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Tunisia bans conservative Islamist conference
TUNIS, Tunisia -; Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the ...
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Nigeria Military Kills Extremists in New Offensive
Abuja, 17 May (Prensa Latina) Soldiers in northeast Nigeria shelled suspected camps of Islamic extremists in the first military action of a new offensive against the insurgents, killing several people, a security official said Friday. The fighting was happening in the Sambisa Forest Reserve, just south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, which soldiers previously raided on the hunt for ...
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Nigerian security troubles United Nations
Goodluck Jonathan this week declared a state of emergency for three northern states in response to threats from Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Militants suspected to be from Boko Haram killed more than 40 people in attacks on a village in northern Nigeria last week. At least 200 people died and more than 2,000 homes were destroyed in a recent military raid seen as a response to a Boko ...
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Nigeria Steps Up Assaults on Militants in Northeast
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In Nigeria More Attacks On Militants
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Secretary-General Appoints Albert Gerard Koenders of the Netherlands as Special Representative for Mali
of the Netherlands as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali ...
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UN agency prepositions for Darfur refugees in Chad ahead of rainy season
Print 17 May 2013 – With tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in eastern Chad, the United Nations refugee agency today said it is ';in a race against time'; to deliver aid before heavy rains cut off access to the group escaping violence linked to tribal conflicts. The UN Refugee Agency ...
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U.S. warns of violence in Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast could quickly deteriorate despite recent security gains, the U.S. State Department warned. Ivory Coast was pushed to the brink of civil following contested elections in 2010. Former Ivorian ...
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Air Strikes Hit Nigerias Militant Camps
Nigerian forces have launched air strikes against suspected Islamist militant camps in the country's northeast. A military spokesman said all known militant camps in three northeastern states are being attacked and that several camps in Borno state have been destroyed or taken over. The spokesman, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, said earlier Friday that the attacks killed an ...
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Nigeria - Nigerian reporter slapped detained for photographing policeman
newspaper, was assaulted and detained by police officers after trying to photograph a brawl between a police officer and a commercial tricycle operator. Police also seized Folarin's reporting ...
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Chatter Nigeria launches offensive against Boko Haram militants
Nigeria's army fights back against militant Islamists in the restive northeast, the IRS mess continues, and a new study that will make you think twice before you go jump in the ...
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Ghana Will Stand By Supreme Court’s Decision – Asantehene
The Asantehene further called on government appointees to collaborate with their superiors in an attempt to secure the social-economic development of the ...
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Sudan minister visits South Sudan to say it has evidence the south is supporting Sudan rebels
Sudan's foreign affairs minister says Sudan has evidence that South Sudan provided military assistance to rebels inside Sudan. Ali Ahmed Karti and the head of Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services met South Sudan President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's capital on Friday. Karti told reporters that South Sudan is assisting armed groups in Sudan's South Kordofan ...
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Algerias aging regime restive youth makes for a volatile political mix in North Africa
FOR STORY ALGERIA GENERATION'S END - Tahar Belabes, one of the few activists in Algeria that has succeeded in mobilizing the youth, during a meeting in Algiers on April 29, 2013, Belabes denies being a revolutionary "I am a simple activist demanding his rights." he said. The generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Algeria for the last half-century is reaching its ...
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Ghana Two New Steel Firms Start Operations
Two new steel manufacturing companies, with a combined capacity of 30,000 metric tonnes, are expected to commence operations in Ghana by the end of next month. They are Rider Steel, Jordanian-owned, with a capacity of 5,000 metric tonnes, and United Steel Limited, Lebanese-owned, which has a capacity of 25,000 metric tonnes, and are expected to employ about 500 workers. This brings to seven, ...
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Ghana Publicise Oil Mining Contracts Now
Ghana is reportedly ranked 15th on the latest World Mining Index. The index is said to list 58 mining countries across the globe, and rates the level of transparency in each country's mining sector. At 5th position, Ghana emerges as the best country in sub-Saharan Africa to have undertaken major reforms to enthrone transparency in the mining industry. However, according to the African ...
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Liberia Water Prices Hiked
Barely few days after the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) announced that it has begun pumping water to central Monrovia, the corporation has increased tariff to meet the new demands. But the Corporation is beset with new challenges of water theft and water undermining by unscrupulous individuals while it strives to pump water to central Monrovia and its surrounding communities. ...
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Ghana Ministry Google Introduce Innovative Ghana
The Ministry of Trade and Industry, in collaboration with Google, has introduced an initiative known as "Innovation Ghana" to get Ghanaians to appreciate the use of the internet, and its impact on the Ghanaian economy. According to the collaborators, Innovation Ghana aims at strengthening and encouraging local products and services created by Ghanaians for Ghanaians. Innovation Ghana ...
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Ghana – Forget It We Can Never Make It. Period
Ghana Flag "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" – which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" - Mathew 27:46 "A crisis that reoccurs a second time is a crisis that must not occur again. A well-managed plant, I soon learned is a quiet place. A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have ...
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Warrant issued for Chad Johnsons arrest in Fla.
Chad Johnson in South Florida. The state attorney's office confirmed Thursday that a Broward circuit judge issued a warrant May 7 against Johnson for failing to report to his probation officer. Johnson received a year of probation last September after pleading no contest to a domestic violence charge involving his former wife, reality TV star Evelyn Lozada. The six-time Pro Bowl player ...
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Chad to arrest ex-presidents allies
N'DJAMENA - Chad has charged four allies of the country's former president with human rights abuses and issued warrants for their arrest, a senior government source said on ...
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Kidnapped Brit killed in Nigeria inquest
London - A British construction worker taken hostage in Nigeria was shot dead by his Islamist kidnappers minutes after the start of a joint UK and Nigerian rescue operation at the compound where they were held, his inquest heard on ...
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Chad seeks arrest of exiled presidents allies
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad has charged four allies of the country's former president with human rights abuses and issued warrants for their arrest, a senior government source said on ...
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Liberia House Invites PUL Warrick
The House of Representatives has invited the leadership of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) and the Director of the Executive Protection Service (EPS) Othello Warrick over 'terror threat' against the Liberian Media. The House's decision was based on two separate communications from Representatives Richmond Anderson and Munah Pelham-Youngblood of Montserrado County. The two ...
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Liberia LACC Britain to Collaborate
Britain's Ambassador to Liberia, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet says the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) prioritizes the fight against corruption in Liberia and would therefore collaborate with the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) in enhancing its work. Speaking recently when he paid a courtesy call on the Executive Chairperson and Members of the LACC, Ambassador Dyet expressed ...
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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