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Africa In The City Black Hair Matters
What does your hair mean to you? On this episode of Africa In The City, we talk about black hair and all of the many different choices black women have in styling their ...
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Boom Town Baby African stock market sees sizable gains
The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu — East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer — cheers on what Satchu says is a growing sentiment among investors: If you're not investing in Africa, you should be. Or as Satchu loudly proclaims on his Twitter feed or newspaper column: "ITS BOOM TOWN ...
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Revision of Mental Illness Guide Stirs Debate
A long-anticipated revision of an official diagnostic guide to mental illness, known as the DSM-5, was released this week. While the new manual is being welcomed by some doctors as reflecting advancements in the understanding and diagnosis of mental disorders, critics say its definitions of psychiatric conditions are based too much on symptoms and too little on the biological causes of mental ...
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US Lawmakers Pledge to Back Israel Against Iran
The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a resolution affirming America's firm opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions, and pledging full support for Israel in the event of an Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The chance to slam Iran’s government and speak up for Israel brought a rare moment of complete bipartisan unity to the Senate. Republican ...
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Ghana raises benchmark rate to 16
The Bank of Ghana unexpectedly raised its benchmark interest rate by one percentage point to stabilize a weakening currency as inflation reached a three-year high, Bloomberg News ...
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Electricity World Bank to assist Nigeria generate 2000MW
The World Bank has said it will help Nigeria to generate additional 2,000 megawatts of electricity in the next two years through support to independent power ...
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Aviation policy 20 private jets leave Nigeria
About 20 private jets registered abroad but flying in Nigeria may have left the country barely one month after the Federal Government unveiled a new policy barring foreign-owned aircraft from staying in the country beyond 15 days, aviation industry sources have ...
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UN relief chief urges bridges between humanitarian development work in Darfur
UN relief chief on Wednesday expressed disappointment that Sudan's Darfur region is still not self-reliant, calling for stronger bridges between humanitarian and development ...
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EU dissatisfied at delays returning frozen assets to north African countries
The EU froze billions of euro in assets from former Libyan, Tunisian and Egyptian regimes during the uprisings but now says confusion over ownership and judicial procedure has delayed their ...
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China-Africa Towards More Sustainable Health Care
Credit: ChimpLearnGood/ flickr By Paul Kadetz In 1941, Mao Zedongcalledfor a "practice of revolutionary humanitarianism". 14 years later in Bandung, Indonesia, China’s Premier Zhou Enlai met with other Asian leaders to chart a distinctly anti-colonial approach to humanitarianism and diplomacy on the African continent. From its first health aid to Algeria in 1964, China has ...
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Will Kenyas new president respect international court
At his inauguration on April 9, Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, promised to uphold "international obligations". This was most likely a reference to the International Criminal Court. Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, are to stand trial before the ICC for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the country's election-related violence in 2007 and 2008. ...
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British PM London Killing Appears to be Terrorism
British Prime Minister David Cameron says the daylight killing of a man on a south London street near an army barracks appears to be a terrorist ...
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Militants Turn Nigeria into Christian Killing Field
Last year more Christians were killed in Nigeria than any other country. The onslaught of bombings gave Nigeria the sad distinction of being the nation with the highest Christian death toll. More than 900 Christians reportedly were killed in Nigeria in 2012, all victims of the Boko Haram group and other Islamic militants. "They are so radical they don't even spare Muslims. If Muslims ...
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IHT Special In Morocco TV Is Part of Power Game
Morocco 's Islamist-led government in April last year to make television reform one of its top priorities has turned the country's media industry into a pawn in an escalating power tussle between the governing Justice and Development Party and the Royal ...
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US Officially Acknowledges Drone Strike Killings
The U.S. Justice Department has formally acknowledged that the United States has killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan since ...
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Italian Judge Orders Criminal Trial for Costa Concordia Captain
An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia to stand trial for the deaths of 32 passengers. Captain Francesco Schettino has been charged with manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning ship before all the passengers were safe. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The Costa Concordia struck rocks and capsized off the coast of ...
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Free Market Reforms Needed to Fix Venezuelas Socialist Economic Problems
In Venezuela, the laws of supply and demand are undermining the socialist revolution started by the late President Hugo Chavez. Since Chavez’s hand-picked successor Nicolas Maduro won the Venezuelan presidential election in April - by a margin of less than 2 percent - high inflation and a shortage of staple goods are now leading many on both sides of this politically-divided country to ...
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Calls Grow For An End to Sexual Assaults in US Military
THE PENTAGON -- A recent Pentagon report says the number of sexual assaults among people in the military continues to grow. The estimated number of incidents, ranging from groping to rape, increased by 37 percent last year. Both men and women were victims. This is prompting them, and activists, to push for deep changes in the US military. More women are on active military duty than ever ...
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HRT Expects to Start Drilling Second Namibia Well in Two Weeks
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian oil startup HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA expects to start drilling on its second well offshore Namibia in two weeks, Chief Executive Milton Franke said Wednesday. "The Murombe prospect is only 15 kilometers from Wingat," Mr. Franke said during a conference call with analysts. The drilling rig will be moved to Murombe shortly, the executive added. ...
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Tunisia feminist arrested for defacing mosque
A young woman was arrested in Tunisia on May 19 after she spray-painted the name of a feminist group on the wall of a mosque. Amina Tyler was jailed when she wrote "Femen" on the exterior of a mosque in the town of Kairouan. Femen is an international group whose members have drawn attention by appearing topless in public; Tyler was fully ...
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Africa Obama Visit to Reinforce Deep Ties - Rep. Karen Bass
Washington, DC - Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa released the following statement after the White House announced President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania next month: "President Obama’s travel to sub-Saharan Africa presents an opportunity to reinforce our ...
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Iraqi Police Gunmen Kill at Least 12 in Baghdad Brothel
Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, ...
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Opposition Groups Call for Swaziland Election Boycott
King of Swaziland Mswati III (Front) and one of his 13 wives disembark from a plane after arriving at Katunayake International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 13, 2012. ...
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Transitional Justice Elusive in Arab Spring Nations
Egyptian riot police take up positions outside the building where former president Hosni Mubarak is being tried in connection with the killing of Arab Spring ...
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UN expanding mine action work in Mali
UNMAS Mali is training and working with local Malian military and police to clear landmines and unexploded ordinance in the northern part of the country. Photo: UNMAS/Marc ...
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Security and Soccer in the City of Gold
In 1991, on the 11th of February, South Africa celebrated an immense moment of change as Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, then on the 25th of June 1995, the Springboks defeated the All Blacks and South Africa became the winners of the rugby world cup. These two events were indicative of the country’s potential, especially when set against the pessimism of the public and the global community at large.
South Africa has become a country used to exceeding expectations. When the ANC came to power in 1994 many South Africans expected violent reprisals, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda did nothing to allay these fears and South Africans flocked in numbers to the greener pastures of Australia, but the massacre never came, the reprisals never occurred, the white-owned property was never confiscated by the government. Read more
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