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4 seriously injured in S. Africa train collision
Two freight trains collided in South Africa on Tuesday afternoon, leaving at least four people critically injured.The collision took place as one train hit the other on the East Rand in Johannesburg, making one of the train overturned, local paramedics said.The injured including a woman received the treatment after relief workers rushed to the scene, said the paramedics.The cause of the accident ...
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Retired Algerian general calls to impeach president
A retired Algerian general called for impeaching hospitalized President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, local media reported Tuesday.Former commander of the Algerian naval forces Mohand Tahar Yaala urged to interrupt the current term of Bouteflika, accusing him of standing behind "the widespread legalized theft" hitting the nation.Bouteflika, 76, suffered a transient ischemic attack last month ...
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Syria stresses right to respond to Israeli violations
The Syrian Foreign Ministry stressed Tuesday the country's right to immediately respond to any Israeli violation against its sovereignty.The remarks were made in a letter addressing the United Nations, in which the ministry complained against the latest Israeli violation that took place earlier on Tuesday when an Israeli military vehicle crossed the cease-fire between Israel and Syria on ...
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5 Tunisians still held in Guantanamo minister
Five Tunisian nationals are still held at the United States detention centre in Guantanamo, Tunisian Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice Samir Dilou said Tuesday.Speaking at a press conference in the capital Tunis, Dilou said "Tunisia would like to see the five nationals repatriated" as they had never been charged of any crime.Concerning the anti-terrorist law, Dilou said ...
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Somalias Displaced The Reform Test
"They don’t care about us," the Somali woman told us. "They don’t rescue us when the women are crying for help." She was describing the people who controlled her camp for displaced people in the capital city, Mogadishu. In fact, the voices of Somalia’s displaced have been regularly ignored, and often actively silenced. It is an important time to listen to ...
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Nigeria to Free All Female Islamist Suspects
Nigeria says it will release several Islamist suspects from prison, including the women in custody, as it seeks peace with Boko Haram extremists. The Defense Ministry said Tuesday the move is in line with what it calls "presidential magnanimity to enhance peace efforts." A panel set up by President Goodluck Jonathan is recommending the government open peace talks with Boko Haram ...
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UN Poaching threatens central Africa peace
UNITED NATIONS -; The illegal trade in elephant ivory may constitute an important source of funding for armed groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in central Africa, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security ...
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Nigeria to release all women held for terrorism
Female student stands in a burnt classroom at Maiduguri Experimental School, a private nursery, primary and secondary school burnt by the Islamist group Boko Haram to keep children away from school in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria on May 12, 2012. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty ...
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Ban Ki-Moon praises progress in Mozambique says resource income must be put to good use
MAPUTO, Mozambique - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says Mozambique has made tremendous progress in 20 years of peace but must put to good use the new natural resources income of an impoverished nation with one of the world's fastest growing economies. Ban Ki-Moon told reporters after meeting President Armando Guebuza that "new-found resources create new opportunities but generate ...
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On the Scene in Tornado Hit Town Even Trees are Stripped of Everything
VOA correspondent Greg Flakus is at the site of the tornado damage in Moore, Oklahoma. He spoke with English broadcaster David Byrd Tuesday afternoon about what he is ...
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Kerry Presses US-Russian Plan for Syrian Peace Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Wednesday in the Jordanian capital with senior diplomats from 11 nations, as part of a U.S.-Russian push to end Syria's civil ...
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Police fire rubber bullets at S’African miners
Ten striking South African miners were taken to hospital on Tuesday after being hit by rubber bullets, police said, as labour strife spread ahead of mid-year pay ...
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Olumhense and journalism practice in Nigeria
What! Mr. Sonala Olumhense is giving up his column, or giving up writing? I wasn't sure. Within 48 hours, I sent him a private mail. He ...
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Sources Govt holding up operation to pursue Benghazi attackers- FOX NEWS POLL US could have done more in Libya
U.S. military sources serving in North Africa are challenging the latest White House claim that the administration is applying "all the resources" at its disposal to bring the Benghazi attackers to justice, charging instead that the Obama administration knows who is responsible but is not acting. "They have let it slip by because of politics, and now we've taken all ...
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Kenya National slum upgrading and prevention policy aims to improve livelihoods
Vision 2030 which aspires for a slum free nation. Currently it is estimated that more than 34% of Kenyan's total population lives in urban areas with this number projected to hit 63% by 2030 in not well addressed. It s also estimated that 71% of the urban population lives in slums and are facing various challenges such as social, political and economic exclusion. Other vital problems ...
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Nigeria says Islamic extremist inmates to be released
Nigeria's military said on Tuesday the West African nation is prepared to release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against Islamic ...
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Central African Republic UN measles vaccination campaign to protect 125000 children
an emergency measles vaccination campaign that will aim to reach 125,000 children in the Central African Republic (CAR). The five-day campaign, which begins tomorrow, will take place in the conflict-hit Bangui, the country’s capital, after eight children tested positive for the disease last month. ';Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children. Mass violence ...
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Cooperation in Education Between Cuba and Angola Deepened
Luanda, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The perspectives to widen and diversify cooperation between Angola and Cuba in education are promising, especially in the technical-professional teaching level, said an Angolan official here Tuesday. Narciso Damasio dos Santos Benedito, Secretary of State for the Angolan Technical-Professional Formation and Teaching, received Cuban Ministers Council vice president ...
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Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Militias Spread Fear of Voting
- For the last month Gibson Severe and his wife, Merjury Severe, known opposition supporters from Hurungwe district in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland West Province, have been hiding out in the country's capital ...
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Nigeria military Authorities to release prisoners taken in fight against Islamic extremists
ENUGU, Nigeria - Nigeria's military said Tuesday that the West African nation would release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against Islamic extremists -- including all the women now held in custody. The surprise statement from the Defence Ministry, while lacking specifics about how many would be released and when, represents a clear concession by the Nigerian ...
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Zimbabwe wants SA to keep its citizens
The South African government spends at least R90-million a year on sending illegal immigrants back to their countries, most to Zimbabwe. Many Zimbabweans, however, make it back into South Africa within days. The Zimbabwean government has now complained about the high number of nationals deported by South Africa. This comes against the background of an apparent hardening of attitudes ...
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Clashes in Congo continue as U.N. chief prepares to visit
Ban Ki -moon. Fighting between the Congolese Army and the rebel group M23 was again centered near Mutaho, 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of the city of Goma, Voice of America reported. Government spokesman Lambert Mende said 15 rebels and four army soldiers were killed in the fighting. Speaking in Mozambique, Ban said he will travel to Goma Thursday, and called for faster deployment of a U.N. ...
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Iraqi PM Orders Security Shakeup as Violence Surges
Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered a shakeup of senior government security officers, as a weeks-long wave of violence grips the country and fears of all-out sectarian war spread. The shakeup was confirmed on the prime minister's website, but details were not immediately clear. The move comes as authorities reported at least 21 deaths Tuesday in attacks ...
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How Congress Is Using the Congo to Weaken Dodd-Frank
Lawmakers expressed what appeared to be heartfelt concern Tuesday over an obscure provision of the Dodd-Frank Act, the major financial reform bill President Barack Obama signed into law in 2010, and how it has affected the people of the Democratic Republic of ...
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Kenya Patrol cars top police priority list
The team supposed to spearhead modernisation of the National Police Service said officers are incapacitated in several other ways but they urgently need vehicles, protection gear and houses. They met Tuesday at the Treasury as directed by ...
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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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