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Nigeria bombs Islamists U.S. sounds alarm
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm ...
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UN chief appoints veteran diplomat Haile Menkerios as the new UN envoy to the African Union
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed veteran diplomat Haile Menkerios as the new U.N. representative to the African Union. U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said Friday that Menkerios will also continue his current assignment as the secretary-general's special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan. He will have the rank of undersecretary-general. Menkerios, a longtime Eritrean ...
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Medical student brings healthcare to rural Ghana
Medical school graduates often have their pick of job opportunities in well-outfitted urban hospitals in Ghana. Meanwhile, the ratio of doctors serving the population of the rural Upper East region is just one for every 35,010 citizens. One student is defying trends of urban migration to bring much-needed care to these remote ...
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Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity
Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...
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$600 Million Lottery Fever Grips US
The jackpot for Saturday's multi-state lottery has grown to $600 million for a single winning ticket. With millions of tickets being sold each hour at $2 each, Powerball officials say the jackpot is likely go even higher before the numbers are drawn. Winners must match five numbers and a special Powerball to claim the entire prize. The odds of winning the jackpot are one in 175 ...
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Secretary-General Appoints Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz of Brazil Force Commander for UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo
-moon announced today the appointment of Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz of Brazil as Force Commander of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
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Kenya Teen battles heart defect
And this is why she was shocked to discover she was born with an abnormal condition. A congenital heart disorder that threatened to tear her life apart. The Form Four student at Mahiga Girls High School was busy doing her cleaning on a Saturday in October last year when she suffered chest pains. The chest pains, she narrates, worsened and she started wheezing. Within an hour, she was bleeding ...
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Kenya Crisis as Bungoma hospitals are overstretched
Bungoma town is another facility that has been receiving victims of the recent atrocities and it is here where the wife of a slain businessman and her daughter were admitted. ...
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More Than 22 Killed in Democratic Republic of Congo Mine Collapse
Kinshasa, 17 May (Prensa Latina) The government of D.R. of Congo says more than 22 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province in the far eastern part of the country. The statement sent to reporters late Friday and signed by government spokesman Lambert Mende says the mine near the village of Rubaye collapsed Friday evening. The statement says a ...
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Political change on Algeria horizon as old guard succumbs to old age
North Africa and the Sahel and is an important bulwark against terrorist groups linked to Al-Qaeda. Any further instability in North Africa, where Tunisia, Libya and Egypt are already struggling, could embolden the armed militants. So far Algeria has been buoyed by high oil prices and, with almost $200 billion in foreign reserves, it has spent lavishly to try to buy off the discontent. But ...
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Nigeria states of emergency | Editorial
Nigeria , has made little secret of the fact that it regards itself not only at war with the Nigerian state, and its security forces, but its people too. It has bombed churches, mosques, carried out assassinations, kidnapping, and mass assaults. On a single day in January last year, it killed 185 people across Kano. As the years have gone by, the ferocity, ambition and scale of its attacks have ...
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Tunisia hardline Islamists in standoff over Sunday gathering
But the group, under fugitive leader Saif-Allah Benahssine, has said it would defy the order and go ahead with its annual gathering on Sunday, which it expects to attract some 40,000 ...
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US Strengthening Trade with The Rising Continent Africa
Hailing Africa's economic resurgence in the 21st century, the United States of America today talked about America's vision for global trade and opportunities for Africa. In his remarks in Pretoria in South Africa, Under Secretary Robert D. Hormats says the US is committed to supporting Africa's integration into the global trading ...
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Proflight Zambia’s B737 makes maiden flight to Livingstone
Proflight Zambia's 105-seat Boeing 737-200 aircraft made its maiden flight to Livingstone on May 15, with VIP and celebrity passengers helping the airline celebrate the introduction of its new aircraft. Deputy Minister of Local Government and Housing Hon. Nicolas Banda was among those on board the plane from Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, along with celebrities including JK, Cactus, ...
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American missionary priest in Kenya suspended in dispute over control of hospitals
An American missionary priest in Kenya who became embroiled in a legal dispute over the ownership of hospitals has been suspended from the priesthood. The Maryknoll Society suspended Father William Charles Fryda after he refused to drop a lawsuit he filed three years ago against Cardinal John Njue and Sister Marie Therese Gachamab, superior of the Assumption Sisters in Nairobi. He charges that ...
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Official Nigeria military attacks suspected Islamic extremist camps in northeast killing 21
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Soldiers in Nigeria launched their first raid against suspected Islamic extremists in a campaign to take back control of the nation's northeast, killing at least 21 people, a security official said Friday. The fighting happened Thursday in the Sambisa Forest Reserve, just south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, which soldiers previously targeted hunting for ...
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Ex-warlord Prince Johnson quits his own party in Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia - Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced Friday he is quitting the political party he founded. For years since the end of Liberia's civil war, Johnson has tried to erase his violent past, first becoming an evangelical pastor, and later running for ...
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Tunisia Salafi conference threat to public order setting up weekend confrontation
TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the weekend. The ministry statement, which appeared on their Facebook site, said Ansar al-Shariah's annual conference to be held in Tunisia's holy city of Kairouan was not ...
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Africa Study Finds Little Progress in Meeting Demand for Contraception
A new study by the Guttmacher Institute finds that within the developing world, the poorest countries are lagging far behind higher-income developing countries in meeting the demand for modern contraception. Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in ...
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Africa Global Land Forum Forges International Agreement On Territorial Development
ROME, ITALY (17 May 2013) - As the global population continues to grow and the demand for food and the land to produce it on increase in lock step, the International Land Coalition brought together 273 people from 47 countries in Antigua, Guatemala from April 23-27 to discuss territorial governance and food security in the context of rapid urbanisation and shifting patterns of land use ...
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Arab Parliament seeks support for Comoros
WAM MORONI, MAY 17th, 2013 (WAM): The Arab Parliament will hold a session in Moroni, the capital of Comoros, in the near future in presence of all its members, Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Ahmed Mohammed Al Jarwan, has announced. "The Arab Parliament will also launch an initiative to build a new Moroni with modern hospitals and universities. The Parliament will seek to find supporters ...
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Nigeria launches assault on Islamists
NIGERIA'S military has attacked Boko Haram Islamist strongholds across the northeast, launching air strikes on insurgent camps, with dozens of militants killed in the fighting, the military says. Several thousand soldiers have spread across three northeastern states where President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency after Boko Haram seized territory and declared war against the ...
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Moon Hit By Largest Meteoroid Impact in 8 Years
The U.S. space agency, NASA, has just spotted the biggest explosion on the Moon in the eight years since the agency has been monitoring lunar impacts caused by meteoroids. "On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as ...
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Dozens Killed in Bombings Outside Baghdad
Dozens of people have been killed in twin bombings targeting Sunni worshippers in Iraq -- bringing the death toll from several days of violence to nearly 100 and increasing fears of renewed sectarian ...
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Violence in South Sudan Town Shuts Down Hospital
WASHINGTON -- The humanitarian situation in a rural area of eastern South Sudan appears to be worsening after a hosptial run by an international medical group was heavily damaged in violence last week. Residents are fleeing Pibor town, which is in Jonglei state, near the border with Ethiopia, and some NGO's are evacuating staff from the area. The local hospital, which was run by the ...
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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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