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South Sudan Marrying Off South Sudans Girls for Cows
Juba - "Our daughters are our only source of wealth. Where else do you expect me to get cows from?" asks 60-year-old Jacob Deng from South Sudan's Jonglei state. Deng's attitude is a widespread one here as the practice of child marriage is still supported in many South Sudanese communities, where girls are seen as a source of wealth because of the bride price families are ...
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Guinea Bissau Security Council Adopting Resolution 2103 Extends Mandate
Acting on the recommendation of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) for one year, deciding also to readjust its presence so it could help the West African nation restore constitutional order following the 2012 military coup and hold elections by the end of ...
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Africa Development and the Double-Sided Mirror
There is a need for a cultural rebirth in Africa as part of the radical economic and social transformation of the continent. A new African consciousness that is free from the chains of 'colonial', 'post-colonial' and 'decolonial' must be located in African reference ...
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Africa Africas Dream of Unity
The African Union is turning 50. It was established as an organization to fight for African unity and initially fought against colonialism. Today it seeks African solutions for African problems. An African continental union which is economically strong and politically autonomous - that was the vision Kwame Nkrumah had back in 1958, just one year after he had led the British colony of the ...
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Africa Celebrating Tajudeen the OAU and AU - Which Way Africa
This special issue celebrates not only 50 years of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), but also the life of the late Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a staunch Pan-Africanist. Some of the themes of this issue are set out, as well as future challenges facing the AU and ...
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South Africa Research and Policy Brief - Mamphela Ramphele
The launch of the 'political party platform' Agang in February 2012 has shifted Dr Mamphela Ramphele from being a commentator on South African politics to being an active participant in the months leading up to the national election in 2014. This article draws together some of Dr Ramphele's views on issues affecting South Africa and ...
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Africa The Birth of the OAU
To us in Ghana, the conference that was held in Addis Ababa in May 1963 to give birth to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was as exciting as an international football match. Lined up on one side of the "pitch" was a group of African states known as the 'Monrovia Group'. Most of it members were drawn from an earlier group called the 'Brazzaville Group' formed ...
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Africa Amnesty International APP for Protecting Activists Up for Technology Award
A mobile alert app designed by Amnesty International to help protect human rights activists in danger is in the running for the prestigious Global Impact Award. The Panic Button app, which allows activists to secretly disclose their location to key contacts in an emergency, is among 10 finalists vying for four £500,000 development grants from Google. Three winners will be selected by a ...
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Africa Where Is Nkrumahs United States of Africa 50 Years On
The African Union must cultivate a united Africa and national governments need to be keenly wary of the divide-and-rule tactics of external powers pursuing selfish ...
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Gambia IMF Approves U.S.$2.3 Million Disbursement for Gambia
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Thursday completed the first review of The Gambia's economic performance under a program supported by the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement. The completion of the review enables the disbursement of an amount equivalent to SDR 1.555 million (about US$2.3 million), bringing total disbursements under the arrangement to SDR ...
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Tanzania Indian Diabetes Drug Sparks Controversy
Zanzibar - AS the controversy over the efficacy of an Indian-made diabetes drug, Wosulin, hots up at Zanzibar's Mnazi Mmoja main hospital, patients are being put in danger. Some 6,000 diabetics have refused to use Wosulin drug made by the India-based company, Wockhardt Limited, resolving to find other optional medicines to survive. "We have vowed not to use the medicine until our ...
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Sudan Sudan Regrets Juba Statements As Kiir Reaffirms His Top Priority to Kenyan Pipeline
Khartoum/Juba - Sudan's foreign ministry regretted statements issued by South Sudanese officials claiming that oil flow was deliberately blocked for political reasons, while in Juba president Salva Kiir reaffirmed that an alternative pipeline through Kenya remains his top priority. Khartoum and Juba agreed since last March to resume oil production and its exportation though a Sudanese ...
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Kenya SMS Service to Stop Coffee Theft Set Up
Coffee Management services has put a mobile alert that will ensure curbing of coffee theft. Coffee management services project manager Catherine Ng'ang'a said that the decision was reached at after a series of coffee theft in Central Kenya. She said that they have set up alarm system gadgets that will give an alert to the person incharge of the dispatch store,chairman of the society ...
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Liberia China Expresses Interest in Mt. Wologizi
The Government of the People's Republic of China says the controversial Wologizi Mountain in Lofa County remains its vested area of investment in Liberia. Chinese Ambassador to Liberia Zhao Jianhua said even though no formal negotiation has been made yet, but his country has expressed interest in the mountain. "Wologizi remains one of China's interests, but it has to be ...
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Africa The Organization of African Unity African Union at 50
The AU has now entered the new fifth era of delivery and democracy to avoid uprisings and revolutions and to ensure human security by re-inventing Pan-Africanism for 21st century ...
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Africa Peace in Our Time
African leaders at independence set out to create new countries where the issues of development and social justice were to replace the marginalisation and core violence of the colonial order. A peaceful internal and external environment was critical to ushering in development. The leaders came together collectively to guarantee this peaceful environment - their most imaginative tool was the ...
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Kenya Grannys Quest for 29 Years Worth of Dues
An 89-year-old Kiambu woman has appealed to President Uhuru to help her get her dues. Magdalene Wangui said she worked for presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi at Harambee House and State House Nairobi for 29 years without pay. Wangui, who lives in Riabai village in abject poverty, was sacked after the Kibaki government took over power in 2002. "I have work documents and a State House ...
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Namibia Electricity Up By 12 Percent
ELECTRICITY consumers in Namibia will pay on average 12% more from the beginning of July. The Electricity Control Board (ECB) announced at a media conference yesterday that it had approved an increase of 13% on NamPower's bulk tariff which will lead to an increase of the distribution tariff by an average of 12 %. ECB Chief Executive Officer Siseho Simasiku said the proposed tariff ...
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Africa Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance
The AU is well placed to articulate the Pan-African agenda for the benefit of the people, yet the majority of African presidents are busy with self-preservation and less supportive of initiatives that promote regional and continental integration. When will the Union to stop being a talking and become a serious ...
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Africa AU Coming of Age a Cause for Celebration
The focus of the next 50 years for the African Union should be to move from being a rigid bureaucracy to an agile organisation, which is able to flex and move at speed in a global society On the 25th May 2013 the African Union (AU), the successor of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), will be 50 years of age. This is a milestone and can be seen as a cause for celebration - the golden ...
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Africa Thousands Forego Food to Urge G8 to Take Action On Global Hunger
Thousands of people around the UK - including at least three bishops - are getting ready to go without food to show world leaders their commitment to ending global hunger. As part of the Enough Food For Everyone IF campaign, people will be fasting on Thursday June 6, days before the G8 summit in Northern Ireland on June 17. Churches, and other faith groups, are getting involved and signing up ...
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Africa African Civil Society Calls for AU Action On Eritrea
In a petition, the organisations say the ongoing widespread and systematic nature of human rights violations in Eritrea underlines the need for continued and urgent action by the African ...
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Africa Humanitarian Deadlock in Yida
Yida camp in Unity State, where Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working since late 2011, today covers nearly 1,200 hectares [about 3,000 acres], and hosts a population of nearly 75,000 persons-a five-fold increase in just over a year. Sudanese refugees began streaming across the border into South Sudan in June 2011 when conflict erupted between the Khartoum government and the ...
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Somalia Deadly Battles in Central Somalia Between Al Shabaab and Nomads
Beledweyne - Heavy fighting erupted on Thursday in central Somalia after Al Shabaab militants attacked nomadic communities, Garowe Online reports. Local reports say Al Shabaab militants "killed a number of nomads" in a village approximately 50km west of Beledweyne, capital of Hiran region, after a dispute as Al Shabaab wanted to collect some of the nomad's livestock as ...
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Sudan Sudan Demanded Kiir to Close Business Offices Held By Rebel Groups - Official
Khartoum - Sudan dismissed on Thursday statements by president Salav Kiir saying that Khartoum had asked him to expel all the Sudanese traders working in Juba. On Monday, the South Sudanese president said Khartoum asked him to expel all the Sudanese traders working in Juba. He pointed out that there is no progress in the normalization process with Sudan ,adding that the latter continues to hold ...
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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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