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Tunisia says Sars-like virus killed elderly man
(21 mins ago) Tunisia's Health Ministry says a 66-year-old man has died after being infected with the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia. The ministry's statement reported that his son and daughter were also diagnosed with the virus but have been treated and since recovered, AP reports. The cases are the first for Tunisia and indicate that the virus is slowly ...
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Ex-Dolphin Chad Johnson bonds out of Broward jail | Video
Chad Johnson was jailed briefly Monday after he was accused of violating his probation on a domestic violence charge. Johnson, 35, pleaded no contest last year to a battery charge after his wife, reality TV ...
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Tunisia Man back from Saudi Arabia dies from coronavirus 2 children treated and recovered
TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's Health Ministry says a 66-year-old man has died after being infected by the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia. The ministry's statement reported that his son and daughter were also diagnosed with the virus but have been treated and since recovered. The cases are the first for Tunisia and indicate that the virus is slowly trickling out of the ...
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Tunisia Ansar Al-Sharia Defies Government
Najjar in Tunis - Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh for the first time on Sunday (May 19th) linked Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia to terrorism, AFP reported. "Ansar al-Sharia is an illegal organisation which defies and provokes state authority," Larayedh told Tunisian state television during a visit to Qatar. "It has ties to and is involved in terrorism," he said -- ...
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North Africa Maghreb Olympic and Athletic Festival to Be Created
Tunis - The idea of creating a Maghreb athletic and Olympic festival was broadly discussed at a working session held on Monday in Tunis between Tunisian National Olympic Committee (TNOC) President Mehrez Boussayene and members of the Executive Committee and President of the Algerian Olympic Committee Mustapha Berraf. The two sides agreed to establish contacts with national Olympic committees in ...
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Nigeria Survey - 30 Percent of Girls Get Raped
At least three in 10 young girls have sex for the first time ever through rape, says a survey. The survey by Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA) investigated reasons for high HIV prevalence and lower age of first sex among adolescents aged between 10 and 19 and found "forced sex was the third main reason for sexual debut" after love and peer pressure. More than 31.4% of ...
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Nigeria Passengers Stranded At Lagos Airport As Aviation Workers Begin Strike
Scores of air passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) as unions at the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) embarked on an indefinite strike. The workers, who spoke to our correspondent, said the strike was to press home their demand for the implementation of the salary structure approved by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages ...
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Liberia Multi-Million Dollar Medical College in Sight
A former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan has disclosed plans for the construction of a multi-million dollar medical college in Tappita, Nimba County. Dr. Sullivan who is also president emeritus of Moore House School of Medicine said his visit to Liberia is geared towards working with Doctor Karteh in the development of a medical college in the country. He ...
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Nigerias military takes back five rebel strongholds
Several thousand troops were last week deployed across three states where Islamic insurgents seized territory in the volatile region, and fighter jets have pounded Boko Haram camps as the military tried to rid the country of "terrorist activities". The military has "secured the environs of New Marte, Hausari, Krenoa, Wulgo and Chikun Ngulalo after destroying all the ...
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Algeria ‘in limbo’ before polls
Before the president's latest illness, supporters within the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) had made known their desire to see him seek a fourth term in the election scheduled for next ...
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Ghana’s Voter Register Appears Bloated
In Ghana today much of our political discourse has been reduced to a shouting match and who can make the most ridiculous pronouncements to an ever ready media overly absorbed by sensationalism. Amidst all the noise, however, certain truths or better still facts cannot be ignored. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) tables, as part of its contention, the notion that Ghana’s Electoral Commission ...
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Ghana Beyond The Supreme Court
Arthur Kobina Kennedy What will happen when the Supreme Court rules in the election dispute? Will there be peace or violence? That we were a divided country before December ...
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Toyota Ghana Supports Kaneshie Polyclinic
Takahiko Takabayashi (left) presenting the items to Mawutowu Kwesi Brese (right) with health officials. TOYOTA Ghana Company Limited has donated assorted items worth GH6,000 to the Kaneshie Polyclinic in Accra to refurbish the Tuberculosis and Human Immune Deficiency Virus Unit (TB/HIV). The items included 20 bags of cements, 20 packs of floor tiles, 10 gallons of oil and emulsion paint, a 32 ...
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Tunisia’s premier vows action after unrest
Tunis - Tunisia's Islamist premier Ali Larayedh on Monday vowed tough action against Ansar al-Sharia after bloody clashes between police and members of the radical Salafist group, hinting at a shift in government ...
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Libya Security Crisis Intensifies
Gunmen block a street near Libya's Ministry of Justice with military trucks in Tripoli (file photo). Tripoli - Libyan security services defused several car bombs and other explosives in the past two days, Prime Minister Ali Zidan said on Sunday (May 19th). The prime minister's press conference came in the wake of a string of bombings in both Benghazi and Tripoli. The attacks ...
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South Sudan Juba Summons Chinese Ambassador Over Oil Blockage
Juba - South Sudan on Monday summoned the Chinese ambassador to Juba to complain over an alleged blockage of the flow of its oil to international markets through Sudanese territory, government sources have said. Chinese companies dominate the South Sudanese oil industry having been welcomed into Sudan before the South seceded from the north in 2011 taking with 75% of the country's 500,000 ...
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Ghana Church Stampede 4 dead as 30 others dozens injured in the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Accra Africa News
The church is the branch of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria which is owed by Prophet TB Joshua. The incident occurred on Sunday morning around 10:00 local time when the church was reportedly to be distributing free holy water in their normal church service. The holy water is believed to have the ability to cure spiritual problems and driving demons and evil spirit away. ...
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Nigeria IMF Okays PIB - Calls for Early Passage
Global financial watchdog, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has commended Nigeria's Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, saying, it "would boost investment, government revenue, and fiscal transparency." The commendation was given in spite of varied criticisms by oil majors and other interest groups against some of the fiscal propositions in the bill. It was the first international ...
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Liberia Liberias Success Will Be Americas Success
On the second day of her visit to Washington, D.C., President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed a meeting of the Corporate Council on Africa's new Liberia Working Group, laying out her country's potential, as well as its challenges, and inviting U.S. companies to come in and invest, as other countries are doing, citing opportunities in such areas as construction, power, ports, and ...
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Ethiopia Over U.S. $100000 Was Raised in New York for Construction of Renaissance Dam
Over $100 thousand was raised for the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam at Ethiopian Renaissance Day organized in New York on Saturday, sources from the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs indicated. The Day was organized by the Ethiopian Renaissance Council in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut with the cooperation of the Ethiopian Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The ...
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Ethiopia Ethiopia Lifts 10 Million Out of Extreme Poverty in a Decade
GPS recently published a thoughtful piece on how global poverty rates are falling fast. It argued that one country in particular is almost solely responsible for this dramatic trend: China. Regarding the rest of the world, however, it said progress "has been much, much slower - if there's been progress at all." It's true that China's case is remarkable - both in terms ...
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Nigeria Investment in Sovereign Wealth Fund Starts June With U.S.$200 Million
Barely seven months after the inauguration of the board of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the organisation has said it would commence investment of the $1 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund with initial $200 million from next month. The managing director the NSIA, Dr Uche Orji, stated yesterday in Abuja that the NSIA is now fully operational and that the board has already met ...
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Ethiopia Sweden Wants to Reinforce Relation With Ethiopia
Sweden seeks partnership with Ethiopia to build its relation with Africa on a new foundation, Swedish Ministers said on Monday. The remark came up while Sweden's Minister of Finance Anders Borg and Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson held discussion with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa. The Ministers said the economic growth of Africa and ...
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Ethiopia Ministry to Plant Six Billion Tree Seedlings
The Ministry of Agriculture has said preparations are underway nationwide to plant six billion tree seedlings in the upcoming rainy season. According to the Ministry, 70 percent of the 3.6 billion tree seedlings planted in the previous season is in a well condition. Tree seedlings are planted every year to assist the soil and water conservation works undertaken by farmers through biological ...
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Ethiopia Melaku Fenta Et Al.-3rd Day in Court
Melaku Fenta, former Director General of the Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority, revoked his claim for legal immunity on Friday. In the previous hearing, Melaku's lawyer had claimed that his client was still protected by legal immunity as a member of the Addis Ababa City Cabinet. The Court said Melaku's right to legal immunity was not corroborated by evidence and ordered proof ...
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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