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Cameroon Governor Commissions New Nigerian Consul General
His Excellency Musa Mallam Hassan is in charge of the Littoral and West Regions of Cameroon. The Governor of the Littoral Region, Joseph Beti Assomo yesterday June 18 officially installed the new Nigerian Consul General in Douala. In a solemn ceremony that held at the Banquet Hall of his office premises, His Excellency Musa Mallam Hassan was presented to his new collaborators. Charged with ...
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Central Africa U.S. Secretary Kerry On New African Great Lakes Special Representative
SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. QUESTION: It's a late morning. SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon. (Laughter.) I'm happy to spend just a few minutes with you today and I apologize that I have to run over to the White House quickly after this, but I wanted to be able to focus personally on an important addition to our team here at the State Department; an individual who is ...
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SA to represent Africa at emerging markets
The recent invitation to South Africa to join the BRIC group of emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India and China is to "offer opportunities for Africa to strengthen ties with the ...
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Africa Europe set out cooperation priorities
The Action Plan 2011-2013 was adopted at the recent Africa-EU Summit held in Tripoli, Libya. It replaces the First Action Plan 2008-2010 that was approved at the last summit three years ago. Both plans of action are based on eight partnerships defined as "strategic". These focus on energy, climate change, peace and security, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), trade and ...
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Africa showed off well at London travel fair
The hall housing African stands was constantly crowded during the World Trade Market (WTM) in London this week. Tasteful stands and modern design showed visitors a new a confident image of African ...
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Robert Mugabes party asks court to delay Zimbabwe elections
Robert Mugabe at the SADC meeting of regional leaders, who called for the Zimbabwe election deadline to be pushed back. Photograph: Ferhat Momade/AFP/Getty ...
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England bowl out S. Africa for 175 in Trophy semi
David Miller plays for Kings XI Punjab against Deccan Chargers in Hyderabad last year. South Africa were bowled out for 175 in 38.4 overs, with Miller top scoring on 56, after being sent in to bat by England in the Champions Trophy semi-final at the Oval in London on ...
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Rlg Expands To Kenya And Hopes To Capture East Africa
After what many market players have described as impressive performance in the West African region, ICT Device assembler, Rlg Communications Limited has entered Kenya, hoping to spread into the booming East African market. Senior officials of the company say Rlg is using Kenya as a springboard to enter Tanzania and Ugandan markets. The newly appointed Country Manager, Rlg Kenya, Mr. Sesi ...
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Botswana Court Reprieve for Bushmen Threatened With Eviction
with eviction , reportedly because they live in an area proposed as a 'wildlife corridor', have won a significant court victory in their struggle to stay on their land. Since ...
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Obama Africa Trip is Effort to Re-engage with Continent
WHITE HOUSE -- U.S. President Barack Obama returns to Africa next week, only the second visit of his presidency to the continent. In Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, he will stress support for democracies and economic progress, and speak about the importance of human rights. Obama has spent less than 24 hours in sub-Saharan Africa, an all-too short visit to Ghana in 2009. He spoke to ...
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Space Africa Looks to the Final Frontier
JOHANNESBURG -- Space, the final frontier, and one that African nations have largely left unexplored. But with the emergence of space agencies around the continent, some intrepid space-gazers are studying ways to boldly go where few Africans have gone before. Observers looking at Africa today will see a new reality. Satellite dishes monitor hundreds of privately owned satellites above ...
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How American Military Assistance Goes Wrong in Africa
As the U.S. government gears up to militarize more of the Middle East by arming rebels in Syria, we are witnessing a similar mission creep toward the African continent. Not merely in the more obvious military interventions into Libya, Mali or Somalia, or military bases in Niger or Djibouti, but through growing security partnerships in places including Kenya, Nigeria and even Mauritania. The ramp ...
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Gang crime threatens the future of Congos capital
The well-organised and ruthless "kuluna", whose name derives from the Portuguese for infantry column, prey on residents with machetes, stones or iron bars under the noses of the city's corrupt and ineffectual police, activists say. Harriet Senga watched a gang of men strike her 19-year-old neighbour with a machete and rape her in broad daylight as she collected water from a muddy ...
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AU on collision course with Sadc over Zimbabwe elections
The African Union has dispatched a nine member advance team of election observers to Zimbabwe ahead of polls President Mugabe wants held by July 31.Mugabe, through his Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa on Tuesday filed a Constitutional Court application seeking a two week extension to the poll date following advice from regional leaders at the weekend.But indications are that the veteran ruler ...
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UPDATE 1-Private equity firm Abraaj to acquire West Africas Fan Milk
Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:28am EDT (Changes dateline, adds details) ACCRA, June 19 (Reuters) - Dubai private equity group Abraaj said on Wednesday it will acquire African dairy firm Fan Milk International, tapping into fast rising consumer spending in six west African countries. Abraaj, which has $2.2 billion invested in Africa, did not give a value for the transaction. Fan Milk's operations ...
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Zimbabwes president goes back to court to delay July 31 polls for at least 2 weeks
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's highest court said Wednesday it has received an application from longtime President Robert Mugabe's party to delay crucial elections by at least two weeks following pressure from regional leaders. Mugabe has insisted he is merely abiding by a previous court order in holding general elections on July 31. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a longtime Mugabe ...
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Africa African Press Review 19 June 2013
Does Museveni want a political monarchy? Is Sejusa a coward? Why shouldn't you take to a life of crime in Uganda? Why has the AU fallen out with the Sadc over Zimbabwe? Why are SA mining jobs vanishing? And why are Kenyan MPs up in arms about Mwai Kibaki's office? David Sejusa is back in the news in Uganda. He's the man who recently wrote to the head of national intelligence, ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Street Renamed Media Freedom Street By Citys Mayor
Reporters Without Borders hails last weekend's decision by the mayor of Butembo, a city in the troubled eastern province of Nord-Kivu, to rename one of the city's streets "Media Freedom Street." "We welcome this gesture by Butembo's mayor," Reporters Without Borders said. "It is an unusual initiative in a country and even more so a region - Nord-Kivu - ...
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Record Zimbabwe debts to Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea has emerged as one of Zimbabwe's main creditors following massive unpaid oil deliveries since the surrender of coup plotter Simon Mann from Harare to Malabo in ...
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Uganda churches make big business of aid
In Uganda, church communities may get access to major development aid funds. A new study shows that many church leaders abuse these funds and start neglecting religious ...
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Improved outlook for Gabon economy
GDP growth in Gabon 2003 to 2013 (blue line) is dependent on non-oil sector growth (red) as oil revenues (green) decline. This pessimistic 2009 forecast has now been adjusted ...
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East Africa a new population heavyweight
The East African region is slowly developing into one of the world's new population blocks, with the region surpassing all of North America in few years and all of Europe by the 2040s. A new, major power may be building ...
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Congo Kinshasa discusses criminalising gays
The Kinshasa parliament is in the process of discussing legislation that will prohibit homosexuality, or "unnatural sexual practices." But the debate climate in Congo is much calmer than in neighbouring ...
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Tanzania ready for elections
Seven presidential candidates will take part in the 31 October general elections in Tanzania, with incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete being the clear favourite. But the opposition may make important ...
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Domestic demand fuels Africas strong growth
African economies have reached the threshold where the growth in their own domestic demand is strong enough to fuel national economic growth. A new analysis sees domestic demand as key to the current strong ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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