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Friday, February 27, 2015 from FrontPageAfrica - News“As the country struggles to get its economy back on track, investigations by Global Witness reveal that the government has sold off valuable oil assets in what appears to be a very bad deal for Liberia” - Global Witness Monrovia - Liber...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from AFKInsider
According to CCTV Africa, many of Ethiopia's young entrepreneurs run into trouble when trying to secure funds for their businesses. While some have been granted loans, challenges after growth and paying back funds arise as larger sums of... -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVE"Jihadi John", the masked Islamic State militant said to be responsible for beheading Western hostages, was named yesterday as London-based Kuwaiti computer programmer Mohammed Emwazi.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedPalestinian teen Malak al-Khatib confessed to throwing stones but it seems she was intimidated.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Vanguard]Abuja -The Federal government, yesterday, alerted a plan by Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to radicalise Nigerian youth, who were schooling abroad, calling on parents and guardians to monitor their wards closely.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldIn the chilling video, a respectful boy is heard telling the police that they are having fun – then two of them are shot.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldKirschner believes that the prosecutor who brought the case against her was manipulated by disgruntled former intelligence agents who then tried to smear her.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedThe finance minister has delivered a tough budget to counter the effects of ongoing maladministration.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from News24 AfricaNamibia's media sector will undergo a review to see if it is an essential service, a special committee says.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from African SpotlightThe International ‘Society For The Recognition Of Famous People’ has included five Nigerians in its global list of famous people, comprising influential individuals from all spheres of life. The extensive array of biographies...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedYoung Fathers's new album promises to be their interpretation of what a pop album should sound like.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from FrontPageAfrica - NewsMonrovia - FrontPageAfrica has reliably learnt that a search is on by the Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA), for an alleged imposter lawyer whose whereabouts is still unknown since he was spotted in court last week. A source who hi...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedThe suddenly in-form batting marvel has totally changed the picture, which is not pretty for SA.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from African SpotlightInternally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have started returning to their homes in Mubi, Adamawa State after the Nigerian army recaptured the town from Boko Haram insurgents.... The post PHOTOS: Life returns to Mubi as IDPs return home after t...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVESince 1967, doctors have transplanted hearts, so why not heads? According to a report on The Daily Telegraph's website, this ghoulish scenario could become a reality in two years.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from African ContinentalGhana expects to secure a financial assistance deal with the International Monetary Fund by the end of March. This was to stabilise its economy and boost domestic reform, President John Mahama told Reuters on Tuesday. The government aims...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Newstime AfricaMONROVIA (AA) – A specialized U.S. force that had been dispatched to Liberia to join the fight against the deadly Ebola...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVEA black hole 12billion times as big as the sun has been found in a glowing quasar that existed when the universe was in its infancy, scientists said.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedThe report suggests South Africa is seeking closer ties with Russia on integration of the Condor project with another system being developed.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Deutsche Welle]A jury has convicted a Saudi man in connection with the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Khalid al-Fawwaz, 52, could get life in prison after a jury convicted him on four conspiracy counts.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Daily News]POLICE in Iringa Region are holding 18 suspects in connection with acts of violence that left one person dead and four police officers and two civilians seriously injured at Ilula Township in Kilolo District on Monday.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Business Day LiveFed chief forcefully rejects Republican accusations she is unaccountable to Capitol Hill and too close to the White House
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from FrontPageAfrica - NewsMonrovia – The Justice Ministry and the Liberian National Police officials are tightlipped over the results of an autopsy conducted almost a month ago on the mortal remains of a child rape victim in the Brewerville community outside Monr...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from eNCA.com | WorldThe government's more concerned about the Kurdish opposition and the country's economy, the director of national intelligence says.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from City Press » News
Feuding parties in Lesotho’s ruling coalition will face off tomorrow in early national elections staged in a bid to restore stability six months after an attempted coup. The post Lesotho prepares for early vote in bid to ease political c... -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVELate British TV star Jimmy Savile abused 60 patients, staff and visitors at a hospital he raised money for, investigators said yesterday, highlighting the scale of abuse he committed under the cloak of celebrity.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from FrontPageAfrica - NewsMonrovia - In the wake of the inability of Liberian contractors to secure international civil works contracts, Liberia’s Public Works Minister William Gyude Moore says, the Ministry is now negotiating with foreign contractors to ensure t...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from News South Africa Category RSSPolice are continuing to monitor Doornkop in Soweto after a foreign shopowner was set alight.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Leadership]The high wire politics and bitter rivalry between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday took a dramatic dimension in London as their supporters clashed during the much pub...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Deutsche Welle]Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, the oldest leader on the African continent, marks his 91st birthday - one week after the event - at a party this weekend. Some 20,000 people are expected to attend.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Deutsche Welle]Ghana's President John Mahama has told parliament he would not just manage the country's energy crisis, but fix it. The New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Paul Afoko says the energy crisis is a sign of deeper problems.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Business Day LiveCountry’s energy laws are opening up, writes Adam Williams
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from News24 AfricaFeuding parties in Lesotho's ruling coalition will face off in early national elections staged in a bid to restore stability six months after an attempted coup.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Business Day LivePost-2020 attention shifts to mobile’s fifth generation: a development being targeted less at humans and more at machines to 'smart cities'
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from African SpotlightCameroon officials say prisons are overcrowded with suspected Islamic extremists whose insurgency has spilled from Nigeria. Maroua Central Prison registrar Ngeh Emmanuel said Thursday that 30,000 people have been detained in 25 prisons i...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from News24 AfricaZimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who has just turned 91, says that one of his secrets to a long life is "not filling my stomach".
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from City Press » News
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who has just turned 91, says that one of his secrets to a long life is “not filling my stomach”. The post Robert Mugabe shares his secrets to a long life appeared first on City Press . -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from African SpotlightWad Madani – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Thursday he would stand down if he is voted out at polls in April, as he launched his campaign which he is widely expected to win. “I will leave but by the ballot box,”...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from News South Africa Category RSSAn astonishing coincidence has led to the discovery of Zephany Nurse - stolen from her mom's arms 17 years ago.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVEKumi Naidoo, head of Greenpeace, is seeking legal advice over reports that the South Korean government had asked local intelligence services to assess him as a potential security threat.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedPsychiatrist's 'Dora' case study illuminates the tumescent myopia of Twitter's self-fellating idiots.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVEThey arrive in the affluent suburbs and in city centres late at night, armed with cans of spray-paint.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from News24 AfricaEgypt has detained 2 police officers over allegations they tortured a lawyer to death.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVEA prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin was hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka on Thursday, police said, with the atheist writer's family claiming he had received numerous threats from Islamists.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVEZimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who has just turned 91, said on Thursday that one of his secrets to a long life was "not filling my stomach".
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedDancer and choreographer Mamela Nyamza has pushed through the limitations of dance to find her own path in the discipline.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedParty spin doctors reportedly want to 'reclaim' the public broadcaster to polish the president's halo.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedWe're safe under the State Security Agency, but intelligence is lacking, says minister.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mail & Guardian News FeedSuddenly the tsotsi was not interested in making money illegally - he claimed he head found Jesus.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from TimesLIVEEvery home-cooked chicken in the UK poses a food poisoning risk because supermarkets are acting too slowly to eradicate a dangerous bug, officials say.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaCheick Tiote's season appears to be over after the midfielder underwent knee surgery, admits Magpies head coach John Carver.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaAB de Villiers hits the fastest 150 in ODIs as South Africa condemn West Indies to a World Cup record-equalling 257-run defeat.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaUgandan police harass and physically abuse gay people in custody, including subjecting them to intrusive examinations, a rights report says.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaThe growing craze among Botswana's youth
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaFeyenoord's Europa League game against Roma is suspended for over 10 minutes when an inflatable banana is thrown from the stands.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaThe man behind Nigeria's answer to the Barbie doll
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaA $150,000 custom-made Calvin Klein Collection by Francisco Costa dress, worn by actress Lupita Nyong'o at the Oscars, has been stolen in Hollywood.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaLike many 23-year-olds, Alain Nteff has big dreams.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaA South African entrepreneur is trying to bring football to far flung fans across the globe.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaFrom bread-tag lampshades to shopping cart chairs, designers have learned to elevate their garbage
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaAn explosion Tuesday at a bus station in the northeastern Nigerian town of Potiskum killed at least 13 people and injured 25 others, a representative of Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency said.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaHow Ghana has reversed the exodus of nurses
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaA $150,000 custom-made Calvin Klein Collection by Francisco Costa dress, worn by actress Lupita Nyong'o at the Oscars, is stolen in Hollywood.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaA former aide of Osama Bin Laden has been found guilty of plotting the al-Qaeda bombing of US embassies in east Africa in 1998, killing 224 people.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaA UK charity boss who abused Kenyan street children he lured to his home is jailed for more than 17 years.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaSeven British men who died in the 2013 Algerian hostage crisis were "unlawfully killed", the judge in an inquest into their deaths says.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaSuicide bomb attacks kill at least 32 people in northern Nigeria, as the wave of violence from Boko Haram continues.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaGhana has secured a $1bn loan from the International Monetary Fund that could stabilise its troubled economy.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from International Business TimesAttacks on religions around the world declined in 2013 after climbing to a six-year high in the year before, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday that examined social and government attitudes toward religion. Howev...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaFor the BBC's Best Nightclub in Africa series, Radio 1Xtra's DJ Edu travels to Botswana to see how restrictive alcohol laws have affected the music scene.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaChina imposes a one-year ban on the import of ivory, amid criticism that demand among Chinese consumers is fuelling poaching in Africa.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from CNN.com - AfricaBoko Haram appears to be trying to model itself after ISIS -- but the U.S. and UK are training Nigerian and Chadian forces to try to stop the two terror groups from joining forces.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaKenyan street kids recall abuse by British charity worker
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaNigeria's main presidential challenger, Muhammadu Bukari, has said he will not negotiate with Boko Haram should he win the election.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaWhat leaked cables say about South Africa's place in the world
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from International Business TimesFormer military ruler Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday he won't negotiate with Boko Haram militants should he win the presidency in Nigeria's closely fought election next month. The 72-year-old candidate of the All Progressives Congress, o...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesThe Egyptian Cabinet issued an appendix to an earlier decree on Wednesday, with regards to the country’s political borders and tightening military control on the border with Libya. The addition to the November 2014 decr...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: The Egyptian pound held steady at 7.53 per U.S. dollar at a regular Central Bank foreign exchange auction Thursday, but weakened in the black market. Over the past three weeks, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) allowed the pound to ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned explosions that took place this morning in Cairo and caused one death, MENA reported Thursday. In its condemnation, the French ministry said that France stressed its support for the...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab announced that the government exempted Egyptian nationals returning from Libya from paying entry fees at the Sallum border crossing for three months. “The decision was issued to ease the burd...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: Seven bombs were found near Al-Azhar university Thursday, Youm7 reported; none detonated and the area was searched by security forces. The university head vice president told Youm7 that security forces found a number of the bombs ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaNigeria's main presidential challenger Muhammadu Buhari rules out negotiating with Boko Haram militants if he wins elections next month.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: Attorney General Hisham Barakat is considering the legal status of a number of jailed defendants currently pending investigations accused in the clashes and riots that have taken place since the ouster of former president Mohamed ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesThe Petroleum Ministry does not currently have a strategic stock of gas cylinders to meet the needs of the people, said Petroleum Ministry spokesperson Hamdy Abdel Aziz. Abdel Aziz told the Al-Hayat Al-Youm program in a phone-in i...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesThe Islamic State jihadist who appeared in videos beheading Western hostages in Syria has been identified as a Kuwaiti-born British citizen, previously known by British security, The Washington Post said in a report on Thursday. D...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesThe Egyptian Meteorological Authority experts expected a temporary rise in temperature nationwide on Friday, warm weather on the North Coast, slightly hot weather in Lower Egypt, Cairo and north Upper Egypt, and very hot weather on south...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesThe security forces in Qalyubiya arrested Thursday two men appearing in a violent video circulated on the social media, where they can be seen torturing and stabbing a dog on Al-Ahram Street in Shobra al-Kheima, after tying it to a lamp ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesEgypt's military could help build an industrial hub around a new Suez Canal, the project's manager said, the first suggestion that the armed forces may play an important role in the huge investment venture planned alongside...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesAccording to official Sudanese sources, the Italian Salini company building the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has completed 45 percent of the construction work, which allows for storing water in front of the dam in July, the beginning of the...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesCairo prosecutors have detained two agents from the National Security Agency over charges of torturing two detainees to death inside a Cairo police station. Investigations, quoting police officers at Matareya police station, revea...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesTrade and Industry Minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour said that foreign direct investment in Egypt increased by 7.9 percent, from US$3.8 billion in 2013 to $4.1 billion in 2014, and that the government aims to increase it to $15 billion b...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo Post
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from BBC News - AfricaA devastating disease that has wiped out amphibians around the world has been discovered in Madagascar, scientists report.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: The High Election Committee (HEC) has reiterated its call upon governors across the country to immediately remove banners and all forms of parliamentary election campaigning that have been placed in streets; March 2 is the date pr...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Egypt Independent: Top storiesThe Media Content Committee of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) said 500 recorded Egyptian, Arab and international plays were stolen from the building in Maspero and posted on the Internet in clear violation of copyrig...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: Lebanese television broadcaster Liliane Daoud ignited a wave of calls for her resignation on social media after she tweeted what some saw as support for imprisoned activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who was sentenced to 5 years in priso...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostBEIRUT: The number of Christians abducted by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria has risen to 220, as militants have rounded up more hostages from a chain of villages along a strategic river in the past three days, activists sa...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: The owner of a dog brutally tortured and killed in a video that went viral on a number of social networks told a Cairo TV station the dog had previously bitten his abusers, but that the animal was defending his owner. “Max was a k...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostISMAILIA, Egypt: Egypt’s military could help build an industrial hub around a new Suez Canal, the project’s manager said, the first suggestion that the armed forces may play an important role in the huge investment venture pl...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 from Cairo PostCAIRO: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will meet with Jordanian Monarch King Abdullah II Thursday to discuss the regional and the international issues of the mutual concerns, said the Egyptian Presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef in a st...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from LusakaTimes.comPARAMOUNT Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni people yesterday made a triumphantly entry into Mtenguleni from his Ephendukeni Palace in Luangeni ahead of tomorrow’s Nc’wala traditional ceremony. Business in Chipata town came to a standstill as...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsThe Bill for an act to establish an independent National Assembly Budget Research Office (NABRO) scaled second reading at the Senate yesterday. Sponsored by the Senate Majority Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, the bill seeks to provide the Nat...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Panapress latest newsNew York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) till 15 July as part of the organisation’s ongoing efforts to maintain peace and protect civilians in the disputed ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from OnlineNigeria NewsThe First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has likened members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to bus conductors who always ask for ‘change’. The opposition party
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comEngland pace bowler Steven Finn has revealed that swashbuckling batsman Brendon McCullum made him 'feel like a wally' during the Eoin Morgan-led side's embarrassing eight wicket defeat to New Zealand ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsPeoples' Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation has described the appearance of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd at Chatham House, London as a stage managed...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsA Hong Kong woman was jailed for six years on Friday for beating and starving her Indonesian maid and keeping her prisoner, as the judge called for action over laws which leave domestic workers exposed to abuse
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comFilm: "Kingsman: The Secret Service"; Cast: Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Mark Hamill, Jack Davenport, Sofia Boutella and Sophie Cookson; Director: Mathew ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsZimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who has just turned 91, said on Thursday that one of his secrets to a long life was "not filling my stomach".
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsThirty- five people were killed when suicide bombers struck in Borno and Plateau States, yesterday. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus station in Borno State, killing 17 persons while a second bomber was shot dead before h...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsOne of Nigeria s most adored female singer, Waje Iruobe in a chat with fans recently monitored by Nigeriafilms.com, had revealed that she hopes to start the year 2015 on a bright note but does not have any plans for an album yet until 20...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsSenators of the All Progressives Congress have accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party of plotting to remove the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, next week. The ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from OnlineNigeria NewsOne of Nigeria’s most adored female singer, Waje Iruobe in a chat with fans recently monitored by Nigeriafilms.com, had revealed that she hopes to start
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsA Hong Kong mother of two who punched her maids, beat them with mops and threatened to kill their relatives was jailed for six years on Friday in a case that triggered outrage and exposed the plight of millions of domestic helpers across...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsEighteen people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus station in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, while a second bomber was shot dead before he could detonate his explosives, witnesses told AFP.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsThe masked "Jihadi John" killer who fronted Islamic State beheading videos has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British computer programming graduate from a well-to-do London family who was known to the security services.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comAn unlikely friendship, a world full of witches and pirate girls and powerful business entrepreneurs. There is no common thread tying these themes together, but each book in the IANS book stack this ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comThe UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to commemorate the upcoming 70th anniversary of the end of the second World War. The resolution was adopted by consensus Thursday at the 69th session ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsThe Federal Government has okayed nine additional private universities in the country. Nigeria is already blessed with private universities, including Madonna University, Convenant University, Redeemers University and Babcock Universit T...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comKIEV - Ukraine began withdrawing its heavy artillery away from the front line in the east on Thursday as part of the ceasefire, even as Russia's Gazprom company said it could cut off supplies to ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comBERLIN - The German bundestag is expected to agree to extend the eurozone's bailout of Greece on Friday, with a clear majority of MPs from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right bloc backing ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from LusakaTimes.comPARLIAMENT has unanimously ratified the appointment of Irene Mambilima as Chief Justice following her nomination for the position by President Edgar Lungu. Justice Mambilima becomes the first female chief justice. The motion to ratify Ju...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Panapress latest newsDar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) David Lipton will visit Mauritius 2-3 March, South Africa 3-5 March, and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 5-7 March, the Fund anno...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsSweden on Thursday disbursed 1.3 billion meticais (about 40 million US dollars) to the Mozambican government, in the form of general budget support, according to a press release from the Swedish embassy.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Panapress latest newsNew York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) have raised concerns about challenges in engaging communities to win the fight against the Ebola disease. Health
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsBoys performed better than girls in science subjects in the just released 2014 UACE exam results, Mr Mathew Bukenya, the UNEB executive secretary has said
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from New Era Newspaper Namibia » NationalWINDHOEK – The Director of the Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) has revealed that all the priority fields of study at the institution are fully booked, as many students opted to upgrade in those subjects. Biology, Physica...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsPresident Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday made a surprise visit to some territories recently recovered from members of the Boko Haram sect by the Nigerian troops in Adamawa and Borno states. The Presidency in a statement by the Special Adv...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comChina has announced a one-year ban on the import of all ivory products, which took immediate effect on Thursday. China's State Forestry Administration announced the move days ahead of a visit to ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comLONDON - The man appearing in Islamic State video clips, terrorizing almost the entire world with brutal murders of hostages and nicknamed as Jihadi John, has been identified by British security ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA recent study by researchers uses a new method to infer that most of the urban movement is social, a finding that is applicable consistently in multiple cities. The study used anonymised phone data ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comWASHINGTON - Row between the White House and the Israeli government deepened further with the two sides expressing more contempt against each other over Iran and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from LusakaTimes.comFORMER Patriotic Front (PF) chairperson for elections Sylvia Masebo has challenged her suspension from the ruling party in the Lusaka High Court. Ms Masebo, who is also Chongwe PF member of Parliament, has sued Davies...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from New Era Newspaper Namibia » NationalWINDHOEK – The Namibia National Students’ Organisation (Nanso) regional leadership in the Khomas, Oshana, Erongo, Ohangwena, Omaheke and Hardap regions have thrown their weight behind the body’s vice-president, Wilhelm Wilhelm, to ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsIn my last year in higher institution between 2009 and 2010, I had chance to seek election into the Students Union Government. My initial aspiration was to be President of the union but when it became clear to me that an unwritten pact e...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from LusakaTimes.comMovement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) Spokesperson Mr. Raphael Nakacinda has said the statement by United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema that he controls the Zambia intelligence services (popularly ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsVivacious singer, Yemi Alade, lost her father, Mr. J.A. Alade, few week ago after a brief illness. The Tangerine crooner remembers the man that brought her to life in a very special way. Just a while ago, the self-acclaimed king of queen...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from OnlineNigeria News[embedded content] It was reported that Obasanjo arrived when President Goodluck Jonathan was inside Shehu Shagari’s house but refused to come out of his vehicle until
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By Goth Mohamed Goth The proposed talks between the government of Somaliland and the federal government of Somalia which were due to resume today ,Thursday, February 26, 2015 in Istanbul ,Turkey have once again failed to take place as sc... -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA senior U.S. official said the United States is dedicated to improving human rights conditions in North Korea. Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said in a recent meeting ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comAn Argentine judge Thursday dismissed the charges late prosecutor Alberto Nisman brought against President Cristina Fernandez of trying to conceal Iranian involvement in a 1994 attack on a Jewish ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Panapress latest newsFreetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - The Public Account Committee (PAC) of Sierra Leone's Parliament has commenced hearing on the Ebola Audit report which alleges the misappropriation of billions of Leones in the management of Ebola fund. Health
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comPANAMA, REPUBLIC OF PANAMA--(Marketwired - Feb 27, 2015) - Thunderbird Resorts Inc. ("Thunderbird" or "Group") (FRANKFURT:4TR)(EURONEXT:TBIRD) - Costa Rica Operations Sold: Thunderbird is ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comA promising small molecule derived from an Asian herb has successfully inhibited infection of human white blood cells, thus preventing Ebola virus disease in mice, US researchers report. Robert ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Liberia News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comSeven months after the Ebola outbreak turned Liberia upside down, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf came to Washington on Thursday to say thanks to a country she said did so much. "You did not run from ...
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26th February 2015 Mogadishu — H.E Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke today chaired the weekly meeting of the Council Ministers. The Council was briefed on the security situation in the country and the Government’s agenda... -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from Breaking International News latest RSS headlines - Sierra Leone Times.comPunjab police have seized 50 kilograms of heroin worth Rs 250 crore in international market and produced three accused in the court. Sleuths of counter intelligence wing of the police also seized 250 ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Nigerian Voice NewsThe All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, ruled out amnesty for Boko Haram insurgents if elected President on March 28. He said the activities of the sect which has so far kill...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Daily MonitorNewsA New York jury on Thursday convicted Osama bin Laden aide, Saudi exile Khalid al-Fawwaz, over the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in East Africa which killed 224 people
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Club of Mozambique NewsA prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin was hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka, police said, with the atheist writer’s family claiming he had received numerous threats from Islamists.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Malawi VoiceSTATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. ARTHUR PETER MUTHARIKA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MALAWI AT THE LAUNCH OF THE STATE HEFORSHE CAMPAIGN AT THE MINI STADIUM, PARLIAMENT BUILDING, LILONGWE ON THURSDAY 26TH FEBRUARY, 2015 Your Excelle...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Times Of SwazilandMBABANE – Mbabane Swallows inspirational captain Tony ‘TT’ Tsabedze has assured the nation that they will fight to the end in Zambia in their bid
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mmegi Online - NewsSecurity companies have told the Minister of Defense, Justice and Security (MDJS), Shaw Kgathi that they are not happy with the way government institutions allocate tenders.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mmegi Online - NewsTwo miners are reported dead after a blast went wrong at the BCL mine in Selebi-Phikwe. According to sources, the two died following an explosion subsequent to a misfire that occurred during a blast yesterday.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesLupita Nyongo'o's stunning pearl dress that she wore to the Oscars has been reportedly stolen from her hotel room.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on SudanFebruary 25, 2015 (KAMPALA) – A joint health jointed partnership between international NGOs and Lakes state's ministry of health is achieving some success in reducing infant and maternal mortality rates in rural South Sudan. Italian NGO ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsAudio recordings purportedly demonstrating six MPs had received bribes and setting up members of rival coalitions against each other reportedly helped embattled Ababu Namwamba retain chairmanship of a watchdog committee.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsSomalia's al Shabaab militants said they carried out a mortar attack on the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from ObserverA new committee has been set up to look into how the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) can improve its operations.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesSome Christian fundamentalists might not agree, but booze is no doubt one of the best social lubricants of our time. It is sometimes regarded as the best human discovery after the invention of fire.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsVeteran politician Kenneth Matiba has been admitted to a Nairobi hospital after developing complications on Wednesday evening.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsMULEBA South Member of Parliament (MP) Professor Anna Tibaijuka on Thursday asked the Public Leadership Ethics Council sitting in Dar es Salaam to observe justice and stick to the truth when determining a complaint presented by Ethics Se...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mmegi Online - NewsShakawe Senior Secondary School has once again performed badly in the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Examinations (BGCSE) released on Tuesday.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from ObserverJUSTICE and Constitutional Affairs Minister Sibusiso Shongwe has praised Senate President Gelane Zwane for the speech she presented before Their Majesties at the State of Opening of Parliament last Thursday.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
February 26, 2015 (JUBA) – A former spokesperson for South Sudanese armed opposition faction, Lul Ruai Koang says separating Akobo county from Jonglei state will help improve the security situation within its neigbouring communities. Spe... -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mmegi Online - NewsMASUNGA: North East District (NED) councillors have pleaded with the government to consider compensating farmers who used the broadcast planting method this past season.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsThe sharing of national revenue among counties has been thrown into disarray after the Senate rejected a proposed formula by Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA) and the House Finance Committee.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiOpposition Malawi Congress Party lawmakers on Thursday led a crusade to block the move by government sale the State-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB). The Public Private Partnerships Commission (PPPC) requested strategic investors to buy a...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from South Sudan News Agency - News, Breaking NewsAddis Ababa, February 26, 2015 (SSNA) -- South Sudan’s Rebel leader, Dr. Riek Machar, has on Thursday called on President Salva Kiir to come to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to take part in the ongoing final peace negotiation...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from ObserverSENSE has finally prevailed in the Mazibuko family of Makhosini as their slain daughter will get her wish and be cremated.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Times Of SwazilandMBABANE – Sipho ‘Big Fish’ Makhabane has stepped down as the Managing Director of Big Fish Music.Assuming the position is his first born son Nhlanhla
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiIn Malawi, cocaine has always been a mystery drug, priced out of the common man’s reach. We grow a lot of marijuana in this country, which makes it very cheap to sustain a marijuana addiction than a cocaine addiction. I always thought co...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsEthics Council stays proceedings on a complaint lodged against the MP It is his right, it rule s THE Public Leadership Ethics Council on Thursday stayed the proceedings on a complaint lodged by the Ethics Secretariat against Bariadi Wes...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiBruno Chareyron, a French nuclear physicist, has warned that people working and living around the Kayerekela Uranium Mine in Karonga are at high risk of contracting radioactive related diseases within the shortest period. Chareyron said ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Times Of SwazilandMBABANE – The verdict by the Vusi Maziya-led National Football Association of Swaziland (NFAS) Disciplinary Committee that the December 7, 2014 Mbabane derby be replayed
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesA lawyer who successfully petitioned the State to pay Sh860 million compensation for land acquired for the Lamu port now claims the Government has swindled him Sh100 million in legal fees.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mmegi Online - NewsMAUN: More than 1,000 fishermen dependent on fishing at Lake Ngami have been left in the lurch following the recent placement of a one-year ban on such activities by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks. Fishermen here reacted a...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesTwerking, a dance in which women provocatively thrust their hips in a squatting stance, now has musicians and fans going to war with the Tanzanian government, which has banned the dance
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Frontpage Slideshow - Graphic Online“Never say die until the bones are rotten,” is a popular slogan of Accra Hearts of Oak, one of the well-known football clubs in this country.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesMwingi Central MP, Joe Mutambu, however denies assaulting Kitui governor's advisor and says he rescued him from angry mob
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesOlympic gold medalist Pamela Jelimo claims last week's edition of The Nairobian citing her ‘divorce' from Peter Kiprono Murrey spiked her heart and reminded her of a past she would wish to forget.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Seychelles News Agency - NationalThe Seychelles reached a major debt buyback agreement worth $30 million with the Paris Club group of creditors and South Africa in the French capital on Wednesday evening. The debt will be transferred to a trust which will conserve the I...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsTwo onlookers were killed and one injured on Thursday after a driver taking part in an illegal street race near Los Angeles lost control of his sports car and plowed into the crowd, police said.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
February 26, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese official news agency (SUNA) quoted what it described as an “authorised source” as saying that 16,000 soldiers from the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) will be deployed on the borders betw... -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from Mmegi Online - NewsThe Francistown legislator Wynter Mmolotsi has lashed out at the Defence and Justice Minister Shaw Kgathi for turning the Attorney General’s (AG’s) Chamber into a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) tool.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsA Hong Kong mother of two who punched her maids, beat them with mops and threatened to kill their relatives was jailed for six years on Friday in a case that triggered outrage and exposed the plight of millions of domestic helpers across...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsTwo onlookers were killed and one injured on Thursday after a driver taking part in an illegal street race near Los Angeles lost control of his sports car and plowed into the crowd, police said.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
February 26, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has criticised Egypt for launching air strikes this month inside Libya in retaliation for the mass beheading of Egyptian Christians by militants claiming allegiance ... -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from Frontpage Slideshow - Graphic OnlineThe Speaker of Parliament, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, has bemoaned the ‘monetisation’ of politics in the country. He said it was responsible for the growing levels of corruption.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from DailyNews Online Edition - Local NewsTHE agriculture sector will be promoted after the introduction of an envisaged platform for Agriculture Policy Analysis and Coordination (PAPAC) project which is geared towards improvement of policy planning.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The CitizenNewsThe knife-wielding militant who appears in gory Islamic State (IS) videos claiming responsibility for the beheadings of US, British and other hostages was refused entry to Tanzania and deported in 2009, according to international news me...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsThe National Assembly leadership is meeting in Mombasa to address integrity of the House, internal wrangling and claims of bribery which has dogged it lately.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in Malawi“China Love” star AyCee James has taken a page from her mentor Jude ‘MI’ Abaga as she unexpectedly dropped a new rap song Wednesday night as part of her upcoming project. The song produced by Keith Mwale aka KeiM, comes barely three mont...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Times Of SwazilandMBABANE – High Court Judge Mpendulo Simelane has ordered the Swaziland Revenue Authority (SRA) to pay Chief Justice (CJ) Michael Ramodibedi a sum of E128
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiSo the door closes on 28th for poor February. Short but precise, a number of things have happened law key and silently. I have in mind the traffic jams and crazed frenzy in the cities of Blantyre and capital Lilongwe. Studious Big Bullet...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
February 26, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudanese former vice-president and rebel leader, Riek Machar, has called on his counterpart, president Salva Kiir, to “pack his suitcase” and come to Addis Ababa for direct negotiations with him in... -
Friday, February 27, 2015 from The Standard: RSS Feeds - HeadlinesSneaky emails, lies about exes and illicit savings are just the tip of the iceberg in relationships. Here we reveal the depths of the dodgy partners
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsJohn Kipchumba Tanui is new Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) Chief Executive Officer.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from The CitizenNewsHours after The Citizen reported that the official State House website was displaying the old cabinet line up which was changed in late January, the site was updated and is now displaying the incumbent team.
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Friday, February 27, 2015 from Malawi Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in MalawiPresident Peter Mutharika has admitted that some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with a gender connotation will not be achieved by this year, 2015. Mutharika made the observation when he presided over the launch of HeForShe ca..
