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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 ...
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Nigeria Achebes Body Arrives Enugu Amidst Tears
The corpse of literary icon Professor Chinua Achebe arrived in Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, yesterday, aboard a chartered aircraft owned by Overland Nigeria with registration number 5N-BPE, at exactly 12.35pm. It was received by the secretary to the Enugu State Government (SSG), Barrister Amechi Okolo, and the elder brother of the deceased, Mr Daniel Achebe. The casket bearing the ...
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Sudan Sudan Plans to Curb Unemployment Through Micro-Financing
Khartoum - Sudan intends to establish a specialised micro-finance bank with a capital of $ 5 million to fight poverty, raise standards of living, and curb unemployment. The bank is a joint venture between Zain Telecom, the Gulf Program for Development, and Sudanese and foreign businessmen. Sudan's central bank had previously allocated 12 million SDG in a micro-finance program to fund the ...
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Sudan Lakes - More Arrests in Rumbek Over Beer Ban
Juba - South Sudanese police and national security personnel continued their crack down on places suspected to be selling alcohol on Tuesday in Lakes state capital, Rumbek. The decision to close bars selling wine, beer and locally brewed alcoholic drinks was announced by Lakes state military caretaker governor Maj-Gen Matur Chut Dhuol in February. Critics of the move have argued that the order ...
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South Sudan UAE Investors Seek to Invest in South Sudan
Juba - Major investors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been flocking to the new country in recent months seeking investment opportunities in various sectors. The investors said they were responding to the visits to their country by the South Sudan's vice-president, Riek Machar, in which he assured investors in the rich Arab nation of huge potentials as well as the attractive ...
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Angola Angola At African Canoeing Tournament in Tunisia
Luanda - The Angolan national team of canoeing will participate in the African junior and senior championship of Tunisia from November 17-25 this year, Angop learned from the federation. The information was released by the Canoeing Federation vice president, Francisco Freire, who confirmed Angola's registration for the competition. Francisco Freire explained that the ten Angolan athletes ...
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Somalia Somali Govt Begins Removing Illegal Roadblocks Outside Mogadishu
Mogadishu - The Somali government last week began a three-phase campaign to remove illegal roadblocks set up by militia members on the roads connecting Mogadishu to the Lower Shabelle capital of Marka and the Bay capital of Baidoa. For many years, these roadblocks have made travel costly and dangerous for traders, bus drivers and regular citizens who routinely travel between Mogadishu and the ...
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Ghana Ghana Pledges Support for Somalia
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has pledged his country's support for Somalia's reconstruction period, Ghana's Graphic Online reported Monday (May 20th). Mahama said he would raise issues related to Somalia at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa later this month. Mahama made the announcement during a meeting at the airport in Accra with Kenyan Deputy President William ...
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Will London Respond to Somalias Needs
I met Fatuma in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, late last year. A few days before we met, she had been raped by an armed militia man while she slept in one of the city’s camps for displaced people. She told me that she had nowhere to turn for redress. Months earlier, 13-year old Abdi told me how he had been kidnapped from school by armed Islamists from al-Shabaab and forced to serve in ...
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Ghana hires Barclays and Citigroup for bond
By Sudip Roy Wed May 22, 2013 3:18am EDT LONDON, May 22 (IFR) - Ghana has appointed Barclays and Citigroup as lead managers on a planned Eurobond, likely in dollars, according to banking sources away from the deal. The sovereign, which is rated B by Standard & Poor's and B+ by Fitch, would be the latest African sovereign to issue a bond in recent months, following sales by Rwanda, Tanzania ...
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Nigeria seeks help against Boko Haram
Niamey/Maiduguri - Nigeria has asked its northern neighbour Niger for help in an offensive against Boko Haram insurgents, as West African states try to cooperate against a spread of Islamist ...
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Nigeria $1bn fund to start investing
Nigeria would begin investing the initial $1 billion (R9.4bn) allocated to a new sovereign wealth fund by June, a statement from the fund showed, after it delayed the start date twice. Africa’s biggest oil producer is one of only three Opec member states that do not yet have a wealth fund (SWF) set up. Global markets and investors are closely watching Africa's second-biggest ...
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Liberia Govt Publishes Landmark Resource Audit but Needs to Address Findings
Publication of a full audit of how Liberia awarded its resource concessions between 2009 and 2011 is a global first, said campaigning watchdog Global Witness today. ...
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Libya Vast Borders Still a No-Mans Land for Most
Sharara oil fields . They, along fighters from the town of Zintan further north, are spearheading efforts - under the auspices of Libya's defence ministry - to secure the oil installation's vast perimeter from sabotage. They want to protect against attacks such as those last January at ...
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Sudan Horror Accident Kills 12 Sudanese Footballers in Chad
Umm Garas - A vehicle carrying a Sudanese refugee football team collided with a water tanker in eastern Chad on Sunday leaving 12 dead and eight others wounded. The men were returning from a friendly football match against a Chadian team on Sunday. The accident happened in the Umm Garas area, 30 kilometres from Kariari refugee camp. According to witnesses, fire broke out following the collision ...
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Algeria French Expatriate Fined for Calling Algerian Dirty Arab
A French expatriate has been given a three-month suspended sentence and fined for calling an Algerian employee a "dirty Arab". The worker he insulted was sacked two days after taking legal action against his boss. A court in Algiers found the commercial director of an office of Seita, a French company which is part of Imperial Tobacco and markets French cigarette brands abroad, ...
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Hainan Airlines chooses Ghana as first African investment destination
On May 3, the first turbine of the Bui Hydroelectric Power Station in the Republic of Ghana, financed and built by China, started generating electricity, adding 133 megawatts to Ghana's electricity grid. Funded with a concessional loan and buyer's credit by the China Export-Import Bank and constructed by the China Sinohydro Corporation, the Bui Hydroelectric Power Station, with a ...
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World Bank reviews $5.4bn investments in Nigeria
The World Bank on Tuesday began a review of its investments and activities worth $5.4bn in Nigeria. The investments are in 26 projects and involve 200 entities across the ...
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Nigeria take on Libya in Africa beach soccer
All eight teams participating at the African qualifiers that are taking place in El Jadida in Morocco from May 22 to 26 have the same goal: to reach the final match and grab one of two tickets for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup later this year in ...
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Somalias Displaced The Reform Test
"They don’t care about us," the Somali woman told us. "They don’t rescue us when the women are crying for help." She was describing the people who controlled her camp for displaced people in the capital city, Mogadishu. In fact, the voices of Somalia’s displaced have been regularly ignored, and often actively silenced. It is an important time to listen to ...
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Nigeria to Free All Female Islamist Suspects
Nigeria says it will release several Islamist suspects from prison, including the women in custody, as it seeks peace with Boko Haram extremists. The Defense Ministry said Tuesday the move is in line with what it calls "presidential magnanimity to enhance peace efforts." A panel set up by President Goodluck Jonathan is recommending the government open peace talks with Boko Haram ...
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Nigeria to release all women held for terrorism
Female student stands in a burnt classroom at Maiduguri Experimental School, a private nursery, primary and secondary school burnt by the Islamist group Boko Haram to keep children away from school in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria on May 12, 2012. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty ...
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Olumhense and journalism practice in Nigeria
What! Mr. Sonala Olumhense is giving up his column, or giving up writing? I wasn't sure. Within 48 hours, I sent him a private mail. He ...
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Mbeki faults AU on Mali crisis
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki, on Monday, criticised the African Union for delaying action on Mali crisis which necessitated the French ...
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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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