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Guinea-Bissau: Rui Duarte de Barros appointed Prime Minister of the transition

Guinea-Bissau: Rui Duarte de Barros appointed Prime Minister of the transition BISSAU - Rui Duarte de Barros, computer engineer, was appointed Prime Minister of the transition in ...

Bissau: The fallen power refuses to recognize the transitional government

Bissau: The fallen power refuses to recognize the transitional government LISBON - The former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Carlos Gomes Junior was firmly opposed, Wednesd...

Swaziland's King Mswati III given jet for his birthday

Swaziland's King Mswati III given jet for his birthday King Mswati III of Swaziland has received a luxury jet as a gift from "anonymous sponsors", a govern...

Former President Rawlings Urges African Governments Not To See Opposition As Enemies

Former President Rawlings Urges African Governments Not To See Opposition As Enemies Former President Jerry John Rawlings has asked Governments not to consider the opposition as an enem...

World Diplomacy

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Obama, Hollande Meet for First Time Before G-8 Summit Convenes

Obama, Hollande Meet for First Time Before G-8 Summit Convenes President Barack Obama meets today with France's new Socialist president and self-described "normal"...

Akufo-Addo kicks against Chinese take-over of Ghanaian retail business

Akufo-Addo kicks against Chinese take-over of Ghanaian retail business Nana Akufo-Addo, the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has expressed his opposition...

With Sarkozy gone, Turkey shows renewed interest in EU membership bid

With Sarkozy gone, Turkey shows renewed interest in EU membership bid Turkey is showing renewed interest in reviving its stalled bid to join the European Union, now that ...

Russian textbooks to expose 'falsifications of history'

Russian textbooks to expose 'falsifications of history' Russia has commissioned new school textbooks that condemn "falsifications of history" and paint the ...

Regional Integration

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South Africa: Zuma says no one has been "tyrannized " for the AU presidency

South Africa: Zuma says no one has been The South African President Jacob Zuma has expressed this Thursday, May 17 his support for its candi...

Guinea Bissau: 70 ECOWAS troops have arrived

Guinea Bissau:  70 ECOWAS troops have arrived The first group of 70 military and paramilitaries belonging to the peacekeeping mission of the Econo...

Côte d'Ivoire: IMF calls for end to fuel subsidies

Côte d'Ivoire: IMF calls for end to fuel subsidies On the occasion of a disbursement of $100 million for the Ivory Coast, the Institution of Washington...

South Africa’s Mbeki In Sudan To Mediate Peace Talks

South Africa’s Mbeki In Sudan To Mediate Peace Talks Former South African President Thabo Mbeki was in Khartoum on Friday to try and push Sudan and South...

NGOs

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Health: Africa is expected to devote 15% of its budget by 2015

Health: Africa is expected to devote 15% of its budget by 2015 The African Council of Religious Networks has called on African governments to allocate 15% of their...

Insecticide resistance threatens malaria fight

Insecticide resistance threatens malaria fight Malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa and India are becoming resistant to insecticides, putting mill...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Traders resist rice price rules

COTE D'IVOIRE: Traders resist rice price rules ABIDJAN - South of the Sahel, where drought, high food prices and other factors have pushed some 16 ...

Thousands flee to Uganda as Congo hunts renegade commander

Thousands flee to Uganda as Congo hunts renegade commander KISORO, Uganda  - It was the six rebel soldiers who hacked down the door of Elias Ngahaga's hou...

Diaspora

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Namibia: the genocide of the Second Reich

Namibia: the genocide of the Second Reich To meet its project of colonial expansion, Germany perpetrates, in 1904 in Namibia, the first genoci...

Air Cote d'Ivoire Launching First Flights End Of July

Air Cote d'Ivoire Launching First Flights End Of July Air Cote d'Ivoire, the airline created by the Cote d'Ivoire government in partnership with Air Franc...

'Go-go' musician Chuck Brown dies

'Go-go' musician Chuck Brown dies Guitarist and singer Chuck Brown, who mixed funk, soul and Latin styles to help create the upbeat "g...

Martelly celebrates one year of power

Martelly celebrates one year of power In Haiti, the president wanted to celebrate, Monday, May 14, 2012, the first anniversary of taking o...

African News

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Malawi to overturn homosexual ban, Joyce Banda says

Malawi to overturn homosexual ban, Joyce Banda says President Joyce Banda has said she wants Malawi to overturn its ban on homosexual acts - the first A...

Congo: More than 32 billion CFA francs for construction of Ouesso airport terminals

Congo: More than 32 billion CFA francs for construction of Ouesso airport terminals Ouesso - President Denis Sassou Nguesso, opened Wednesday in Ouesso, about 900 km northwest of Brazz...

S.Africa developing cheaper way of making titanium

S.Africa developing cheaper way of making titanium CAPE TOWN - South African scientists are developing a new way of making powdered titanium potentiall...

Ethiopia: Coffee linked to lower risk of death

Ethiopia: Coffee linked to lower risk of death Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can't get through the d...

World News

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Update: Robert F Kennedy Jr estranged wife Mary 'hung herself'

Update: Robert F Kennedy Jr estranged wife Mary 'hung herself' Robert F Kennedy Jr's estranged wife died of asphyxiation caused by hanging, medical officials in Ne...

New French government hands itself 30 percent pay cut

New French government hands itself 30 percent pay cut French leader Francois Hollande's new Socialist government got down to work Thursday with the first ...

Brazil unveils social programme for low-income families

Brazil unveils social programme for low-income families Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has launched a raft of social programmes for low-income families ...

China tops India as No. 1 gold consumer

China tops India as No. 1 gold consumer China topped India as the world's top consumer of gold in the first quarter of this year, cementing ...