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Nigeria Excess Crude Account Drops to U.S.$5.27 Billion
The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Yerima Ngama, has said that the country's Excess Crude Account (ECA) has dropped to $5.27billion. He made this known after the monthly Federal Accounts Allocation Committee(FAAC) meeting in Abuja. Following the outcome of the FAAC meeting, the National Economic Council (NEC) approved total sum of $2 billion for distribution to the three tiers of ...
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Sudan Khartoum Behind Fresh Wave of Violence Over Gold in Darfur - Report
Khartoum - A new report argues that the Sudanese government's struggle for control of Darfur's gold resources, rather than inter-tribal conflicts is behind the recent surge in violence in the war-torn western region. The report, titled Darfur's Gold Rush: State-Sponsored Atrocities 10 Years after the Genocide, has cast doubt on official rhetoric from Khartoum that tribal ...
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Nigeria Okonjo-Iweala Maku Okoh Ndukwe Pay Tributes As Achebe Burial Rites Begin
The burial rites for the eminent novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe who died on March 2, 2013, in the United States began Sunday in Abuja with a commendation service at the National Christian Centre, Abuja. Some of the personalities at the service include the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Information Minister, Labaran Maku; former Anambra State governor, Jim Nwobodo and the Primate of ...
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Nigeria Who Should Be the Next CBN Governor
It is an almost trivial assertion to state that political imperatives and economic necessities often contradict each other. Central banks reside at the intersection of politics and economics and are therefore potential arenas of conflict between the preferences of politicians and what is considered prudent macroeconomic policy by appointed technocrats. In anticipation of such conflict, ...
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Nigeria Jonathan to Drop Orubebe Three Others in Cabinet Reshuffle
There are possible indications that President Goodluck Jonathan might have concluded plans to offload four ministers from his cabinet in a reshuffle that is about to take place this month. The four ministers-Elders Godsday Orubebe, Mr. Bala Muhammad, Stella Odua and Labaran Maku, are said to have indicated interest in the 2015 election and had obtained the tacit approval of Mr. President to ...
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Sudan UN Humanitarian Chief to Visit Sudan
Khartoum - The head of the UN Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is scheduled to make a three-day visit to Sudan later this month. Valerie Amos, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, is due to arrive on 20 May. OCHA says she plans to meet with officials from the Sudanese government and representatives from humanitarian ...
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South Sudan S. Sudan Warns Security Forces Militias Over Violence Against Civilians
Juba - South Sudan president, Salva Kiir has warned armed rebel groups and "ill-disciplined" elements within the regular security forces to halt violence against innocent civilians in the country. The president's warning comes in the wake of the growing violence, largely blamed on armed rebel groups, against civilians in its Jonglei state and other parts of the country. ...
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Sudan Unity State - Five Police and One Solider Die in Koch-Mayom Clashes
Bentiu - Five Unity state policemen and one soldier were killed in Buoth district of Koch county on Friday in an attack local authorities have blamed on youth from neighbouring Mayom county. The incident follows tension and clashes this week along the county border, which separates the Bul Nuer of Mayom and the Jageay Nuer of Koch county. On Tuesday a cattle raid by Bul Nuer youth killed two ...
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Sudan Murder Suspect Shot After Escaping From Rumbek Prison
Juba - A murder suspect who escaped from Rumbek's main prison over a month ago was shot in the Malual-Kodi area of Lakes state on Thursday by wardens from South Sudan Prison Services. A senior security official in Rumbek told Sudan Tribune that Maciec Maker Yomdit was shot during an operation to recapture him after they obtained information of his presence in the town. "Our forces ...
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Nigeria Proceeds of Last Flight to Abuja to Go to Dana Air Victims
Basking on its success at the cinema, coupled with an award for "best film by an African Abroad" at AMAA 2013 in Bayelsa, popular movie on air safety, "Last Flight To Abuja", has revealed plans to avail half of the proceeds from box office takings to the victims of Dana air crash, to mark the first anniversary of the accident which claimed over 150 lives. The movie, which ...
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Nigeria No Management Contract With Rivers to Operate Aircraft - Caverton
Caverton Helicopters has told the House of Representative Committee on Aviation, and its counterpart on Justice that they had no management contract with Rivers State government to operate its aircraft and consequently could not have been under pressure to disown it over the aircraft. Caverton had reacted to the House Committees request to supply information concerning the Bombadier aircraft, ...
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Nigeria AD Decries Tricycle Ban in Lagos
Lagos - A chieftain of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in Lagos, Chief Kola Ajayi, on Sunday decried the banning of commercial tricycles on major highways in Lagos. Mr Kayode Opeifa,the Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, had on May 10, announced the ban at a news conference in Lagos. Opeifa said that operation of the tricycles, popularly called Keke Marwa, constituted a nuisance on ...
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Nigeria Imposition of 35 Percent Import Duty On CPO Detrimental to Industries
The recent imposition of 35 percent duty on importation of Crude Palm Oil, CPO, into the country by the federal government is beginning to take a toll on associated food industries, as they have started to experience acute shortages in supply of the product, industry stakeholders have said. They lamented that Nigeria produces a meagre 750,000 MT to 800,000 MT of CPO every year as against ...
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World Tunisia police clash with Islamists
Police also clashed with protesters in the central city of Kairouan where the Ansar al-Sharia meeting was planned. The government banned the congress last week, saying it posed a threat to public security. The group urged its supporters instead to gather for the meeting in Ettadhamen. Some 500 supporters were reported to have descended on Ettadhamen on Sunday, erecting barricades and hurling ...
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World Nigeria offers amnesty to insurgents who surrender
amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush ...
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Somalia Elders Oppose MPs Motion Against the Prime Minister.
Traditional elders who selected the parliament have warned the motion against Prime Minister Shirdon. A large turnout was made by the elders who helped to appoint members of the parliament and have requested the parliament to stop the motion against the cabinet. The elders said the current cabinet restored international relations and ties which was lost two decades ago. They also said that the ...
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Somalia We Request Amisom and Govt Troop Forces to Intervene Between the Two Opposing Sides
Internal affairs and security minister Abdi Karin Hussein Guled addressing the media requested AMISOM troops from Kenya based in Kismayu and government troops to intervene and reconcile the two opposing sides in Kismayu. The minister said it was the responsibility of the foreign troops to maintain peace in the region. The minister added that the federal troops in Kismayu and AMISOM troops in ...
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Somalia Meeting Held in Mogadishu to Address the Situation in Juba Regions.
A large meeting organized by IGAD addressing issues of Jubba regions and the current political turmoil facing the region was today held in Mogadishu. The meeting was attended by elders, politicians, Somali elite group and members of the public organizations. Consultations and opinions were shared in the meeting by politicians and other officials who attended the meeting. Mohamed Omar Gedi who ...
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Sudan UNHCR In Race Against Time to Deliver Aid to Sudanese Refugees in Chad
Tissi - Following the displacement of tens of thousands of people from Sudan to Chad, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is "in a race against time" to deliver aid to them before the rainy seasons begins. In a press briefing on Friday, UNHCR spokesman Dan McNorton said the agency "is requisitioning aid for tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in eastern Chad amid ...
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Somalia Ruto Lobbies for More AU Troops in Somalia
Nairobi - Deputy President William Ruto has called on the African Union to increase its military presence in Somalia in order to ensure regional stability. Speaking as he represented President Uhuru Kenyatta on a tour of four African nations, the deputy president said the political instability in Somalia has led to the proliferation of small arms and increased terrorist attacks from the Al ...
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Somalia No Sovereignty without Security
A Somali soldier stands guard at the Dadaab refugee camp on Aug. 15, 2011, in Dadaab, Somalia, where thousands of Somalis wait for government assistance. (Photo: homeros, ...
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One more French soldiers killed in Mali Elysee
PARIS, April 29 (Xinhua) -- A French soldier was killed on Monday in northern Mali, bringing the total death toll of French servicemen in the conflict-torn country to six since French forces started a military operation in January, the Elysee Palace said. French President Francois Hollande expressed in an online statement "his great sadness" for the death of one more French soldier in ...
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4 injured after 5.5-magnitude quake hits off Algerias Bejaia source
Four people were injured after an earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale hit off Algeria's northern coastal province of Bejaia on Sunday morning, a local media source told Xinhua. The earthquake which took place at 10:07 am (0907 GMT) on Sunday, and the epicenter was in the sea -- some 20 km northeast of downtown Bejaia, the capital of Bejaia province and a Mediterranean ...
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Algeria plans to build its 1st nuclear plant in 2025
Algeria plans to build its first nuclear plant in 2025 to cope with the country's soaring electricity consumption, the official APS news agency reported Sunday, citing Minister of Energy and Mines, Yousef Yousfi."We plan to set up our first nuclear power plant in 2025, and we are working on it," Yousfi was quoted as saying in a press conference in capital Algiers.Algeria's ...
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Salafist protester killed in clashes with Tunisia security forces
Radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police officers after Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned their annual conference supposed to be held in Kairouan, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Sunday May 19, 2013. Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist ...
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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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