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Libya's former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi has begun a hunger strike to resist his possible extradition from Tunisia for fear of being executed in his home country, his lawyer said on Monday. The action, which began on Saturday, comes after Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said he did not want Tunisia to be a "refuge for those who threaten the
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The transitional president of Mali has been admitted to hospital after protesters reportedly burst into his office and beat him. According to BBC, Traore was unconscious when he arrived at hospital. AFP reports that hundreds of demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the general secretariat next to the presidential palace because they were angry at his appointment. The army told BBC
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SOME 35 NGOs have teamed up to petition the government, urging it to allocate adequate budget for maternal and newborn health during the 2012/2013 financial year. The activists met in Dar es Salaam over the weekend and agreed to engage policy makers especially MPs to push for increased budget allocation. "The maternal and newborn health sector has been allocated only
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A Nigerian man said Monday that he helped carry out deadly attacks on April 29 at a university church service and admitted belonging to Islamist group Boko Haram in his confession to police. Police in the northern state of Kano presented Augustine Effiong to journalists Monday following his arrest on Friday for attempted murder. According to a police statement, the
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Lesotho has seen political violence flare ahead of May 26 elections, with the opposition claiming that dirty tricks have undercut their turnouts. Fifteen political parties and several independent candidates will fight for the country's 120 parliamentary seats, although the main battle will be between Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili's newly formed ruling Democratic Congress and his former party, the Lesotho Congress
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Demonstrators forced their way into the office of Mali's interim president on Monday and attacked the elderly leader, who was later brought to a local hospital unconscious, a witness and one of the president's collaborators said. Dioncounda Traore was brought into the Point G Hospital with an injury to the head, said Sekou Yattara, a medical
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Nouakchott - Mauritanian authorities have charged Abdullah al-Senussi, Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief, with attempting to enter the country on forged documents, a judicial source told dpa on Monday. Al-Senussi, who appeared on Sunday in a Nouakchott court amid heavy security, was remanded to the city's central prison on Monday, the source said. The long-time spy chief disappeared from Libya after
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Classrooms have been burnt, reduced to piles of broken glass and shards of cement, but children and teachers remain, squeezing into the part of the building still standing for lessons. "We thought of closing, but there are parents who are still insisting that they must come and learn," said an English teacher at the school, one of several burnt by
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Harare - Zimbabwe's justice minister said on Monday that reports of torture and violence against political activists were "lies", during a visit by UN rights chief Navi Pillay. "There is no state-sponsored violence, these are all lies. We told her that there are no torture chambers in Zimbabwe," Patrick Chinamasa said after an hour-long meeting with the UN's High Commissioner
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Malabo — The government of Equatorial Guinea's Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Tang resigned in line with a constitutional reform approved in November, the country's communications minister said on Friday. "The government will present its letter of resignation to Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo today (Friday) so he can form a new government according to the law," said Communications
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Mogadishu — Multiple explosions in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market and another blast in east Mogadishu killed 8 and injured more than 15 on Saturday, Radio Garowe reports. There were two blasts in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market - one of the biggest and busiest in east Africa - was timed when AMISOM and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) troops were dismantling shops
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Four Kenyan soldiers were wounded Monday when a landmine exploded beneath their vehicle in the northeastern Mandera region bordering war-torn Somalia, police said. "Officers have been injured, we have sent a team to investigate," regional police chief Leo Nyongesa said. "Four officers have been injured, the tanker passed over a landmine," said a police official who was not authorised to
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Cairo - They came out in droves united in their desire to overthrow Hosni Mubarak, but on the eve of Egypt's landmark presidential election, the youth that spearheaded that revolt are divided over how to keep it alive. After a tumultuous, sometimes bloody, transition following the strongman's fall, activists say they are tired of the constant struggle with those left
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's most famous township, Soweto, is getting its first state-of-the-art theater that could spark a theater revival in the area known for its apartheid-era works that exposed the horrors of racist rule. The 150 million rand (about $18 million) complex that opens later this week is part of an ambitious redevelopment plan by the city of
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Bulawayo — President Robert Mugabe wants to retire but he fears that if he leaves now, Zanu-PF will disintegrate and the country degenerate into a possible civil war, former confidant and comrade-in-arms, Enos Nkala yesterday said. Nkala, a Zanu PF founding member and former Defence, Finance and Home Affairs minister, met Mugabe behind closed doors at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport
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Thousands of hardline Islamists, some in Afghan military garb and waving swords, converged Sunday in central Tunisia to rally for one of the country's most radical religious movements. Under the stunned gaze of a few tourists, who quickly scurried away, busloads of supporters of the Ansar al-Sharia movement poured into Kairouan, Islam's fourth-holiest city. The assembly provided a vivid illustration
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Rabat - A human rights organisation reports that an Algerian Islamist prisoner has died in a Moroccan prison after a hunger strike that lasted about two months. Ahmed Ben Miloud was convicted in December of using a firearm in the Algerian consulate in Oujda and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The 56-year-old died on Thursday. Anas al-Halaoui, spokesperson for
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Cairo — Campaign of presidential candidate Hisham Bastawisi denied reports that he may withdraw for another candidate, insisting on his intention to run the race until the end. "We insist on our commitment to our principles and not giving up on them under any circumstances, and we are counting on the awareness of the Egyptian people in electing a candidate",
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died almost three years after being freed from jail on compassionate grounds. "He died an hour ago," his brother Abdelhakim al-Megrahi told AFP, putting the time of death at shortly after 1 pm (1100 GMT). A Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted
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Leaders of a coup in Mali said they respect a decision by the West African bloc ECOWAS that interim president Dioncounda Traore must head the transition until general elections. "Dioncounda Traore will remain in power to lead the transition" and "talks will continue about (the implementation of) accompanying measures", a military official at the putschists' headquarters at Kati outside Bamako
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Guinea-Bissau's junta, parliament and a group of political parties have signed a roadmap aimed at ending the crisis created by the April 12 coup, officials told AFP Saturday. The five-page document was signed by interim parliament speaker Braima Sori Djalo, the junta's top leader and 25 parties, including the Social Renovation Party, which was the main opposition party before the
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Enugu — PRESIDENT yesterday, declared that the numerous problems confronting the nation did not start from his regime which commenced only two years ago. He asked Nigerians to reassess their journey from independence till date with a view to ascertaining the areas where the nation had gone wrong in order to make amends. President Jonathan Commiserating with Gov. Sullivan during
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How a pair of slum kids are turned into killers, by the tiny trials of life as much as by Islamist brainwashing, goes under the microscope in an ambitious Cannes film based on the 2003 Casablanca attacks. "God's Horses" by the French director of Moroccan origin Nabil Ayouch follows the destiny of two brothers, Yachine and Hamid, from their childhood
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Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has disclosed that while huge amount of dollars has been in the last one year on pipeline repairs, a record volume of crude valued at $7billion has been lost to crude theft via illegal bunkering within the same period. This is even as the federal government's effort to combat the unending episodes of
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Madagascar's strongman leader Andry Rajoelina said Friday he was ready to make a political agreement with the president he ousted ahead of new elections. Rajoelina said after talks with UN leader Ban Ki-moon that he wanted to hold the elections as soon as possible but would not commit to a deadline for a vote nor to letting his predecessor Marc
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