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Tunisia Salafist Movement Should Decide Its Position Regarding Violence and Terrorism- Prime Minister
Tunis - Prime Minister Ali Larayedh asserted that the Salafist movement should decide its position regarding violence and terrorism, calling it to abide by the law and the rule of law. "The Salafist movement should comply with the provisions of the legal organisation," he said to the press, on Thursday in Tunis, describing as "imprecise" the fact of blaming the religious ...
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Liberia Govt Silent Over Reported Sale of Japanese Donated Rice in Guinea
The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Commerce & Industry is yet to comment on the reported sale of a huge consignment Japanese donated rice to Liberia in neighboring Guinea. Last week, the Heritage, based on cogent reports obtained from officialdom, reported that the United Commodities Incorporated (UCI) recently sold huge consignment of the Japanese donated rice to ...
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Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ...
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Shura Council Chairman Receives Bahraini Ambassador to Morocco
Manama, May 23. (BNA) -- Chairman of the Shura Council Ali bin Saleh Al Saleh has lauded the tremendous efforts exerted by the Kingdom's ambassadors to strengthen ties with brotherly and friendly countries and open up new horizons of cooperation in various fields. Speaking as he received here today Bahrain's Ambassador to Morocco Khalid Salman Jabr Al-Musallam, Al Saleh asserted ...
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Emmanuel and St. Chad reach deal to stay open
The 134-year-old College of Emmanuel and St. Chad will remain open with the help of other Saskatoon seminaries, reversing its plan to suspend operations for three years.A deal with the two other members of the Saskatoon Theological Union - St. Andrew's College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary - allows Emmanuel and St. Chad to reduce its budget and remain open for the 2013-14 academic ...
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Madamfo Ghana Commissions Classroom Block For Detieso Community
Madamfo Ghana Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) from Germany, has commissioned a three-classroom block, with an office and store room, and Kindergarten block for the Detieso Community in the Bosome-Freho District of the Ashanti Region. The project was funded by Engagement Global (GIZ) NRW Germany at the cost of 24.000 Euros, the equivalent of GH60,000. Nana Anim Kokor II, Apewu ...
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Tunisia Enda - Launch of New BA Degree in Micro-Finance
Tunis - A partnership agreement to launch, for the first time in Tunisia, a BA Degree in micro-finance was signed on Wednesday between Enda Inter-Arabe (a pioneering NGO specialised in micro-credit in Tunisia) and the High Institute of Technological Studies (ISET) in Bizerte. "This is a new degree to be introduced in Bizerte's ISET while providing adequate training to students and ...
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Tunisia Court of Auditors Report On Management of Former IHAE Submitted to Prime Minister
Tunis - Interim Prime Minister Ali Larayedh received on Wednesday the annual report of the Court of Auditors on the control of financial operations of the outgoing board of the Independent Higher Authority for Elections (IHAE). The report contains remarks and proposals on good management of public money and the legislative framework regulating the election authority, First President of the ...
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Algeria Nation Tightens Control Over Religious Associations
Algiers - The Algerian government recently issued new regulations to cover religious associations. Faced with a legal vacuum, the interior and religious affairs ministries drafted new regulatory legislation to govern associations of a religious nature. The draft law will first be submitted to the government office, before making its way to parliament. The May 12th special legislation would ...
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Liberia Assets Declaration Ignored
The latest assets declaration report released by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) on the verification of public officials' assets has exposed several officials who allegedly refused to allow their assets [already declared] to be verified by the LACC. The verification process by the LACC was intended to show the truthfulness of the assets that have been declared by officials of ...
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Tunisia Nation Jails Outspoken Femen Activist
Najjar in Tunis - Nineteen-year-old Tunisian feminist "Amina" was arrested in Kairouan on Sunday (May 19th). Tunisia's prosecutor ordered the arrest of the Femen activist after she tried to take off her clothes opposite Uqba Ibn Nafi Mosque. She was also reportedly seen painting the word "Femen" on a wall near the mosque. Interior Ministry spokesperson Mohamed Ali ...
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U.N. mine clearing work under way in Mali
An anti-land mine advocacy group said it would work with a U.N. stabilization mission in Mali to clear unexploded ordnance from the country. The U.N. Mine Action Service said it was preparing to deploy an African-led mission to work with the U.N. stabilization mission in Mali on mine abatement. UNMAS set up an office in Mali in January, the same month the government called in French support to ...
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Al-Qaida ally takes responsibility for Niger attack
Security officials in Niger are on the lookout for assailants tied to the bombing Thursday of a military camp, Niger Defense Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said. Karidjo said a car bomb was detonated at a military base in Agadez in central Niger, near the site of a French mining operation. Authorities in Niger told the BBC that several attackers died in the attack, though a fifth insurgent was ...
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Let’s Think Corporate Ghana First… To Consolidate Democratic Gains Ex-CPP Guru Urges Politicians
A former Regional Chairman of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Nana Osei Tutu Bonsu, has stressed the need for politicians to work and consolidate the gains of our democratic dispensation. He urged politicians to always think of Corporate Ghana first, instead of working on partisanship lines at the expense of the development of Mother Ghana. Nana Bonsu said in a chat with The ...
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Nigeria 2face Dbanj P-Square Leads Others for Star Music Trek 2013
were announced at the unveiling ceremony held in lagos on Wednesday May 22, as the headlines for this year’s Star Music trek. The star-studded lineup also includes Ice Prince, M.I, Mr. Raw, Naeto C, Phyno and Olamide, Timaya, Sound Sultan, Wande Coal, Obesere, Dr Sid, J Martins, KCee, Tiwa Savage, Seyi Shey, Yinka Best, Kas and Star Quest past winners Juke Box, Da Beatz and Crystalz. The ...
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Ethiopia Open Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry
SMNE Urges Secretary Kerry to speak out on behalf of freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, independent judiciaries and open political space in ...
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Liberia Gunmen Target Local Oil Installation
Tripoli - An armed group on Monday (May 20th) struck the Mellitah oil and gas complex west of Tripoli, wounding at least two guards. According to a source at the facility, armed assailants from "outside the area" mounted their attack in the early morning. They were able to seize arms and some twenty vehicles before taking off, Libya Herald reproted. Colonel Juma Abdul Jalil, ...
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UPDATE 1-Nigerias NNPC and Exxon unit to tap bond market by 2016
Thu May 23, 2013 8:59am EDT * NNPC funding problems holding back oil projects * Exxon and NNPC joint venture has 550,000 bpd oil capacity By Joe Brock and Emma Farge ABUJA/GENEVA, May 23 (Reuters) - Nigeria's state-oil company and a local unit of Exxon Mobil plan to tap the bond market by 2016 to fill a funding shortfall in developing oil exploration projects, the companies have said. The ...
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Tunisia Minister of Religious Affairs Condemns Violence Deems Chaambi Events Terrorist Acts
Tunis - "Violence, whether religious, political or intellectual, is highly reprehensible and anti-religious," said Minister of Religious Affairs Noureddine Khadmi at a press conference, held on Wednesday, at the seat of the department. The events that took place in Mount Chaambi are, undoubtedly, "terrorist" acts, he added. Acts of violence that occurred in Ettadhamen ...
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Western Sahara Demonstrations in the Occupied Territories On the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle
Smara - The city of Smara witnessed Monday, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the outbreak of armed struggle, several demonstrations in different quarters of the city and the distribution of leaflets and the suspension of national flags with electric cables, as reported the ministry of the occupied territories and communities affairs The source added, "the masses came out into ...
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Finke appointed Cameroon boss
Akono was brought in to replace Denis Lavagne when the Frenchman failed to take Cameroon to the African Cup of Nations finals in both 2012 and 2013, with Finke now set to manage his first international ...
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NYT Morgue overflowing as Nigerias dirty war rages
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. "They were not properly shot," recalled a security official here. "I had to call the J.T.F." -- the military's joint task force -- "and they gunned them ...
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Kenya Cabinet Secretary meets Liberia President at Jomo Kenyatta Airport
The President was received by Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru. They held discussions at the Presidential Pavilion before the President and her entourage left the country for AddisAbaba the venue for the five-day AU meeting. The Liberia President was accompanied by Senior Officials in her Government including among others Hon. Lewis G. Brown, Liberian Information Minister ...
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Frances Trade Minister to Visit Algeria on Tuesday
Algiers, May 23 (BNA) - French Minister for External Trade Nicole Bricq is to pay a two-day visit to Algeria on Tuesday , May 28 with the aim of enhancing trade partnership between the two countries, the Algerian Commerce Ministry has announced . The ministry said in a statement issued here last Wednesday that during her visit, Bricq will meet with a number of Algerian officials and will also ...
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Nigeria State of emergency must not lead to more human rights abuses
Nigerian authorities must not use the state of emergency imposed in the north of the country as an excuse to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International urged today as the military continued its assault on Islamist armed group Boko Haram.Several people have reportedly been killed and hundreds arrested since a state of emergency was declared in the northern states of Adamawa, Borno and ...
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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