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Liberia: Former Treason Suspects Urge to Sue Govt for Damages
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
s retired army general Charles Julu and Col. Andrew Dorbor go with a not guilty verdict on treason charges, a pro-democracy campaigner has called on the two men to file a lawsuit against the government of Liberia for ... more
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Liberia: House Passes Anti-Corruption Act
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
ollowing an hour of heated debate at the joint Chamber of the National Legislature, the House of Representatives Thursday passed into law an act seeking to establish The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC). But Maryland County Representative Boffa Chambers has filed a motion of ... more
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Senegal: Lack of Peace Accord Hampers Demining in Casamance
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
fter 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 ... more
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Kenya: World Food Programme Official Killed in Northwest
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
nidentified 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 ... more
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Central African Republic: Who's Who With Guns?
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
he 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 overview of the various armed groups, government... more
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Burundi: Fighting Displaces 20,000
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
t 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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Impatience Grows Over Stalemate
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
HERE is growing impatience among politicians, single issue lobbyists and civic organisations over the unresolved March 29 election impasse and the impending presidential poll re-run, which have sparked a fresh wave of violence against innocent civilians in many parts of rural ... more
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Shortage of Goods Persists
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
IMBABWE'S retail outlets continue to grapple with shortages as the economy remains on a recession path, with the manufacturing sector still battling against power outages and foreign currency ... more
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RBZ Move Suffocates Parallel Market
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
HE official foreign currency market burst into life this week as Zimbabweans trooped to banks and money transfer agencies (MTAs) to offload their hard currencies, rocking the once-thriving parallel market, the major beneficiary of the country's currency ... more
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Leo Mugabe's Political Career Over?
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
RANGLING over farms with top ruling party officials cost ZANU-PF member Leo Mugabe his political career when he was barred at the 11th hour from representing the party in the March 29 ... more
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The Rugged Road Ahead
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
HE floatation of Zimbabwe's troubled currency is indeed welcome news for a country grappling with an economic crisis for the past nine ... more
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Civil Servants Get Another Windfall
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
HE government last week deposited huge amounts of money in civil servants' bank accounts in what appears to be an attempt to buy votes ahead of the presidential election run-off legally expected to take place on or before May 23 pitting President Robert Mugabe and the MDC's Morgan ... more
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Mnangagwa Running Zanu PF Campaign
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
ANU PF politburo member Emmerson Mnangagwa and a clique of ruling party hardliners are pulling the strings behind the scenes in directing President Robert Mugabe's presidential election run-off campaign ... more
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When Will This Violence End?
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
EPORTS of violence continue to pour in with claims by the opposition that at least 20 innocent villagers have been butchered to death in the past ... more
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Mugabe Has Mountain to Climb
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
RESIDENT Robert Mugabe has a mountain to climb if he is to win the anticipated presidential election run-off against MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, which is legally expected to take place before May ... more
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Violence Won't Rescue Mugabe
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
RESIDENT Robert Mugabe will need more than violence to win the anticipated presidential election run-off against MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai, political analysts have ... more
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Black Market, Banks 'Fight' for Forex
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
HE battle between parallel market dealers and the banking sector for the little foreign currency in the country intensified this week as exchange rates galloped ... more
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20 Farms Seized in Mash West
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
USPECTED war veterans and Zanu PF loyalists have seized over 20 commercial farms in Mashonaland West in the past fortnight, amid reports that a countrywide new wave of farm invasions was looming ahead of a presidential election run-off between President Robert Mugabe and the MDC's Morgan ... more
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IMF Official Criticizes Economic Management
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
We do not have any one way of dealing with Zimbabwe," said the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s acting director for the African department Benedict Christensen last ... more
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Editor of Independent Weekly Arrested
allAfrica.com - Friday, May 09, 2008
OLICE yesterday arrested the editor of the Standard, Davison Maruziva, on allegations of publishing statements deemed prejudicial to the state and contempt of court after publishing an opinion article by MDC leader Arthur Mutambara lambasting a ruling of the High Court last month on the delayed release of the March... more
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