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Tunisia 26th International Festival of Plastic Arts June 29-July 9 in Mahres
Tunis - The 26th International Festival of Plastic Arts of Mahres (governorate of Sfax) will be held from June 29 to July 9, 2013. Ongoing preparations for this yearly event to be organised in the coastal city of Mahres were discussed during a working session held on Tuesday at the seat of the Ministry of Culture in Tunis between the Steering Committee of the Festival and Culture Minister Mehdi ...
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Militants storm United Nations compound in Somalia 20 killed
Somali soldiers walk through rubble after insurgents blasted into the U.N. compound in Mogadishu. IPTC: Somali National Government (SNG) soldiers are pictured after Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents shot and blasted their way into the United Nations (UN) compound in Mogadishu on June 19, 2013. It is the most serious attack on the UN in the troubled country in recent years. Three foreigners and ...
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Somalia Five Foreigners Including Three South Africans Confirmed Dead in the Mogadishu Attacks
Mogadishu- - Almost 10 armed men belonging to the Alshabab militia attacked UN headquarters in Mogadishu today. the gunmen battled with the UN guards for almost 30 minutes before federal government troops and AMISOM troops came to their rescue. A local who was arround when the incident occured told Shabelle radio station in Mogadishu that a suicider detonated a bomb at the gates of the UN ...
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Somalia Somaliland Turns Away Airplane Cleared By Somali Govt
The Somaliland regional Ministry of Civil Aviation and Air Transport Tuesday (June 18th) denied a small private charter plane to land at Hargeisa International Airport because it had been cleared by the Somali federal government. "The plane, which was an SS34, tried to land in Hargeisa International Airport in the early morning, but when the tower discovered that it had permission from ...
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Ethiopia World Bank - Ethiopia Can Achieve Middle-Income Status By 2020
The World Bank Ethiopia Office released a report on Tuesday (June 18th ) detailing the country's current economic situation and forecasting future prospects. According to the report, the World Bank acknowledged that Ethiopia had the capability to achieve its target of becoming a middle income country by 2020. The report said that in spite of all the challenges, if Ethiopia continued its ...
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Morocco Royal Message to the Diplomatic Conference for Facilitating Access to Published Works By Visually Impaired Persons
Marrakech - Full text of the message addressed by HM King Mohammed VI to the Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities that opened on Tuesday in Marrakech. " Praise be to God May peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, His Kith and Kin Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, We ...
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Somalia Al-Shabaab Suicide Unit Attacks UN Compound in Mogadishu
Mogadishu - Al-Shabaab suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the United Nations compound in Mogadishu Wednesday (June 19th), leaving at least eight dead. At least three civilians were killed in the streets outside the compound as Somali and African Union troops forced their way into the complex to end the hour and an half siege, AFP reported, adding that three foreign contractors and at least two ...
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Libya Chad row over mercenaries
Libyan revolutionaries and human rights group insist "mercenaries" from Chad are playing a vital role in the fighting. Chadian sources vehemently deny this, pointing to "naturalised ...
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No money to stop Ghana child trafficking
The sad new was announced by the Accra office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) today. The IOM has been the key coordinator in rescue operations freeing Ghanaian children from trafficking and slavery-like working conditions. "Many thousands of Ghanaian child victims of trafficking will continue to work in dangerous, exploitative conditions with little chance of escape as ...
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S. Sudan Uganda to Step up Border Road Patrols
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- South Sudan and Uganda have agreed to step up security patrols on their common border and on the highway linking Juba to Kampala after a spate of attacks against motorists, officials said Wednesday. "They agreed to proceed to enforce the deployment of more security forces to provide security on the border areas," South Sudan police spokesman James Monday Enocka ...
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Keshi wants Nigeria to step up
Nigeria head coach Stephen Keshi has challenged his team to go to 'another level' in their FIFA Confederations Cup clash with Uruguay. Keshi was left underwhelmed by his team's finishing ability in their tournament opener against Tahiti, which Nigeria won 6-1, the 51-year-old coach feeling his forwards should have converted more goal-scoring opportunities. Although Nigeria ...
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S.Africa says to repatriate assets to Libya
The South African government would repatriate to Libya assets reportedly stashed by slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.This would be done according to the UN protocol, Zuma told the National Assembly (parliament) in Cape Town.The South African government announced on Friday that it would repatriate Libyan funds and assets under an agreement reached with ...
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2 South Africans killed in Somalia attack
Two South Africans are among the 15 people killed in an attack on the UN compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday.Citing the Somali Interior Ministry, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) said the two South Africans, yet to be identified, apparently belonged to the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM).Al-Qaida linked Al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia have claimed ...
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Libya Refugees asylum-seekers and migrants held indefinitely in deplorable conditions
The Libyan authorities must act immediately to end the indefinite detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants, including children, solely for immigration purposes, Amnesty International said in a ...
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Italian killed fighting in Syria suspected of recruiting terrorists
Italian officials said an Italian Muslim convert who was killed fighting against the Syrian government was believed to have recruited terrorists in Italy. Prosecutors in Genoa Wednesday said Giuliano Ibrahim Delnevo, 24, allegedly recruited one Italian Muslim convert and three North Africans with online sermons and a blog, ANSA of Rome reported. The five men were being investigated for ...
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Chadian troops kill jihadist leaders in Mali
The President of Chad, Idriss Deby, today announced that two of the key Islamist leaders recently terrorising northern Mali have been shot dead by his troops. At the same time, Chad mourns 26 casualties among its troops in ...
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Ghana con-men sell sand as fertilizer
Impostors in Ghana are giving new meaning to the expression of "selling sand in the Sahara." The gang managed to sell sacks of sand to poor farmers, telling them it was ...
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Libyas ambassador in Namibia defects
A Namibian-based diplomat at the Libyan Embassy has defected to join anti-Ghaddafi and pro-democracy movement at home and abroad. Saad Bakar (44) and his family have left Namibia for "a Mediterranean ...
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Nigeria farmers double cassava yields
Nigerian farmers have more than doubled the yield of cassava, thanks to new varieties and a little bit of "juju" delivered to the Oyo state after a food crisis in ...
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Security Council Press Statement on Somalia
has claimed responsibility and which has caused numerous deaths and ...
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Nigeria not yet at food sufficiency destination – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday admitted that his administration had yet to reach the desired destination in its quest to eradicate hunger in the country through food ...
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Algeria urged to reveal truth of decapitated monks’ deaths
Algeria in 1996 have appealed to French president Franois Hollande to fulfil his promise to ensure that Algeria co-operates in investigating their deaths. Members of the order had lived for 50 years in the monastery of Our Lady of the Atlas, at Tibhirine, in the Algerian mountains. Their story was told in Xavier Beauvois's 2010 ...
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Military French sailor kidnapped by pirates off coast of Togo rescued by troops in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's military says its troops have rescued a French sailor kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Togo. Spokesman Lt. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu said youths in Nigeria's southern Bayelsa state told authorities about the presence of a foreigner, and a military rescue operation was launched. He said the captors escaped before the soldiers arrived Tuesday. Pirates ...
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Nigeria-Uruguay Preview Super Eagles look to land knockout blow
It was a case of mixed fortunes for Nigeria and Uruguay in their opening Confederations Cup fixtures.The history books will tell of a resounding 6-1 win for the Super Eagles over minnows Tahiti, but the Africa Cup of Nations champions were far from at their best and came in for criticism after the game.Dynamo Kiev striker Ideye Brown could be named in the starting XI at the expense of Anthony ...
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African Union chief No comment on North Africa
The opposition of Equatorial Guinea today denounced President Teodoro Obiang Ngeuma, who is also the current African Union (AU) President, for keeping quiet on the North African ...
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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