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Africa Africas Growth Prospects Bright
THE future is bright for Africa's economic growth and the continent must place more emphasis on economic integration, promoting trade and investment to consolidate achievements made so far, Ethiopia's Ambassador to Zimbabwe Dr Koang Tutlum Dung said yesterday. Ambassador Dung told an audience at a University of Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies public lecture that reports from ...
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Africa Charambas Brace for Africa Day
Chinhoyi Bureau - The First Family of Gospel Music Baba naMai Charamba will sojourn to Chinhoyi tomorrow where nothing but fireworks are expected at a show that will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the pan-African dream. Having last performed in the town last year where they drew a full house, the show promises gospel music at its best in a family atmosphere at a show dubbed Family Fun ...
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Low bid for South Africas Independent News Media unit
Ireland's Independent News & Media publishing group received an offer of around 150-million euros, far less than expected, for it's South African unit. ...
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Put a Spotlight on African Women’s Reproductive Rights
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 found ...
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Ugandan president removes army chief amid dispute
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Uganda's president has removed his top military commander and put him in a civilian role in a shuffle apparently prompted by an ongoing row over a rumored plan for President Yoweri Museveni to have his son succeed ...
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Kerry to Visit Ethiopia for Security Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Ethiopia for security talks with regional officials and to attend a 50th anniversary celebration for the African ...
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Russia Syria Agrees to Participate in Conference
Russia says the Syrian government has agreed in principle to attend aproposed international peace conference on the country's future. A spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry said Friday that Syria has agreed to participate in the conference that Russia and the U.S. have proposed next month in Geneva. But he said it is impossible to set a date yet because it is not clear yet who will ...
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3 Indian Soldiers Killed in Kashmir Attack
Authorities say the attack took place Friday outside Srinagar, the main city on the Indian section of Kashmir. Rebel groups have been fighting for years for independence from India or a merger with Pakistan. Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and they have fought two wars over its ...
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Libya’s General National Council passes Political Isolation Law
Libya is in the midst of a standoff in the capital Tripoli between the shaky government of Western-backed Prime Minister Ali Zeidan and armed militias that fought in the NATO-led war to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.A recent attack on the French Embassy, and bombings in the port city of Benghazi targeting police stations and a hospital all point to an escalating crisis of the government. Hundreds of ...
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Bridge Collapses in Washington State No Fatalities
In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, rescue boats approach victims at their vehicles in the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge in Mount Vernon, Wash., May 23, ...
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Victims of Oklahoma Tornado Get Help From Near and Far
In the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, the recovery from Monday's deadly tornado is picking up speed, even as locals mourn the loss of at least 24 people, including 10 children. Funerals will begin Friday in Moore, and President Obama plans to visit the town Sunday. Resources are pouring in from all over the country to help those in desperate need. The devastation of her home brought a ...
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Security forces fire rubber bullets at striking South African miners
Police fired volleys of rubber bullets at striking South African miners at a mine owned by Lanxess Chrome Mining Ltd on Tuesday, near the city of Rustenburg. Some 500 miners had assembled at daybreak, taking action without union approval. At least 10 miners were hospitalized, and police forces subsequently took control of the mine.The shooting comes amid a new wave of workers' militancy ...
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FAO Project Will Track S. Sudan Food Production
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Thursday launched a $9 million project aimed at helping South Sudan to better track food production, a move that officials hope will allow alerts of possible food shortages to be raised well ahead of time. The three-year project would replace the current system, under which "we don’t really know how ...
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Workers Struggles Europe Middle East Africa
Around 400 drivers of the Veolia bus company have taken part in a walkout since May 14, in protest at a new shift system and the company's personnel management record. Over the past week, Veolia Transport and the union have held talks without results. The strike affects all Veolia routes from the Tuupakka and Hakunila depots. Traffic in central Vantaa has been severely affected, as well as ...
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World South Sudan says war crimes court persecutes Africans
Sudan 's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, another African leader indicted by the Hague tribunal for masterminding war crimes in the western region of ...
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UN troops in DR Congo within months
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has pledged that UN troops will be in place within "one or two months" to battle armed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, as he toured the flashpoint city of Goma.Ban's visit on Thursday came after three days of sometimes deadly fighting between rebels and government forces that ended a precarious calm spell in the mineral-rich ...
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South Africa to help Nigerias auto industry a milestone in inter-African cooperation
The lack of economic diversification throughout sub-Saharan Africa may stymy South Africa’s pledges to help Nigeria industrialize. And making the automotive sector Nigeria’s flagship industrial target may not be so easy, experts ...
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Why isnt Laurent Gbagbo being tried by an African court
This video is part of the Africa Desk's French-language platform to discuss the international justice case of former president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo. For content in English, stay tuned here: the Africa Desk is sharing highlights under ...
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‘Poor reading culture not peculiar to Nigeria’
Those who feel that poor reading culture is peculiar to Nigerians may have to think again. A Nigerian author based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Femi Onasanya, says in the western world, those who read after leaving school or the university constitute about 20 per cent of the ...
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Waiting for Big Brother Africa housemates
Suspense is in the air again as the 2013 edition of Big Brother Africa will be inaugurated on Sunday. As usual, it will be another season of adventure, sensation, entertainment and, possibly, tongue ...
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African Union has justified existence —minister
Minister of State 1 for Foreign Affairs Prof Viola Onwuliri, has praised the founding fathers of the African Union for the tremendous role it has played in the liberation of the African ...
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Zanu-PF following the trail of Facebook Judas
his Facebook page , Baba Jukwa describes himself simply: Concerned father, fighting nepotism and directly linking the community with its leaders, government, members of Parliament and ministers. His posts, however, do more than that, delving into the personal lives of Zanu-PF's top brass. Insiders in Zanu-PF said the party was alarmed by Baba Jukwa's posts and party hawks were ...
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Heroines war on mutilation
Bogaletch Gebre cannot be sure of her exact age. She was born in rural Ethiopia in the 1950s into circumstances "not much different than most of the girls of my time". The absence of a birth certificate was the most benign aspect of the time, place and gender she was born into. Life for the women of Kembatta was "grindingly hard", she remembers, and the passage from ...
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Leased farm dogs Chombo
Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Ignatius Chombo has been drawn into a land scandal after it has emerged he may have parcelled a peri-urban farm allocated to his ministry to his personal lawyer, Wilson Manase, who is leasing it to another party. A source at the ministry of lands told ...
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Shock move on Zimbabwe pension contributions
In February the government told the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to lend it $40-million because it was unable to fund the referendum. That move left the already struggling fund in deep financial difficulties. Banking sector sources said the decision to raise pension contributions was made to curb "a financial disaster" at the NSSA, which also has to raise about ...
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Liberia gaining the world's attention for the right reasons
When members of the international community, and even many Africans themselves, think of Africa one of a few stereotypes come to mind; poverty, crime, corruption and political instability. Africa is seen as a haven for everything nefarious in the global community, terrorists are trained here, rebels attack their governments, drugs are grown in, and exported from, African soil and many African heads of state preside over a government whose authority does not extend beyond their capital city.
Liberia, not often in the international news for doing well, seems to be making a concerted effort to redress this trend, suggesting that a period of integrity may be ahead for the continent as a whole; South Africa is hosting the FIFA World Cup, Egypt is cooperating with the international community in opening up its border with Gaza and Liberia’s government is holding its own as an example of the far-reaching effects of good governance and rooting out corruption. Read more
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