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SIX out of eight former cabinet ministers who were criticized by Members of Parliament and were implicated in a report by the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) and two deputy ministers have lost their positions in the new cabinet announced in Dar es Salaam on Friday by President Jakaya Kikwete. Two of the eight ministers, who also faced stiff challenge
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Thousands of people living with HIV and Aids in East Africa were given new hope on 25 April 2012, when a high court judge in Nairobi ruled that Kenya’s anti-counterfeit law was unconstitutional in its interpretation of generic HIV drugs as illegal counterfeits. A generic drug is an identical copy of a branded or listed medicine – one that is
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Cairo - Egypt's military ruler attended on Saturday an unprecedented public funeral for a soldier killed in clashes with protesters as the army detained 179 people over the violence in the run-up to landmark presidential polls. Following the arrest of 320 people after Friday's clashes near the defence ministry in Cairo, the prosecution "has decided to hold 179 people, including
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Niger officials on Saturday held talks in Tripoli on security issues including Saadi Kadhafi and other members of the former regime who are sheltered in Niger and wanted by Libyan authorities. Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib said that his country takes "no chances" when it comes to the threat posed by remnants of the former regime sheltered in Niger.
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga has initiated talks to have Eldoret North MP William Ruto return to ODM following the exit of Musalia Mudavadi. However Ruto apparently gave the overtures a cool reception. Despite being Deputy ODM party leader, Ruto was in open conflict with Raila from 2009 until finally being dismissed last year as Higher Education minister. He initially organised
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Lagos - Police say gunmen wearing military uniforms arrested and shot dead five people in northeast Nigeria as violence escalates in the region. Taraba state police spokesperson Ibiang Mbaseki said on Saturday that the attack happened on Friday night in a remote village in his state. Mbaseki said witnesses told police the gunmen claimed to come from Abuja. The spokesperson
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Up to 15,000 ethnic South Sudanese who have been encamped in crowded conditions in Sudan will be flown to South Sudan, avoiding a May 20 expulsion deadline by local authorities, the IOM said on Saturday. "We hope to start within a week," Jill Helke, who heads the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) office in Khartoum, told AFP. The IOM estimates
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Pretoria — President Jacob Zuma has announced with regret the tragic and untimely passing of Minister of Public Service and Administration, Roy Padayachie. The minister passed away in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he was attending the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) meeting of the Select Committee of Focal Points which kicked off on Friday. "On behalf of myself, the Cabinet,
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will make her first visit to Zimbabwe from 20 t0 25 May, her office said on Friday, accepting an invitation from the Harare government. During her five-day day visit, Pillay will meet with President Robert Mugabe, the 88-year-old leader widely decried by activists as one of the worst perpetrators of human rights
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About 50 inmates Friday staged a jailbreak from Ivory Coast's main prison but about 20 were apprehended, an informed source said. Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko deplored the "regrettable" incident, which he blamed on a surveillance breach but added no details of the raid. Locals however reported hearing sustained gunfire in the morning near the prison. Police set up roadblocks near
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Harare - Zimbabwe's longtime president said splits and greed are threatening his party ahead of elections he is pushing for this year during a spirited speech at the funeral of a party stalwart on Friday. President Robert Mugabe told mourners at the state funeral that leaders have become "too materialistic" and are fighting each other for top party posts ahead
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At least two people were killed on Friday in fierce clashes between anti-military protesters and soldiers in Cairo and nearly 300 others wounded, hospital officials and medics said. Egypt's military rulers imposed an overnight curfew around the defence ministry in central Cairo where the skirmishes occurred and the military prosecution announced that 170 people were arrested. The clashes erupted just
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Shell announced Friday a significant cut in its Nigerian oil production due to pipeline damage caused by theft, and warned that it might not meet contractual obligations as a result. "The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) declared force majeure on outstanding cargoes of Bonny Light with effect from noon (1100 GMT) today, 4th May 2012," a statement
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Cairo - Protesters and soldiers threw rocks at each other over a barbed wire barricade near the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday, with several protesters injured, AFP reporters said. Bleeding protesters were ferried away by motorbike by fellow demonstrators and ambulances rushed to the scene of the anti-military rally. Islamist and secular protesters had gathered in Abbassiya near the
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Pressure mounted on coup leaders in Mali and Guinea Bissau Friday after west African presidents vowed more sanctions amid fears of growing instability in the region. In Mali, junior officers who toppled the government in March are still imposing their authority despite formally giving way to a new government. Guinea-Bissau's ruling military junta, hit with EU sanctions on Thursday, has
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The army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said it was closing in Friday on a farm where renegade General Bosco Ntaganda, an indicted war criminal, was holed up. The Congolese armed forces (FARDC) began their move Thursday towards Mushaki, in the Masisi territory of Nord-Kivu province, where they have been fighting the mutineers led by Ntaganda since Sunday. The
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Libyan authorities on Thursday granted immunity to former rebels who fought to oust Moamer Kadhafi's regime and unveiled legislation that cracks down on the fallen strongman's supporters. "There is no punishment for acts made necessary by the February 17 revolution," read the law published on the National Transitional Council's website. The immunity covers "military, security or civilian acts undertaken by
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Nairobi - Kenyan security forces have abused ethnic Somalis in the country's northeastern region in retaliation for attacks by suspected Somali Islamist rebels, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Since Kenya sent forces into southern Somalia in October to fight the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab rebels, attacks have rocked the border towns of Garissa, Mandera and Wajir as well as the vast
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Prosecutors in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor have said that he should be handed an 80-year sentence following his war crimes conviction in The Hague last week. In a brief, the team told the Special Court for Sierra Leone that the "extreme magnitude" of the crimes he committed warranted the long-term sentence. The 64-year old was found
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The Africa Cup of Nations champions next year will be crowned in the same calabash-inspired Johannesburg stadium as the 2010 World Cup winners, sport minister Fikile Mbalula said Friday. "We will host the opening and closing ceremonies in Johannesburg," said Mbalula, ending long speculation and dilly-dallying on the announcement of the five host cities. Other hosts are Rustenburg, Nelspruit, Port
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Khartoum - South Sudan on Friday accused Sudan of launching an air strike on one of its oil regions, imperilling the chances of a promised ceasefire between the two former civil war foes, but Khartoum denied the charge. The 1 800km-long border between the two countries had been largely quiet for the past 48 hours, raising hopes that they could
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Cairo - Egyptian activists have called for anti-military demonstrations across the country on Friday, days after bloody clashes near the defence ministry left at least nine people dead. Several pro-democracy movements, including 06 April, as well as the powerful Muslim Brotherhood said they would be joining the protests in Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, amid a tense political
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Yatta — In the remote east Kenyan village of Makutano, Jane Mutinda Maingi is feeding maize to her Friesian dairy cow, bought just a week ago with proceeds from selling produce grown on her one-hectare plot. Despite frequent droughts in the semi-arid Yatta region, the 60-year-old mother of six has healthy maize crops on her farm, as well as vegetables
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Mogadishu — Nearly 10 mortars slammed at Somalia's presidential palace on Friday night as explosions and gunfire rocked Mogadishu in the latest outbreak of violence in chaotic Somalia, witnesses said. "I can confirm two mortars have hit near VillaSomalia," a source told Shabelle Media of the building where President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed stays. "We do not have word yet
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Nairobi - Newly released documents show that Osama bin Laden didn't want the Somali militant group al-Shabaab to publicly announce a merger with al-Qaeda so as not to bring extra attention from "enemies." Despite that view, the two militant groups announced a merger in February. Bin Laden said in a letter to al-Shabaab leader Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr that the world
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