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Boston Bomber Spent 6 Months in Russia’s Most Violent Republic
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AU Highlights Progress in Africa in Economic Growth Peace Democracy
Addis Ababa, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Africa is facing a variety of problems, but over the last 50 years has witnessed substantial progress in economic growth, a consolidation of peace and improved democracy, stressed African Union (AU) authorities here today. In the second and final day of the 26th Ordinary Session of ambassadors prior to the 21st AU summit to be held in Havana, attendees ...
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Zimbabwe mining chamber criticises minerals proposals
HARARE – Zimbabwe's mining chamber said tighter proposed State control over the sale of minerals would hit Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum Holdings, slow down foreign investment and stunt growth in the industry. Zimbabwe's Mines Ministry in March produced a draft Minerals Policy, which seeks to increase state participation in exploration, mining and the selling of ...
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I believe there will be a Games bid from Africa says Ng Ser Miang
May 20 - Ng Ser Miang, the Singaporean International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president who last week launched his election campaign to replace Jacques Rogge in the most powerful position in world sport, has said he believes a Games bid from Africa is on the horizon. Speaking ...
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Ugandan police shut down newspaper after anti-President letter published
Elias Biryabarema - 20 May 2013 POLICE have raided a leading Ugandan newspaper and disabled its printing press and website today after it published a letter about a purported plot to stifle allegations ...
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Benin–Nigeria Power Interconnection Project Sharing Energy in West Africa
The Electricity Authority of Benin-Nigerian Electric Power Authority power interconnection project, jointly financed by the African Development Bank, the West African Development Bank, and the Economic Community of West African States, is one of the sparkling flagship projects for regional integration and cooperation in West Africa. Financed under the West Africa Power Pool program, the project ...
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Developing African Infrastructure for the Continent’s Structural Transformation
Across Africa, investments in physical and social infrastructure have failed to keep pace with growth and demand, creating a serious infrastructure deficit that slows investment, the achievement of broad-based and inclusive growth, and poverty reduction. The figures are revealing. More than half of the countries in Africa suffer chronic power outages, stifling industrialization and other ...
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Daunting but Promising AfDB Report highlights Economic and Social Benefits of Green Growth for Africa
A new report released by the African Development Bank (AfDB) shows that investments in green growth are not only good for the environment but are also advantageous to economic ...
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South Sudan army recaptures Boma town
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (right) welcomes his Sudan counterpart, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, outside his office in Juba on April 12, 2013. File photo: ...
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Nigeria in all-out war against terror group Boko Haram
Troops deployed have been deployed in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states where the terror Islamist group, Boko Haram and its affiliates have been causing havoc. Defence ministry spokesperson Brigadier General Chris Olukolade told journalists in Abuja on Sunday that the offensive against the militants would continue "as long as it takes" for the insurgents to be defeated.??The army has ...
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We Have Most Biting Laws The Anarchy In Ghana
By I. K. Gyasi ';We have strict statutes and most biting laws, The needful bits and curbs to headstrong steeds, Which for this fourteen years we have let slip'; – The Duke, in Shakespeare's play, MEASURE FOR MEASURE Duke Valencia in William Shakespeare's play, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, compares the laws of a country to the devices a horse rider needs in order to control ...
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Rebels attack Central African Republic towns killing at least 8 in continuing violence
BOUCA, Central African Republic - Residents say armed men invaded a remote village in Central African Republic and killed six people. The attack comes just days after rebels assaulted another nearby town, where they killed two people. Residents in Bouca say four vehicles full of armed gunmen entered the village on Friday, where they shot six people. Witnesses said the men did not speak Sango, ...
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Uganda Busoga Needs Special Devt Programme - Kadaga
The Government should come up with a special development programme for the Busoga region to bring it up to the level of other areas, Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of Parliament has said. "It has been our long time desire to have a special programme for Busoga. As far back as 2003, we designed the Busoga Zoning programme. It was launched by the President in 2004 but unfortunately it was never ...
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Uganda New Local Govt Commissioners Sworn in
Acting Deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma has urged freshly appointed members of the Local Government Finance Commission to uphold the qualities the appointing authority saw in them. "Your appointment is a clear manifestation of the confidence the appointing authority has in each of you, because of your dedication to work and leadership skills. So, I call upon all of you to uphold the ...
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Nigeria To Capture Fleeing Boko Haram Fighters - Army Imposes 24-Hour Curfew On Maiduguri
Maiduguri - The Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, Borno State, yesterday imposed a 24-hour curfew on parts of Maiduguri metropolis, saying it is part of the efforts to sustain the ongoing special operation against Boko Haram insurgents. The spokesman of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt Col Sagir Musa, who disclosed this in a statement, said, "The Joint Task Force (JTF), in order to sustain the ...
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Liberia Bishop Francis Dies
Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, the outspoken cleric who became the conscience of the society during the tyranical regime of late President Samuel Doe and the tumultous years of the civil war, died at his 8th Street residence yesterday following a protracted illness, aged 77. The shocking news of Bishop Francis' death, who was regarded as indifatigable fighter for peace and justice in ...
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South Africa Green Light for Eskom Wind Farm
The National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) has granted Eskom a licence for its Sere wind farm in the Western Cape, the power parastatal said on Monday. "This is an exciting milestone in Eskom's move towards a cleaner energy mix," Eskom CEO Brian Dames said in a statement. "Sere is our first, large-scale, renewable energy project. It demonstrates our commitment to reducing ...
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Nigeria First Bank CEO Highlights Nigerias Investment Opportunities At World Economic Forum
The FirstBank of Nigeria impressed delegates at the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa about opportunities for Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria, reports Adeola ...
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Nigeria Foreign Investors Take U.S.$2.7 Billion Out of Nigeria in Three Months
Foreign investors took $2.74 billion out of Nigeria in the first three months of 2013. This was indicated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in its economic report for the first quarter of 2013. According to the report, foreign exchange outflow from the economy in the first was $6.54 billion. This outflow was dominated by foreign exchange outflows for 'invincibles'. Invincible ...
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Nigeria Investors Confidence in Nigerian Economy Surge
Investors' interest and confidence in the Nigerian economy is surging, Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Lawan Ngama has disclosed. Citing 14 million hits and download of data from the website of the Nigerian Federal Office of Statistics, FOS, as a pointer, the minister observed too, that the percentage of non-filers in Nigeria of companies income tax regime declined from 54 per ...
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Liberia Give Jobs to Liberians - Pro-Tempore Urges Concessionaires
Concession companies and other foreign investments in the country have been urged to use the expertise of Liberians in carrying out their duties. At the Grand Royal Hotel where he delivered a statement at the official unveiling ceremony of the partnership between the ROSNA Service Inc. and ANSAMBLE, two local and international catering companies, Sen. Gbezohngar M. Findley, Senate President ...
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Africa Put a Spotlight on African Womens Reproductive Rights
Nairobi - Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver safely. On Monday she said I was weak. "The doctor decided to operate on me. (During the) operation they found the baby was dead. The doctor said the baby had died due to the long labour. After that, I ...
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Africa National Key Points List Must Be Made Public
The announcement yesterday by the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Jeff Radebe, that Air Force Base Waterkloof is not a National Key Point is further evidence of how the Apartheid-era National Key Points Act is being selectively used by the government to hide critical information to protect high ranking members of the government. It is highly irregular that a major air force ...
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Africa CPJ Urges Kerry to Address AU Summit On Press Freedom
Addis Ababa - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on US secretary of state John Kerry to address African leaders on the issue of press freedom in Africa during an upcoming continental summit. In a letter to the US official, CPJ urged Kerry to emphasis what the press freedom group calls Ethiopia's continued systematic crackdown on independent journalists. "We are ...
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1000-year-old African coins found in Australia
In 1944, during World War II, Australian soldier Maurie Isenberg found five copper coins on a beach in the Northern Territory, and marked the spot with an 'X' on a map. In 1979, he rediscovered the coins in a tin and sent them to a museum for identification, where they were proved to be 1000 years ...
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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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