week. The Ouagadougou talks, under the mediation of ...
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Tunisia SNJT Makes Presidency of Republic Liable for Things Outside Its Competence - Spokesperson
Carthage - The statement of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) "makes the Presidency of the Republic liable for things which do not even fall under its competence," spokesperson Adnane Mansar argued on Tuesday. The statement is "strongly imbued with political content" and "refers to trials that the Presidency has nothing to do with," Mansar told ...
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Libya Libyas Road to Democracy Faces Political Security Challenges Arising
From Decades of Authoritarian, Dysfunctional Rule, Council Told The Libyan people would, for the foreseeable future, continue to endure the heavy legacy bequeathed to them over decades of brutal rule, the Security Council was told today as it heard from the top United Nations official in that country. "The political and security challenges that now face the country may well be the legacy ...
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Tunisia Transfer of Sfax Railway Station to Facilitate Access to Taparura - Ali Larayedh
Sfax - Caretaker Prime Minister Ali Larayedh announced on Tuesday the transfer of the Sfax city railway station, which prevents access to the Taparura project zone. During a working session with executives of the Sfax governorate, on the fringes of the 47th International Fair, he said that several measures will be taken to speed up achievement of the Taparura project, whose first phase was ...
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UN Secretary-General Hails Signing of Mali Peace Agreement
WAM NEW YORK, June 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the signing of an agreement between the Government of Mali and Tuareg rebels. "The agreement provides for an immediate ceasefire, paves the way for the holding of presidential elections nationwide and commits the parties to discussing sustainable peace in Mali through an inclusive dialogue that will take ...
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Abraaj says to acquire 100 pct of Ghanas Fan Milk
JOHANNESBURG, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:51am EDT JOHANNESBURG, June 19 (Reuters) - Dubai private equity group Abraaj said on Wednesday it will acquire 100 percent of Ghana dairy firm Fan Milk. Abraaj, which has invested $2.2 billion in African companies, did not give a value for the transaction. (Reporting by Tosin Sulaiman; editing by David ...
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Look to Libya For a Guide to Post “Liberation” Syria
Lew Rockwell Blog June 19, 2013 Asked about the state of Libya after the US-led intervention to liberate the country and bring prosperity and human rights, Professor Yehoudit Ronen, a Libya expert at Bar-Ilan University in Tel ...
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Majority of asylum seekers in Malta hail from Somalia - NSO
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Bandit attacks displace northern Nigeria herders
Displaced Fulani families take shelter in a school in Kaduna's Birnin Gwari district KANO, 19 June 2013 (IRIN) - Incessant deadly attacks on Fulani settlements and villages in northern Nigeria by armed bandits - made up partly of disgruntled Fulani who themselves have lost cattle - are threatening herds and upping tensions in northern Nigeria. Gangs of heavily armed bandits prowl the ...
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Mali finalises deal with Tuareg rebels
A Tuareg nomad is seen near the 13th century mosque at Timbuktu in Mali. Mali signed a ceasefire deal with Tuareg separatist rebels on Tuesday, paving the way for government troops to return to the northern, rebel-held town of Kidal before a presidential election next ...
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Bomb blast gunmen attack UN compound in Mogadishu Somalia
Al Qaeda-linked militants detonated at least one bomb blast and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday. Somali police officer, Abdi Hassan, said gunmen had breached the compound and were inside and the militant group al-Shabab said on its Twitter feed shortly after the attack that its fighters ...
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Suicide bomber gunmen attack U.N. office in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, in a strike that bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda-linked ...
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Islamists say behind U.N. compound attack in Somalia
Mogadishu and said a battle between their gunmen and security forces continued more than an hour after an initial blast. "Mujahideen units from the Martyrdom Brigade have stormed the UNDP compound near the airport in Mogadishu," the group said on its official Twitter feed @HSMPRESS1. A U.N. spokesman in Mogadishu said the attackers had entered the compound. (Editing by Richard Lough ...
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Libya Universities Face Security Issues
Tripoli - Libya is working on improving security on university campuses after several incidents prompted student strikes in various cities. A joint security committee including student union members, university security personnel, and representatives from the interior ministry was formed on Thursday (June 13th) following a student protest two days prior in Tripoli. During that meeting, ...
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Tunisia Imams Reject Extremism
Tunis - More than 200 Tunisian imams launched a distress call to save mosques from the risk of religious extremism. They plan to hold a hunger strike during Ramadan. On Monday (June 17th), imams from mosques in Tunis and Ben Arous staged a pre-strike sit-in outside the Ministry of Religious Affairs. They met at the week-end to draw up their list of demands. The imams want the ministry to break ...
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Liberia LBS Director Bows to Pressure
The Director General of the Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) Darryl Ambrose Nmah has finally bowed to the House of Representatives' pressure by instructing a Ghanaian national to resign. His decision follows a unanimous resolution passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday, June 13, 2013, ordering him (Ambrose Nmah) to advertise the Media and Marketing Manager Position being ...
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Libyas transition can benefit from political dialogue UN
New York, June 19 : Managing Libya's democratic transition is bound to be difficult given the legacy of decades of brutal rule, a senior United Nations envoy told the Security Council Tuesday, adding that the country could benefit from a national political dialogue on the way ...
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UN concerned over refugee outflows from Nigeria crisis
New York, June 19 : The United Nations refugee agency Tuesday reported that the ongoing crisis in north-eastern Nigeria is continuing to send people fleeing to Niger and now to Cameroon amid the insecurity resulting from confrontations between the army and ...
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Nigeria Gunmen Kill 77 in Zamfara Maiduguri
About 50 people were killed yesterday in Kizara village of Tsafe local government area of Zamfara State by group of gunmen suspected to be cattle wrestlers. The gunmen numbering about 150 and riding motorcycles besieged the village at about 4am, and suddenly opened fire on any adult community member on sight. The gunmen also killed the village head, Mallam Lawali Madawaki, the chief Imam ...
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Nigeria Nigeria Drops Arms Importation Charges Against Eight Russians Prosecutes Seven Others
The Federal Government on Tuesday dropped the charges against eight out of the 15 Russian sailors charged with unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria. They are Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Lopatin Alexey, Baranovskly Nikolay, Llia Shubov, Dimitry Bannyrh, Alexander Tsarikov and Kononov Sergel. The 15 sailors had appeared before a Federal High Court, Lagos, on a four-count charge for ...
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Ophir Spuds Starfish Well Offshore Ghana
Africa-focused independent oil firm Ophir Energy reported Wednesday that it has begun drilling the Starfish-1 well in its Accra production sharing contract, offshore Ghana. The Starfish-1 well is located in 4,920 feet of water and has a target depth of 12,630 feet. Its aim is to test a stratigraphic onlap trap. Ophir estimates mean prospective resources of around 292 million barrels of oil ...
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Nigeria Islamists kill 9 students in school attack medical worker
students , witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days. Witness Ibrahim Mohammed said he was taking exams in a classroom ...
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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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