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Gambia Anti-FGM Crusade Gaining Momentum
Anti-FGM campaigners are on the move. Recent headlines about communities committing themselves to the fight against FGM show that the fight against FGM is gaining momentum. We hope that these communities that commit themselves to make FGM history would take a further step by matching words with action. It is now common knowledge that the invasive nature of FGM and the unsanitary conditions ...
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Liberia Leymah Gbowee Criticizes Liberias Education System
A prominent Liberian, Madam Leymah Gbowee, has criticized Liberia's Education System, terming it as "poor". Madam Gbowee, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, asserted that the education system of Liberia is appalling as compared to other countries across the African Continent. Madam Gbowee, President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace ...
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Gambia Gambias Economic Outlook Is Positive - IMF Mission Chief
Despite the current high exchange rate, The Gambia's economic outlook is generally positive as long as the authorities implement prudent policies, said the International Monetary Fund Mission chief to The Gambia. David Dun was speaking Monday during a press conference at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs at the Quadrangle in Banjul, which came at the end of the mission's ...
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Ethiopia Smallholder Farmers Strive to Support Relief Efforts in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, smallholder farmers grow 94 percent of that country's maize--a crop deemed crucial to Ethiopian food security. Maize has tremendous income-generating potential in Ethiopia, but only half of the country's farmers grow maize as a cash crop. Most smallholders lack the critical access to finance, improved inputs and markets that are required to transition from subsistence ...
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Africa Continents Youth to Form Quarter of World Population By 2025 - AU Chairperson
The Chairperson of the AU Commission, Nkosazana Zuma, has said that the population of youth on the continent will be a quarter of the global population by the year 2025. Ms. Zuma said this in an address at the 102nd International Labour Conference on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland. She called for more investments to promote job creation, achieve inclusive growth and eradicate poverty on the ...
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Zimbabwe ministers battle over conservancy hunting permits
Tourism and Hospitality Minister Walter Mzembi and Natural Resources Minister Francis Nhema have clashed over the latter's decision not to grant hunting permits to white operators at the Save Valley Conservancy in favour of mainly Zanu-PF members, ...
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Amnesty International Sudan Still Holding Hundreds Without Charge Months After Attacks Ouside Khartoum
Sudan Still Holding Hundreds Without Charge Months After Attacks Outside Khartoum, Amnesty International Says NEW YORK - August 18 - Amnesty International today accused the Sudanese government of holding hundreds of people -- including women and a nine-month-old -- without charge or access to lawyers as they prepare to try another 109 individuals in sham courts over the armed attacks by the ...
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International Labor Rights ForumInstitute for Policy Studies Firestone Workers in Liberia Sign Historic Contract
New Contract is a Major Victory for International Campaign Against Firestone WASHINGTON - August 6 - Workers on the ...
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Greenpeace Documents Chemical Contamination In Ghana
Research Confirms Microsoft and Dell Electronic Waste in Africa INTERNATIONAL - August 5 - A Greenpeace science team visiting two scrap yards in the capital city Accra and the city of Korforidua, Ghana, has confirmed that soil and sediment taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards are severely contaminated with hazardous chemicals. This information was released today in a report ...
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Morsi Critics Demand Early Egypt Elections
An Egyptian signs a petition for Tamarod, Arabic for "rebel", a campaign calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and for early presidential elections in the Shubra neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, June 2, ...
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Senate Includes Foreign Adoptees in US Immigration Reform Bill
The U.S. Senate has voted in favor of automatic citizenship for foreign-born children adopted by American families. The chamber added the measure to landmark legislation to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, a top priority of President Barack Obama’s agenda. Senators have proposed scores of amendments to the immigration bill, and Tuesday the Senate voted on four of them. Democratic ...
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Gunmen Kill Dozens in Northern Nigeria Village
Witnesses say dozens of gunmen arrived on motorbikes early Tuesday in the village of Kizara, moving from house to house and shooting at residents. Some of the gunmen climbed on top of a hill and opened fire on villagers who tried to escape the attack. Zamfara state officials say the gunmen were part of a group of cattle rustlers that have been terrorizing the local community. The gunmen ...
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Al-Shabab Attacks U.N. Compound in Mogadishu
Militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for what officials are calling a suicide bomb attack on a United Nations compound in the Somali ...
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Obama Africa Trip is Effort to Re-engage with Continent
WHITE HOUSE -- U.S. President Barack Obama returns to Africa next week, only the second visit of his presidency to the continent. In Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, he will stress support for democracies and economic progress, and speak about the importance of human rights. Obama has spent less than 24 hours in sub-Saharan Africa, an all-too short visit to Ghana in 2009. He spoke to ...
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Space Africa Looks to the Final Frontier
JOHANNESBURG -- Space, the final frontier, and one that African nations have largely left unexplored. But with the emergence of space agencies around the continent, some intrepid space-gazers are studying ways to boldly go where few Africans have gone before. Observers looking at Africa today will see a new reality. Satellite dishes monitor hundreds of privately owned satellites above ...
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How American Military Assistance Goes Wrong in Africa
As the U.S. government gears up to militarize more of the Middle East by arming rebels in Syria, we are witnessing a similar mission creep toward the African continent. Not merely in the more obvious military interventions into Libya, Mali or Somalia, or military bases in Niger or Djibouti, but through growing security partnerships in places including Kenya, Nigeria and even Mauritania. The ramp ...
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South Africa Bowled Out for 175 by England in Semi
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Pirates attack ship off Nigeria kidnap four - sources
ABUJA (Reuters) - Pirates in speedboats attacked an oil supply vessel and kidnapped four Indian and Polish crew members in increasingly dangerous waters off Nigeria's coast last week, two security sources said on Wednesday. The gunmen launched their assault on the Singapore-flagged tugboat MDPL Continental One around 30 nautical miles from land on June 13, the security sources said. The ...
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Gang crime threatens the future of Congos capital
The well-organised and ruthless "kuluna", whose name derives from the Portuguese for infantry column, prey on residents with machetes, stones or iron bars under the noses of the city's corrupt and ineffectual police, activists say. Harriet Senga watched a gang of men strike her 19-year-old neighbour with a machete and rape her in broad daylight as she collected water from a muddy ...
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5 Somalis 7 militants die in attack on UN office
View Photo Associated Press/Farah Abdi Warsameh - Somali government soldiers gather in front of the main U.N. compound, following an attack on it in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Al-Qaida-linked ...
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AU on collision course with Sadc over Zimbabwe elections
The African Union has dispatched a nine member advance team of election observers to Zimbabwe ahead of polls President Mugabe wants held by July 31.Mugabe, through his Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa on Tuesday filed a Constitutional Court application seeking a two week extension to the poll date following advice from regional leaders at the weekend.But indications are that the veteran ruler ...
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UPDATE 1-Private equity firm Abraaj to acquire West Africas Fan Milk
Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:28am EDT (Changes dateline, adds details) ACCRA, June 19 (Reuters) - Dubai private equity group Abraaj said on Wednesday it will acquire African dairy firm Fan Milk International, tapping into fast rising consumer spending in six west African countries. Abraaj, which has $2.2 billion invested in Africa, did not give a value for the transaction. Fan Milk's operations ...
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Zimbabwes president goes back to court to delay July 31 polls for at least 2 weeks
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's highest court said Wednesday it has received an application from longtime President Robert Mugabe's party to delay crucial elections by at least two weeks following pressure from regional leaders. Mugabe has insisted he is merely abiding by a previous court order in holding general elections on July 31. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a longtime Mugabe ...
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Africa Africas Anti-ICC Crusade Is Misguided-Raila
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has dismissed as an exercise in futility the "hardline" position adopted by the African Union last month. He said that the anti-ICC crusade led by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is misplaced because "Africa must stop passing the buck and take responsibility for its own peace and development." Mr. Odinga was speaking Tuesday at the ...
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Nigeria 22 Killed As Boko Haram Launches Reprisal On Youths in Maiduguri
Maiduguri - At least 22 people including students and fishermen have been killed in Maiduguri yesterday, a few hours after Boko Haram insurgents declared war against youths in Borno and Yobe states who have captured many insurgents and handed them over to the Joint Task Force (JTF). Witnesses, survivors and reliable security sources said the first incident which appeared like a revenge mission ...
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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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