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Liberia Foreign Technicians Expected for RIA
The Liberian Government has invited a technical delegation from Equatorial Guinea to Monrovia in early June after both governments agreed on May 21, 2013 to arrange the financing and construction of the Roberts International Airport (RIA) and social housing in Liberia. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in Malibo between Liberia and Equatorial Guinea on 21 May, both governments ...
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South Sudan blames Sudan for oil problems
South Sudan's Foreign Ministry said the Sudanese government was creating problems for the south's oil export potential. South Sudan said there were problems with getting its oil to international markets because it suspected Sudan shut a cross-border pipeline. South Sudan has controlled the bulk of the region's oil reserves since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. Sudan ...
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Syrians seeking refuge in Libya
UNHCR deliver aid to Syrian refugees in Misrata, Libya MISRATA, 23 May 2013 (IRIN) - Two years ago Syrians in the relative security of their own country watched the unfolding crisis in Libya descend into a devastating civil war. Since then the tables have turned, and many of those same families find themselves in Libya after fleeing the Syrian conflict, which has left an estimated 6.8 million ...
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Finke appointed Cameroon coach
Yaounde – Cameroon have appointed Volker Finke as head coach of the national team, the German tasked with ensuring the Indomitable Lions qualify for the 2014 Fifa World Cup in ...
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Nigeria may struggle to end insurgency
Accra - A military operation by the Nigerian government would not be enough to put an end to the Boko Haram Islamist guerrilla group, analysts ...
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Business confidence hits a low point in Ghana
Growth in economic activity in Ghana has weakened, Governor of the central bank, announcing this on Wednesday, said business and consumer sentiments on growth prospects have also softened amid heightened inflation ...
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Tunisia Marzouki Receives Court of Auditors Annual Report
Tunis - President Moncef Marzouki received on Tuesday a copy of the 27th annual general report of the Court of Auditors. "The report gives an assessment of an audit conducted in several services, public enterprises and local communities, to evaluate management and administrative mechanisms," Court of Auditors first President Abdelkader Zgolli said at the end of a meeting with the ...
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Liberia President Sirleaf Departs Liberia for AU Summit in Ethiopia Ticad V in Japan and Forbes Philanthropy Event in the United States
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf departed the country on Wednesday, May 22, for intergovernmental engagements in Ethiopia and Japan, and a philanthropy event sponsored by Forbes Magazine, in the United States. According to an Executive Mansion release, President Sirleaf departed for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the first leg of her trip, to attend the 21st Ordinary Session of the Summit of the ...
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Nigeria British Prime Minister Describes London Attack As a Terrorist Incident Foreign
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on Wednesday described the attack on a man near a military barracks in Woolwich, South East London which resulted in his death, as a terrorist incident. Mr. Cameron, who cut short his trip to Paris, said the attack was "absolutely sickening, a most appalling crime; we have had these sorts of attacks before in our country, and we will never buckle in ...
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Nigeria Nigerias Trade and Investment Drive
Policies aimed at re-directing the nation's investment, trade, industry and enterprise potential may have started yielding results. If the trend continues, the Nigerian economy's dependence on crude oil alone will be halted. Oil had, unexpectedly, skewed the country's balance of trade in favour of its trading partners. The United Nations Commission on Trade and Development's ...
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Cameroon German Investors at Star Building
The Prime Minister, Head of Government, Philemon Yang and the German Chancellor's Personal Representative for Africa, in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Gunter Nooke yesterday, May 21, 2013 in Yaounde discussed the project to establish a factory to process natural gas into fertilizer in Cameroon. This was one of the main topics discussed at the Star Building ...
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Cameroon Appoint German Finke as Head Coach
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Nigeria IOCs Plan U.S.$165 Billion Investment in Nigeria
Lagos - International Oil Companies (IOCs) have expressed readiness to invest $165 billion (about N25.9 trillion) in Nigeria in the next five years. The companies said such investment will go into new oil and gas development and infrastructure that will boost production and develop industry competences. Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Chika Onyejekwe, who ...
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Nigeria Non-Passage of Anti-Stigma Bill Killing HIVAids Victims
Over 500 members of the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NEPWHAN) yesterday stormed the National Assembly to protest the non passage of the HIV/AIDS anti discrimination bill into law. President of NEPWHAN Edward Ogenyi who was received at the gate by Senator Wilson Ake on behalf of the Senate president said stigmatization has made living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria quite challenging and ...
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Disturbances that put spell on Middle East North Africa to be long-term most apparently - Lavrov
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China offers 500 troops to UN Mali force envoys
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali in what would be its biggest contribution to UN peacekeeping, diplomats said Wednesday.The move could be a bid to overcome tensions with the West over the Syria conflict and to strengthen its relations in Africa, where it is a major buyer of oil and other ...
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Nigeria Tender opens for oil sales
Nigeria had opened a tender to sell its oil through multibillion-dollar annual contracts starting in August, Africa’s top oil producer said in an official notice yesterday. State-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) invited refiners, trading houses and local Nigerian oil companies to submit bids by June 18. The NNPC did not specify the volume of oil to be awarded in the ...
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Chinua Achebes body arrives in Nigeria ahead of burial
The body of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday ahead of his burial in his home ...
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Libya Supersand Eagles Beat Libya 8-4
The Nigerian side currently top Group B. Nigeria's Supersand Eagles lived up to their pre-match billing by trouncing the Beach Soccer team of Libya, 8-4, in their opening match of Group B of the African Beach Soccer Championship in El Jadida, Morocco on Wednesday. Emeka Ogbonna was the star performer with a hat-trick, while veteran Isiaka Olawale and Abu Azeez weighed in with a brace ...
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Sudan Breaking - Renewed Gimr-Beni Halba Clashes in South Darfur Eight Dead
Katayla - At least eight people have died and dozens more have been injured as gunmen from the Beni Halba tribe attacked the city of Katayla, stronghold of the Gimr tribe, at 8.30am on Wednesday. Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that most of the city has been destroyed by fire, including houses and the entire market. The tribes signed a ceasefire agreement at the beginning of May - the fourth ...
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Sudan UN Report - Ban Ki-Moon Disturbed About Darfur Displacement in 2013
New York - "I find it disturbing that significantly more people were displaced by clashes in the first three months of this year than during all of 2012," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in an April report on Unamid. The secretary-general also stated that the risk to the civilian population of physical violence increased, in particular in parts of North, Central and South ...
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Kenya Uhuru to attend AU summit in Ethiopia
Sudan counterpart President Salva Kiir. The AU summit coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the OAU-AU. During the AU Jubilee celebrations, member states will take stock of the past fifty years, acknowledge the contribution of the founding fathers of OAU towards ...
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Analysis Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisias stability
TUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian ...
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EU backs mission to secure Libya’s borders
Leaders of the European Union's 27 member states yesterday (22 May) agreed to establish a mission to help Libya secure its borders, reflecting concern both about the terrorist threat in the region and migration to the EU.The two-year mission, which will start its work next month, will be led by Antti Hartikainen, the director-general of Finland's customs service, and should include ...
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HNA signs agreement with WFP to support school meals program in Ghana
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a new partnership with HNA Group - a leading China-based corporation - to fight hunger globally. A US$1.6 million agreement (10 million RMB) between HNA Group and WFP was signed today in Beijing by WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin and HNA Group Chairman ChenFeng. The funds will help WFP provide take-home rations to promote ...
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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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