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Video Greatest threat to Africas white lions American hunters
Very few white lions live in the wild today, but Linda Tucker is on a mission to change that. She left behind her life in Paris and founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust, dedicated to saving the African white ...
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4 injured after 5.5-magnitude quake hits off Algerias Bejaia source
Four people were injured after an earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale hit off Algeria's northern coastal province of Bejaia on Sunday morning, a local media source told Xinhua. The earthquake which took place at 10:07 am (0907 GMT) on Sunday, and the epicenter was in the sea -- some 20 km northeast of downtown Bejaia, the capital of Bejaia province and a Mediterranean ...
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Egypts Morsi rejects dialogue with kidnappers as hostages
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday rejected any dialogue with the kidnappers of seven soldiers in Sinai, who appeared in an online video to urge their release."There would be no dialogue with criminals," official news agency MENA quoted Morsi as saying while meeting with heads of several political parties to discuss efforts to release the seven soldiers kidnapped early Thursday ...
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1 killed 14 injured in clashes between Salafists police
A protester was killed on Sunday in Tunisian capital during clashes between police and a hardline Salafist group that was banned from holding their congress, official TAP news agency said.The protester, 27, who engaged in the pro-Islamist protest organized by members of Salafist group Ansar El Shariaa, received gunshot wound and died later in a hospital in western Tunis, TAP said.At least 11 ...
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Algeria plans to build its 1st nuclear plant in 2025
Algeria plans to build its first nuclear plant in 2025 to cope with the country's soaring electricity consumption, the official APS news agency reported Sunday, citing Minister of Energy and Mines, Yousef Yousfi."We plan to set up our first nuclear power plant in 2025, and we are working on it," Yousfi was quoted as saying in a press conference in capital Algiers.Algeria's ...
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Salafist protester killed in clashes with Tunisia security forces
Radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police officers after Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned their annual conference supposed to be held in Kairouan, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Sunday May 19, 2013. Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist ...
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Bidders vie to build world’s largest hydropower plant in Congo
A file photo shows eight massive turbines, only three of which work, on the Congo River. Existing hydro plants Inga I, commissioned in 1972, and Inga II which followed a decade later, have fallen into disrepair. ...
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Building Schools For Morocco’s Rural Poor
By Valentina Crosato "School attendance alone is not sufficient. High-quality and diversified education is our objective. Just going to school doesn't make children educated." This is the belief of Teach4Morocco, a Moroccan National Non-Governmental Organization created in 2011 and based in Meknes. Its aim is to improve Morocco's educational system, grant construction of ...
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South Africa union seeks pay raises of up to 60 per cent for miners
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it would seek pay rises of up to 60 per cent from gold and coal producers, raising the prospect of fresh strikes as firms battle higher costs and falling prices in an already heated labour climate.Africa's biggest economy is hoping to avoid the 2012 wildcat strike action at platinum and gold mines that cost billions in lost revenue and ...
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8 things to know before visiting Libya
>World-renowned chef, author and Emmy winning television personality Anthony Bourdain visits Libya in the next episode of "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," airing Sunday, May 19, at 9 p.m. ET. Follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.(CNN) -- Following Libya's revolution, oil production has been restored and the country has slipped from the front pages. Once more, Libya has become North ...
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Washington Week Focus on Burma US Government Scandals
WASHINGTON -- A groundbreaking visit by Burma’s president and continuing probes of U.S. government scandals highlight a busy week ahead in Washington. Six months after President Barack Obama visited Rangoon, President Thein Sein reciprocates Monday with a visit to the White House. Last November, Obama hailed democratic reforms in Burma. "A dictatorship of five decades has ...
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Nigeria team set for Standard Chartered Trophy final
The team representing Nigeria at the 2013 Standard Chartered Road to Anfield Tournament arrived in Liverpool on Saturday via Amsterdam and Manchester and promised to improve on last year's ...
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One dead in Tunisia showdown with Islamists
Islamists fought street battles in Tunis on Sunday, with one protester killed and 15 policemen wounded, after the authorities banned the Salafists from staging their annual congress. The confrontations infuriated moderate Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, who for the first time linked the Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group which is considered close ...
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14th wife Woman rebuffs Swaziland king
LONDON: A 22-year-old woman fled to Britain from the southern African nation of Swaziland and is seeking asylum after refusing to join the harem of 13 wives of Swazi king Mswati III. Tintswalo Ngobeni fled to Britain after she caught the attention of the millionaire monarch, known for his lavish lifestyle, the Daily Mail reported. As part of Swazi custom, the 45-year-old king is permitted to ...
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Tanzania deadly Muslim attack on Christians raises fears of al-Qaeda influence
Olasiti , Tanzania, was most likely perpetrated by a domestic group seeking to provoke further sectarian violence between Christians and ...
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Libyas deputy prime minister says deadly Benghazi explosion last week was an accident
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an attack. Awd el-Buraasi told reporters in Tripoli Sunday that military officials do not believe that the blast in a busy area of Benghazi was planned. Three people were killed in the incident. Benghazi, where Libya's 2011 ...
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Plant to Deliver NutritionallyEnhanced Sorghum to Africa
ST. LOUIS and DES MOINES, Iowa - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and DuPont announced a $4 million grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation to bring healthier sorghum to underserved communities in ...
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Indian Chinese Leaders Discuss Border Dispute
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart Sunday discussed efforts to resolve a decades-old border dispute between the world's two most populous ...
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Nigeria says 14 Militants 3 Soldiers Killed in Latest Fighting
Nigeria's military says it killed 14 Boko Haram militants and captured 20 others Sunday, as it presses its offensive against the al-Qaida-linked group in the country's restive ...
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Kenya APs lucky gun attack escape
The corporal, attached to Gitige AP camp in Kahuro District allegedly went berserk after drinking beer at a nearby bar. The suspect was reportedly given a loaded rifle during his patrol. But his colleagues claimed he kept the rifle in his house. They said he then collected it later and went to his senior's house. Witnesses say the AP knocked at his senior's door as he hid the gun on ...
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Kenya Weight row paralyses transport at Coast
Mariakani Weigh Bridge with drivers taking more than 11 hours for a journey that normally lasts 40 minutes. Traffic Police Commandant for Coast Joshua Omukata blamed the mayhem on a conflict between transporters and officials of ...
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Kenya First President farmers society of choice on deathbed
For farmers in Rift Valley, it marks the start of high milk production, increased expenditure on planting and school fees. In Eldama Ravine, this period reminds them of good old days when founding ...
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Kenya Judge orders case retrial over faulty charge sheet
rape her. He also allegedly strangled her as she tried to fight back. A man who was passing by reported seeing Mburu struggling with the girl. He called another woman who lived nearby and they went to the rescue of the girl. With the help of other members of the public they managed to arrest Mburu, just as he was trying to flee, and took him to the local elders who then handed him over to Kihote ...
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Tunisia PM links Ansar al-Sharia Islamists to terror
Ansar al-Sharia that fought street battles in the capital with security forces on Sunday of being "involved in terrorism". "Ansar al-Sharia is an illegal organisationit has ties to and is involved in terrorism," Larayedh told state television. The Islamists clashed earlier with security forces ...
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Opposition in parliament demands Air Tanzania be declared bankrupt
(eTN) - Sharp differences in opinion emerged in the Tanzanian parliament this week when the Minister for Transport, Dr. Harrison Mwakyembe, moved his ministry's budget for the financial year 2013/14. When touching on the budget provisions for Air Tanzania (ATCL), he painted a glowing picture to the house of the airline introducing flights to Johannesburg, Mombasa, Bujumbura, and added ...
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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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