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Category: Dem. Rep. Congo
Press TV-Africa Today-DR Congo Crisis: When does this end?
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Category: Dem. Rep. Congo
Press TV-Africa Today-DR Congo Crisis: When does this end?
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Category: Dem. Rep. Congo
Press TV-Africa Today-DR Congo Crisis: When does this end?
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Category: Egypt
Protesters clashed outside with police, as judges inside the courtroom agree to look further into the death of Khaled Said.
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Category: Nigeria
http://sativawarrior.blogspot.com/201... Black Gold in Nigeria the truth about (S)hells horrible practices. 40% of its oil spills worldwide have occurred in the Niger Delta. In the Niger...
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Category: Mauritania
Six rural women who have never been to school are now working as solar engineers in villages in Mauritania, northern Africa. The supply of clean energy is providing a ray of hope for the villagers....
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Category: Kenya
Police in Kampala are holding two suspects in connection with the weekend kidnapping of a young boy in Kasangana. A house help for the father of boy and her uncle were last evening in Lukuri...
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Category: Uganda
Africa's first ladies are pushing governments to provide a fully integrated package for care to mothers and children to safeguard their lives. Their push comes from the premise that one in every 16...
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Category: Kenya
Africa Union summit opens in the Ugandan capital Kampala, focusing on the Somalia crisis. African leaders condemned Somalia's al Shabaab rebels at a Kampala summit on Sunday. Officials...
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Category: Kenya
Kenya Wildlife Service embarked on a dangerous mission to ensure that lions are fitted with a special collar. The device is used in tracking the cats and help in their protection.
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Category: Egypt
Protesters silently mourn the death of Khaled Said, an Alexandria man allegedly beaten to death by Egyptian police.
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Category: Uganda
Germany's Foreign Minister is in Kampala, Uganda to pay respects to the victims who died from a blast earlier this month. He condemns the attack but also praises Uganda's support in stabilizing...
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Category: Somalia
Logistical requirements needed to keep troops in Somalia for a long period of time could be keeping other African countries from joining the African Union peace keeping mission in Somalia. Deputy...
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Category: Somalia
The Somali Islamic extremist group al Shabab says it was behind those terrorist attacks in Uganda recently that killed over 70 people. al-Shabab is a militant jihadi group forged from the chaos of a...
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Category: Congo
There are still unresolved issues between Belgium and the Congo some 50 years after the latter became independent. Belgians in general are reluctant to look into the brutal policies conducted in the...
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Category: Zimbabwe
Since the formation of a national unity government in 2009, Zimbabwe has been slowly trying to recover from years of political violence, which has left lasting social scars. Now the government has...
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Category: Sudan
Violence has been increasing in Darfur in recent months. The United Nations says that nearly 600 people were killed in the region in May, making it the bloodiest month in Darfur in nearly two years.
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Category: Burundi
A new corruption report suggests that Burundi is the most corrupt country in the East Africa Community. In what might come as encouraging news, Kenya has been pushed to third place, after it was...
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Category: Cameroon
Cameroon girls have their breasts ironed to stop rape
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Category: Sudan
Human Rights activists are asking the African Union to rein in on Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir over the continuing Darfur crisis. The activists claimed today that Bashir who was recently...
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Category: Egypt
Egypt has the biggest cinema industry in the Middle East, producing more commercial films then all other Arab countries combined. But for the next three years, the holy month of Ramadan -- which is...
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Category: Uganda
The UN peace envoy to the war-ravaged Sudan region of Darfur, Joachim Chissano has weighed in on the debate of Uganda's precarious Peace Mission in Mogadishu.
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Category: Kenya
A row is simmering between the Mombasa municipal council and a government environment body over closure of a dumping site at the heart of the town. While the National Environment Management Authority...
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Category: Ethiopia
By Paul Ndiho --- Ethiopian Airlines began its first flight to Cairo in 1946. Almost 65 years later, the airline is still going strong. Foreign pilots are flicking to the carrier, which remains one...
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Category: Niger
The United Nations is calling for increased aid from donors to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Africa's drought-hit Sahel region. John Holmes, the outgoing head of the UN Office for the...
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Category: Egypt
Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt, has attended a graduation ceremony to congratulate a new batch of trained officers from the country's prestigious Military Academy, his alma matar and the...
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Category: South Africa
VOA's UN correspondent Margaret Besheer talks to UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe about the breakthrough in the fight against AIDS.
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Category: South Africa
South Africa's parliament is hearing a human rights committee's verdict on how well the government dealt with attacks on foreigners in 2008. The violence left at least 67 people dead as South...
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Category: Egypt
Victim's families caught up in Egypt's worst maritime disaster are taking their fight to Italy to seek justice four years after the accident took place. The Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 sank in the Red...
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Category: Chad
They survived the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, but now they are waging a daily battle with the environment. The quarter million Darfuri refugees in eastern Chad compete with local residents in...
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