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Liberia LBS Director Bows to Pressure
The Director General of the Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) Darryl Ambrose Nmah has finally bowed to the House of Representatives' pressure by instructing a Ghanaian national to resign. His decision follows a unanimous resolution passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday, June 13, 2013, ordering him (Ambrose Nmah) to advertise the Media and Marketing Manager Position being ...
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Libyas transition can benefit from political dialogue UN
New York, June 19 : Managing Libya's democratic transition is bound to be difficult given the legacy of decades of brutal rule, a senior United Nations envoy told the Security Council Tuesday, adding that the country could benefit from a national political dialogue on the way ...
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UN concerned over refugee outflows from Nigeria crisis
New York, June 19 : The United Nations refugee agency Tuesday reported that the ongoing crisis in north-eastern Nigeria is continuing to send people fleeing to Niger and now to Cameroon amid the insecurity resulting from confrontations between the army and ...
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Nigeria Gunmen Kill 77 in Zamfara Maiduguri
About 50 people were killed yesterday in Kizara village of Tsafe local government area of Zamfara State by group of gunmen suspected to be cattle wrestlers. The gunmen numbering about 150 and riding motorcycles besieged the village at about 4am, and suddenly opened fire on any adult community member on sight. The gunmen also killed the village head, Mallam Lawali Madawaki, the chief Imam ...
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Nigeria Nigeria Drops Arms Importation Charges Against Eight Russians Prosecutes Seven Others
The Federal Government on Tuesday dropped the charges against eight out of the 15 Russian sailors charged with unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria. They are Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Lopatin Alexey, Baranovskly Nikolay, Llia Shubov, Dimitry Bannyrh, Alexander Tsarikov and Kononov Sergel. The 15 sailors had appeared before a Federal High Court, Lagos, on a four-count charge for ...
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Ophir Spuds Starfish Well Offshore Ghana
Africa-focused independent oil firm Ophir Energy reported Wednesday that it has begun drilling the Starfish-1 well in its Accra production sharing contract, offshore Ghana. The Starfish-1 well is located in 4,920 feet of water and has a target depth of 12,630 feet. Its aim is to test a stratigraphic onlap trap. Ophir estimates mean prospective resources of around 292 million barrels of oil ...
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Nigeria Islamists kill 9 students in school attack medical worker
students , witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days. Witness Ibrahim Mohammed said he was taking exams in a classroom ...
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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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First Ghana France Higher Education Conference opens
Accra, June 18, GNA - Professor Naana Jane Opoku- Agyemeng, Minister of Education on Tuesday said Government welcomes discussions on the need for a Council for Higher Education and Research solely dedicated to the core business of Universities and Research institutions in ...
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South Sudan South Sudan President Suspends Two Ministers for Corruption Probe
Juba - South Sudan's president Salva Kiir Mayardit has suspended two federal ministers from their duties and lifted their immunities to be investigated for a corruption related case. In a republican order read on the state-owned South Sudan TV on Tuesday, Kiir suspended the minister of Cabinet Affairs, Deng Alor Kuol and the minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Kosti Manibe Ngai, and ...
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Nigeria Jonathan Calls for Global Co-Operation Against Terrorism
President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja on Tuesday called for greater global co-operation and co-ordination in the war against terrorism. Jonathan made the call while receiving the new ambassadors of Israel, Russia, Greece, Algeria and Senegal who presented their letters of credence to him during separate visits to the Presidential Villa. He said Nigeria and other countries would benefit ...
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Nigeria Mass Infanticide in America
A report from the office of the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that, in 2009 alone, 784,708 successful abortions were carried out in that country. "That's a breathtaking number, no matter which side of the abortion debate you sit on," the report admits. "What this statistic doesn't convey is a more mysterious number: how many ...
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Somalia Jubaland Official Wounded in Kismayo
Kismayo - A Jubaland government official was wounded in the tense port city of Kismayo on Tuesday and is being treated by AMISOM medical officials, Garowe Online reports. Yasin Nur (Radar) Kismayo Deputy Mayor was wounded reportedly by an armed solider in Kismayo while he was on a main juncture in the coveted port city. Mr. Radar had worked closely with Jubaland state President Sheikh Ahmed ...
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MLB Arizona 3 Miami 2
Paul Goldschmidt homered in the bottom of the ninth Tuesday to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 3-2 win over the Miami Marlins. Goldschmidt sent the second pitch ...
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WorleyParsons shares rise on Nigeria deal
SHARES in mining engineer WorleyParsons are up three per cent after a South Korean shipbuilding giant awarded it a $US100 million ($A105.97 million) offshore oil and gas contract in ...
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Western Sahara Western Sahara - the Inconvenient Uprising Nobody Wants to Talk or Hear About
London - The British digital common, Open Democracy has published yesterday, Monday, an article on the situation in Western Sahara where it affirmed that Western Sahara represents "the inconvenient uprising nobody wants to talk (or hear) about" HICHAM YEZZA, the articles writer confirmed that "In Oct 2010 - before Tunisia, before Tahrir Square, before Occupy Wall Street and Gezi ...
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Somalia Somaliland Bars Federal Govt Authorized Aircraft From Landing
Hargeisa - Somaliland government rejected an aircraft attempting to land at Egal International Airport in Hargeisa on Tuesday, after Somaliland officials said the plane requested to use airspace from the Somali Federal Government (SFG), Garowe Online reports. Somaliland's Ministry of Aviation released a press release on Tuesday detailing the incident that forced a SS34 aircraft to double ...
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Ghana Woyome to Strike Back ... As Duffour Explains Stance
The ramifications of the Supreme Court ruling on the €47 million paid as judgment debt to Waterville Holdings Ltd. and other judgment debts paid by the state in at least the last five years are becoming a subject of keen interest to many Ghanaians. The Supreme Court on Friday, 14 June, 2012, ordered Waterville Holdings Ltd. to return to the state the €47 million it claimed as judgment ...
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S. Sudan Could Drop Austerity Budget as Oil Flows
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- South Sudan’s Council of Ministers has submitted a $5.6 billion dollar national budget to parliament for the new fiscal year, more than double the country’s current austerity budget. But officials warned that they are prepared to slash spending if oil production is shut down again over a new row with Sudan, which has accused Juba of backing rebels in the north ...
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China Ghana work closely to tackle illegal mining
China and Ghana are working closely to properly handle the issue of Chinese nationals engaged in illegal gold mining in the West African country, a senior Chinese official said here on Tuesday.Gong Jianzhong, the Chinese ambassador to Ghana, told a press conference that the issue of Chinese nationals involved in illegal mining activities in Ghana was a disharmony in the course of development of ...
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US company to build 1000 MW thermal plant in Ghana
General Electric (GE) Group of the United States will partner the government of Ghana in the development of a 1,000 MW thermal plant, officials from the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum disclosed here on Tuesday.The project, under a program named "Ghana 1000MW Project" for the West African country, aims to introduce the Power Park Concept to ensure low cost of power and fast ...
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8 Russian Sailors Acquitted in Nigeria Arms Smuggling Case
arrested near the West African country’s coast in October 2012 on arms smuggling charges. The sailors were the crew of the MV Myre Seadiver vessel owned by Moscow-based security firm Moran Security Group. Nigerian authorities detained the Myre Seadiver ship with the Russian crew in the port of Lagos on October 19 last year after finding weapons, including 14 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault ...
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Chad Johnson Ive learned my lesson after jail
Chad Johnson wants another chance after seven days in jail and hopes to play football again. (Larry Marano/Getty Images) NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson said Tuesday morning in his first interview since being released from a Florida jail a day earlier that he knows some people may believe he doesn’t deserve a second chance, but he wants to ';finish my career off the right ...
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UN envoy says Libya faces urgent challenges in move to democracy after decades of dictatorship
The top U.N. envoy to Libya warned Tuesday that the country faces urgent challenges as it struggles to instil democracy after decades of dictatorship, including growing political polarization, weak institutions that can't deal with escalating security problems and thousands of conflict-related detainees waiting to be charged or released. Tarek Mitri told the U.N. Security Council that ...
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REFILE-Algeria probes state power boss over Alstom GE deals
Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:52am EDT By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS, June 19 (Reuters) - Algeria is investigating the head of its state power and gas utility, Sonelgaz, over contracts involving U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co and France's Alstom SA, sources told Reuters and Algerian local media reported. "The case is about inflating costs in deals with U.S. firm General Electric and French firm ...
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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