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Benin: Journalist Arrested, Physically Assaulted By Gendarmes
Topix - Saturday, December 22, 2007
p> Bernard Oyekou, a cameraman of the privately-owned Le Gazette du Golfe media group was on 4 December 2007 arrested and physically assaulted by gendarmes at Ikpinle, Oueme, about 100 kilometres South-East of ... via AllAfrica.com ... more
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Journalist Arrested, Physically Assaulted By Gendarmes
allAfrica.com - Friday, December 21, 2007
ernard Oyekou, a cameraman of the privately-owned Le Gazette du Golfe media group was on 4 December 2007 arrested and physically assaulted by gendarmes at Ikpinle, Oueme, about 100 kilometres South-East of Cotonou, the capital of ... more
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Pope Appoints New Bishops
allAfrica.com - Friday, December 21, 2007
he Pope on Tuesday accepted the retirement Bishop Joseph Niangoran Teki of the Diocese of Man and appointed Fr Gaspard Béby Gnéba his ... more
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20-Dec-07 - Other Pontifical Acts
Topix - Thursday, December 20, 2007
p> VATICAN CITY, DEC 20, 2007 - The Holy Father appointed: - Fr. Eugene Cyrille Houndekon of the clergy of Contonou, Benin, secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of Benin, as bishop of Abomey , Benin. via Global Catholic Network EWTN ... more
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Benin Officials Confirm H5N1 Bird Flu Cases
Topix - Thursday, December 20, 2007
p> Officials in Benin say tests have confirmed the presence of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus on two poultry farms. via Voice of America ... more
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Glo Makes Test Call in Benin Republic
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, December 18, 2007
lo has put through the first official call on its network in Benin Republic. A statement made available to THISDAY disclosed that the call was last Saturday made by that country's Executive Secretary of the Council for the Regulation of Post and Telecommunication, Mr. ... more
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Glo makes test call
Topix - Tuesday, December 18, 2007
p> Benin's newest wireless licensee Globacom has announced it has completed its first test call. via TeleGeography CommsUpdate ... more
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Glo begins operation in Benin Republic
Topix - Tuesday, December 18, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Sir, we are honoured to have you make the first call on Glomobile Benin Network. This for us in Globacom is an exciting and memorable event." GLOBA COM, at the weekend, became Nigeria's first major telecom export as the Beninoise Regulator, Conseil Transitoire de Regulation des... more
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Woman dedicated to African projects
Topix - Monday, December 17, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"I'm very thankful to everyone who donated money, and because I do not have a way to know who donated, I don't know how to thank them individually." After making a difference in many people's lives in an impoverished African country, 25- year-old Susan Lettis said... more
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Benin: Youth and tobacco smoking
Global Voices Online - Saturday, December 15, 2007
p>Jackie writes about tobacco smoking among the youth in Benin : “According to a recent global youth tobacco survey report, more than twenty percent of school children (aged 13 to 15 years) in Benin are cigarette smokers. The survey involved about 50 schools selected in four regions of Benin,... more
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Benin confirms B2B H5N1
Topix - Saturday, December 15, 2007
p> Via AFP: Benin minister confirms bird flu in two locations . Excerpt: The west African country of Benin Saturday confirmed bird flu outbreaks at two suspect southern sites, where more than 240 chickens were ... via Crofsblogs.typepad.com ... more
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'Shake Your Nyansh' by Kaleta-Zozo Afrobeat
Topix - Thursday, December 13, 2007
p> Biography KALETA is a household name in Afrobeat,Afropop genre of music.AFTER TOURING WORLD WIDE AND RECORDING SERIES OF ALBUMS WITH FELA KUTI AND KING SUNNY ADE AS GUITARIST , The hardest working Afrobeat ... via Download.com Music ... more
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Togo: Kangi Alem announces residency for young francophone writers
Global Voices Online - Thursday, December 13, 2007
p>Kangi Alem announces an artists' residency [Fr] in Lome for young francophone African writers.
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Child slaves work Nigerian mines - Unicef
Topix - Wednesday, December 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"When they brought our children back, the government said we would get financial help. That was four years ago and we haven't seen a cent yet" Irenee, a skinny Beninese girl of 15, points to three mounds of earth: the graves of her friends who died... more
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Pleasant eccentric, Rukeme Noserime's Pluralism
Topix - Tuesday, December 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Nigeria holds the key to all artistic and cultural manifestation history in the world" S HARE size of Nigeria and its resources seem to make a paradox of the country's development among the commity of nations. via Guardian Newspapers ... more
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Agriculture
Topix - Monday, December 10, 2007
p> Cotonou played host Friday to an international symposium on African cotton, designed to fashion new strategies to enable the sector's ac t ors live on their product, sources close to the organisers told PANA ... via Panapress ... more
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Has Benin gone positive?
Topix - Saturday, December 08, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Samples were taken so that analyses could be carried out by an internationally renowned laboratory to either confirm or rule out the presence of the H5N1 bird flu virus" Via Yahoo News, an AFP story: Bird flu suspected for first time in Benin: ministry . ... more
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Benin Dumps Troussier, As Drogba Doubtful
allAfrica.com - Friday, December 07, 2007
enin has ended its bid to get Philippe Troussier take charge of the Squirrels for their Nations Cup showdown with the Super Eagles even as injury threatens to prevent Cote d'Ivoire's skipper Didier Drogba from gracing the tournament kicking off next month in ... more
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Benin finds two bird flu outbreaks, suspects H5N1
Topix - Friday, December 07, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We found several dead birds. We went ahead with tests which turned out to be positive" COTONOU - Benin has discovered two outbreaks of bird flu among poultry which it believes to be the deadly H5N1 strain, the first such cases in the West African country,... more
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Gender
Topix - Thursday, December 06, 2007
p> Mauritanian women journalists kick against marginalisation Nouakchott, Mauritania - The Union of Mauritanian Women Journalists has denounced its members' "marginalization" during the coverage of official ... via Panapress ... more
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