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Mali signs deal with Tuareg separatist rebels
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - 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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Evelyn Lozada Headbutt Photos Surface After Chad Johnson Jail Release
Chad Johnson reignited debates about his recent recent jail sentence Tuesday after disturbing photographs of his ex-wife, Evelyn Lozada, surfaced online following his ...
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Chad Johnson’s Alleged “Head-Butt” Aftermath Pics Released
MIAMI (CBSMiami) - A year after the infamous head-butt incident which led to Chad Johnson and ex-wife Evelyn Lozada getting a divorce, photos of the aftermath have shown on up on a celebrity gossip site. The pictures were shown Monday at Johnson's court appearance, according ...
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Mali Govt Tuareg Rebels Sign Accord
Mali's government has signed a deal with Tuareg rebels that will allow the army to return to a key rebel-held city ahead of next month's ...
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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 ...
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Qaddafis son Saif Al Islam to face trial in Libya in August
THE HAGUE, Netherlands // A lawyer for a son of ousted dictator Muammar Qaddafi accused Libyan authorities yesterday of showing a "blatant disregard" for the International Criminal Court by announcing they will put Saif Al Islam Qaddafi on trial in August. In an urgent filing to the Hague-based court, British lawyer John Jones asked appeals judges to reject Libya's request to ...
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Libya facilitating weapon shipments to Syrian rebels
Syrian rebels in Aleppo rest from fighting. A recent report has uncovered that Libya has been arming the Syrian opposition forces. (Al Bawaba/AFP file photo) High ranking Libyan officials are allowing mass shipments of weapons sent from their country to reach anti-government rebels in Syria, an investigative report published Tuesday said.Senior officials in Libya's army and government told ...
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Chad Johnson says he deserves second chance
Chad Johnson wants another chance after seven days in jail and hopes to play football again. (Larry Marano/Getty Images) NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson said Tuesday morning in his first interview since being released from a Florida jail a day earlier that he knows some people may believe he doesn’t deserve a second chance, but he wants to ';finish my career off the right ...
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Kidnapped French sailor freed in Nigeria
French sailor Benjamin Elman, who was kidnapped last week, is pictured after his release on June 18, 2013 in Yenagoa, southern Nigeria. Elman was taken from a tanker in Togo when attackers sought to use him as a ...
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Web Review Bashar Al-Assad Mali and FEMEN
Bashar Al-Assad’s interview with German newspaper Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was quite an outcry, you can check it out here, where an English version of the interview is ...
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Report Piracy in West Africa outstrips Somalia
The report drawing on data from the International Maritime Bureau said nearly 1,000 seafarers and fishermen were attacked by pirates armed with guns or knives in the Gulf of Guinea. More than 200 people were taken ...
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Sudan and South violate border agreement deploy forces in buffer zone
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON -- Sudan and its new southern neighbor have reinforced troops along their contested border. The Satellite Sentinel Project said Sudan and South Sudan deployed their militaries in at least 14 locations along the border. The U.S. group, which monitors the border region through satellite imagery, said the two militaries were operating in violation of ...
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Gaddafi sons lawyer blasts Libya
A LAWYER for a son of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi has accused Libyan authorities of showing a "blatant disregard" for the International Criminal Court by announcing they will put Seif al-Islam Gaddafi on trial in ...
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Nigeria rolls to 6-1 victory over Tahiti at Confederations Cup
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
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Chad Arrests Leader of Elephant Poaching Gang
Idriss Hassan was arrested last week while transporting 124 elephant tusks. Environment Minister Mahamat Halikimi says Hassan has been operating since 2011 in a region near the borders of Chad, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic. Officials accuse Hassan and his gang of poaching at least 189 elephants since August. The group is also accused of killing five park rangers in Cameroon. ...
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Refugee outflows resulting from Nigeria crisis spreading to Cameroon - UN agency
18 June 2013 – The United Nations refugee agency today 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 insurgents. The Nigerian Government imposed a state of emergency on the Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states in the north-east of the country in ...
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Tunisia commits to subsidy reform
Tunisia intends to recapitalise its banks and carry on with subsidy and tax reform to strengthen its economy, the government has told the IMF. It follows the country securing US$1.74 billion in a loan over two years from the Washington-based institution this month. "The authorities are courageously addressing the twin challenges of successfully completing the political transition and ...
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Ala. Rep. Chad Fincher running for US House
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Republican state Rep. Chad Fincher of Semmes has joined the crowded field to replace U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner in Alabama's 1st District congressional race. The two-term legislator kicked off his campaign Monday. The 39-year-old Fincher owns a real estate agency. He says he decided to run in part because of his struggles and frustrations as a small-business owner. Fincher ...
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Nigeria plans roadshow ahead of $1 bln Eurobond timetable shows
LAGOS, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:52am EDT LAGOS, June 18 (Reuters) - Nigeria is planning a one-week roadshow to Britain, Germany and the United States from June 19 with the book-runners for its $1 billion Eurobond, with a view to issuing it this year, a timetable for the trip showed on Tuesday. The timetable, forwarded to Reuters in an email by a banking source close to the deal, ...
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Nigeria drops charges against some Russian arms suspects
Russian sailors suspected of trafficking arms, their lawyer said, but another seven will face trial. The 15 Russian sailors were charged with illegally bringing weapons ...
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Ethiopia admits fielding ineligible player
Ethiopia soccer officials admitted they fielded an ineligible player in a World Cup qualifier against Botswana by mistake.(Photo by AFP PHOTO/SIMON MAINA/Gallo ...
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At least 9000 flee northern Nigeria violence
Nigerian refugee women and children in Gance in northern Cameroon on May 25. At least 9,000 people have fled violence in northern Nigeria and crossed into neighbouring countries as a government offensive aims to end a four-year Islamist insurgency, the UN said on ...
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Football Ethiopia Togo fielded suspended stars
Morocco's Adrien Regattin vies with Togo's Alaixys Romao (right) during a freindly match in Casablanca on November 14, 2012. Ethiopia and Togo fielded suspended stars in 2014 World Cup qualifiers during June, according to FIFA match records of the ...
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Lawyer for Gadhafi son urges ICC to reject Tripolis attempt to keep him in Libya
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A lawyer for a son of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi accused Libyan authorities on Tuesday of showing a "blatant disregard" for the International Criminal Court by announcing they will put Seif al-Islam Gadhafi on trial in August. In an urgent filing to the Hague-based court, British lawyer John Jones asked appeals judges to reject Libya's request to ...
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Islamic militants drive 19000 rice farmers off land in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials warned Tuesday. Food shortages would add immeasurably to the misery in northeast Nigeria. The area abandoned by farmers is a fertile one in the semi-arid ...
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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