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Call box business is booming in Cameroon
There's no official figure to determine its role in the Cameroonian economy but there is evidence that the "call box" business is a booming informal business in the country's mobile telephone sector. The informal business, practised by thousands of Cameroonians in both in the urban and rural areas, entails one getting a mobile phone and a table in an open area on a street, reports Xinhua. This ...
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UAE Algeria discuss relations
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Algeria have held talks to explore new ways of enhancing bilateral cooperation in areas like industry, investment and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The discussions were held Sunday between UAE's economy minister Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri and the visiting Algerian Minister for Industry, SMEs and Investment Promotion, Cherif Rahmani. Both sides also ...
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Radical Islamist Killed in Tunisia Street Protests
Tunisian authorities say a street battle between radical Islamists and police has killed one Islamist protester on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis. Authorities said the man, in his late 20s, died of injuries sustained in Sunday's fighting in the Etadhamen district. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police to protest a government ban on their annual ...
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Spokesman for Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -; A government official says the spokesman for one of the al-Qaida-linked groups that occupied and controlled northern Mali for much of last year turned himself in to authorities on the border with ...
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R2Bees Grab Six Awards Vodafone Ghana Music Awards
R2Bees It was all thrills and surprises at this year's edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) as the sensational R2Bees took home the Artiste of the Year ...
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Algeria heading for revolt if footballs anything to go by
Algeria is competing to be the next Arab nation to witness a popular revolt. That is assuming football is a barometer of rising discontent in a region experiencing a wave of mass protests that have already toppled the leaders of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen and sparked civil war in ...
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24 killed in rebel vs army battle in South Sudan military re-takes town overrun by fighters
South Sudan's military spokesman says 24 people were killed and dozens wounded during a battle between government troops and rebels who had overrun a town. Col. Philip Aguer said Monday that a battle in Jonglei state on Sunday killed 20 rebel fighters and four government troops. Aguer said the army recaptured the town of Boma, near the border with Ethiopia, from rebels led by David Yau ...
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Tunisia Calm Restored in Kairouan
Kairouan - Calm was restored to the city of Kairouan on Sunday afternoon. Tension flared in that city over the week-end in the wake of the Interior Ministry's ban on the holding of the third congress of unrecognised "Ansar al-Sharia." Security reinforcements deployed in the city of Kairouan and the vicinity of the Oqba Ibn Nafaa Mosque to ban the Ansar-al Sharia meeting pulled ...
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Tunisia Ansar Al-Sharia Supporter Dies in Clashes in Ettadhamen District
Tunis - A young supporter of Ansar Al-Sharia died on Sunday afternoon of injuries sustained in clashes that occurred in the Ettadhamen neighbourhood, a security source told TAP agency. "Moez Dahmani, a 27-year-old supporter of Ansar Al-Sharia died in hospital of injuries sustained in clashes in Ettadhamen district," TAP learnt from a security source. "A policeman and a supporter ...
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Tunisia Interior Ministry Denies Decreeing Ettadhamen District Closed Security Area
Tunis - The Interior Ministry spokesman dismissed, on Sunday, reports asserting that the Ettadhamen neighbourhood had been decreed "closed security area." "No decision had been made to decree the Ettadhamen district a closed security area," spokesperson Mohamed Ali Aroui told TAP agency, wondering about the import of such a procedure. The official also deemed ...
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Western Sahara Mhamed Khaddad On Working Visit to Germany
Berlin - Mr. Mhamed Khadad, member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front and coordinator with MINURSO, has made a working visit to Germany in the period between May 14 and 17, where he met officials at German Foreign Ministry and some political forces, according to a Saharawi official source. These meetings focused on the latest developments of national cause, especially the ...
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Liberia Open Budget Extends to Rural Liberia
The Open Budget Initiatives (OBI) launched by the Ministry of Finance is being taken to rural Liberia to educate citizens on government's financial programs. The Open Budget Initiative, launched by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf early this year, is intended to explain to average Liberians the expenditure of the national budget. The OBI team over the week visited students of Harbel, ...
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Nigeria Nigerian Military Shut GSM Telecommunications in Maiduguri in Hunt for Boko Haram
residents lamented the collapse of telecommunications services in Maiduguri. There has been a partial telecommunications shut down in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital over the State of Emergency declared in the state by President Goodluck Jonathan. Residents of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital woke up on Friday to realise that what they thought was a minor problem with mobile telephone ...
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Liberia Liberia Seeks U.S. Protective Gear in Mali
Liberia has requested the United States' (US') support in the form of protective gear, to enable the deployment of the Liberian platoon that will participate in the peacekeeping operation in Mali. A dispatch from Washington, the United States of America says President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also sought U.S. support in tackling drug trafficking in the West African Region. President ...
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Sudan Detained Women Continue Hunger Strike in North Kordofan Prison
Kadugli - Three of the 18 women who embarked on a hunger strike on 13 May are sustaining their protest to draw attention to their situation. The women were arrested at various points last year for alleged links to the Sudanese rebel group, SPLA-North. According to a statement last week by Human Rights and Development Organisation (HUDO), after serving six months in detention, they have still ...
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Nigeria Nigeria Targets 700000 Young Farmers in New Job Initiative
A new government plan, "Youth in Agriculture", is expected to create jobs for youth. The Federal government is currently developing a presidential initiative aimed at creating 700,000 young commercial farmers in the agricultural sector of the country, the minister of agriculture said. Adewumi Adesina, disclosed this in Akure, Ondo State when he delivered a Foundation Day Lecture of ...
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Liberia Well Make Up - Liberian Prez Sirleaf Somersaults Over Spat With Liberia Media
Barely a week after her now infamous declaration that she was "enjoying this benign neglect" and "I wish they will continue it for a long time," when asked to response to a much-publicized blackout by major newspapers and radio stations in Liberia, protesting anti-media statements attributed to the head of her Executive Protection Service, Liberian president Ellen ...
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Liberia A Big Blow to Liberia - Death of Archbishop Francis Hits Nation Catholic Church
Monrovia - Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, an outspoken clergy renowned for his fiery sermons and stance against brutal regimes of former presidents Samuel Doe and Charles Ghankay Taylor is dead. Archbishop Francis who never fully recovered since he suffered a stroke in 2004 has been ailing for quite some time. His death leaves a major vacuum in the Catholic Church of Liberia. Born ...
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Liberia Ellen Defends Record
Despite a recent independent audit, which cast doubt on good governance and transparency here, amidst a media rage, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency. The Reuters news agency quotes president Sirleaf as saying that audit of resource contracts by accounting firm Moore Stephens had been commissioned to fix, and not ...
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Nigeria Anti-Terror War Gulped N372 Billion in 2012 - Report
The latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), based in Sweden, shows that in 2012, Nigeria ranked as the 6th highest spender on the military in Africa, and this is because of the increase in insurgency across the country. The war against terror in Nigeria raised military expenditure to a staggering $2.327 billion (N372.3 billion) in 2012 alone, ranking ...
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Nigeria Our Husbands Didnt Know They Were Going On Death Mission - Widows of Slain Policemen
In the past couple of weeks, security operatives have come under series of brutal, calculated attacks, which have claimed almost 150 lives in different parts of the country, with the worst case being in Nasarawa State last week. As bitter reactions still trail the killings, DONATUS NADI spoke with some widows, who gathered in protest of alleged neglect by the police and the delay in releasing ...
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Liberia Our Tribute to Bishop Michael K. Francis
The Most Outspoken personality in contemporary Liberia has been silenced permanently by the power of death. Catholic Archbishop Michael K. Francis has finally given up the ghost following a prolonged illness. His Demise Was announced on state radio Sunday, May 19, 2013 by the Archbishop of the Diocese of Monrovia Lewis Jerome Zeigler. According to Archbishop Zeigler, Bishop Francis died at ...
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Ethiopias Ogaden rebels issue famine alert
Rebel groups in Ogaden fighting the Ethiopian government warn of a "severe drought" in the region, which could develop into famine. They claim government is withholding ...
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Ethiopia crackdown on opposition to prevent protests
The Ethiopian opposition reports that over 250 of its central members have been arrested during the week. The arrests are seen in connection with a planned mass ...
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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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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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