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Vote counting was underway in Egypt after two days of polling ended Thursday in a landmark presidential election which pitted stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. Just hours after polling stations closed at 9:00 pm (1900 GMT), the powerful Muslim Brotherhood -- using their formidable nationwide network to tally votes -- predicted a win
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Kigali - Rwandan genocide suspect Leon Mugesera, who was deported by Canada to Kigali after a long legal battle, said on Thursday he would appeal a court decision to refuse his request for a further delay of his trial. Mugesera returned to court on Thursday after the latest two week adjournment of the trial and requested a further two months
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Top lawyers and investigators from the International Criminal Court have made a fresh visit to the 2007-08 post-election violence hot spots in Eldoret, Naivasha and Nakuru. The team is carrying out further investigations into the cases against four Kenyans faced with trial at the Hague. The team led by a lawyer from West Africa has interrogated more than 100 witnesses
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UN aid chief Valerie Amos said Thursday that a humanitarian crisis arising from food shortages in the drought-stricken Sahel would remain critical in the next few months. "The humanitarian situation is expected to remain critical at least until the main harvest this autumn," around September, said Amos. The humanitarian chief met with President Macky Sall in Senegal and Blaise Compaore
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Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday lashed out at the "selfish" West for denying Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the opportunity to head the World Bank. Okonjo-Iweala, a respected economist, last month lost the World Bank president post to Korean-American Jim Young Kim, in a first-ever challenge to US domination of the job. "We were very saddened that
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A protest in the northwest Tunisian city of Kef turned violent Thursday, leaving 15 injured, as a strong police cordon in Tunis held another demonstration by unemployed university graduates at bay. Police fired teargas to disperse a protest by hundreds of residents of Kef when demonstrators tried to storm the local government headquarters, chanting "no to exclusion, marginalisation and contempt,"
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The drafting of a new constitution was said to be 'back on track' after COPAC reached 'common ground' on contentious issues during a meeting in Harare on Wednesday. All parties to the GPA attended the meeting, the first in two weeks after a period blighted by a ZANU PF boycott of the process. Senior figures from ZANU PF, including COPAC
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A huge fire was raging in Tunis's Moncef Bey market on Thursday, causing damage to dozens of shops, according to an AFP photographer on the scene. The fire began on Thursday morning in the electronic goods section of the market on the southern edge of the Tunisian capital. Hours later, firefighters were still battling to put out the flames. A
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan military forces tasked with carrying out a disarmament campaign among feuding ethnic groups are raping and torturing members of a minority community, community leaders and aid workers say. The disarmament campaign follows two outbreaks of violence linked to cattle raids between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes over the last year in the
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Cape Town - The incoming chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has dismissed criticism that the court is biased against African states. Fatou Bensouda, a former Gambian justice minister who is the first African to be appointed chief prosecutor, takes over on 18 June for a case involving former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, charged with crimes against humanity.
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Piqued by recurring acoustic remarks, especially from pro south and southern leaders that northerners were lazy and the North had been sustained over the years by the South, northern leaders penultimate week said they could stand on their own if Nigeria broke up. For close to two decades, there has been an intense clamour, predominantly by southerners, for restructuring of
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Signatories of the Mogadishu Roadmap who were meeting in Addis Ababa agreed to make amends to the e some of the issues that were differed upon by the respective leaders, Garowe Online reports. The leaders, who have been meeting in Addis Ababa for the past two days, had met to discuss changes to the draft constitution, clarifications of committee mandates
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According to today's announcement by the Council of the Republic, elections in Angola will be held on August 31. In the past week, preparations for the electoral process have taken some remarkable twists and turns. They might signal either a new chapter in the democratization process or the postponement of the elections or even a more complex manouevring for electoral
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The Senegalese football federation (FFS) has submitted its candidature to host the 2019 African Cup of nations (AFCON) to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This was done last Monday during a meeting between the authorities of CAF and FFS. In an interview with a Senegalese paper, the minister of sports El Hadj Malick Gackou said that he was working
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Egyptians were voting Thursday on the second day of a gripping presidential election in which candidates are pitting stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. Small queues formed outside polling stations after they opened at 8:00 am (0600 GMT), with voting expected to gain momentum during the day after authorities declared Thursday a public holiday
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Anglo-South African brewer SABMiller, which bought Australian group Foster's last year, said Thursday that annual net profits soared by 75 percent, boosted by growth in emerging markets. Earnings after taxation surged to $4.22 billion (3.36 billion euros) in the 12 months to the end of March, compared with $2.408 billion in the previous financial year, SABMiller said in a results
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Maseru - Tiny Lesotho votes on Saturday in the most hotly contested election since Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili came to power in a 1998 vote that sparked rioting and a South African military intervention. After 14 years in power, Mosisili has established himself as a towering figure in this mountainous kingdom, bordered on all sides by South Africa, the regional
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Dakar - A Malian journalist has gone missing, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday amid continuing political instability after a rebel takeover in the north and a military coup. "Babi Ahbi, the editor of the Bamako-based periodical Agora, has been missing since 12 May," said the international media freedom NGO. "His family, friends and colleagues are all very
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Cairo - Egyptians vote on Thursday in the second day of a gripping presidential election in which candidates are pitting stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. Polls are scheduled to open again at 08:00 for voters to choose among 12 candidates, with the front runners divided between Islamists who say they will champion the
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Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore left for France to undergo medical tests after an assault by protesters angry at his appointment to head a post-coup transition government. "He is going to Paris for more thorough medical tests after being assaulted," a presidential official said on condition of anonymity, on Wednesday. However government spokesman Hamadoun Toure, who is also communications minister,
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A Tunisian military prosecutor demanded the death penalty Wednesday for ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who is being tried in absentia over killings during last year's popular uprising. Defence lawyers and the victims' relatives alike were surprised by the decision, as Ben Ali is charged only with "complicity in voluntary homicide" while others are accused of direct involvement. Aside
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Cairo -Excited, anxious, even a little confused, Egyptians across this vast capital city went to the polls on Wednesday to cast their ballots in the first presidential vote since the 2011 uprising. At the Gamal Abdul Nasser school in the Dokki neighbourhood, some arrived an hour before polls opened, with men queuing to the right, women to the left of
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Majority of Ugandans want President Yoweri Museveni and his political rival, FDC leader Col. Kizza Besigye to hold talks on election reforms in order to move the country forward. This emerged from the results of a public opinion poll carried out between March and last month (April), exactly one year after the 2011 presidential elections. The study was done by
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A front runner in Egypt's presidential election, former premier Ahmed Shafiq, told AFP Wednesday the country would face "huge problems" if his Islamist rivals won as Egyptians flocked to the polls on the first day of voting. Shafiq added that voters had made a "mistake" by allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to win in earlier parliamentary elections. Shafiq, who also held
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Supporters of Mali's coup leader dealt a fresh blow to a return to democratic rule by saying they had chosen him to head an interim government, defying a deal mediated by regional leaders at the weekend. The party of former parliamentary speaker Dioncounda Traore, who was named in the deal to lead the transition -- sparking angry protests in which
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