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Democratic Republic of Congo - Congolese journalist’s body found in river 12 days after disappearance
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn of radio journalist Guylain Chandjaro's death in Bunia, a city in the eastern region of Ituri. He was a Swahili-language journalist with Radio Canal Rvlation, a community radio station, and freelanced for the Bunia branch of the national broadcaster RTNC.His body was found in the bed of the River Ngezi - which crosses the city - on 17 May, 12 ...
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UN chief visits Goma after deadly fighting
UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrived in the DR Congo flashpoint city of Goma on Thursday after three days of sometimes deadly fighting between rebels and government forces that ended months of calm in the volatile east of the country.Ban's brief visit to the mineral-rich trouble spot comes a day after he and the World Bank chief made a fresh push for peace and development in the region.The latest ...
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China offers soldiers for Mali UN mission
China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers as part of the United Nations (UN) force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali in what would be its biggest contribution to UN peacekeeping, diplomats said.The move could be a bid to overcome tensions with the West over the Syria conflict and to strengthen Beijing's relations in Africa, where it is a major buyer of natural ...
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The Gulf of Guinea Another Somalia
, a container ship flagged in Antigua and Barbuda, was about 160km (100 miles) off the Nigerian coast in the evening of April 25th when 14 pirates, armed to the teeth, boarded her and broke into the ship's safe room. They made off with an undisclosed sum of cash and five crew members, who were freed on May 13th, probably after a ransom had been paid. The incident is typical of piracy in ...
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Kenya South Sudan and Uganda Pipeline poker
IN MARCH last year the heads of state of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan met among mangroves in Lamu, a Kenyan town on the Indian Ocean, to launch the construction of a port and oil pipeline together costing $16 billion that would serve all their countries and vastly enrich them. Taxpayers were billed $350,000 for the celebratory meal, according to local officials, though it actually cost only ...
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Nigeria’s northern insurgency A city under siege
Just your friendly neighbourhood cops SOLDIERS sit sweltering in bunkers made from sandbags on the streets of Maiduguri, a town in north-eastern Nigeria at the centre of a four-year Islamist revolt. Around them, young boys on clanking bicycles carve through sand blown in from the Sahara, which has been slowly burying a town that was once, long ago, a thriving Islamic trading centre. It now ...
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Minister of Human Rights Bahrain and Morocco are on the Path of Reform Democracy and Reinforcing Rights and Freedoms
Rabat, May 23rd (BNA) -Minister of Human Rights, Dr. Salah Bin Ali Abdul Rahman met with Moroccan Minister of Interior, Mohanad Laenser within the official Bahraini delegation's visit to Kingdom of Morocco, in reply to the invitation received by Ministry of Human Rights from the Moroccan Government through the ministerial commissary in charge of human rights. At the beginning of the ...
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Kenyan police clear truckers blocking east Africas main trade route
MOMBASA (Reuters) - Kenyan police cleared the only highway from the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi on Thursday, two days after striking truck drivers blocked it and threatened to choke the main trade artery in east ...
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Sudan South Sudan vow to keep oil flowing differ on pumping problem
KHARTOUM/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan's oil ministers on Thursday vowed to continue cross-border oil flows but gave contradictionary opinions whether a technical problem at a pumping station which had cut output had been ...
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Around 10 injured in Guinea opposition protest hospital source
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Ten people were injured when security forces and supporters of Guinea President Alpha Conde clashed with protesters marching in the capital against planned legislative elections on Thursday, a hospital source ...
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UN 300000 Sudanese have fled Darfur fighting this year 1.4 million are living in camps
The U.N.'s top humanitarian official says that 300,000 people have fled fighting throughout Sudan's rebellious province of Darfur in the first five months of this year, more than the total number of people displaced there in the last two years put together. U.N. Humanitarian Chief, Valerie Amos is on a visit to the area and spoke Thursday in Khartoum, Sudan. She says "We cannot ...
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Liberia Several Top Govt Officials Snub LACCs Assets Verification Exercise
The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) has disclosed that several top officials of the Government of Liberia (GOL) have "deliberately refused to cooperate" with its Assets Verification Exercise. The LACC has the broad mandate to investigate, prosecute and prevent acts of corruption amongst other things (LACC Act of August 2008). Included in this mandate also is the mandate of ...
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Liberia Global Witness On Govt Back
The international watchdog, Global Witness, has challenged the Government of Liberia (GoL) to urgently address violations of Liberian laws recently published in a LEITI Audit Report. According to a Global Witness' statement issued Wednesday, 22 May 2013, the recently published LEITI Audit Report reveals significant violations of Liberia's laws that the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf led ...
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Gambia Trade Ministry U.S. Embassy Poised to Improve Bilateral Trade Investment
The US Embassy Wednesday organised a seminar on Franchise at the Sunswing Hotel in Kololi. The seminar was designed to educate interested Gambian private sector operators on the procedures for acquiring a US Franchise and the rules and regulations of operating such a business. Speaking at the occasion, the US ambassador, Edward Alford, said that his embassy and the Gambia Ministry of Trade have ...
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Kenya Nurses and midwives trained on safe abortion methods to curb high mortality rate
Executive Director of KMET the training is to enhance the capacity of health providers to offer quality abortion related services within the confines of the law in Kenya. Monica said health providers need to understand provision of Comprehensive Abortion Care services such as the use ...
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Gambia Eight km Ballangharr-Jimbala Feeder Road Rehabilitated
Janjangbureh - Over two hundred people from Ballangharr and Kaur wards in the Central River Region (CRR) recently embarked on a rehabilitation of eight-kilometer feeder road linking Ballangharr and Jimbala, in Lower Saloum District of the region. Until this self-help project by the rural dwellers, this feeder road had been badly damaged by last year's torrential rains. The rehabilitation ...
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Ghana TOR Crashes Out in Oil Deals
One of the reasons why the Ghanaian Italian Petroleum Company (GHAIP), which later became known as Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), was established in 1960, was to process crude oil for the Ghanaian domestic market. But, 53 years down the line, the refinery is in a sorry state as a result of mismanagement and failure to procure modern machines to replace the obsolete ones. As a result of this, many of ...
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Ghana TWN Blames Scale Mining Menace On Weakling Economy
Third World Network-Africa (TWN), an Accra-based a research and advocacy non-governmental organisation (NGO), has blamed the recent gangsterism and other challenges in the artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) in Ghana on a weakling economy. The NGO argued that if the Ghanaian and African economies were creating enough jobs, no citizen of African would have engaged in illegal scale small ...
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Liberia Secrecy in Oil Gas and Mining Conspires Against Economic Development
The lives of over a billion citizens could be transformed if their governments managed their oil, gas and minerals in a more open, accountable manner, according to the Resource Governance Index released by the Revenue Watch Institute. The Index measures the transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries worldwide and finds that the vast majority surveyed fail ...
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Ghana Ghana to Use UK Technology for Street Naming
Ghana will use Intelligent Addressing (IA) technology from the UK to name streets and properties in Ghana. Mr. Tony Black, an IA Consultant who participated in a recent workshop in Accra, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at the weekend, that a national address gazetteer will be built alongside the street-naming project. He said IA employs the technique of Unique Property Reference ...
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South Africa Guptagate Report whitewash Reinforces Need for an Independent Investigation
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. The final Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster Report of the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft at Air Force Base Waterkloof reinforces the need for an independent investigation into "Guptagate". The final report was deliberately and cynically withheld from ...
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South Africa Agang Response to the Release of the Gupta Report
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. Johannesburg - ‘We note with interest the Government's report into the failures of governance that led to the landing of the Gupta family's aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force base. ‘The report confirms that ‘a culture of undue influence, underpinned by poor ...
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Ten dead in Somalia after al-Shabaab clash with Ethiopian troops
About 10 people are believed to have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian troops and al-Shabaab insurgents in the Somali city of Beledweyn, officials say. The fighting began after al-Shabaab fighters opened fire on residents of a small town on the outskirts of the city, Shabelle Media Network reported Thursday. Ethiopian troops quickly arrived, causing the insurgents to retreat, said Isaq ...
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Indonesia Papua New Guinea plan joint exploration
Indonesia and Papua New Guinea are planning joint exploration for potential oil and natural gas reserves in border areas. "The border possesses a huge amount of unexplored oil and gas reserves, according to data obtained by our team," Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik was quoted as saying by The Jakarta Post after meeting this week with Papua New ...
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Ghana cabinet approves $1 bln Eurobond for July - fin min
ACCRA | Thu May 23, 2013 12:45pm EDT ACCRA May 23 (Reuters) - Ghana's cabinet has approved a Eurobond issue of up to $1 billion which is tentatively scheduled for July, Finance Minister Seth Terkper said on Thursday. "Based on anticipated market conditions and financing needs, a transaction size of up to $1 billion was recommended to, and approved by, cabinet," Terkper told ...
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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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