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Choose a page number: 1 Africa RSS FeedsNigeria: Boko Haram Plans to Kill Me, Says Nobel Laureate - [Leadership] Following a threat by the Boko Haram sect that Professor Wole Soyinka would be their next target for attack, the Nobel laureate has raised the alarm, urging security agencies to take action immediately or risk possible disintegration of the country should the sect carry out its threats....Feed Source: allafrica.com Kenya: Ocampo Dismisses Appeal Requests By Hague Court Suspects - [Nation]
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has dismissed requests by Kenyan suspects to be allowed to appeal the decision confirming their cases.... Zimbabwe: Meeting Aborted As Mugabe, PM Clash - [Zimbabwe Standard]
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A National Security Council (NSC) meeting slated for last Friday was cancelled after a fierce clash between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over the composition of the attendees following the expiry of the term of office of one of the service chiefs, authoritative sources confided to The Standard last week.... Senegal: Students Call for President to Step Down - [IPS]
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The friends of slain Senegalese student protester, Mamadou Diop, say that the 32-year-old master's student was against injustice and that is why he was protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term of office.... Burundi: Country Celebrates 21st Anniversary of the Unity Charter - [RFI]
Burundi celebrated the 21st anniversary of the adoption of its Unity Charter on Monday. While the man behind the project, former president Pierre Buyoya, says he is satisfied with the watershed document, some say there are reasons to doubt its efficiency after ten years of civil war.... Liberia: French Ambassador Named in Sex Scandal - [New Dawn]
While some may find it difficult to comprehend, others may just see some degree of validity in it. That's the story of a sex scandal which has rocked a foreign diplomatic mission in Monrovia.... Nigeria: Child Lead Poisoning Crisis - [HRW]
Thousands of children in northern Nigeria need immediate medical treatment and dozens of villages remain contaminated two years into the worst lead poisoning epidemic in modern history, Human Rights Watch said today while releasing a video on the issue. Four hundred children have died, according to official estimates, yet environmental cleanup efforts have not even begun in numerous affected villages.... Kenya: Tackling Underage Sex Work in Nyanza's Gold Mines - [PlusNews]
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Inside a smoky makeshift kiosk, Julie*, 16, can hardly cope with the demand from her clients for a cup of tea and a snack - the men are parched from their work as gold miners in the western Kenyan district of Nyatike.... Africa: Western 'Philanthropic Imperialists' Block African Solutions - [African Arguments]
The dominant interventionist approach to peace and security in Africa by-passes the hard work of creating domestic political consensus and instead imposes models of government favoured by western powers. The emergent African methodology offers a chance to develop locally-rooted solutions too often sidelined.... Sudan: South Sudan's Kiir Unleashes Barrage of Attacks Against Bashir - [Sudan Tribune]
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The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir on Monday launched a fierce attack on his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan al-Bashir calling him a "thief" and urged him to surrender himself to the International Criminal Court (ICC).... Kenya: Girl, 10, Tells Court How Father Married Her Off - [Nation]
A 10-year-old girl was married off by her father without her knowledge and taken to a "strange land where she could not trace her parents' home", a court heard on Monday.... Ghana: Number of People Living With HIV to Increase - [Public Agenda]
Despite the ongoing extensive anti-HIV/AIDS campaigns, the total number of people living with HIV in Ghana is projected to increase to 317,872 by 2015 from 272,780 in 2010, states the Ghana AIDS Commission in its National HIV& AIDS Strategic Plan 2011-2015.... South Sudan: Juba Looks South to Export Oil - [African Arguments]
Across South Sudan demonstrations have been held in support of President Salva Kiir's decision to shutdown its 350,000-barrel daily oil production.... Africa: The West Can Put a Stop to Food Speculation - [RNW Africa]
Countries presently suffering from food shortages - especially those in Africa - need to start producing more food. And they already have the capability to do so. According to Dr Dirk Bezemer, modern agricultural techniques can indeed increase production, but only if the governments of the affected countries are prepared to lend their full support.... West Africa: Donors Learning Funding Lessons - Slowly - [IRIN]
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This year donors are stepping up more quickly to meet Sahel's humanitarian needs compared to 2010, when they were slow to respond. However, they are still at fault for taking a quick-fix approach rather than addressing long-term disaster prevention and resilience needs, say aid groups.... Liberia: Sirleaf Assures Inclusive Government - [Heritage]
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has again assured all Liberians that the government will be inclusive, saying the government is not composed of only senior ministers. "Other appointments are coming," she promised.... Zambia: Govt to Scrap School Fees - [Times of Zambia]
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GOVERNMENT has said it plans to completely scrap all fees in schools but is currently constrained by the huge amounts of money being spent on the purchase of maize through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA).... Uganda: Besigye, Supporters Disagree On Guns - [Independent]
Being allowed to hold rallies recently after a long unofficial ban meant the jury was always out on opposition leader Kizza Besigye. Would he pull crowds? Would his message resonate with the public? Or would he self-destruct?... Niger: Three Million Children Threatened By Hunger - [IPS]
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Women have been left in charge of many of the households in the village of Zamkoye-Koïra, in western Niger, as food shortages have driven male family members to leave in search of work elsewhere.... Egypt: Chinese Feed Illegal Ivory Trade - [IPS]
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The illegal trade in ivory continues in Egypt, with ivory products sold openly in local tourist markets by traders who operate with impunity, a new study by the conservation group Traffic has found.... Libya: African Union Appoints Envoy to Tripoli - [ISS]
In October 2011, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) at its 297th meeting authorised the opening of an AU liaison office in Tripoli. Following the AU Summit last weekend in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Chairperson of the Commission Jean Ping appointed Mr Mondher Rezgui, a Tunisian diplomat as his special representative and head of the AU Liaison Office to Libya (see AU Press Release, 1st February).... Mali/Gabon: 'Les Aigles' Have 'Nothing to Lose' in Afcon Semi-Final - [allAfrica.com]
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Mali were the first to admit they did not convince in getting past co-hosts Gabon and taking an African Nations Cup semi-finals berth, but made no apologies for their progress.... Ghana/Tunisia: Captain's Injury Worries Black Stars for Afcon Semi-Final - [allAfrica.com]
Ghana were made to fight hard but will be delighted with how they applied themselves to defeat Tunisia 2-1 after extra time to advance to the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals.... Egypt: Cautious Peace Follows Clashes - [Aswat Masriya]
A state of cautious peace fills the area surrounding the Ministry of Interior, early Monday, following clashes between protesters and security forces.... South Sudan: Juba Tells Bashir Not to Beat the Drums of War - [Sudan Tribune]
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The Vice president of South Sudan Riek Machar dismissed statements made by Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir in which he raised the prospects of war between neighboring states.... South Africa: Nationalisation - It's Not About Malema - Mantashe - [iMaverick]
The phrases 'Julius Malema' and 'nationalisation' have gone together for so long in our politics that it's quite difficult to think of one without the other. As events have transpired, and Malema's pendulum swings very much the other way, you would think mine nationalisation is on its way out. It does indeed seem like that. ... South Africa: It's Mine Time in Cape Town - the Indaba Is Back - [iMaverick]
As surfers wax their boards and parliamentarians hum and hah about returning to work, Cape Town, queen of African cities, welcomes 7,200 delegates to the Mining Indaba. It's quite a show.... East Africa: Pay Traders Over Chaos, EABC Tells Kenya - [East African]
The East African Business Council is putting pressure on Kenya to compensate Ugandans and Rwandan traders for the losses incurred during the post election violence between 2007 and 2008.... Mali: People Displaced By Fighting Flee Towards Niger - [ICRC]
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Almost 10,000 people from Mali and Niger have fled the fighting that has pitted the Malian army against armed groups in the Ménaka and Anderamboucane areas of northern Mali in recent days.... Africa: Communities Abandon Female Genital Mutilation - Report - [UN News]
A new United Nations report shows that almost 2,000 communities across Africa abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) last year, prompting calls for a renewed global push to end this harmful practice once and for all.... Copyright © 2012, TopLooker.com. All Rights Reserved. |
