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Nigeria Customs Intercepts Vehicles Conveying 56750 Live Ammunition
Ibadan - FEW hours after the Oyo State Police Command arrested a man with 3,500 live cartridges, the Oyo/Osun Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service also impounded a vehicle loaded with 56,750 rounds of ammunition at Saki in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. The Customs Area Controller, Mr Richard Oteri, said the vehicle conveying the ammunition was arrested along the Igboho road in Saki. ...
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Liberia Prince Johnson Accuses Sirleaf of Vote Rigging in 2011
Nimba County is said to be in a state of shock following a live radio confession by the county's Senior Senator Prince Y. Johnson (PYJ), detailing how he influenced elections officials in the county to cheat for his NUDP's candidates. He alleged that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to whom he pledged his support in the November 2011 presidential runoff, was also instrumental in ...
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Nigeria Ancient Tree Tragedy - Tears Condemnations Trail Multiple Deaths
Owerri - This is not the best of times for Imo State and its people given the harvest of tragedies recorded in the state recently. The most recent is the ancient ancestral tree that fell in Umudagu, Ihitte Isi Mbieri community, Mbaitoli local council area of the State late Thursday night of May 16, killing no fewer than 50 people, with a yet to be ascertained number critically injured. The tall ...
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Nigeria Why Jonathan Ordered Release of Boko Haram Women Children Others - Okupe
The presidency on Wednesday explained its decision to authorise the release of women, children and other suspected Boko Haram members currently being detained by Nigeria's security agencies. The Nigerian military on Tuesday said it had received a directive from President Goodluck Jonathan to release all the women being held in connection with insurgent activities. The military also said ...
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Kenya Kenya Turns to Mobile APP to Stop Motorbike Mayhem On the Roads
Mobile phones, often cited as a major cause of road traffic accidents, are being used to try to stem Kenya's rising death toll from motorbike accidents. A campaign launched by the Kenyan NGO El-Friezo this month will trial an interactive phone app targeted at the growing number of motorbike users, particularly young men working as drivers of "borda-borda" taxis. The app has been ...
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Liberia Audits Verifications Without Prosecution a Waste of Liberias Taxpayers Money
THE LIBERIA ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission released its Verification report Tuesday in which it is purported that some officials of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led government misrepresented the facts and lied in their declaration of assets. ONE OF THE MAJOR discoveries in the findings is that the managing director of the National Port Authority, Matilda Parker lied about the value of her assets and ...
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Nigeria Anamabra Stands Still for Achebe - Obi Leads Mourners in Awka
Awka - AWKA, the capital of Anambra State stood still, Wednesday as the body of the literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe arrived the state for its final journey to Ogidi, his home town, in Idemili North local government area where it will be interred tomorrow. What happened at the Alexander Ekwueme Arcade, Awka, was simply mind blowing. The remains of the famous writer of Things Fall Apart, ...
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Africa Country Has Potentials to Be Africas Top Basketball Nation - Ugboaja
A member of the Nigeria men's basketball team to the 2012 London Olympic Games, EjikeUgboaja has said that Nigeria has the potentials of becoming a leading basketball nation in Africa if the best are selected to represent the country. The former Yelwa Hawks playmaker, who stated this in a chat with reporters in Abuja, said most times the national team is selected on sentiments, which makes ...
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Zambia Small-Scale Farmers for Subsidy Removal
THE Zambia Small-Scale Farmers Network (ZSSFN) says the removal of the subsidy on maize is based on reality and that the Government has to be firm in the implementation process. ZSSFN national coordinator Boyd Liambai said millers had been making huge profits at the expense of the masses. "We are pleased to note that the Patriotic Front (PF) Government wants to run affairs based on facts ...
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Liberia Defaults in Labor Law Decent Work Bill
Defects in both the current Labour Law and Draft Decent Work Bill 2010 have been discovered, with a call for action to bring Liberia in harmony with international standards and the practice on child labour. Attorney-At-Law Michael M. Allison, Managing Director of the BRICS Mano River Union Legal Consultants said there was disharmony between minimum age for education and work issue in Liberia. ...
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Liberia LTA Parliamentarians Make Suggestions to Improve Telecomunications Sector
The First Telecommunications Consumer Parliament organized by the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), has ended in the Central Liberian provincial City of Gbarnga, Bong County, following a one-day session, with parliamentarians proffering several recommendations to improve the telecommunications sector in Liberia. In a 16-count recommendations presented at the end of the parliamentary ...
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Africa France-Afrique Breaking The Ties
The French army's recent intervention in Mali has sparked fresh debate about the relationship between France and Africa. Some detractors passionately advocate for the abandonment of the long-established France-Afrique1 relations, while others feel that preserving these ties is in Africa's best interest. But exactly what is the current relationship between France and Africa? Is there ...
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Mozambique Mozambique - Mining Resettlements Disrupt Food Water
A railway track used to transport Vale's shipments of coal from their mine in Moatize to the port in Beira. Maputo - Many of the 1,429 households resettled to make way for Vale and Rio Tinto’s international coal mining operations in Tete province, Mozambique have faced serious disruptions in their access to food, water, and work, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ...
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Africa Saturday May 25 Is African Liberation Day
Saturday May 25, 2013 has been declared as African Liberation Day and it is to be observed as a working holiday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has by Proclamation declared. The Proclamation is in consonance with the pivotal role of Liberia as a founding member and signatory to the Charter of the Organization of African Union (OAU) and the Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU). The ...
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Africa AU Summit Sata to Leave for Ethiopia
PRESIDENT Michael Sata is expected to arrive here today to join other Heads of State and government at the 21st Africa Union (AU) summit. The summit is taking place alongside celebrations to mark 50 years of the continental body's existence since its formation in 1963, as Organisation of African Unity (OAU). President Sata will be accompanied by First Lady Christine Kaseba and Justice ...
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Africa Swiss Govt Plans New Law to Freeze Return Stolen Funds
Politicians and military dictators who before now found a safe haven in Switzerland for their stolen funds may start looking elsewhere for such loots as the Swiss Government yesterday proposed a law to block such transactions and return the looted fund to its country of origin. Described as the first of its kind by the Swiss Foreign Ministry, the new law will "make it easier to freeze ...
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Liberia Doubts Over Oil Discovery in Liberia - Did African Petroleum Stretch the Truth
Shares in Frank Timis' African Petroleum (AP) have fallen 90 percent over the past 12 months and reports of an alleged investigation by the National Stock Exchange of Australiaamidst claims of stocks dumping by senior AP executives have made international headlines. In February 2012, AP announced a major discovery in its Naria-1 Well offshore Liberia, causing a significant jump in its ...
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Liberia Foreign Technicians Expected for RIA
The Liberian Government has invited a technical delegation from Equatorial Guinea to Monrovia in early June after both governments agreed on May 21, 2013 to arrange the financing and construction of the Roberts International Airport (RIA) and social housing in Liberia. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in Malibo between Liberia and Equatorial Guinea on 21 May, both governments ...
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Africa UN Says More Than 7 Million People in Africa Receive HIV Treatment
The United Nations, UN, said on Wednesday that the number of people receiving antiretroviral treatment in Africa had increased from less than one million to 7.1 million in the last seven years. This is contained in a UN report entitled "Update" signed by Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS, UNAIDS, which was released on Tuesday. The report was ...
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African Union 50 years on
The 53-member African Union, which began in 2002, has been trying to emerge as a force for stability on a continent regularly troubled by violence, conflicts and ...
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South Sudan blames Sudan for oil problems
South Sudan's Foreign Ministry said the Sudanese government was creating problems for the south's oil export potential. South Sudan said there were problems with getting its oil to international markets because it suspected Sudan shut a cross-border pipeline. South Sudan has controlled the bulk of the region's oil reserves since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. Sudan ...
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Angola to open bourse in 2016 secondary bond market end-2013
Thu May 23, 2013 6:58am EDT * Stock market may open 2015 if used for privatisations * Bourse has been in pipeline for a decade * New plan to open markets gradually By Shrikesh Laxmidas LISBON, May 23 (Reuters) - Angola plans to open its much-delayed stock market in 2016 and could even bring it forward to 2015 if the bourse was used to privatise state-owned companies, the country's Capital ...
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Twin Bomb Attacks Strike in Niger
Officials in Niger say a military base and a French-owned uranium mine were hit by separate bomb attacks early Thursday, wounding an unknown number of people. Paris-based Areva says 13 of its employees were wounded in the attack in Arlit, a mainly industrial town in the north-central part of the country. Witnesses say the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who blew up his vehicle ...
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British PM Seeks Answers to Terrorist Attack
British Prime Minister David Cameron was meeting Thursday with his top security advisers, one day after a man was butchered to death in broad daylight on a south London street near an army ...
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Syrian Opposition Meets on Proposed Peace Talks
The main Syrian opposition coalition is meeting in Istanbul for three days of talks that will include its potential involvement in proposed peace talks with the Syrian ...
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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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