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World's first borderless mobile network expands into Central Africa
Topix - Thursday, June 07, 2007
p> MTC subsidiary, Celtel International, the leading pan-African mobile telecommunications company announced today that it was expanding One Network, the world's first borderless mobile network, to include the ... via Maktoob Business ... more
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SAA plans drastic weight loss to stay in air
Topix - Tuesday, June 05, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"In the face of a high cost base created by, among other things, uncompetitive ownership and aircraft lease costs, excessive headcount and fuel price volatility, SAA must overhaul its entire business if it wants to survive" By From Bloomberg Johannesburg - SAA, the largest airline in... more
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The Michael Jackson of Gabon
Global Voices Online - Monday, June 04, 2007
p> Association des gabonais d’Amiens posts a video of the “ Michael Jackson of Gabon .” [Fr] ... more
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AFRICA/GABON - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation ...
Topix - Friday, June 01, 2007
p> Today Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples arrives in Gabon where he will take part in celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of a pastoral visit to the country ... via Fides News ... more
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French Village’s Monument to a Gabonese WWII Hero
Global Voices Online - Friday, June 01, 2007
p> Association des gabonais d’Amiens writes about a monument in Airaines, a small French village of 2,000 people, dedicated to Charles Ntchorere, a Gabonese captain in the French army [Fr] who was taken prisoner and executed by German forces in 1940. ... more
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Gabonese urged to stop smoking
Topix - Thursday, May 31, 2007
p> LIBREVILLE. Gabonese health minister Paulette Missambo yesterday called on the people to abstain from smoking on the world day on the fight against smoking. via The Herald ... more
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Topix - Friday, May 25, 2007
p> French President Nicolas Sarkozy turned his attention to Africa on Thursday by welcoming to the Elysee palace Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first elected woman president. via The Tocqueville Connection ... more
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No more murk
Topix - Wednesday, May 23, 2007
p> Will France 's Nicolas Sarkozy be good for Africa ? The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as French president has been greeted with consternation across much of French-speaking Africa, where there are fears that it ... via Economist ... more
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Gabon starts spraying capitalA
Topix - Thursday, May 17, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Until now we have not recorded a single death which could be attributed to the virus" Authorities in Gabon have begun spraying insecticide in the capital to stem the spread of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, which has emerged in the country for the first time. ... more
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Sarkozy, the "most gabonais of all French"
Topix - Tuesday, May 15, 2007
p> The world is talking. Are you listening? Reflecting on the French presidential elections [Fr], Don Ray of Le Blog de Don Ray comes away with three impressions: first, the election, with its record turnout, was ... via Global Voices Online ... more
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Sarkozy, the “most gabonais of all French”
Global Voices Online - Tuesday, May 15, 2007
p> Reflecting on the French presidential elections [Fr], Don Ray of Le Blog de Don Ray comes away with three impressions: first, the election, with its record turnout, was proof of France’s robust democracy; second, socialism in France is finished; and last, Sarkozy’s presidency will do little... more
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Shoe on the other foot as Africa chides Wolfowitz
Topix - Monday, May 14, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"This scandal is demoralising for developing countries which were making superhuman efforts to fight against corruption in Africa" The scandal hanging over World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has damaged his ability to preach against corruption in Africa , but Africans say the bank's anti-graft message... more
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Gabon reports outbreak of Chikungunya virus
Topix - Sunday, May 13, 2007
p> An outbreak of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus has hit the central African country of Gabon, and 5,000 suspected cases had been reported so far, the government said on Sunday. via AlertNet ... more
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Gabon: Services for marginalized Pygmy families
Topix - Friday, May 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Invisible', isolated and vulnerable Pygmies - sometimes know as 'people of the forest" On a beautiful recent morning in this remote village in northern Gabon, men sat in the 'corps de garde' in the town square and women stood nearby with apprehensive but happy children running... more
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Hunt on for crashed Kenyan jet
Topix - Sunday, May 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"A French Super Puma helicopter attached to the Libreville marine battalion has been sent to Cameroon to help locate the crash site. It is currently in action" "Some of the area is inaccessible by road and there are no telecommunications signals." State radio earlier reported the... more
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Cerebral malaria: Approaching a diagnostic test
Topix - Thursday, May 03, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Our hope today is that this discovery will allow for the development of a diagnostic test for cerebral malaria" Scientists at CNRS and the Pasteur Institute, collaborating with physicians in Gabon, have just undertaken a study on cerebral malaria in children living in an... more
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Economy
Topix - Tuesday, May 01, 2007
p> Australian uranium mining group, Paladin Resources Ltd, whose prime uranium projects are in Namibia and Malawi said Monday it has contracts to supply to US utilities more than 7.5 million pounds of uranium ... via Panapress ... more
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English
Topix - Sunday, April 29, 2007
p> CEMAC passport to be in use by July Libreville, Gabon - The heads of state and government from the Central African Economic and Monetary Community meeting in N'djamena, Chad, Thursday have agreed to bring into ... via Panapress ... more
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Buruli Ulcer, Nigeria
Topix - Tuesday, April 24, 2007
p> Without proper treatment, BU results in severe and permanent disability in more than a quarter of patients. via Cdc.gov ... more
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Politics
Topix - Friday, April 20, 2007
p> Libya says that the US pro ject to set up a US military command in Africa does not serve the cause of peace in Africa, a Libyan diplomatic source quotes the secretary of the Libyan general people's committee ... via Panapress ... more
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