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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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Libya could produce more solar power than oil
Libya could generate approximately five times the amount of energy from solar power than it currently produces in crude oil, according to researchers. This would be achieved from only 0.1 percent of the desert country's ...
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Output at Libyas Abu Attifel oilfield to resume -source
TRIPOLI, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:15pm EDT TRIPOLI, June 19 (Reuters) - Production at Libya's Abu Attifel oilfield will resume on Thursday after a deal was reached with workers who had gone on strike over salaries, a source working at the field said. "There were talks with members of the national congress and production is set to resume on Thursday," the source told ...
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Nigeria Gunmen kill 48 in Zamfara state
lasted more than five hours and some of the gunmen positioned on the hill also shot at residents of neighboring villages who tried to help those in Kizara. "I woke up in the morning to get my children set for work on my farm. I suddenly started to hear gun shots. I listened attentively and I realized that sounds of the gun shots were coming directly behind me," said Alhaji Ali Hakimi, ...
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Militants storm UN compound in Somalia 20 killed
View Photo Associated Press/Farah Abdi Warsameh - African Union peacekeepers and unidentified foreigners stand outside the main U.N. compound, following an attack on it in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, ...
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Somalia Al-Shabaab Gunmen Attack UN Compound in Mogadishu
Nairobi - At least 15 people have been killed, including four foreigners, in a suicide and gun attack by Somali militant group al-Shabab on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Witnesses say security guards and gunmen exchanged fire for hours before government fighters regained full control of the compound after the attack. Wednesday's bombing and gun attack on the offices of ...
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Mali government rebels sign peace accord
Rebels in northern Mali signed a peace agreement with the Malian government, resolving a stumbling block to the West African country's reconstruction. The peace accord calls for the deployment of the army to Kidal, a Saharan outpost near the Algerian border held by the ethnic Tuareg group. It follows an intervention by the French military in early 2013 that help swing the momentum in the ...
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Armchair Travel Take a Trip to Nigeria with Writer Chinelo Okparanta
Happiness, Like Water '; comes out this August. Okparanta takes us to the country of her birth, Nigeria. Her three picks cover a lot of ground from Nigeria’s colonial past to the Biafran War of the late 1960′s and early ’70s to present day ...
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Group Exclude Chad troops from UN force in Mali
UNITED NATIONS -; A network of human rights groups on Wednesday criticized plans to include Chadian troops in a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali while Chad's military remains on a U.N. `list of shame' for child recruitment. But U.N. officials made clear they had no intention of excluding a country whose soldiers are considered among the best African desert ...
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Mali govt signs cease-fire accord with Tuareg rebels
OUAGADOUGOU--Mali's government signed a cease-fire accord with Tuareg rebels Tuesday, paving the way for presidential elections in the troubled west African state next ...
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The Nile belongs to Ethiopia too | Maaza Mengiste
A boat on the Nile in Cairo. 'The language emerging from the two nations evokes epic poetry; the clash of gods in the guise of men.' Photograph: Amr Abdallah ...
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Clock ticking as Mali organises urgent polls
Members of the Malian and Tuareg delegations shake hands after signing an agreement at a meeting on the Malian crisis on June 18, 2013 in Ouagadougou. The clock is ticking for Mali as it scrambles to organise key elections in less than 40 days following a ceasefire deal between the government and separatist Tuareg ...
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In South Sudan Ending Child Marriage Will Require a Comprehensive Approach
As South Sudan marks the Day of the African Child on Jun. 16 with the rest of the continent, it should take immediate and long-term steps to protect girls from this harmful practice and ensure the fulfillment of their human ...
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African mercenaries in Libya Fact or racism
Protesters in Libya insist that "African mercenaries," mostly from Niger and Chad, are used against them. Other sources deny this, fearing a possible racist origin of the ...
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Large budget aid programme for Tunisia
The World Bank reveals it is working on a US$ 500 million programme in budgetary support "to provide a boost" for Tunisia's transitional ...
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Niger Chad receive 75000 refugees from Libya
The governments of the poor Sahelian states of Niger and Chad are struggling to accommodate a total of 75,000 refugees crossing the Sahara desert from ...
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Police easily cracks down Cameroon protests
Cameroon's nation-wide anti-government protests started modestly today, with calls for President Paul Biya to step down. But protesters in Douala and ...
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Libya rebels shoot down fighter jets
Sources in Benghazi insist that three pro-Ghaddafi fighter jets were shot down today. In an attempt to bomb the city, the jets had to fly low and were ...
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Cameroon plans Egypt-like protests
Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible ...
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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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Tunisia arrests Muslim cleric for hardline sermon
TUNIS, Tunisia -; Tunisian police arrested an imam after he delivered a sermon described as "insubordinate," the Interior Ministry said Wednesday, in the first high-profile arrest since the government began taking a harder line toward religious ...
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Egypt and European Union Study Dispute with Ethiopia
Cairo, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi welcomed today Catherine Ashton, vice-president of the European Union (EU) and high representative for foreign affairs, and talked to her about the dispute for the construction of the Ethiopian super-dam, according to the official media. In the meeting, they talked about the opening of communication channels between Cairo and Addis ...
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Al-Shabaab The key to support of Islamist rebels was their navigation of Somalias competing complex of clans
In 2005 a few dozen Somalis declared themselves to be the youth wing of a new Islamic Courts movement that was becoming influential in a country ravaged by warlords and their battling militias.Shabaab (Arabic for "youth") emerged as the dominant force within the courts as they took control of the capital Mogadishu imposing some order on what had become the world's most failed ...
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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