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A Sudanese parliamentary delegation is in Uganda to try to defuse tension between the two countries. A source at the Sudanese Embassy said that the delegation includes the chairperson of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs Ahmad Abdulrahman Muhammad and a member of the committee Mr. Mahdi Ibrahim Muhammad. It has not been established whether the delegation's visit was sanctioned
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Nearly 1,500 Jews are expected on Thursday at Tunisia's Ghriba synagogue, the oldest in Africa, reviving a pilgrimage scaled back last year amid security fears, organisers said Monday. Some 200 pilgrims from France and Italy had already arrived on the tourist island 500 kilometres (310 miles) south of Tunis and 300 others were expected on Thursday, chief organiser Rene Trabelsi
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Guinean opposition leaders on Monday announced a national protest campaign beginning May 10, to demand talks with President Alpha Conde's government on the holding of delayed legislative elections. "We have decided to express our frustration through marches and other demonstrations," said Cellou Dalein Diallo, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea. He was speaking at a press conference
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Potiskum - Crowds of protesters took to the streets of the Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday over a deadly market attack last week, with a church and classrooms burnt and police firing tear gas. More than a thousand protesters, including traders and clerics, took part in the demonstration in the northeastern city hit by a bomb-and-gun attack Wednesday night
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Khartoum - Four children were killed and four others were wounded when leftover munitions exploded in Sudan's Darfur region, the African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission (Unamid) told AFP on Monday. A Unamid spokesperson said the incident occurred when a UXO (unexploded ordnance) detonated in Jealjeala, 60km from the West Darfur state capital El Geneina. He could not immediately give other
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Cairo - The Bedouin abductors of 10 Fijians from the Multinational Force and Observers (FMO), charged with monitoring peace between Egypt and Israel, said on Monday they had freed their captives. The peacekeepers in Egypt's Sinai peninsula were briefly detained by the tribesmen, one of whose number told AFP they had seized the men because they were seeking the release
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Gunmen in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state on Monday shot dead a Lebanese man and his Nigerian driver and abducted another Lebanese national, the state police spokesman said. "The gunmen attacked the construction bus in which they were travelling, shot dead a Lebanese and the Nigerian driver and kidnapped another Lebanese," Aminu Lawan told AFP on telephone from Kaduna city. He
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Oil giant Shell on Monday said two new leaks had occurred on one of its pipelines in southern Nigeria after similar incidents in recent days blamed on crude theft. "Two new leaks were reported today on the Trans Niger pipeline at Akpajo and K-Dere in Ogoniland, after a similar number of leaks caused by hacksaw cuts were repaired at the
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Today is France's first day with a new president in power: socialist François Hollande received the majority of the population's votes with 51,5%. RNW asked young French Africans in Paris about their choices: did their background play a role in choosing their country's new president? "Most franco-africans voted for the less worse candidate". "I vote for Hollande. That's a vote
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Bamako - Administrators and parents say schools have reopened in the city of Timbuktu for the first time since an Islamic faction seized control of the tourist destination last month and is working to impose Shari'ah law. Mahmoud Djitteye, a member of the school district in Timbuktu, said that a small number of students headed to school Monday. He said
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Yarmulkes bob as voices swell in a sacred song carried from ancient Judea to the scenic fields of a far-flung southern African village that is home to a "lost tribe" of Israel. "We have been singing this song for about 2,600 years. It's an old, old song," said Perez Hamandishe, wearing a white crocheted skullcup with a blue Star of
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Goma - The army in Democratic Republic of Congo vowed on Monday to go after mutinous troops who fail to return to its ranks before the expiry of an ultimatum issued at the weekend. "We are military men. When the time is up, if the mutineers don't surrender, we are going to pursue operations against them," Colonel Sylvain Ekenge, the
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The biggest reality show on African Television Big Brother Africa STARGAME has finally kicked off and already, biggie has begun pulling surprises. The show was officially launched in South Africa on Sunday May 6, 2012 where all 36 housemates going to play the game this year, was announced. The show started with energetic dance performance followed by headlined act sensational
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Cairo - Hundreds of Egyptian riot police stormed out of their camp and cut off a desert highway out of Cairo following reports that an officer had killed one of their colleagues, state media reported on Monday. "Senior security officials have managed to contain the crisis involving conscripts in the Central Security Forces who cut the Cairo-Ismailiya desert road," on
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Malawi's central bank devalued the country's currency by about 48% on Monday, in line with a demand by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As per the new exchange rate, 250 kwacha would be worth $1 on the official market. Last week, 168 kwacha bought a US greenback. The new price is closer to the black market rate. "Following this devaluation,
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About a hundred fighters from across North Africa have joined the ranks of an Al-Qaeda offshoot which now dominates northern Mali, a Malian defence ministry official said on Sunday. "According to our figures, about 100 north Africans, essentially from Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, have joined the ranks of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," a Malian defence ministry official told AFP.
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One month after arriving at WFP, Executive Director Ertharin Cousin was out in the field in the central African nation of Niger, one of the countries most affected by the drought in the Sahel region. After the first day of her field trip, in which she traveled with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, the WFP chief sent back
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Algiers - Algeria's Islamists are hoping they can surf the post-Arab Spring "green wave" and win Thursday's polls, but divisions and dark memories of their previous electoral victory could hamper their chances. After previously banned Islamist movements seized upon the wind of change sweeping the region to win polls in neighbouring Tunisia and Morocco, Algeria's Islamists were bristling with confidence
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Sabatia — The political rivalry between Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his deputy Musalia Mudavadi was dragged out in the open in Sabatia on Saturday after their supporters clashed in the public forcing anti-riot police to intervene. Trouble started after Ikolomani MP Bonny Khalwale told Odinga to his face that he should stop a plot to kick-out Mudavadi from Parliament.
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An armed gang kidnapped, killed and dismembered an albino girl in what was Burundi's 18th such slaying in less than four years, officials said Sunday. People with albinism, a genetic condition that limits or prevents entirely the production of body pigment, have long been the target of discrimination in several African countries. Beliefs attributing albinos special powers exist in the
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This week we joined our colleagues worldwide in commemorating World Press Freedom Day. A day that was set aside by the United Nations General Assembly to celebrate the fundamental principles of Press freedom, evaluate Press freedom around the world, defend media freedom and pay tribute to media practitioners who face danger in the line of duty. World Press Freedom Day
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Whether President Goodluck Jonathan will run or not looks like an open-ended question. Who becomes the next occupant of Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja in 2015 is generating weird calculations among political power mongers when the incumbent has stayed barely one year out of four. Politicians think of the next election after being elected, even before thinking of what can
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has sent messages of condolence to Nigeria following the death of former international Rashidi Yekini. The 1993 African Footballer of the Year died Friday at the age of 48 following a brief illness. CAF president, Issa Hayatou, said: "It is with great sadness and sorrow that we learned about the passing away of Mr
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Nairobi — President Joyce Banda of Malawi announced on Friday that Sudan's president, Omer Al-Bashir, is not welcome to attend an African Union (AU) summit in her country, citing "economic implications." Malawi has already suffered a loss of $350 million in US aid money, suspended by Washington which cited deteriorating human rights conditions and the country's decision to allow Al-Bashir
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Bamako - The north African offshoot of al-Qaeda now dominates in northern Mali, which fell into rebel hands in March, regional security sources said Saturday. "Today it is al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb which occupies a dominant position in the three areas of northern Mali thanks to its alliance with the Islamic Ansar Dine group and the influx of Tunisian,
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