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Police fortify Mogadishu HQ after rebel raid in heart of Somali capital
Topix - Friday, May 09, 2008
p> Somali police are fortifying their headquarters in Mongadishu after Islamic insurgents attacked the facility in the heart of capital on Thursday. via CFRB ... more
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Mutilations in Senegal
Topix - Friday, May 09, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"They tied our hands before cutting off one ear each" Map-- BBC The BBC is reporting : Armed men have cut off the left ears of 16 villagers harvesting cashew nuts in Senegal's rebel-hit Casamance region. via Exploring International Law ... more
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Namibia: Ramatex 'Bankrupt'
Topix - Friday, May 09, 2008
p> THE Ramatex textile company and its main subsidiary in Namibia were declared bankrupt by the High Court yesterday. via AllAfrica.com ... more
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17 traffic police held over bribes
Topix - Friday, May 09, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"We are cleaning our house. We do not condone corruption or any misconduct." Suspected corrupt traffic Police officers being shown to journalists in Kampala yesterday By Herbert Ssempogo Money hidden in underwear TRAFFIC Police officers extort money from motorists and conceal it in ... via... more
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Report: West Africa Becomes Dump for Electronics Waste Disposal
Topix - Friday, May 09, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"We could have looked at other areas of the world but I think for us West Africa is an area which often falls foul of such unscrupulous behavior and its something which we wanted to highlight" A new report by Consumers International, the world federation of... more
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Ethiopia: A model of African food aid is now in trouble
Topix - Friday, May 09, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"The government is pursing a free-market approach while on the other hand making selective interventions to solve some problems" Farmers in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there's another... more
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WFP condemns staffer's death
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
he World Food Programme has condemned the killing of an agency official working in northern Kenya, from where he co-ordinated a relief ... more
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Zambia recovers millions
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
illions of dollars in Zambian state funds and assets - stolen by officials during the rule of the former president - have been recovered, says the ... more
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Mbeki, Mugabe meet in Zim
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
A President Thabo Mbeki has held intensive talks with veteran counterpart Robert Mugabe over Zimbabwe's post-election crisis, as a dramatic rise in violence is ... more
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Madiba to get freedom award
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
A's capital - Pretoria - will bestow the freedom of the city award on former president Nelson ... more
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De Lille affidavit 'private'
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
Cape Town magistrate has banned the publication of a "Travelgate" affidavit by ID leader Patricia de Lille, following a request by a Scorpions ... more
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SA men jailed in Britain
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
wo South Africans who overstayed their British visas have been jailed for life for the murders of two men strangled during a series of violent muggings. ... more
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Memorial for apartheid heroes
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
he Freedom Park Trust has signed a memorandum of understanding to formalise a partnership that aims to honour liberation heroes from the ... more
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Small-scale farmers demand land
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
mall-scale farmers from the Western and Northern Cape provinces have marched to Parliament in protest against government's "sluggish" land reform ... more
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Cops arrest J Arthur Brown
News24 - Friday, May 09, 2008
ormer Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown has been arrested on charges of theft, fraud and money laundering, the NPA has ... more
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SENEGAL: Lack of peace accord hampers demining in Casamance
IRIN - Friday, May 09, 2008
IGUINCHOR Friday, May 09, 2008 (IRIN) - After years of delays linked to instability in strife-torn Casamance, the government finally launched a landmine clearance programme in the region in February 2008, but lack of adherence to the 2004 peace accord is hampering progress. ... more
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KENYA: WFP official killed in Lokichoggio
IRIN - Friday, May 09, 2008
AIROBI Friday, May 09, 2008 (IRIN) - Unidentified gunmen killed an official of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Kenya's northwestern town of Lokichoggio on 7 May, in what the agency has described as the first killing of a WFP aid worker in the relief hub for Southern Sudan.... more
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BURUNDI: Fighting displaces 20,000
IRIN - Friday, May 09, 2008
ABEZI Friday, May 09, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 20,000 people have fled their homes near the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, after fighting between the army and rebels, officials said on 9 ... more
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Who’s who with guns?
IRIN - Friday, May 09, 2008
ANGUI Friday, May 09, 2008 (IRIN) - The Central African Republic is striving to turn the page on decades of armed violence linked to mutinies, coups and attempted coups. Hundreds of thousands of civilians remain displaced, many of them unable, or too afraid, to farm their land. This is an... more
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Dramatic rise in Zim violence, say doctors
ail & Guardian (South Africa) - Friday, May 09, 2008
evels of organised violence and torture have escalated dramatically in the last fortnight in Zimbabwe amid mounting tensions over the country's disputed elections, a coalition of doctors said on Friday. "Since the last report on April 25, our members have reported a dramatic escalation in incidents of organised violence," the... more
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