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Ghana Records 750000 Teenage Pregnancies
Some executives on the dais STATISTICS CONDUCTED by the Ghana Health Services has revealed that about 750,000 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 became pregnant last year in Ghana. Close to 14,000 teenagers in the Central Region got pregnant last year, indicating a tremendous 62% increase in the region over the previous years. The Chairman of the Ghana Coalition of Non Governmental ...
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China pledges to step up partnership with Africa
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Top legislator Zhang Dejiang said on Saturday that China is willing to work with African countries to advance the China-Africa new-type strategic partnership to a higher level. Zhang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), made the remarks at a reception held by the African Diplomatic Corps in China to mark the 50th founding ...
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Bahrains Ambassador to Egypt and African Union Takes Part in African Unions Extraordinary Summit
Cairo, May 25. (BNA) -- The Kingdom of Bahrain's Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt as well as the African Union (as an observer) Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa, took part in the opening session of the extra-ordinary summit on the Golden Jubilee celebration of the African Union. The event, which began this morning at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the theme ...
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Niger attacks launched from southern Libya Nigers president
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Islamist militants who carried out simultaneous suicide attacks on an army base and a French uranium mine in northern Niger two days ago came from southern Libya, Niger's president said on ...
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Madagascar president sets out terms for quitting election race
President of Madagascar Andry Nirina Rajoelina addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 26, ...
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SA and Nigeria need to complement each other not compete
interview with Zambia's Vice-President Guy Scott , who expressed his loathing for South Africa's arrogance and lack of subtlety, threw the matter into stark relief. It has also manifested in the chilly diplomatic relations between another emerging major on the continent Nigeria, that has recently begun to thaw, following the state visit by Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan ...
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Gordhan touts resource-filled Africa at WEF
"There's a great deal of excitement around the world about South Africa as the new place, where you going to see exciting things happening over the next 10 to 20 years," Finance Minister Gordhan told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa on Thursday. Gordhan said his visits to Washington and London in recent weeks proved to be both insightful ...
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Improbably Missionary Trains Stars in Kenya
The ...
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Namibia Botswana connect to 5.12 terabit cable
Last week, the powerful WACS submarine fibre optic cable was landed in Swakopmund, Namibia. Now, the work has started to make WACS provide high-speed telecom services to consumers in Namibia and ...
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Still no intl pressure on Swaziland
As democracy revolts are spreading around the world and pressure on dictatorships to reform grows, the totalitarian Swazi kingdom still is left without pressure; even without ...
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Tanzania says work on China-funded gas pipeline to continue
Sat May 25, 2013 11:51am EDT * Tanzania says disputed gas pipeline to be completed next year * Parliament approves budget with pipeline proposals * Govt says to reform state-run power utility By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala DODOMA, May 25 (Reuters) - Tanzania will continue building a China-funded $1.2 billion gas pipeline from the south of the country to the commercial capital Dar es Salaam despite ...
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Kerry Nigeria Working to Stop Abuses by Security Forces
US Secretary of State John Kerry (foreground) speaks at a joint news conference with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom in Addis Ababa May 25, ...
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In Malawi an NGO Saves Rural Dwellers from Waterborne Illnesses
CHIKHWAWA DISTRICT, MALAWI -- A few years ago, residents of Malawi's southern district of Chikhwawa were often stricken with diarrhea often caused by cholera, an illness spread by unclean drinking water from unprotected sources like wells and rivers. Today, the situation is under control, thanks to an international NGO that's drilling boreholes in the area for fresh drinking water and ...
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Black Widow Suicide Bomber Wounds 12 in Russia
Police say the bomber detonated her explosives in the central square in Makhachkala, Dagestan's capital. At least two of the wounded are in critical ...
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Africa celebrates progress and 50 years of unity
ADDIS ABABA (Ethiopia): African leaders on Saturday opened extravagant celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the African Union, with the continent's myriad problems set aside for a day to mark the progress that has been made. African Union chairman and Ethiopian Prime ...
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Kenya Government Targets Six Percent GDP Growth in 2013
Kenya's economy expanded by 4.6 per cent in last year helped by growth in key sectors despite a turbulent global economy, delayed long rains and a weaker shilling in early 2012. The government is however targeting a six per cent GDP growth this year, an ambitious target going by figures resgistered in the past five years. The Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning Anne Waiguru said ...
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Cameroon plans Egypt-like protests
Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible ...
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Rwanda wins Burkina loses corruption fight
Chantal Uwimana, the Africa Director of Transparency International, explains afrol News why the corruption situation Rwanda is strongly improving, while Burkina Faso seemingly is loosing the fight against ...
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DR Congo gets US$ 7bn debt cancellation
The main creditors of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) have agreed to cancel Congolese foreign debts totalling US$ 7.35 billion. Much of the unsustainable debt was accumulated under ex-Dictator Mobutu Sese ...
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Friend of London Hacking Murder Suspect Arrested
British police have arrested a man on suspicion of terrorism who was reportedly a friend of one of two suspects in Wednesday's brutal murder of a British soldier on a London ...
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Ukraine Gays Hold First March Protected by Police
KYIV -- About 100 Ukrainian gay rights activists held the country's first gay rally Saturday, helped by police who arrested 13 people for trying to break up the march. The activists walked for about 250 meters along Prospekt Peremohy (Victory Avenue) in the capital, Kyiv, while Orthodox Christian activists nearby chanted slogans denouncing them. "Ukraine is not America. Kyiv is ...
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Pictures Ethiopia’s Extreme Salt Mines
The colorful and extreme Afar is also home to a valuable commodity: salt. For centuries the Afar people have mined rich salt deposits left behind from Red Sea floods in the ...
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Travel Writer Paul Theroux’s Last Trip to Africa
Paul Theroux has been traversing continents--often crammed into an overcrowded bus or wedged into a packed train car. His international wanderings began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi in 1963, and in 1975 he published his first travel ...
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African unity in the making
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 25, 2013. REUTERS/Jim ...
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Namibia Nation Faces Hunger
GOING HUNGRY Lesley Mouton is one of more than 300 000 Namibians who are faced with food insecurities countrywide. Mouton, who has been faced with bouts of hunger over the last 15 years was found searching for food in the trash drums of Katutura yesterday. AN estimated 330 900 Namibians are currently facing food insecurity following a dry rainy season, a recent study has found. A report ...
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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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