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British defense secretary arrives in Mali
British Defense Secretary Phillip Hammond said he's seen key improvements in the ability of Malian forces to take on Islamic militants. Hammond arrived in Mali to visit British forces deployed to help Malian forces ensure territorial integrity from threats by foreign rebels and al-Qaida fighters. Nomadic fighters and al-Qaida militants took control over parts of Mali after a 2012 coup. ...
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Etisalat says Nigeria unit inks $1.2bn loan deal
UAE telecommunications giant Etisalat said its Nigeria unit had secured a $1.2bn medium term syndicated loan facility to refinance existing debt and expand its ...
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Tunisia Tunisian Police Clash With Islamists in Tunis Kairouan
Tunisian police have clashed with radical Islamists in a Tunis neighborhood, after Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia told its followers to gather for its annual congress. The move defied a government ban. Hundreds of Salafists erected barricades in the streets of Ettadhamen, a poor neighborhood on the western edge of Tunis on Sunday. The crowd threw rocks at police, who fired tear gas canisters ...
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Algeria Two Newspapers Denied Syndication Over Reports of Presidents Health
Algeria: Nation Prevents the Issuance of Two Newspapers Due to a File On the President's Health ANHRI Is Annoyed From the Lack of Information and Demands Halting the Censorship On ...
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Morocco to launch 4G licence auction by end 2013
Morocco's telecoms watchdog Agence Nationale de Reglementation de Telecom (ANRT) has announced its plans to launch an auction for 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile licences by the end of 2013, state news ...
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Sudan Accused of Blocking Oil Exports
KAMPALA, Uganda - South Sudan on Wednesday accused Sudan of blocking oil flow from its Unity state in the latest spat involving the two oil producers, which agreed to restart oil exports last month after a 15-month closure, officials said. South Sudan hasn't been able to pump around 90,000 barrels a day of crude from its TharJath oil field in the border state of Unity for nearly a week ...
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Nigerias Moses to miss Confed Cup
Nigeria forward Victor Moses will miss this summer's Confederations Cup through injury, while his Chelsea team-mate John Obi Mikel has asked to be rested for an upcoming international friendly against ...
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Tunisia National Dialogue Rejects Violence
Tunis - Participants in Tunisia's second national dialogue condemned all forms of post-revolution violence, stressing that only the state had the right to use force. Unlike the first round of talks last October, the meeting that wrapped up on Thursday (May 16th) involved all Tunisian political parties. Since the dialogue coincided with the appearance of armed jihadists in the Jebal ...
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Western Sahara Arab Union of Cuba Felicitates Saharawi People On Armed Struggle 40th Anniversary
Havana - The Arab Union of Cuba has expressed felicitation to the Saharawi people and leadership of the Frente POLISARIO on the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of armed struggle, in a letter addressed to the President of the Republic Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz. "The Arab Union of Cuba would like convey sincere salutations and affirms solidarity with the Saharawi people in their struggle for ...
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Nigeria Human Parts Available in Lagos - Price List Revealed
Lagos - Emotions ran high, Tuesday, at Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, following startling revelations by suspected members of three syndicates, who specialised in selling human parts to herbalists and persons suspected to be clerics. The suspects told a bewildered crowd that human heads were sold for N8,000; hands, N4,000 and private parts N10,000. One of them, Agboola Kolawole, who blamed ...
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Liberia Health Workers On Go-Slow
Finance and Health Ministers Amara Konneh and Walter Gwenigale have been summoned to appear before the Senate plenary Thursday, May 23, 2013 to answer why health workers in Grand Kru County have not received their three months' pay. The decision to summon the two ministers was reached Tuesday, following a complaint by a Grand Kru County Senator, Peter Coleman that health workers in that ...
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Liberia Block the Road
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has ordered the Minister of Public Works to block the Samuel K. Doe (S.K.D) Boulevard road. President Johnson-Sirleaf ordered that the road be blocked to vehicles and other activities to allow speedy construction of the road. "Mr. Public Work Minister, block the roadso you can get the job done; you can't be trying to pave the road and you've ...
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Liberia Ellen Orders SKD Boulevard Closed
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has ordered Public Works Minister Samuel Kofi Woods, to close the SKD Boulevard Road currently under renovation in Paynesville to traffic in order to avoid ongoing works obstructed and delayed by cars and pedestrians. "Mr. Minister [Samuel Kofi Woods], block the road so you can get the work done! You can't be building the road and you have people ...
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Ghana’s First E-Health Service Launched
Prof. Agyemang Badu Akosa (left), prof. Edmund Delle (middle) and Mr. Patrick Dasoberi at the launch Ghana's first electronic health delivery service to enable doctors to reach their patients online and bring healthcare to the door steps of the citizenry has been launched in Accra. The E-health initiative, a remote doctor/patient interface, allows patients to see their doctors without ...
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Tunisia Court of Auditors Report On Outgoing Ihae Management Submitted to NCAs Ben Jaafar
Tunis - President of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) Mustapha Ben Jaafar was presented with the Court of Auditors' report on the control of financial transactions of the Independent Higher Authority for Elections (IHAE) outgoing bureau as he received, on Tuesday, First President of the court Abdelkader Zgolli. This bureau had organised and monitored the October 23 elections which ...
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Tunisia President Marzouki Receives Report of National Authority of Fight Against Corruption
Tunis - Caretaker President of the Republic Mohamed Moncef Marzouki received, on Tuesday, an activity report of the National Authority of Fight Against Corruption (INLUC). The report was handed to him by the INLUC president Samir Annabi, who evoked the difficulties impeding the authority's action in dealing with the corruption cases, a press statement of the Presidency of the Republic ...
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Tunisia Businessmen in France Talk About Impediments to Investment in Nation
Tunis - A hundred Tunisian businessmen residing in France talked, as part of the 2013 Forum of the Group for Investment and Entrepreneurship (GIE) held recently in Paris, about obstacles that hinder their investment in Tunisia. These obstacles relate mainly to the legal, administrative and land areas, according to a Prime Ministry statement released on Tuesday. These Tunisian investors plan to ...
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Liberia Press Union of Liberia Position On the President Sirleafs Double Standard On Press Freedom in Liberia
Fellow Colleagues, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the events of the last 18 days have been well documented. On May 3, 2013, members of the Liberian media assembled in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County to observe World Press Freedom Day, a day declared by the United Nations to remind member states about the need for a free, independent and pluralistic media. But it was also to pay tribute to ...
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Nigeria Man Arrested for Selling Heads of Late Relations At N8000 Each
Lagos - A 40 year-old man, Agboola Kolawole, who was alleged to have sold the heads of four of his late relations at the rate of N8000 each, is among the five suspected human parts sellers that were arrested by the police. The suspects were all rounded up from their hideout at Owode area of Ogun State while trying to sell human hands to police detectives attached to Special Anti Robbery Squad ...
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WEF on ME North Africa to open in Jordan
The three-day meeting, convening under the theme Advancing Conditions for Growth and Resilience, will focus on shaping the region's economic, social and governance systems of the future. The meeting will convene over 900 leaders from the Gulf region, the Levant, North Africa and internationally. Representatives of business, government, civil society, youth and media will come together to ...
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Can South Africa Help Nigeria to Industrialise
South Africa has pledged to help Nigeria make the automotive sector the West African nation's flagship industrial target. Currently German car manufacturer BMW has a plant at Rosslyn near Pretoria. About 80 percent of the BMWs produced there are for the international market. Credit: John ...
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Moses Out of Nigerias Matches Obi Mikel Wants a Rest
(Reuters) - Victor Moses has withdrawn from Nigeria's squad for next month's World Cup football qualifiers and Confederation Cup tournament while Chelsea team mate John Obi Mikel has asked to be rested for a friendly against Mexico next week, Nigerian Football Federation officials said on Wednesday. Both players are in the United States with Chelsea this week for friendlies against ...
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Cote dIvoire Supporter of President Arrested Over Massacre in Ivory Coast
The Ivorian government has arrested a militia leader who supported President Alassane Ouattara during post-election violence in 2011. Amade Oueremi is accused of participating in a massacre of Ouattara's opponents. Under pressure to apply the law in a non-partisan fashion, Ivorian authorities on Saturday arrested militia leader Oueremi, who supported current President Ouattara during 2011 ...
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Nigeria Jonathan Orders Release of Boko Haram Suspects
Abuja, Maiduguri and Kano - The Defence Headquarters yesterday said it will start releasing detained Boko Haram members and handing them over to state governments, under a peace initiative towards ending insurgency in parts of the North. All women suspects will be freed, following a recommendation by the presidential dialogue committee headed by Special Duties Minister Kabiru Turaki, a military ...
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Tunisia Union for Tunisia Parties Secretary General Meet
Tunis - During a meeting held on Tuesday in Tunis, the Council of the coalition parties Secretary-Generals of the Union for Tunisia reviewed the results of the national dialogue held under the auspices of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) and examined the structural organisation plan of the coalition as well as the general situation in the country. Al-Massar spokesman Samir Tai;eb ...
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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