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Gabon nets US$1.7bn Singaporean investments
Gabonese authorities have managed to secure investments worth a total of US$ 1.7 billion from Singapore, including a new fertilizer plant to be set up outside Port Gentil and palm oil ...
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Foreign intervention in Libya more probable
As the situation in Libya, especially Tripoli, is nearing a humanitarian disaster, a foreign intervention is becoming more probable. The reasons for a legitimate intervention have already been ...
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Sudan suspends two newspapers as it clamps down on the media
The African country temporarily suspended two of its biggest newspapers to punish them for writing about army operations against rebels and the future plans of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, editors said on Saturday. Sudan clamped down on independent media, think-tanks and non-governmental groups since it discovered plans for a coup against Bashir's government in ...
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Chinese vice premier meets with AU rotating chairman in Ethiopia
Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn (R), who is also rotating chairman of the African Union (AU), meets with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang (L), who is also Chinese President Xi Jinping's special representative, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 24, 2013. (Xinhua/Liang ...
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Kerry accuses Sudan leader of repression in war-torn regions
US Secretary of State JohnKerrySaturday accused Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of repressing the people of the South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions and trying to impose Islamic rule on ...
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Nigeria Governors Forum and the Defeat of the Garrison Candidates A Prelude to 2015 By Salihu Moh. Lukman
By Salihu Moh. Lukman The election of Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) finally held on Friday, May 24 and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has emerged victorious. Polling 19 votes out of 35 and his opponent Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau got 16 votes. The election result was significant not just for the NGF but for the nation's democracy. One governor, Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe ...
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Sudan suspends two biggest dailies for critical coverage editors
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security services temporarily suspended the country's two biggest newspapers to punish them for writing about army operations against rebels and the future plans of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, editors said on ...
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Nigeria AU Endorses Country for UN Non-Permanent Seat
Addis Ababa - Nigeria yesterday recorded a major diplomatic victory at the on going conference of the African Union, AU, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as her candidacy for the non-permanent seat in the United Nations, UN, Security Council, was unanimously endorsed by member countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, who briefed newsmen on the development in Addis Ababa ...
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Nigeria How Amaechi Was Re-Elected
After many weeks of intrigues and horsetrading, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was re-elected as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF, beating his lone rival, Jonah Jang of Plateau State. It was even an anticlimax that Jang ended up as Amaechi's sole challenger, having not been in the frame throughout the preparations for the tensed vote. But Saturday ...
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Ghana GSFP Lack Legislation to Guarantee Status - Adamu
Takoradi - The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Mr. Seidu Adamu, has observed that though the programme was consistent with the developmental strategies of the government, and resonates well with many national institutions and the general public, there was no clear government policy or legislation that guaranteed its status. He said the need to develop a ...
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Ghana Contribution of Forests to Food Security Needs Attention
Governments, civil society and the private sector should ensure and strengthen the contributions of forests, trees and agroforestry systems to food security and nutrition, said participants in the first-ever International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition, organised by the FAO. Globally, millions of people depend on forests for their livelihoods - directly through the ...
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Nigeria 18426 Youths From SSouth Employed Under Sure-P Scheme - Labour Minister
Asaba - OVER eighteen thousand youths have so far been recruited under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment (SURE-P) scheme from the South-South geopolitical zone of the country, Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu has said. Wogu who stated this in Asaba yesterday during the sensitization and appraisal tour named the South- South states that benefited from the SURE-P ...
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Ethiopia crackdown on opposition to prevent protests
The Ethiopian opposition reports that over 250 of its central members have been arrested during the week. The arrests are seen in connection with a planned mass ...
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Ethiopias Ogaden rebels issue famine alert
Rebel groups in Ogaden fighting the Ethiopian government warn of a "severe drought" in the region, which could develop into famine. They claim government is withholding ...
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Gabon opposition chief faces treason case
Mr Obame leads the one-year-old National Union party, uniting many of Gabon's main opposition parties. In the August 2009 presidential election, Mr Obame stood as an independent candidate, losing out to interim President Ali Bongo. The Gabonese opposition leader in January created international headlines as he declared himself winner of the elections held 17 months earlier. The declaration ...
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Cameroon limits social media services
The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ...
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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 ...
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Rush to recognise South Sudan
Headed by the US and (north) Sudan, there is an international rush to announce that South Sudan will be recognised as an independent state as soon as independence is declared in ...
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Cameroon new gorillas need protection
A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only living ...
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Tunisia Yacht Worth About $ 5 Million Restored to Tunisia
Tunis - A yacht which belonged to Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of the deposed president, was handed over, on Friday, at the pier of the Navy in La Goulette Port. The pleasure boat had been confiscated then returned from Spain last April 28 by the Tunisian Stolen Asset Recovery ...
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Tunisia Countrys Security Situation Requires Maintaining of Emergency State Defence Minister
Carthage - "It is very likely that the emergency state is extended and firmly applied," National Defence Minister Rachid Sabbagh said on Friday. The Minister specified, after a meeting of the National Security Council, in Carthage palace, with attendance of the three Presidents, that the current security situation imposes maintaining of the emergency state which is presently applied ...
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Tunisia IBD to Hold First Investment Forum in Tunisia
Tunis - The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will organise, in June 2013, the first investment forum in Tunisia to be held as part of the Deauville co-operation. Minister of Development and International Co-operation Lamine Doghri commended the offer presented by the IDB concerning the completion of the elaboration of a strategic partnership document with Tunisia (2013/2015), a statement ...
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Ghana GHOSPA Against Setting Up of Committee
Kumasi - The Government and Hospital Pharmacists Association (GHOSPA) says the government's decision to set up a committee to look into its grievances, amounted to political interference. The association stated that setting aside the National Labour Commission's (NLC) ruling on the matter undermined the independence of the institution. At a press conference in Kumasi, Spokesperson ...
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Tunisia Tunisian-Qatari Company to Import Frozen Poultry Meat
Tunis - The Tunisian-Qatari Company of Food Industries voiced readiness to import important quantities of frozen poultry meat from Tunisia to Qatar. The decision was expressed by the executives of the company during their talk, in Qatar, with Trade and Handicrafts Minister Abdelwahab Maatar, a Trade Ministry's statement, published on Friday, ...
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Tunisia Tunis Hosts Third Joint Commission Meeting On Science and Technology Co-Operation
Tunis - The third Tunisia-India Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Co-operation was held on Friday in Tunis. Partnership activities as part of the India-Africa Initiative, particularly the project of support to the Tunis-based Institut de Pasteur and the post-doctoral scholarships programme topped the agenda of the meeting, a Higher Education Ministry press release ...
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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