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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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RABAT, Morocco — A minaret collapsed during Friday prayers — killing 36 people and injuring 71 — at a mosque in the old town of the historic Moroccan city of Meknes, the official MAP... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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Washington — An international naval flotilla of vessels from the European Union, NATO, Russia, China, the United States and other nations is patrolling the Gulf of Aden to deter Somali pirates. On ... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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The trail had gone cold, lost somewhere in a maze of tracks among the purple pan weed. Our guide, Levy, straightened up, wiped his brow and scanned the treeline – but without conviction. It was ... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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The African Union has suspended Niger following Thursday's military coup, in which President Mamadou Tandja was deposed and the government dissolved.The organisation said it had imposed sanctions on t... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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The congregation was bigger than normal this week at the Christianity Focus Centre in Kampala. Perhaps numbers had been swelled by the prospect of an unusual kind of show-and-tell fast becoming the ma... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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Tinariwen is a more worldly band now than it was in 2001, when a performance at the Festival of the Desert in Mali introduced its resolute, hypnotic Saharan rock to an audience that carried its reputa... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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Feb. 19, 2010 ATLANTA - Global cases of Guinea worm disease have dropped to a new all-time low, former President Jimmy Carter said Friday, and health officials hope the infection that culminates in wo... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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Tendai Biti, the secretary-general of the MDC-T and also the chief negotiator for the party, has said dialogue between the three parties is 'going nowhere' and that as negotiators they had 'reached th... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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There is confusion surrounding the removal of a serving senior police officer from the EU sanctions list, who three years ago allegedly led a brutal assault on the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in ... |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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More than two thousand angry civil servants who gathered in Harare on Friday have vowed to intensify their strike action if the government does not meet their demands for a wage increase. |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court says crimes against humanity were likely committed in Guinea during an army-led massacre. |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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del.icio.us A pilot program promoting newborn care promises to dramatically reduce the number of stillborn births worldwide. The study by U.S. researchers looked at the effectiveness of a newborn care... |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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BULAWAYO, Feb 19, 2010 (IPS) - Southern Africa is entering flood season. Governments and policy makers have been challenged to adopt a more preventive approach to disaster management by the Red Cross ... |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE February 19, 2010 Statement by Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of African Affairs Political Situation in Niger Assistant Secretary of State for African ... |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to restore Zimbabwe's voting rights after a seven-year suspension for unpaid debts.But the fund said the country was still ineligible for loans until i... |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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In a time of constant calamity and crisis fatigue, proposed legislation in Uganda to execute gays passes through the American consciousness with the impact of a weather report. |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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Nairobi — A group commissioned by the Kofi Annan-led Panel of Eminent African Personalities has delivered a damning verdict on the performance of President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga... |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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Nairobi — Lobbying on the status of international trade in ivory has intensified ahead of next month's 15th Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar. Afric... |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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TOKYO — Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Friday unveiled plans to provide Kenya with 29.5 billion yen in yen-denominated loans for a thermal power plant project there as part of Tokyo’s s... |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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-(Dow Jones)- Laurent Muzangisa is set to be replaced by Celestin Mbuyu at the helm of Congo's Energy ministry, people familiar with the matter said Friday, a move rekindling hopes that long-stalled... |
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