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Protest Movements In Middle East, North Africa Reaffirm Reach Of Human Rights
Eurasia Review
Recent events unfolding across the Middle East and North Africa underscored the pressing need to bolster human rights as the third pillar — alongside security and development — of the United Nations, the High Commissioner for Human Rights told the ...
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Moving, colourful ads, gifts grab attention
Bizcommunity.com
Hot on the tracks of South Africa's latest YouTube sensation, the mountain biker taken out by a Red Hartebeest, 140 BBDO placed a series of banner ads for its client Capitec Bank on the site. Its heading - 'Get Bucks even quicker'. ...
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Africa Set for Steady Growth, With Threat of Faster Inflation
International Monetary Fund
By Teresa Trasino Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is set to maintain pace in 2012, supported by higher commodity prices and rising export demand, the IMF's latest forecast for the region said. In many of Africa's low-income countries, ...
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Will CHOGM hear Africa's voice?
SBS (blog)
In a recent editorial in the West Australian, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd noted that six of the world's fastest growing economies are in Africa and said the benefits for Australia and the world in engagingAfrica are many. This year's CHOGM will also ...
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Building bridges
Moonee Valley Weekly
A report released in July, Race or Reason, detailed some alarming realities about the complicated relationship between Victorian Police and young African males in the west. Dan O'Sullivan looks at some of the recent challenges and the search for a ...
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Africa: The Egyptian Authorities Should Bring an End to Attacks Against Civil ...
AllAfrica.com
The latest campaign against civil society organisations took a serious turn in July, when International Cooperation Minister Fayza Abul Naga announced that the Cabinet had requested the Justice Ministry to create a fact-finding committee regarding the ...
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USGS Expert Explains How Global Warming Likely Contributes to East Africa's ...
ThinkProgress
... Africa — confusionists who falsely assert that “Those who are familiar with Somalia's recent history and current state of affairs do not mention climate change as a relevant factor to the country's latest tragedy” — would actually read the ...
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ThinkProgress
A real live experience
Times LIVE
To find out, I recently tested the LW4500, LG South Africa's latest Cinema 3D TV. It's a slim, sleek 110cm wide TV set that comes with two pairs of light 3D glasses, and is capable of displaying 3D content and converting 2D images to three-dimensional ...
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Times LIVE
Good morning Emerging Europe/Africa
FXMarketAlerts.com
EU: Europe's grand plan to strengthen its banking system is set to fall well short of market expectations, identifying a capital shortfall of less than 100bn that must be made up over 6-9 months, according to latest official estimates. ...
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Bill and Melinda Gates applaud progress against malaria
Ghana Business News
The reality in much of Africa remains grim. A child dies of malaria every 45 seconds in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the latest reports from 2009, children under-five accounted for 85 per cent of the nearly 800000 malaria deaths. ...
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Ghana Business News
Hi ho, Hillary
The Phoenix
By EDITORIAL | October 19, 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent surprise visit to Libya, the site of America's latest and most bafflingly ill-defined military intervention, suggests two things: progress has been made, and some sort of ...
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The Phoenix
Cameroon: Retrospective on the 2011 Presidential Election Candidates
Global Voices Online
So much has already been said about the recent presidential election in Cameroon: too many candidates [fr], strange promises, unflattering political slogans, and so on. One thing is definite however, the 9 October poll has got people talking. ...
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FAM 'disappointed' with Flames drop on Fifa ranking
Nyasa Times
Reacting to the development, Nyirenda says it is always bad to see the team drop on the rankings instead of climbing up the ladder and attributed the drop to the Flames recent unimpressive results. “Our failure to qualify for the 2012 African cup of ...
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Can Cain Do It?
National Review Online
His recent bus tour around Tennessee and northern Virginia, hawking his latest hardcover, has only increased chatter about his efforts in early primary states, which appear lackadaisical. But behind Cain's bookstore stops, his political team is ...
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Socceroos slip a spot
Sportal.com.au
The Socceroos have held their place in the top 20 of the latest FIFA World Rankings, which were released on Wednesday. Australia dropped one place to 20th despite recording a 3-0 win over Omanin their World Cup qualifier and 5-0 win over Malaysia in a ...
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RIM unveils BBX OS for BlackBerry
Castleford Media (blog)
In his headline presentation Mike Lazaridis, co-chief executive officer, made a short apology forrecent network failures, which led to the network going down in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Considerable delays were also experiecned in North ...
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Nallet leads resistance to criticism of Les Bleus
The Independent
France will start their World Cup final against the All Blacks this weekend with a scrum-half at outside-half and a squad wholly at loggerheads with the coach, Marc Lièvremont, whose latest round of verbal friendly fire – all that stuff about his ...
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Fight uncertainty with uncertainty, and avoid being flavour of the month
Daily Maverick
Moroka, famously, was such a newcomer to the ANC that he called it the African National Committee. He was a disaster – and quite contrary to the high standards Malema was purporting the ANC presidency to have been subjected to at the time. ...
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Republican Bachmann Makes Foreign Faux Pas
Sky News
It was not quite 'I can see Russia from my backyard' but Michele Bachmann hardly boosted her foreign policy credentials in the latest Republican debate. "The president put us in Libya. Now he's put us in Africa," she pronounced on the stage in Las ...
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Sky News
Secret Past: A Sierra Leonean Movie set to Premiere in the United States
Patriotic Vanguard
To name a few of Mohamed Bah's familiar hit movies include “THE OTHER SIDE OF LOVE” (starring Nigerian super star Ramsy Noah) in which he played the role of the FBI agent who was trying to track down an illegal money wired transfer to Africa. ...
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Santos snubs JJ
The Bostwana Gazette
National team striker, Jerome Ramatlhakwane's disastrous stay in Cape Town has been worsened by news that the player's name does not appear in the latest player registration list from the SouthAfrican Premier Soccer League. This means that the player ...
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Zuma must act now
Business Day
The reports of the public protector into the South African Police Service lease scandal contained damning indictments of the behaviour of both national police commissioner Bheki Cele and Public Works Minister Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde. ...
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United co-op sees pretax profits rise to £4.16m
Irish Times
He said the group had also benefited from a global recovery in dairy markets which had been boosted by strong demand for power from China and North Africa and for butter from Russia whose internal dairy sector had suffered because of a drought. ...
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Norton Rose partner quits Abu Dhabi base for Standard Chartered amid spate of ...
Legal Week
Watson-Thorp is joining the financial services company as co-head of lending and finance for wholesale banking legal across the Middle East, Africa and Pakistan. His departure is the latest in a number of recent exits from Norton Rose's Middle East arm...
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Legal Week
Refugee rights groups here have raised extreme concern at the alleged lack of ...
The Zimbabwean
South Africa last week ended the moratorium on deportations of undocumented Zimbabweans – sending home hundreds within three days, but the two organisations said that there was also an urgent need for Apleni to Director General to convene a meeting of ...
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The Zimbabwean
Kansas authors appear in local 'author roundup'
Abilene Recorder Chronicle
Angela Bates-Tompkins of Bogue is a descendant of the founding family of Nicodemus, the oldest existing African-American settlement west of the Mississippi River. She is the author of “The KansasAfrican American History Trail” and “Ernestine's ...
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