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Nigerias police chief has vowed that police officials in Nigerias central Plateau State will be held responsible for future violent incidents. Ogbonna Onovo made his comments while on a visit to the region, which has seen two massacres in just three months. Henceforth, DPOs [district police officers] will be held responsible for any such attacks in their areas of jurisdiction, Onovo said. We will provide more logistics and incentives to the police in Plateau State for the effective maintenance of law and order in the state. He urged police officers to act promptly on intelligence reports on such attacks and promised to help the state police command in its operations. More than 500 people predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, were killed last week in an attack blamed on Muslim Hausa-Fulani herders from nearby hills. Residents said the herders attacked the village of Dogo Nahawa, about 15km south of Jos, shooting into the air before using machetes to cut down those who came out of their homes. Nigerian authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection with the attacks. In January, hundreds of people, mainly Muslims, were killed in similar clashes in the region. David Zounmenou, an expert on Nigeria at the South African Centre for Security Studies in Pretoria, warned there was a real danger the violence seen in Jos could spread to other parts of Nigeria. There are deep divisions in Nigerian society and some people within communities still feel excluded from access to power, resources and if you look specifically at Jos, what is happening is a clash between those who feel they are settlers and those who are nomads who feel cut off from their land, told Al Jazeera. As a result, those issues faced in Jos, the Niger Delta and southern parts of the country need to be dealt with carefully if Nigeria is to stand the test of time. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 14 March 2010 Category: Nigeria |
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Thousands of Togolese people took to the streets of Lome in two rival marches, one showing support for the newly re-elected President Faure Gnassingbe and the other by the opposition denouncing his disputed re-election. |
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Date: 14 March 2010 Category: Togo |
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Black granite from Zimbabwe fetches a high price in a lucrative overseas market. But in the northeast of the country where its mined, locals complain that too little of the lands wealth is flowing back to the communities that live nearby. |
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Date: 13 March 2010 Category: Zimbabwe |
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Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the intact sarcophagus of a mysterious Queen inside her pyramid\'s 4,000 year old burial chamber. |
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Date: 13 March 2010 Category: Egypt |
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http://www.ntv.co.ke Motorists in Nairobi will soon be a smiling lot once the ambitious road network expansion programme is completed. And as NTV\'s Martina Akinyi reports, by-passes and fly-overs are already under construction in several points including the busy Thika highway. |
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Date: 13 March 2010 Category: Nigeria |
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http://www.ntv.co.ke Hundreds of women in Nigeria\'s central city of Jos are demanding justice - and the immediate removal of the area\'s military chief. This follows last weekends attacks on three christian villages in which hundreds of people are feared to have been killed. |
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Date: 13 March 2010 Category: Nigeria |
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Interview with Ngozi Edozien, CEO, Actis West Africa |
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Date: 24 July 2009 Category: Nigeria |
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The official video of the FIFA World Cup 2010 Anthem...... In South Africa .... By somali artist Knaan |
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Date: 04 December 2009 Category: South Africa |
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The Monument to the African Renaissance is meant to draw tourists and pride to Senegals capital, Dakar. But the huge bronze statue is drawing criticism from some in Senegals mostly Muslim population. Ricci Shryock reports. |
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Date: 09 December 2009 Category: Senegal |
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Somalia\'s first freely-elected president talks about the war raging in his country, his views on the U.S.-led Global War on Terrorism, and how the Internet may help educate and unite his nation. |
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Date: 28 September 2008 Category: Somalia |
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Courtesy: UNICEF NIAMEY, Niger, 14 April 2009 Ten villages in western Niger have decided to put an end to female genital mutilation or cutting (also known as FGM/C), publicly calling all inhabitants in the Tillabery region to give up this practice, which threatens girls lives. More at http://www.unicef.org/ [More] [Less] |
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Date: 15 April 2009 Category: Niger |
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Eritrea - Asmara, the capital of the small east African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is referred by many expert travelers as the beautifulest city in Africa and is also home to one of the most important and exciting architectural \'discoveries\' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s and early 40\'s by Italian and Eritrean workers, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of modernist architecture anywhere in the world, and has evocatively been described as [More] [Less] |
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Date: 25 September 2008 Category: Eritrea |
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Somalia\'s first freely-elected president talks about the war raging in his country, his views on the U.S.-led Global War on Terrorism, and how the Internet may help educate and unite his nation. |
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Date: 28 September 2008 Category: Somalia |
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video about scateboarding in uganda....interesting |
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Date: 27 September 2008 Category: Uganda |
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Excerpts of a film on the heroic exploits of Kuva Likenye, the Bakweri chief who took up arms against German exploitation of the Bakweri people of Cameroon who live on the foot of mount Fako, in West Africa. An AFRICAphonie film. |
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Date: 23 September 2008 Category: Cameroon |
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Malawis agricultural growth since the signing of the Maputo Declaration in 2003 has been impressive, the New Partnership for Africas Development (Nepad) Business Foundation chairperson Dr Reuel Khoza said last week. |
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Date: 20 November 2009 Category: Malawi |
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The U-S-based One Laptop Per Child Initiative creates educational opportunities for poor children around the world by providing low-cost, durable portable computers. Seven countries in Africa are already participating in the initiative. One school in Kenya has set up a pilot program to test the computers. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 20 November 2009 Category: Kenya |
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VOAs co-host Vincent Makori talks to Sasha Lezhnev, Executive Director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group and co-author of the Enough Project paper on Congos minerals. Sasha explains how the minerals are fueling conflicts in the region. He also gives the web link to address the problem at: http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 20 November 2009 Category: Dem. Rep. Congo |
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Courtesy: UNICEF NIAMEY, Niger, 14 April 2009 Ten villages in western Niger have decided to put an end to female genital mutilation or cutting (also known as FGM/C), publicly calling all inhabitants in the Tillabery region to give up this practice, which threatens girls lives. More at http://www.unicef.org/ [More] [Less] |
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Date: 15 April 2009 Category: Niger |
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Animal abuse happens all over the world - But how much do you really know about it? |
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Date: 01 April 2009 Category: Ethiopia |
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Awed by their imagination and spirit, in 2005, Dennis Gaboury, an American sculptor spending the year in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, sponsored a competition among the city’s orphans to encourage and reward their creativity. More than 250 boys and girls built dolls and trucks, motorcycles, airplanes and helicopters. And in the Spring of 2006, at special awards show, they all received prizes – movie tickets and back packs, beans and pencils, courtesy of local and international donors. All their toys were displayed in an exhibition mounted at the National Gallery. And the top four toymakers garnered something even more spectacular – an airplane ride over their own home town. For more, go to www.zimkids.com [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 March 2009 Category: Zimbabwe |
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Animal behaviourist, Kevin Richardson, has struck up a remarkable friendship with an entire pride of lions in South Africa. Sky\'s Africa Correspondent Emma Hurd reports. |
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Date: 20 March 2009 Category: South Africa |
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Our bodies?their battleground?, a documentary film that highlights the sexual violence crisis facing women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia, received the award of ?Best Feature? for documentaries over 15 minutes. The film gives a voice to victims of rape, and seeks to challenge the culture of impunity that allows this violence to continue unchecked. ?Our bodies?their battleground? was produced by Nicky Chalk and Sylvia Spring, with support from the head of the IRIN film unit, David Gough. www.films4change.co.uk [More] [Less] |
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Date: 09 January 2009 Category: Dem. Rep. Congo |
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video about scateboarding in uganda....interesting |
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Date: 27 September 2008 Category: Uganda |
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