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African Union Don’t Let Them In
On May 19, African countries will kick off a special summit to celebrate 50 years of unity, first under the Organisation of African Unity and, since 2000, under the African Union. This is an opportune time for the AU to set the record straight on its support for accountability, especially the atrocities during Kenya’s 2007-08 post-election violence. Indeed, Kenyan government sources ...
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Inside Mercks new crusade against cervical cancer in Africa
Merck's cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil. A new agreement between the GAVI Alliance, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline (which makes a similar vaccine, Cervarix) will provide vaccines in Africa at a fraction of their normal commercial cost -- with the goal of vaccinating 30 million women by 2020. Most pharmaceutical companies spend huge money on research and development, with new drugs requiring ...
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Global Advocacy Group Urges Pakistan to Protect Press
ISLAMABAD -- A U.S.-based international press watchdog organization is calling for the incoming Pakistan government led by Nawaz Sharif to take urgent steps to stem "the murderous silencing" of the press by bringing to justice those who have attacked journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists said many reporters killed in Pakistan during the past decade were targeted and ...
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Gay Rights Activist Held in China
BEIJING -- A young gay rights activist was detained last week in the southern city of Changsha, following a rally organized by local groups to mark an international day against homophobia, his lawyer said. The man, 19-year-old Xiang Yuhan, was taken into custody early Saturday after police came to his hotel room. "He’s been put under administrative detention for 12 days on ...
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Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ...
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SA Defence Force trained some DRC M23 rebels
Edward Xolisa Makaya, chief director for Southern Africa at the international relations and cooperation department told the parliamentary oversight committee on Wednesday that over the years, South Africa has been "very present" in the military training of the DRC's troops. The South African National Defence Force trained three military battalions over the years and that police ...
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South Africa Clash of Booker titans
With freedom of expression under threat in South Africa again, Anton Harber recalls an electric confrontation between two Booker prize winners, JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, about the censorship of a third - Salman ...
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Shura Council Chairman Receives Bahraini Ambassador to Morocco
Manama, May 23. (BNA) -- Chairman of the Shura Council Ali bin Saleh Al Saleh has lauded the tremendous efforts exerted by the Kingdom's ambassadors to strengthen ties with brotherly and friendly countries and open up new horizons of cooperation in various fields. Speaking as he received here today Bahrain's Ambassador to Morocco Khalid Salman Jabr Al-Musallam, Al Saleh asserted ...
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Emmanuel and St. Chad reach deal to stay open
The 134-year-old College of Emmanuel and St. Chad will remain open with the help of other Saskatoon seminaries, reversing its plan to suspend operations for three years.A deal with the two other members of the Saskatoon Theological Union - St. Andrew's College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary - allows Emmanuel and St. Chad to reduce its budget and remain open for the 2013-14 academic ...
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Rwandas main opposition figure Twagiramungu plans his return
The former prime minister plans to challenge President Kagame and the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front. Rwanda's former prime minister Faustin Twagiramungu, now in exile, says he plans to return by the end of the year to recommend President Paul Kagame loosen his authoritarian grip."I have decided to go back home this year," Twagiramungu said during a brief trip in early March to ...
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Madamfo Ghana Commissions Classroom Block For Detieso Community
Madamfo Ghana Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) from Germany, has commissioned a three-classroom block, with an office and store room, and Kindergarten block for the Detieso Community in the Bosome-Freho District of the Ashanti Region. The project was funded by Engagement Global (GIZ) NRW Germany at the cost of 24.000 Euros, the equivalent of GH60,000. Nana Anim Kokor II, Apewu ...
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Ghana To Use UK Technology For Street Naming
By: Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh Email: mk68008@gmail.com 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 ...
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Africas dead women walking
>Editor's note: The names of some fistula patients have been changed to protect their privacy.(CNN) -- It's a condition practically unheard of in the United States and most Western countries. But in a culture where a woman's status and dignity is decided by her ability to provide a husband with multiple children, it can be a fate worse than death. "Obstetric fistula" is a mouthful. But to ...
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Guinea UN Official Initiates Consultations Between Govt Opposition Leaders
A United Nations envoy today convened a consultative meeting in the Guinean capital, Conakry, between the Prime Minister and opposition leaders, pressing ahead with UN efforts to assist the parties in resolving differences over preparations for stalled legislative elections and other contentious issues through peaceful means. Said Djinnit, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for ...
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Uganda Today in Parliament Decision On Kampala
Parliament is expected today afternoon to take a decision on whether President Yoweri Museveni should take over Kampala management for six months or not. This followed a directive yesterday night by house Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah to the clerk of Parliament, Jane Kibirige, to investigate minutes of the controversial report by the Parliament's committee on public service and local ...
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Liberia Assets Declaration Ignored
The latest assets declaration report released by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) on the verification of public officials' assets has exposed several officials who allegedly refused to allow their assets [already declared] to be verified by the LACC. The verification process by the LACC was intended to show the truthfulness of the assets that have been declared by officials of ...
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Uganda Norway Pledges Funds for Forests
Uganda loses nearly 100,000hectares of forest cover annually through encroachment, exposing the population to the risks and costly consequences of climate change. It is therefore for this reason that the Norwegian Embassy has pledged continued support to Uganda in form of increased funding in forest restoration, environment management and conservation as part of their micro-development projects ...
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Tunisia Nation Jails Outspoken Femen Activist
Najjar in Tunis - Nineteen-year-old Tunisian feminist "Amina" was arrested in Kairouan on Sunday (May 19th). Tunisia's prosecutor ordered the arrest of the Femen activist after she tried to take off her clothes opposite Uqba Ibn Nafi Mosque. She was also reportedly seen painting the word "Femen" on a wall near the mosque. Interior Ministry spokesperson Mohamed Ali ...
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South Africa Water Debt and Leaks Plague City Residents
Cape Town - Nokuzola Bulana has a problem with leaks. The water that drips from the pipes of the toilet outside her home in Khayelitsha, a large semi-informal township on the fringes of Cape Town, South Africa goes to waste and drives up her water bill. Bulana, a water activist, says she fixed the leaks in January but water on the floor at the base of the toilet, which is inside a stall painted ...
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Swaziland Govt Wrong On Election Freedom
dialogue on the national election due in Swaziland later this year. Political parties banned in Swaziland were invited to the meeting. According to the Observer, Simelene said the parties were, 'practicing their democratic right to expression and assembly, and government had no business stopping them'. He told the Observer, a newspaper in effect owned by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan ...
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Africa Dlamini-Zuma - Pan-Africanism Is More Important Than Ever
The three issues - pan-Africanism, sustainable development and the empowerment of women - loom the largest in Nokosazana Dlamini-Zuma plans for the African Union. This is according to The Africa Report. Like many South African activists, Nokosazana Dlamini-Zuma's attachment to pan-Africanism is more practical than ideological. It was the African National Congress's ability to ...
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Africa Time for Africa to Be Food Secure
As the continent celebrates the 50th anniversary of the continental organisation, Mrs Rhoda Tumusiime, African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture has spelled out the AU's Vision for agricultural development for the next 50 years. On 25th May 2013, Africa will celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Organisation of African Unity and the African Union promoting Pan-Africanism ...
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Africa 23rd Ordinary Session of AU Executive Council Kicks Off
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Dr. Tedros Adhanom said on Wednesday Africa should build up on its achievements as it strives to advance the continent's transformation agenda for the next decades. Tedros made the remark at the opening session of the 23rd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union at its Headquarters. "I believe our priorities should be to ensure ...
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Africa Nepad Says Agriculture Development Key for Africa
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) said on Thursday Agriculture development has the potential to uplift millions of rural farmers out of poverty and create employment. In a press briefing NEPAD organized at the African Union, Chief Executive Officer of NEPAD Agency, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki stressed the need to improve rural life through modern agricultural mechanism. To ...
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Africa Ban Ki-Moon World Bank Group President to Visit Africa
World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make an historic joint visit to Africa's Great Lakes region from May 22nd - 24th. This is in support of a recent landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in one of the world's most troubled regions. According to the World Bank, Kim and Mr. Ban will travel to the ...
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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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