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Stephen Keshi: Nigeria will make Africa proud at FIFA Confederations Cup
Cairo, Egypt - Nigeria's head coach Stephen Keshi has assured that the country's national football team, the Super Eagles, will make Africa proud by performing well at next month's FIFA Confederations Cup. |
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CAF analyses 2012, 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
Cairo, Egypt - African soccer's governing body CAF has kick-started a three-day symposium in Cairo, Egypt, to analyse the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations. |
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Nigerian Customs Service arrests 3 foreigners over elephant tusks, processed ivory
Lagos, Nigeria - The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arrested two Chinese and one Malian for attempting to smuggle out of Nigeria over 21kg of processed ivory and elephant tusks, NCS spokesperson Thelma Williams told journalists here on Sunday. |
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Libya seeks technical support from European Reconstruction, Development Bank
Istanbul, Turkey - Libya has solicited technical support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the chairman of the financial institution, Libyan government officials said. |
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Mauritania picks French stand-in for sick coach of home-based team
Nouakchott, Mauritania - French coach Braconnier Pascal Albert is due to take over from his compatriot, Nicolas Santucci, as coach of the Mauritanian home-based football team. |
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Libya: Gunmen end siege at Libya’s ministries
Tripoli, Libya - The armed militia groups that laid a siege on Libya's Ministries of Justice as well as Foreign Affairs have ended their onslaught, following an agreement reached with the country’s transitional authorities. |
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Senegal's expulsion of blogger, blow to freedom of expression - HRW
Nairobi, Kenya - The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the expulsion of Chadian blogger and journalist Makaila Nguebla by the Senegalese government, describing it as a blow to freedom of expression. |
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Nigeria's mega opposition party set to emerge
Lagos, Nigeria - The stage is finally set for the emergence of what is being touted as Nigeria's mega opposition party, to be called All Progressives Congress (APC), after the three opposition parties planning a merger rounded off their conventions to approve the alliance, PANA reported Sunday |
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Nigeria: Militia that killed 30 Nigerian policemen 'still holding four others'
Lagos, Nigeria - The deadly militia group that killed at least 30 policemen and many other security agents last week in Nigeria's northern Nasarawa State are still holding four policemen in captivity, the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, said. |
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Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap wife, daughter of Bode Rhodes-Vivour
'Gunmen kidnap wife, daughter of Nigeria's Supreme Court Justice' - Gunmen have kidnapped the wife, daughter and driver of Nigeria's Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, according to the local Punch newspaper. |
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Brig.-Gen. Yaye Garba AFISMA Deputy Commander dies
Lagos, Nigeria - The Deputy Force Commander of the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA), Brig.-Gen. Yaye Garba, has died, PANA reported Sunday, quoting ECOWAS sources. |
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Security: UN Security Council counter-terrorism panel focus on Mali, the Sahel, Somalia
New York, US - The UN Security Council Counter-terrorism committee dealing with Al-Qaida is strengthening its work and cooperation with related UN bodies to more urgently address the evolving threats posed by the network in Mali, the Sahel and Somalia, a UN statement said on Saturday. |
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New York: UN calls for greater protection of birds' habitats
Protection of birds' habitats - As an estimated 50 billion birds commence their annual migrations, the critical staging areas they need to complete these journeys continue to be degraded or are disappearing completely, the UN warned on Saturday. |
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DR Congo: Tanzanian troops arrive in eastern DR Congo
New York, US - A contingent of Tanzanian soldiers Friday arrived in the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the intervention brigade authorized by the UN to help neutralize armed groups in this volatile part of the country, a UN statement said on Saturday. |
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Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan orders crackdown on killers of police officers
Lagos, Nigeria - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan, has ordered the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the police and the State Security Service (SSS) to fish out killers of scores of policemen in the central Nasarawa State on Tuesday, according to local media reports. |
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Ethiopia: Corruption 'claims' senior govt. officials, businessmen
Corruption Ethiopia - Ethiopian police on Friday arrested 13 officials, including the Director General of the powerful Customs and Revenue Authority and his Deputy on charges of corruption filed by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (FEAC), the state-owned Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported Saturday. |
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European Union diplomat eulogises relations between Gambia, Europe
Banjul, Gambia - On the occasion of celebrations marking Europe Day in Banjul, the head of the European Union (EU) delegation in Gambia, Madam Agnès Guillaud, said both parties had enhanced the socio-economic development of the country, especially in the areas of transportation and infrastructure, food security, education, governance, economic growth and poverty reduction. |
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Gambia: Government releases detained popular Islamic cleric, Baba Leigh
Popular Islamic cleric Imam Baba Leigh, who was held incommunicado for a little over five months, has been released by the Gambian government, according to State-owned Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS). |
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World Economic Forum: Debunk myths about Africa's potential
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Africa cannot continue to be marketed as a country, when it is a continent of 54 countries, which, by 2040 will have the largest workforce in the world, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Carlos Lopes, has told a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. |
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Boko Haram-Nigeria: Slain Officers’ wives seek relocation, husbands’ bodies
Over 150 widows and orphans of the policemen and prisons officials killed on Tuesday in Bama, north eastern Borno State, by Boko Haram gunmen, have 'grudgingly' accepted a 5 million Naira (US$ 33,000) donation by the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, when he paid a condolence visit to survivors of the attack. |
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Nigeria: Unbridled orgy of killings dominates Nigerian media
The recent breakdown of law and order, resulting in the mass killing of persons, including security operatives, women and children, was the major story in Nigeria this week. Just as the presidential panel on dialogue with Boko Haram kicked off its mission with a visit to some prisons where it consulted with detained Boko Haram high-ranking officials, the violent Islamic sect let all hell loose, indulging in wanton killings across some States in the northern part of the country. |
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Nigeria: ECOWAS sympathises with Nigeria over pilots' death
Abuja, Nigeria - The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo, has sent a condolence message to Nigeria’s President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, over the death of two Nigerian Air Force fighter-jet pilots who died while providing support to the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA). |
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West Africa: 'ECOWAS, partners make irreversible progress in Mali'
Abuja, Nigeria - ECOWAS and the international community have made irreversible progress in Mali by freeing the north of the country from the grip of terrorists and securing its territorial integrity, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo, has affirmed. |
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Ghana: Market fire, end of doctors' strike highlighted in Ghana media
Accra, Ghana - A huge market fire on Sunday at a popular market in Accra, known for second hand clothing, shoes and building materials, and the end of a crippling doctors’ strike were some of the stories reported in the Ghana media this week. The fire at Kantamanto razed down the market and consumed goods and investment of hundreds of traders. |
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Education assistance to North Darfur primary schools
African peacekeepers provide education assistance to North Darfur primary schools - The African peacekeeping mission in Darfu, the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), has provided education assistance to five primary schools in and around Sortoni, North Darfur. |
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Great Green wall summit in Chad
Sudanese president in Chad for Great Green wall summit - President Omar El-Bashir arrived in Ndjamena, the capital of Chad, Friday to take part in the second summit of the Great Green Wall. |
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The Elders: Kofi Annan succeeds Desmond Tutu as Chair of The Elders
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, has been appointed chair of The Elders, replacing South Africa’s Bishop Desmond Tutu who had chaired the group since it was founded by Nelson Mandela six years ago, the elite group said in a press statement Friday. |
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Meningitis vaccination campaign in South Sudan
WHO to carry out meningitis vaccination campaign in South Sudan - The World Health Organization (WHO) and South Sudan will carry out a vaccination campaign to address a meningitis outbreak in the Upper Nile state that has killed three people, a WHO statement said on Friday. |
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Kenya: Orange renews sponsorship of African Club champions
African Club champions - Integrated telecommunications services provider, Orange, has renewed its sponsorship of Kenya's Orange Ladies Hockey team ahead of the 2013 season that kicks off Saturday. |
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Awards to African education researchers
ADEA to present awards to African education researchers - The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) will present awards to African scholars who have published distinctive research in the field of education, at a ceremony in Sevres, near Paris, France on Tuesday, the association said in a statement sent to PANA Friday. |
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Public sector finance reform in Gabon
The European Union gives Gabon 942,000 euro for public sector finance reform - The European Union has given Gabon 942,000 Euros under an agreement aimed at supporting reform of public sector finance in the Central African state. |