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Alaska Rep. Don Young gone hunting in Africa misses subcommittee oil hearing
WASHINGTON - When a key House of Representatives panel took up a bill this week that would require annual lease sales and streamline permitting in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, home state Rep. Don Young missed the session. He was on a big-game hunting safari in South Africa.Aides said Thursday that Young, a 21st-term Fort Yukon Republican who is Alaska’s sole representative in ...
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Soil Atlas of Africa created to help farmers land managers
International experts say they've created a Soil Atlas of Africa to help farmers, land managers and policymakers understand soil's diversity and importance. Despite its importance, most people in Africa lack knowledge about soil, partly because most information tends to be limited to publications read only by scientists, said researchers at the at the land resource management unit of ...
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Music Review Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institutes Tunisia Festival
The Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, a gentle firebrand whose song ...
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Syrias Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq
Ominous ties are emerging between skyrocketing sectarian violence in Iraq and Syria's civil war. Analysts say al-Qaida-linked militants are flowing back and forth from both countries and are seeking to use religious differences to bring down the government, not only in Damascus, but also in Baghdad. Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. Bombings ...
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Moore Oklahoma Holds First Funeral of Tornado Victim
Moore, Oklahoma held the first funeral for a victim of Monday's monster tornado -- a nine year-old girl killed when the storm tore apart her elementary ...
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Africa Tempts High-Tech Companies
Multinational high-tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa’s relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more ...
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African Progress Panel Urges Leaders to Exploit Resources
ADDIS ABABA -- As the African Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding, a group of respected leaders and activists led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging African leaders to maximize the continent’s natural resource potential. The African Progress Panel ...
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Volunteers Help Revive LAs Concrete River
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles River is a concrete drainage channel through much of its 80-kilometer length. It channels waste-water from storm drains and has become a receptacle for much of the city's trash. But, the river is slowly being restored to its natural state with the help of volunteers, who take part in an annual clean-up. Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend ...
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Group set for $10bn direct investment in Nigeria
The drive of Federal Government for Foreign Direct Investment into the Nigerian economy has yielded fruit as a multinational group of high net-worth private investors with base in Europe and Singapore has concluded plans to make major investments in the oil and gas sector, real estate, agriculture, university education and power generation in the ...
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Castle Minerals confirms Ghana prospect as a gold and zinc discovery
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Castle Minerals (ASX: CDT) has confirmed that its Bundi Prospect in northwest Ghana as a new gold discovery with associated zinc mineralisation.Reverse circulation drilling had intersected a coherent zone of gold mineralisation over at least 1100 metres of strike.This occurs within a zone of sulphide alteration that has a strong correlation with elevated ...
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Nigeria’s Northern Elders Will Soon Come Home To Roost By Paul Omoruyi
Lately, there has been so many "elderly rascality" taking place in Nigeria. From Gabriel Igbinedion’s complete disregard for the law of the land on election-day in Edo State to the recent preposterous and outlandish statements by Northern Elders Forum (NEF) regarding Nigeria’s Government fight against Boko Haram, elderly rascality is on full display all over ...
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Uganda CAA annouces plans to remodel departure area of Entebbe airport
(eTN) - Travelers using the Entebbe International Airport have for long been suffering the inconvenience of being made to walk long distances from the car parking to the main terminal, often subjected to pouring rain, as a result of the security requirement to keep vehicles away from the terminal. 'Entebbe is the only airport in the region where you cannot drive up to the terminal and ...
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International Institute for Peace through Tourism announces launch of Peace Tours Morocco
STOWE, Vermont; TORREMOLINOS, Spain & CASABLANCA, Morocco - The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) is pleased to announce the launch of Peace Tours Morocco as its second "Legacy Project" commemorating the 25th anniversary since its first global conference, "Tourism - A Vital Force for Peace," held in Vancouver in 1988. Peace Tours Morocco is a ...
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Nigeria struggles to shift maternal care to tackle mortality rate
At large public hospitals in Nigeria, overworked nurses snap at crowds of pregnant women, who wait hours to receive quality care. With 630 deaths for every 100,000 live births, Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Government officials urge women to seek care at local clinics, but expecting mothers say they are unaware they ...
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Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster
WASHINGTON -- The scattered ruins of Moore, Oklahoma, a town devastated for the fourth time in 14 years by a major tornado, are a grim reminder that current building codes can’t do much to prevent property destruction and loss of life, especially when a powerful twister cuts through town. But the death toll can be dramatically reduced when people take shelter in underground storm bunkers ...
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Obama Renews Pledge to Close Guantanamo Prison
In a speech addressing U.S. national security and counter-terrorism strategy, U.S. President Barack Obama announced additional steps to reaffirm his pledge to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He said Guantanamo "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." In a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in ...
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Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned
An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The ...
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Pyongyang Willing to Take Chinas Advice on Talks
A North Korean envoy has told a senior Chinese official that Pyongyang is willing to take China's advice to start talks aimed at resolving tensions on the Korean peninsula. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that envoy Choe Ryong Hae made that remark to a high-ranking member of China's Communist Party, Liu Yunshan, during talks in Beijing Thursday. Liu told Choe that China ...
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Telescopes Spot Colliding Galaxies
Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). (Photo: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC ...
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WTO to East Africa Improve Your Infrastructure
NAIROBI -- World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy said East African governments must improve roads, ports and trade procedures if the region is to meet its full economic potential. He said specifically that border administration must be improved and there has to be cross-border recognition of technical standards. The call of the WTO chief comes as trade partners across ...
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African leader says Intl court designed to humiliate
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders.Salva Kiir spoke Thursday during a visit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces ICC charges related to Kenya's post-election violence in 2007-08 that killed more than 1,000 people.Kiir said that South Sudan — the ...
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Kenya Relief as surgeons re-attach mans severed private organ
Surgeons at the hospital have successfully reattached his partially severed organ. However, experts at the hospital Thursday indicated it is not possible to determine if the victim will regain full sexual function of his ...
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Kenya Mother claims nurse watched her newborn die
The couple had prepared to welcome their newborn baby and when Ann went to labour on January 17, this year, they knew that the moment they had prepared for had ...
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Kenya Police arrest former councillor for piracy
• Secondary school set books analysed, recorded and saved in DVDs which were later sold to bookshops • Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 2012 marking schemes for different subjects • Heavy duty printers, DVD burners which Gitimu told the police officers were used in the production of the copies of DVDs at night • Others were theatre books and anthology of poems for ...
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Kenya Weather pushes inflation food prices down
inflation eased significantly from 14 per cent in 2011 to 9.4 per cent in 2012 with the country's reliance on rain-fed agriculture paying out. The drop ...
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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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