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South Sudan president suspends two ministers in fraud inquiry
South Sudan 's government that aid payments are at risk unless it tackles the corruption undermining development in a country devastated from decades of civil war with Sudan, from which it seceded in 2011. Last year, Kiir wrote to 75 current and former officials to ask them to return $4 billion in "stolen" public money, but no senior figure had been publicly put ...
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Liberia Suggestion Not Decision - CDC Chair Says of Forhs Expulsion
Opposition Congress For Democratic Change (CDC) chairman George Solo has clarified that the party has not taken any decision to expell Representative Edward Forh for alleged corrupt act. Solo told journalists Monday that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party is looking into the report and recommendation made by the committee the party set up months ago to probe the lawmaker's ...
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Liberia Liberias Armed Forces Platoon to Take Off for Peacekeeping Duties in Mali
MONROVIA: An infantry platoon-size unit of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) departs the country on tomorrow, Thursday, June 20, to join the Africa International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA). They will be embedded into the Nigerian battalion, with First Lieutenant Nathaniel Waka serving as Commander of the platoon unit. This will be the first time that Liberia is participating in ...
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Liberia Mercenaries Plead Not Guilty
The 19 persons accused of various crimes--murder, rape, mercenarism and theft--have pleaded not guilty to the charge of mercenaries which brought them to criminal court "D" after their first appearance in criminal court "B" for the charge of murder. The will appear in each of the separate courts--A, B, C, D and E--to defend themselves from charges against them. Cllr Tiawan ...
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Ghana The Electoral Commission Again
It would appear that the year 2012 is the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana's year of nemesis. For the first time in its 21 years or so history, the outcome of its presidential election has landed in the bosom of the Justices of the Supreme Court for determination on point of law, as to who really won that election. The declared loser, the New Patriotic Party's (NPP's) Nana ...
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Ghana MPs Mad At GES for Barring Pregnant Students From Writing Exam
Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday registered their displeasure about how some Junior High School (JHS) students were walked out of their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) because they were pregnant. According to the lawmakers, the BECE examination was not like the Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) which allows for students to write their examination, even after ...
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Liberia Margibi Transit Authority Bill Drafted
A bill seeking to establish a transit authority in Margibi County or the Margibi Transit Authority (MTA) has been drafted and will be submitted to the national legislature soon for enactment. The County's Senior Senator and business tycoon Oscar A. Cooper made the disclosure Sunday (June 9) when he spoke to journalists in the county. The intent of establishing the Authority is to provide ...
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Libyas Foreign Minister defects
On a flight to the UK, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has asked for asylum, saying he wants to leave the Ghaddafi government. Mr Koussa was seen as one of Colonel Ghaddafi's most trusted ...
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Malta airport not open for Libya strikes
Malta, Libya's closest European neighbour, denies its airport will be open for "any military strike against Libya" by the coalition preparing to implement the no-fly ...
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Libya rebels hold key city Ajdabiya
Despite a further advance eastward by Ghaddafi troops, the Libyan rebels claim to be able to hold the city of Ajdabiya, which is key to stop an advance to Benghazi and ...
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Algeria protests risk losing momentum
Organisation errors by the protest movement and clever manoeuvres by the government are strongly challenging the pro-democracy protests in Algeria. It is unsure when new protests will be ...
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Niger transition shows way for North Africa
With Saturday's second-round presidential elections, Niger ends a model one-year all-inclusive democratic transition process. The process could be an example for the revolutions in Egypt and ...
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Gabon officials seize chimpanzee body parts
Wildlife officers in Gabon have arrested five men accused of possessing illegal animal products, including those of endangered species. As there are traditions of bushmeat consumption in Gabon, the arrests signal a stricter law ...
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Seychelles negotiates pirate returns with Somalia Somaliland
The government of Seychelles has entered into negotiations with ministers from Somalia and the breakaway republics of Somaliland and Puntland to secure the repatriation of convicted Somali ...
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African leaders in Ethiopia land grab
Several African leaders have bought lands in Ethiopia to develop agricultural projects or tourism resorts. They are let to bypass a 2007 ban on export of cereals, still in place for other ...
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Ethiopia rejects Banyanas request
The South African Football Association's request for a postponement of Banyana Banyana's second leg 2012 London Olympic qualifying match against Ethiopia in Addis Ababa on September 11 has been rejected by their opponents who are insisting that the game should go ahead as fixture by the Confederation of African Football.When CAF and Fifa drew the fixture list of the 2012 London Olympic ...
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Tunisia enters semifinal in Junior Handball worlds
Tunisia reached the semifinals of the World Junior Handball Championship held from July 17 to 31 in Thessaloniki, Greece, beating Spain 31-30 in a quarterfinal match on Tuesday, the official press agency TAP reported on Wednesday. Tunisia's Amine Bennour topped the scoring list with 10 goals to help his team grab the narrow victory. Tunisia will play against Denmark on Thursday, while Egypt ...
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Ghana slips in FIFA world rankings
Ghana dropped further three places in the latest FIFA world ranking, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) announced here on Wednesday. A statement on the website of the country's footbal association said Ghana had slipped three places to 36th position in the world ranking from the previous 33rd position it was ranked in last month, on the world stage, while ranking 3rd on the continent ...
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Somalia UN envoy horrified by attack on world bodys compound in Mogadishu
Print 19 June 2013 – The top United Nations envoy in Somalia has condemned today’s massive attack on the world body’s compound in Mogadishu, calling it a ';desperate'; attempt to derail the country’s recovery and development efforts. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), a pickup truck rigged with explosives was detonated outside the ...
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Juventus sign Ghana midfielder Asamoah from Udinese
Juventus' Kwadwo Asamoah kicks the ball during his Italian Serie A soccer match against Siena at the Juventus stadium in Turin February 24, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Giorgio ...
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Miss Algeria to resume after ten-year break
Liberte , adding that with this show he hoped to "restore the image of Algeria". The judges include stars of Algeria's cinema, notably the actress Bahia Rachedi, as well as Genevieve de Fontenay, an 81-year Frenchwoman who has presided over the Miss France contest for more than 50 years. It is too late for the winner to participate in this year's Miss World contest, due to ...
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Early endgame for Uruguay Nigeria
Uruguay must take something from this game if they are to have any chance of progressing. To achieve that, Oscar Tabarez's will need to reproduce the kind of form they showed late on against the world champions, when they rallied after being very much second-best for fully 70 minutes. With that idea in mind, ...
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Fracking Nigeria Economy On The Bed Of Shale By Ehi Oyabure
The outcome of last OPEC meeting held in Vienna, Austria on the 31st of May 2013 was an unexpected departure from the past, openly admitting for the first time, the threat to its dominance in global oil supplies – hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Fracking is indisputably changing the geopolitical dynamics of global energy supplies and challenging the survival of oil export ...
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Nigeria bans sat phones in northeast after attacks
Nigeria's military on Wednesday banned the use of satellite phones in much of the restive northeast after cutting mobile phone service, further isolating the area after a series of fresh attacks. The military claimed in announcing the ban that Islamist extremist group Boko Haram had used satellite phones to plan attacks on schools. The insurgents have attacked two schools in the northeast ...
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Denel workers killed in Somalia
Johannesburg - South African state weapons firm Denel said two of its staff were killed in an attack on Wednesday on the United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu.A spokesperson for South Africa's largest manufacturer of defence equipment said the identity of the workers was not yet known."We have sent someone to Somalia to inform us from the ground," Vuyelwa Qinga ...
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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