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Nigeria: Nigeria: Foreign workers seized in Nigeria
Six Filipino workers have been kidnapped from a cargo ship in Nigeria`s oil-rich Niger Delta region, security sources say. They say the six were seized as the ship headed to the port of Warri. Militants seeking a greater share of the region`s oil wealth have been targeting foreign oil ...
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Somalia: Police patrols set to begin in Mogadishu
Police will this week begin patrols of Mogadishu for the first time in years after an upsurge in violence since the ousting of Islamist hardliners from the Somali capital, officials said on Sunday. A senior Mogadishu police commander said the patrols would begin on Tuesday, while government spokesperson Abdirahman ...
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Guinea: Embattled Conte looks to the army for support
Guinea President Lansana Conte called on the population and the army to remain united behind him on Sunday after days of violent protests against his rule during a crippling general strike in the West African country. Union leaders launched the 12-day-old stoppage because they say Conte, a reclusive diabetic ...
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Senegal: Spain sends Senegalese migrants home again
Spain repatriated to Senegal several hundred would-be migrants on Sunday as part of a joint effort to stem the tide of illegal job seekers trying to reach Europe from Africa. The latest batch of Senegalese migrants to be sent home were flown from the Spanish Canary Islands to Saint-Louis, ...
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Kenya: Kenya: World Social Forum opens in Kenya
Thousands of anti-globalisation protesters have marched in Kenya`s capital, Nairobi, at the opening of the annual World Social Forum. More than 80,000 people have gathered to address a wide spectrum of social problems facing the world, including a focus on African issues. Set up in 2001 as a ...
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Nigeria: Africa"s failed health plan "costs millions lives"
Africa is hosting for the first time the World Social Forum, an annual meeting of global campaigners. Activists said that African governments" failure to deliver on a 2001 vow to spend 15% of budgets on health has cost the continent 40 million lives. An African Union (AU) summit in ...
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Ethiopia: Ban under pressure to win African leaders’ trust
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, begins his highly anticipated first visit of Africa this week under immense pressure to win the confidence of continental leaders on his commitment to African challenges. Ban"s three nation tour will include meeting African heads of state at the forthcoming African Union (AU) ...
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Sudan: Darfur rebels say government bombs kill 17
Darfur rebels accused the Sudanese government today of bombing its areas for two days, killing at least 17 civilians, in an attempt to delay a conference of rebel leaders. A Sudanese army spokesperson was not immediately available to comment. The government regularly denies bombing in Darfur which will be a ...
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Egypt: Ten killed in Egyptian minibus crash
Ten Egyptians were killed and 10 others injured on Sunday when a minibus collided with a truck on a highway south of Cairo in the latest of a series of Egyptian transport accidents, security sources said. They said the crash occured on a desert highway that runs parallel to ...
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Libya: Libya to axe public sector staff
The Libyan government is to lay off 400,000 people - more than a third of its workforce - to ease public spending and stimulate the private sector. Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi told parliament the number of civil servants had become excessive. Mr Mahmudi said redundant staff would ...
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Kenya: Nairobi at risk of RVF infection
By Amos Kareithi It is bad news for meat lovers; veterinary experts have raised the red flag over one of their favourite delicacies — roasted meat. As the deadly Rift Valley Fever spreads towards the city, the Veterinary Department has warned Nairobi residents that the mouthwatering piece of roasted meat ...
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Nigeria: Fuel Crises: Marketers to Monitor Sales Outlets
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday met with major marketers on the measures to check the lingering fuel crises in the country.The meeting presided over by the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the corporation, Egnr. Funsho Kupolokun, identified disruption in crude supply to Warri and Kaduna refineries due to ...
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe under pressure as UN official visits
A United Nations envoy met Zimbabwe"s President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday to discuss the violent political crisis ahead of June"s presidential election run-off. The visit of assistant secretary-general for political affairs Haile Menkerios is the first by a senior UN official for three years and comes at a time ...
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe gunning for Tsvangirai
President Robert Mugabe threatened to arrest Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and his opponent in the run-off presidential elections June 27, just as a special United Nations envoy arrived in Harare. A UN spokesperson in Zimbabwe confirmed that Haile Menkerios, the world body"s assistant ...
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Zimbabwe: Mbeki, Mugabe to discuss presidential run-off
President Thabo Mbeki is to meet his Zimbabwean counterpart, Robert Mugabe, in Bulawayo today to discuss next week"s presidential run-off poll. Zimbabwe"s opposition MDC says it has no plans to meet with Mbeki, who is the SADC mediator for Zimbabwe. South African financial markets have turned for the ...
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Angola: Italy`s Pescara City Wishes to Twin with Huíla
Italian city of Pescara wishes to sign twinning agreements with Angolan city of Huíla, in the fields of drinking water supply, health and education, ANGOP learnt this Wednesday. The representative of that locality, Massimo Luciani, at the ceremony of courtesy greetings to the governor of Huíla, Ramos da Cruz, expressed ...
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Kenya: Zim: Odinga steps up criticism
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has stepped up his criticism of fellow African leaders for failing to speak out against the violence plaguing Zimbabwe ahead of the presidential poll. "Zimbabwe is an eyesore on the African continent an example of how not to do it. I"m sad that so ...
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Zimbabwe: Zim land grabbers lazy - Mujuru
Zimbabwean Vice-President Joyce Mujuru has criticised "lazy" farmers for leasing the land they invaded, The Herald Online reported on Tuesday. "Do you think there would be another government that would come and do the farming on your behalf while you sleep?" she asked at a rally in Chiweshe attended ...
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Guinea: Mann sings
British mercenary Simon Mann has gone on trial under heavy security in Equatorial Guinea, accused of plotting to oust the country"s president in a 2004 coup attempt. Mann arrived at the court in an armoured van on Tuesday to answer charges of conspiring against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, which ...
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Equatorial Guinea: British "dog of war" on trial
British mercenary Simon Mann, one of Africa"s last "dogs of war", went on trial in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday and the prosecution asked he be jailed for nearly 32 years for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot. Looking pale and gaunt in his grey prison uniform, Mann, ...
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Botswana: Botswana blasts Zim
Botswana has broken ranks with Zimbabwe"s lethargic neighbours and issued the strongest condemnation so far by any current African government of President Robert Mugabe"s reign of terror. It has also become the first African country to summon Zimbabwe"s high commissioner to register a formal protest. On Monday the ...
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