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  • Mali defends security after foiled Mauritania attack

    Mali officials rejected Thursday claims that a vehicle used in a foiled bomb attack in Mauritania last month was registered in their country, and defended their efforts against extremist militants.

    Al-Qaeda's north African wing claimed responsibility for the August 25 attempt to attack a military barracks in...

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  • Angola clears rights activist arrested over Togo team attack

    An Angolan court has cleared a human rights activist accused of links to a militant group that carried out a deadly gun attack on Togo's football team during the Africa Cup of Nations in January.

    Engineer Barnabe Paca Peso, one of at least nine people arrested in...

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  • Semenya not interested in what people say

    World 800m champion Caster Semenya insisted Thursday that she is not interested in what people say about her as she steps up her preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi next month.

    The 19-year-old only recently returned from an 11-month absence from the sport as the furore...

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  • HRW denounces alleged torture of Islamists in Morocco

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced the alleged torture by Moroccan police of seven prominent members of the country's leading Islamist association, the organisation said in a statement.

    The members of Al Adl wal Ihssane (Justice and Spirituality) were arrested in dawn raids by armed police on...

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  • S.African government urge negotiators to end strike soon

    South Africa's government on Thursday urged its negotiators to find a swift solution after unions rejected a revised pay offer aimed at ending a public-sector strike now in its third week.

    "Cabinet urged the negotiators to find an amicable and win-win solution sooner so that life can...

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  • BRIC nations should add S. Africa: minister

    South Africa's foreign minister said Thursday the informal grouping of fast-growing emerging economies known as BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- should add South Africa to become BRICSA.

    "We have doubled our efforts on BRIC and we remind them that it does not sound complete...

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  • Africa starting to take agriculture seriously: Annan

    Nobel Peace laureate and former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Thursday said calls on African governments to give priority to agricultural funding are starting to bear fruit.

    "We have long called on African governments to break from the past practices of underfunding agriculture and curtailing the...

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  • UN delays publication of DR Congo massacres report

    The UN human rights chief on Thursday delayed the publication of a report examining massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo to October to give the states concerned time to comment.

    "Following requests, we have decided to give concerned states a further month to comment on the...

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  • UN to publish DR Congo massacres report in October

    The UN human rights chief said Thursday a report examining massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo would be published in October, after concerned states were given time to comment.

    "Following requests, we have decided to give concerned states a further month to comment on the draft,"...

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  • Liberia's Sirleaf to seek legal advice on war sanctions

    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is seeking legal advice on a truth and reconciliation commission report which recommends she be banned from occupying public office for 30 years.

    In a report to parliament released Thursday, Sirleaf said that implementing recommendations on prosecutions and public sanctioning should not...

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  • Two dead in Algerian suicide attack against military

    Two soldiers were killed and dozens injured after a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives by a military convoy near the capital Algiers, Algerian newspapers reported Thursday.

    At least 26 soldiers were injured in Wednesday's attack, which took place near Boumerdes, some 50 kilometres...

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  • Senegal's Youssou N'Dour launches TV station

    Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour, who owns a major media group in Dakar, has launched his private television station after a difference with the authorities over its finance.

    TFM (Television Futurs Medias) is a cultural channel that went on the air on Wednesday evening, with a debate among...

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  • Mubarak urges Netanyahu to act on peace chance

    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to make good on his vow to forge peace with the Palestinians and reiterated a plea for Israel to halt settlement activity.

    On the eve of Thursday's first direct Israeli-Palestinian talks in 20 months in...

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  • S.African strikers reject government offer

    The South African public sector strike was set to continue after the country's main labour federation on Wednesday rejected a revised government offer.

    "We got a report from unions and the overwhelming majority of provincial structures have rejected the government's offer, the strike continues," Cosatu general secretary,...

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  • UN piracy pointman urges 'sea and land' strategy

    The United Nation's newly named special advisor on piracy said solutions to the problem had to be found "at sea and on land" and promised to issue recommendations within three months.

    "The main aim of my mission concerns penal cases of pirates, the judgement and jailing," said...

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  • Al-Qaeda claims Mauritania suicide attack: SITE

    Al-Qaeda's north African wing has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack last week at a military barracks in Mauritania, a US monitoring group said on Wednesday.

    SITE Intelligence Group said the Nouakchott News Agency cited a statement from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that one of its...

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New African
The Mandela many have never seen
The world knows him as a saint – perhaps the only living saint there is. But a new book on Nelson Mandela’s years before he was jailed for life in 1964, has revealed a different face to Saint Mandela, portraying...
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New African Woman
WARIS DIRIE: The ever-blossoming Desert Flower
Soaring above her shocking ordeal as a victim of horrific maiming through Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the award-winning humanitarian, women’s rights activist, novelist and former supermodel, Waris Dirie, has for years been an emblem of hope for thousands of young...
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African Business
Private healthcare Africa’s latest boom
Africa’s healthcare needs are enormous and despite improvements over the past decade, governments are struggling to provide anywhere near sufficient services to their populations. But the private sector, with financing from both foreign and domestic capital, is becoming an increasingly...
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African Banker
Banking on technology
There has been a massive expansion of Africa’s banking services over the past decade and technological advances have played a substantial part in making this possible. However, with the spread of banking also comes the need to continuously upgrade security...
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The Middle East
Apocalypse soon?
Tensions are rising so rapidly across the Middle East that the region is on the cusp of a major conflict involving, undoubtedly, Iran and Israel. Ed Blanche provides an anatomy of what an Israeli assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities might...
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