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Africa Put a Spotlight on African Womens Reproductive Rights
Nairobi - Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver safely. On Monday she said I was weak. "The doctor decided to operate on me. (During the) operation they found the baby was dead. The doctor said the baby had died due to the long labour. After that, I ...
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Africa National Key Points List Must Be Made Public
The announcement yesterday by the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Jeff Radebe, that Air Force Base Waterkloof is not a National Key Point is further evidence of how the Apartheid-era National Key Points Act is being selectively used by the government to hide critical information to protect high ranking members of the government. It is highly irregular that a major air force ...
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Africa CPJ Urges Kerry to Address AU Summit On Press Freedom
Addis Ababa - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on US secretary of state John Kerry to address African leaders on the issue of press freedom in Africa during an upcoming continental summit. In a letter to the US official, CPJ urged Kerry to emphasis what the press freedom group calls Ethiopia's continued systematic crackdown on independent journalists. "We are ...
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1000-year-old African coins found in Australia
In 1944, during World War II, Australian soldier Maurie Isenberg found five copper coins on a beach in the Northern Territory, and marked the spot with an 'X' on a map. In 1979, he rediscovered the coins in a tin and sent them to a museum for identification, where they were proved to be 1000 years ...
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Reporters safety group issues Somalia warning
Journalists and aid workers are among those considered most at risk of crime and kidnapping in Somalia, a reporters' safety monitoring group said. The International News Safety Institute issued a travel advisory Monday for Somalia, describing it was "one of the most politically and economically unstable countries in the world." The British government in early May hosted an ...
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China Resumes Cyber Attacks on US Firm Says
A U.S. computer security firm says the Chinese military has resumed cyber attacks on American companies after a hiatus. Mandiant, which accused China of cyber attacks in a February report, says a Chinese army unit recently broke into the computer systems of more than 100 companies to steal trade secrets. It says the attacks started again just days after Chinese officials told Secretary of ...
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Ghana police to investigate stampede death in Synagogue Church
The Ghanaian Police in Accra said on Monday thatit would investigate the cause of the stampede and death in the Ghana branch of the Synagogue Church of all Nations. The Ghanaian media on Sundaywidely reported that a stampedeat the church located at Spintex Road whichled to the death ofseveral worshipers whilemany others were injured. According to the reports, worshipers were rushing forfree ...
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African Safari Trip of a Lifetime
The most amazing thing I learned on my first safari trip is that elephants have the most incredible, very long black eyelashes. Second, lions could not care less about nearby trucks and people, nor lights at night. Third, though giraffes seem to walk slow and gracefully, their legs are so long that they cover long distances very quickly. Countless people from all over the globe book African ...
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Two wounded as gunmen attack Libya gas site report
Police vehicles are seen next to a gas pipeline after an explosion, 18 km (11 miles) south of the city of Ajdabiyah April 3, 2013. REUTERS/Esam ...
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Tunisia Salafist leader says group cannot be defeated
Tunisia has been rocked by waves of violence blamed on militant Islamists since its January 2011 revolution, and Larayedh reacted angrily to the latest unrest, which erupted after the authorities banned the group's annual congress.At least one protester was killed and 15 police hurt, with victim due to be buried later on Monday in Ettadhamen, the ...
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Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators
Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...
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AfDB Set to Help African Countries Better Exploit AGOA Export Opportunities
The African Development Bank is working towards helping African countries better benefit from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) ...
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Ghana made products award 2013 calls for nominations
mk68008@gmail.com Entrepreneur Foundation of Ghana (EFG), in collaboration with the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA), has opened nominations for the maiden edition of Ghana Made Products Awards 2013, scheduled for October. The award will provide the platform for improving Ghana made products, as well as create awareness, loyalty, recognition, and prestige for the goods. The Ghana Made Products ...
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Spokesman for al-Qaida-linked Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to Mauritanian authorities on the border, an intelligence official briefed on the matter confirmed on Monday. Sanda Ould Boumana, the Timbuktu-based spokesman for Ansar Dine, is being transferred to Mauritania's capital, ...
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Nigeria Escaping the Cycle of Violence
Having cut short a trip to South Africa and annulled a planned state visit to Namibia, President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria declared a "state of emergency" in three northeast states on May 14. In a speech to the nation, Jonathan acknowledged that there is an "insurrection" and that the government has lost control of certain areas to Boko Haram, a diffuse Islamist ...
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Kenya Uhuru Wants ICC Trial Moved to January 2014
President Uhuru Kenyatta now wants his case on alleged crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court to start in January next year. Through his lawyers, the president told the ICC judges, on Wednesday, that due to continued slow pace of disclosure, they have not been able to complete investigations on prosecution witnesses. "The Defence requires time to investigate the ...
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Zimbabwe Special Zanu-PF Congress to Anoint Mujuru
ZANU PF is mulling over a special congress which is expected to fill vacant top positions and decide once and for all the succession of President Mugabe, sources have said. Details of the congress remain a closely guarded secret, only known to very senior party officials. According to sources in the party, the current restructuring of provinces was in preparation for the special congress which ...
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Namibia Top Cop Admits Nation Is Too Armed
POLICE Inspector General Sebastian Ndeitunga has admitted that it has become "too easy to own" a firearm in the country and that there is an urgent need to amend the Arms and Ammunition Act of 1996 in order to address its shortcomings. The Namibian on Friday reported that police issued close to 15 000 licenses for guns to civilians in the past two years - just over 7 100 license ...
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Nigeria Exclusive - Two Years On Jonathan PDP Rule Nigeria With Three-Page Clueless Manifesto
Apparently, the PDP is not interested in solving the key challenges Nigeria and Nigerians are facing. In 2011, before casting his vote in the presidential elections, Bayo Babalola, a Nigerian investment manager, did a critical review of the top three candidates. On the eve of the elections, he published his review entitled "On Your Marks" in which he announced he would "pless ...
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Gambia Incorporating Tourism in Education
As the world economy continues to grow, so also is tourism. It is worth noting that tourism was already reaching new heights in 2012 and continued to grow robustly in 2013. The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) noted that in 2012, arrivals grew more rapidly in the emerging than in the advanced destinations. Worldwide tourism is considered to be a viable and income-generating ...
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Nigeria UK U.S. to Assist FG Over Crude Oil Theft - Alison-Madueke
The United Kingdom and the United States have indicated interest to assist Nigeria curb the menace of crude oil theft which President Goodluck Jonathan has described as "blood oil". The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, made the announcement at a lecture entitled "The Future of African Energy in a Changing World" delivered on Sunday at St. ...
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Africa African Soil Diversity Mapped for the First Time
A team of international experts has drawn up the Soil Atlas of Africa - the first such book mapping this key natural resource - to help farmers, land managers and policymakers understand the diversity and importance of soil and the need to manage it through sustainable use. They say that despite soil's importance, most people in Africa lack knowledge about it, partly because information ...
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Africa Mulumbu Goal Helps Spoil Fergies Farewell
Democratic Republic of Congo and West Bromwich midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu played party pooper at the weeked in an amazing 5-5 English Premier League draw with Manchester United. Mulumbu scored with nine minutes left and the Baggies equalised soon after at the Hawthorns to deprive Alex Ferguson of a victory in his final match as boss of the Red Devils. Senegalese Demba Ba set up the opening ...
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Namibia Mangetti Ends Shailemos 14-Year Rule
ISMAEL Shailemo's 14-year leadership of the Mangetti Farmers' Association (MFA) ended after a faction of the association, led by Kashona kaMalulu, voted him and his team out at a conference held at Ondangwa on Saturday but he is not taking the ousting laying down. The new MFA leadership consists of Kashona kaMalulu, who is the chairman, and is deputised by Shali Kamati while Quito ...
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Nigeria Interception of Phone Calls
In February, this year, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) enunciated a policy which empowers government security agencies to tap citizens' phone calls, short message services (SMS) and chat messages.The NCC, in the draft regulation, said that it would allow unhindered access to communications. "These regulations shall provide the legal and regulatory framework for the lawful ...
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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