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Egypt is to try 44 people, including Americans, over the funding of non-governmental organisations, a day after the United States said aid to Cairo will be reviewed over the crackdown. "Forty-four people, including Egyptians, 19 Americans and other nationalities, have been referred to the Cairo criminal court in the NGO funding case," the source told AFP, adding that a travel
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Ghana's quest to end a 30-year wait for an Africa Cup of Nations title will face its biggest challenge yet on Sunday when they battle Tunisia for a place in the semi-finals of the 2012 tournament. The winners will tackle the victors of the other quarter-final between Zambia and Sudan in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, next Wednesday. Quarter-finalists at the 2010
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Rabat - Morocco's King Mohammed issued pardons to several leading Islamists who rights groups say were unfairly jailed, signalling a less hard-line approach after moderate Islamists came to power in an election last year. Royal pardons are customary each year to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Mawlid, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad which fell this weekend, but it
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Cairo - Protesters and police fought pitched battles on Sunday at security headquarters in Cairo as deadly clashes raged into a fourth day and the interior minister leapt to the defence of his reviled forces. The fighting was sparked by the perceived failure of Egypt's military rulers and police to prevent deadly football-linked violence following a match in the northern
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Saboteurs on Sunday blew up a pipeline that supplies gas to Israel, the 12th such attack in a year, security officials said. Masked gunmen planted explosives under the pipeline in the Al-Massaeed area, close to the town of El-Arish in the north of the Sinai peninsula, they said. Witnesses said they heard a very loud explosion, before a large fire
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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has assured investors that government is willing to give licences to those interested in setting up refineries in the country, as part of the overall effort to raise the petroleum refining capacity in the nation and reduce the importation of refined products. The president was speaking to a delegation of investors from Brazil, led by Mr. Reuben
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A new twist to the Boko Haram saga emerged yesterday night as an unidentified caller claiming to be the spokesman of the sect, Abul Qaqa, who was said to be in the custody of a security agency, insisted that he was not the one arrested, but rather a junior officer sent to prepare the ground for dialogue with government. According
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Kidal -Sporadic heavy weapons fire rang out in the northern Malian town of Kidal on Saturday, a sure sign that a Tuareg-led rebellion was nearing its most significant target to date after two weeks of fighting. Rebels combining veteran Tuareg insurgents and returnees from Libya's war last year are fighting to create an independent state in north Mali. They have
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Didier Drogba had a penalty saved before scoring in each half as Ivory Coast triumphed 3-0 against Equatorial Guinea Saturday in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final. The 33-year-old Chelsea striker struck with his right foot on 36 minutes and his head on 69 as the Elephants made it four wins in four matches and set up a semi-final
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Opposition candidates in Senegal's upcoming election pledged Saturday a new round of protests aimed at stopping President Abdoulaye Wade from seeking a constitutionally questionable third term. Internationally acclaimed singer Youssou Ndour, whose own candidacy in the February 26 elections has been rejected by the Constitutional Council, called on the Senegalese people to take to the capital Dakar's streets Sunday, the
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Death toll of clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo and Suez rises to 12. Clashes near the Interior Ministry on Saturday resulted in the death of seven people, five died today while two others died yesterday, one of whom was a conscript, Undersecretary of Ministry of Health, Hesham Shiha, said to the Middle East News Agency (MENA). Aswat
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Bata — Zambia strode into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with a one-sided 3-0 win over Sudan to book a last four place for the first time in 16 years. They now await either Ghana or Tunisia as they stay in Bata for Wednesday's semi-final. Goals from Stopilla, Chris Katongo and James Chamaga ensured a comfortable win. The game started
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Tunisia's players want to pay respect to more than 70 people who died at a league game in Egypt this week by wearing black armbands. Tunisian Football Federation president Anouar Haddad said on Friday his body had asked for permission from tournament organisers the Confederation of African Football to wear the armbands against Ghana at Stade de Franceville on Sunday.
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Nairobi - Kenya's military has struck al-Shabaab targets in one of the most devastating attacks against the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents since it launched an operation in Somalia to crush the rebels last October, a Kenyan army officer said on Saturday. Colonel Cyrus Oguna said two helicopter gunships hit a convoy of al-Shabaab in Dalayat village in southern Somalia on Friday evening,
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Tunisia’s 21-year-old star Youssef Msakni, has acknowledged the hurdles they will face against the Black Stars, which he described as the most formidable team in the tournament. “Don’t joke with Ghana. They are the team with the best compact play in the tournament. They are very focused and precise in front of goal. That is what makes Ghana very dangerous,”
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Red Cross official says 25 people have died in western Kenya after a truck crashed into a minibus. Kenya Red Cross spokesman Fredrick Gori said Saturday that the Friday night accident in Kisumu city happened after a truck hit a 14-seater minibus carrying excess passengers. He says the cause of the accident is still not
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Cairo - Dozens of Syrian dissidents stormed their country's embassy in Cairo on Saturday, ransacking the mission and setting fire to its ground floor, an embassy worker said. About 50 protesters, mostly Syrians, tore down the gate to the embassy, located in the upscale Garden City neighbourhood, before bursting inside the building at around 03:00, the employee told AFP. An
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Dare-devil robbers yesterday struck at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport hit the Bureau de Change situated at the car park and carted away the sum of US$600,000 (N95, 969,998.17). Daily Champion learnt that the robbers, who were armed to the teeth, traced some Bureau de Change operators to the car park and had stormed the place like something out of
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Harare — With global funding for on the decline, Zimbabwe's innovative AIDS levy - a 3 percent tax on income - has become a promising source of funding for the country, with a dramatic increase in revenue collected in the past two years. The levy was introduced in 1999 to compensate for declining donor support, but low salaries and the
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Johannesburg - Julius Malema on Saturday lost his appeal against his suspension, the ANC announced. Other senior youth league members also appealed their sentences but all their appeals were denied. Last month, Malema's defence team presented oral arguments to the NDCA detailing why Malema's five-year suspension from the ANC should be overturned, advocate Patrick Mtshaulana said. Malema and other senior
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Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the late Libyan dictator, has officially petitioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the circumstances under which her father Col. Muammar Al-Gaddafi and brother Mutassim were killed by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC), assisted by NATO allies in October 2011; which she said amounted to a war crime. Aisha, who fled
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Dakar — "I never thought Senegal would get to a stage when the police would beat us and shoot at us just because we are asking the president to leave power. I never thought that some would die in a brutal way for merely exercising their democratic right to protest," says a 24-year-old Senegalese named Lemzo. He is a former
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Police fired tear gas and birdshot at protesters on Saturday in the third day of deadly clashes in Cairo, as anger at Egypt's ruling military boiled over after 74 people died in football-related violence. The police responded after dozens of protesters threw stones at officers guarding the interior ministry headquarters hundreds of metres (yards) from the capital's iconic Tahrir Square.
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The new chief of the UN-sponsored Kimberley Process that aims to stop "blood diamonds" reaching market said she was in talks to regain support of a campaign group that recently quit the scheme. Kimberley Process chairwoman Gillian Milovanovic on Friday said she was "continuing discussions" with London-based Global Witness, which helped set up the voluntary certification scheme in 2003, about
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Zambia, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Ghana appear the likely winners of the 2012 Cup of Nations quarter-finals across central Africa this weekend. The football feast begins Saturday with two fixtures in Equatorial Guinea -- Zambia and Sudan in mainland port city Bata followed by the co-hosts and Ivory Coast in island capital Malabo. Gabon stages both Sunday showdowns with the
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