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Cairo - Egypt's worst violence in months has escalated the confrontation between political forces and the ruling military ahead of a landmark presidential election, as suspected army supporters attacked mainly Islamist protesters outside the Defence Ministry, sparking clashes that left at least 11 people dead. Political parties swiftly blamed the ruling generals for the bloodshed and vowed the election must
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Benghazi — In one of the many rooms where detainees are held at Ganfouda detention centre in Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, Suleiman Mansour*, a young Somali from Mogadishu, spends his days locked up along with 15 other migrants. They lie on mattresses propped against the walls, which are scribbled with names and slogans: one says "I love Somalia". "I've
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Mali's interim prime minister on Wednesday slammed repeated "attempts to destabilise the country," a day after a failed counter-coup by forces loyal to ousted president Amadou Toumani Toure. Tensions remained high at one of the counter-coup's targets, the national TV and radio station ORTM. On Wednesday, staff in the state broadcaster's building were forced to evacuate by troops fighting for
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Expanding Africa's shift towards organic farming will have beneficial effects on the continent's nutritional needs, the environment, farmers' incomes, markets and employment, the deputy head of the United Nations trade and development body said today. "Organic agriculture can offer an impressive array of food security, economic, environmental, and health benefits for developing countries, including in Africa," said the Deputy Secretary-General
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An unknown number of gunmen attacked a livestock market in Potiskum, Yobe state around 7:30 pm yesterday, killing over 30 people and injuring more than 20 others. A NEMA official who spoke to Daily Trust on condition of anonymity said he counted 33 corpses and 26 survivors with varying degree of injuries. Trouble started around 3pm when a gang of
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Bamako - West African leaders were set to discuss the turmoil in crisis-hit Mali at a summit on Thursday after soldiers who overthrew an elected government in March defeated a counter-coup this week. Gunfire was again heard in the tense capital Bamako on Wednesday, two days after bloody clashes at the state TV and radio station, the airport and the
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A senior Niger Delta militant undergoing trial in South Africa is alleging that President Jonathan was behind two bombings in 2010--one in Abuja on Independence Day and the other in Delta State seven months earlier. Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), who is standing trial over the deadly October 1 bombing near
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Khartoum on Thursday said it seeks peace with South Sudan and hopes the small country responds favourably to African Union and UN resolutions for ending hostilities. "The government of Sudan confirms her own strategic calls to have peace between the two states and it hopes the government of South Sudan gives a positive reaction to the African and UN Security
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Tripoli - A letter in which Muammar Gaddafi's regime agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign appears to be fake, Libya's National Transitional Council said on Wednesday. "We think that the letter is fake," NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil told a news conference in Tripoli. Mediapart website last month posted what it said was a 2006 document
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A top Congolese official on Wednesday said ex-rebel leader Jean Bosco Ntaganda would be tried for recent clashes between the army and forces loyal to the general in the country's restive east. "The Congolese government has asked me to communicate the following -- everything that is happening currently in Masisi is under the responsibility of General Bosco Ntaganda and he
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The head of the FBI and Scotland's top prosecutor have visited Libya to assess the ongoing investigation into the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, Scottish officials said on Wednesday. The director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller, and Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland met Libya's interim prime minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib in Tripoli on April 25. Scotland's Crown
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities or face sanctions. With China and Russia joining the growing calls for a halt to the growing border conflict, the 15-member council gave emphatic backing to African Union efforts to halt violence and get peace negotiations started. Russia and China
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The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) strongly condemns the murder of a radio journalist in Galkayo town of Mudug region in central Somalia. Journalist Farhan James Abdulle, reporter for Radio Daljir - Galkayo branch, was murdered at around 20:10 on Wednesday, 2 May 12. Unidentified men armed with pistols shot dead Abdulle at Kuwait Street in Garsoor village on
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There was gunfire overnight Tuesday in Mali's capital after the military junta said it had put down a rebellion by parachutists loyal to deposed President Amadou Tourmani Touré. The situation in Bamako was unstable on Tuesday, according to RFI's website in French, after heavy weapons fire was heard overnight. Coup leader Captain Amadou Haya Sanago promised that the agreement on
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Sudanese officials on Wednesday extended the expulsion deadline for thousands of ethnic South Sudanese encamped south of Khartoum, official media reported. The decision came in a meeting between Yusuf al-Shambali, the governor of White Nile state, and Social Welfare Minister Amira al-Fadel Mohammed. "They agreed to extend the deadline to May 20, 2012," said the SUNA news agency. The previous
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The head of Nigeria's Christians on Wednesday issued a "final" warning to the government that it must bring an end to attacks targeting the faithful after a new surge in deadly violence in recent days. "I will now make a final call to the Nigerian government to use all resources available to it to clearly define and neutralise the problem
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Dhusamareb — The latest reports coming out from a suicide attack took place on Tuesday afternoon at a restaurant in Dhusamareb, in the central war-torn nation where members of the Somalia Transitional Federal Parliament and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a (ASWJ) officials were meeting. At least eight people were killed, among two MPs and civilians, more than 30 others injured, some serously
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Egypt's army was to deploy troops in central Cairo on Wednesday to quell clashes near the defence ministry that left eight people dead according to a new toll, a military source told AFP. "Troops will intervene to quell the clashes between protesters in Abbassiya," the source said. Doctors at a field hospital in the area told AFP the death toll
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Kpong — Women around Ghana's Lake Volta are being trained as pilots and primary healthcare workers in an attempt to fight the water-borne disease schistosomiasis. The women have begun delivering health-related materials to isolated communities around Lake Volta. They drop specially designed aerodynamic packages containing information on how to prevent schistosomiasis, which is classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
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Eritrea has surpassed North Korea as the world's top press censor, with Syria and Iran placing third and fourth in a new list published Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New York-based rights group said Eritrea had climbed to the top of the list by banning all foreign media and controlling every detail of the local media's coverage
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The UN Security Council hopes to vote Wednesday on a resolution that could threaten Sudan and South Sudan with sanctions if they do not stop fighting, diplomats said. China and Russia, veto-wielding permanent members, are however leading resistance to any warning of international action against the rival countries, which many fear are headed for all-out war. Sudan on Tuesday warned
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The British embassy said on Tuesday it had met with one of its citizens allegedly detained by Sudan's army along the tense southern border and he is in good condition. Chris Fielding has been held for at least three days along with Norwegian John Sorbo, South African Thabo Siave and an unidentified South Sudanese. Sudan's army said on Saturday it
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Cairo - Five people were killed on Wednesday when attackers stormed an anti-military protest near the defence ministry headquarters in Cairo, medics and a security official said. The dawn assault sparked fierce clashes between the unidentified attackers and the protesters who have been there for days calling for an end to military rule, with both sides hurling petrol bombs and
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A video purportedly from Islamist group Boko Haram showed footage of last week's attack on a Nigerian newspaper and threatens news outlets, including two foreign organisations. The YouTube video includes spoken threats against several Nigerian news organisations as well as the Voice of America and Radio France International services in the Hausa language, which is spoken in northern Nigeria. The
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The Egyptian authorities must protect protesters in the run-up to presidential elections on 23 May, Amnesty International said today. A violent attack on protesters in Cairo on Saturday night reportedly left one person dead and scores injured. The attack, carried out by an unknown group of people, led to clashes which lasted into Sunday morning. "The Egyptian authorities have three
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