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AFRICA News, Feb 12, 2012

About time: Mandela image to appear on S African banknotes
Firstpost
South Africa will launch bank notes bearing the image of its first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela, President Jacob Zuma announced today on the 22nd anniversary of the anti-apartheid icon's release from prison. “On behalf of Government ...
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Firstpost
The General Assembly Supports President Hayatou
AllAfrica.com
Declare without any reservation its total support to the President of CAF ISSA HAYATOU and to all officials of the African Sports Movement. JOSEPH S. BLATTER for his continuous support in the development of Football in Africaand for his personal ...
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Colonel Gaddafi armed Tuaregs pound Mali
Scotsman
... Mali s northern desert in recent weeks. Photograph: Getty Images By ADAM NOSSITER IN LIFE, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi delighted in fomenting insurgency in North Africannations to the south of Libya. In death, his legacy continues to fuel unrest.
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Scotsman
'al-Shabaab' merger with 'al
Coastweek
... operation in the Horn of Africa nation. The Kenya Defense Force (KDF)'sDirector of Military Operations Information Colonel Cyrus Oguna dismissed such merger which he said was done to enable the dismantled insurgents attract international funding.
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S.Africa's Malema says ready for ouster and jail
AngolaPress
PRETORIA - Julius Malema gave what may be his final address as leader of the ANC Youth League on Friday, saying South Africa's ruling party has persecuted him and that he will pursue his struggle for nationalising mines even if he is ousted. meeting of ...
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Nat Irvin II | IdeaFestival University: tapping bright young minds
Louisville Courier-Journal
It is a world inhabited by some 7 billion people, 6 billion of whom are connected through some type of mobile smart phone device, (600 million on the continent of Africa) and according to Google executive Chairman Eric Schmidt are generating 2000 ...
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Leana Wen and Sebastian Walker
New York Times
Kevin Needham, a Methodist minister, led the ceremony, which incorporated Chinese and South African wedding traditions. The bride, 29, will be known as Dr. Wen-Walker. She is a third-year resident in emergency medicine at both Brigham & Women's ...
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Cuba and the Caribbean: 40 Years of Solidarity, Cooperation
Prensa Latina
12 de febrero de 2012, 08:02Havana, Feb 12 (Prensa Latina) Jamaican intellectual Norman Girvan expressed her deepest gratitude for Cuba''scontribution to eliminate apartheid in Africa in the 1970s. A special guest at the International Book Fair, ...
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Honeywell Offers Mixed Forecast for New Helicopter Sales
Aviation International News
The most frequently mentioned models were the AW139, Bell 412, EC145 and Sikorsky S-76 series. Between 40 and 50 percent of all make/model mentions in Asia and Middle East/Africa were for medium twins. The third most frequently mentioned class was ...
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Sobering facts about developing world
Cumberland Times-News
With the exception of sports and social news, a large portion of the information we get is rather negative, focusing on crime, foreclosures, nasty weather, verbal attacks of one candidate against the other(s), and foreign threats.
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Apollo Tyres - Standalone business surpasses expectations, RM benefits to ...
Equity Bulls
Although this pulled down the overall profitability, the standalone EBITDA margins came in at 8%, v/s 6.8% qoq. This was due to the partial impact of softening of rubber prices seen in this quarter, though it was largely offset by adverse currency ...
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Biggest test coming up for Indian hockey
Daily Mail
By S. Kannan Indian hockey is in the news these days and a lot of it has to do with the enhanced sponsorship it will be getting from the Sahara group. For people like me who have still not lost hope in Indian hockey, the Sahara press release was ...
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Daily Mail
Securitas £53m raid mastermind, cage fighter Lee Murray, fathers child behind bars
Mirror.co.uk
Martial arts expert Lee Murray, 32, has been in jail in North Africa since 2006 – just months after he led the biggest heist in British history. Yet despite being locked up in a country where adultery is illegal and sex outside marriage is outlawed, ...
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Darwin the Geologist
Scientific American (blog)
In July 1831 he visited the cave of Llanymynech near his hometown of Shrewsbury and in August of the same year, after graduating from Cambridge University and pushed by his mentor and friend, botanist John S. Henslow, he accompanied Professor Adam ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Dinda vs. Bist duel to light up Duleep Trophy final
The Hindu
... Wriddhiman Saha, Anustup Majumdar, Ashok Dinda, Shreevats Goswami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Basant Mohanty, Shami Ahmed, Rana Dutta, Gokul Sharma and Subhrajit Roy. Umpires: Shuan George (South Africa) and S. Tarapore; Match Referee: Raju Mukherjee.
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The Hindu
Suji has his work cut out ahead of UAE T20 event
Daily Monitor
When the idea playing in the just concluded East Africa Elite Leagues was first floated around to the players, not a single soul wanted to take part. Fast forward to last month's preparations for the grand finale, every player was doing all within his ...
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Daily Monitor
Boynton Beach Police report missing girl, 9, safe at home
Sun-Sentinel
Who's in charge anyway??? S. African banknotes to bear Nelson Mandela's image At a press conference in Pretoria, South Africa made it official. The country's ... At a press conference in Pretoria, South Africa made it official.
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Sun-Sentinel
Art briefs for Feb. 12
Knoxville News Sentinel
The concert is at the Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Reservations are required at www.knoxjazz.org. Tickets are $27.50 for adults, $15 for students. The Momentum Dance Lab presents "Art Moves" at 2 pm Feb. 18 and 19 at the Knoxville Museum of Art. "Art ...
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UPI NewsTrack Business
UPI.com
PRETORIA, South Africa, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- South Africa's central bank said it would honor the country's world famous former President Nelson Mandela by putting his image on the country's currency. Mandela has become a global symbol for freedom, ...
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George Fox speaker extols youths on one-year city sabbatical
Oregon Faith Report
What does it mean to be a true neighbor – one who embraces Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to join a “beloved community,” a community of welcoming hospitality that confronts poverty, homelessness and racism? This question will be addressed at George ...
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Scots must go for broke in Vegas
Scotland on Sunday
Pressure cooker: England s Matt Turner tackles Sean Kennedy as the Scotland player tries to clear the ball at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Photograph: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images The Scotland sevens side have once again missed their goal of a place ...
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Scotland on Sunday
I Am Spartacus!
OpEdNews
Anaïs Nin (1903--77) Franco-American novelist, diarist. Preface to Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller(1934). I have just finished watching the DVD's of the Starz Original Series "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," and "Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
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Cape Town becomes S Africa's drug capital
Chinadaily USA
CAPE TOWN - With "an awful lot of drugs available," Cape Town has become "the drug capital of South Africa, " authorities said on Thursday. The drug trade considered Cape Town "a very lucrative place to do business," said Dan Plato, ...
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Commodities: Gold runs out of steam, energy benefits from cold
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
Being an important industrial commodity primarily used in automobile production, platinum has been finding support from the recent improvement in economic activity combined with supply disruptions in South Africa, the largest producing country.
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Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
Wolves v West Brom: LIVE
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
We left Uk for S Africa 42 yrs ago, but my Husband is still of the opinion that the Baggies are the best, 3 scarfs on his chair permenantly should prove a point!!! Comment hidden due to its low rating. Show Yes Garry 3 points at the Stadio Del Custard, ...
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Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Sudan and S Sudan sign non-aggression pact
MWC News
By Agencies Sudan and South Sudan have signed a "non-aggression" pact over their disputed border following talks in Addis Ababa where AfricanUnion-led negotiations between the two sides are being held. The deal was signed by Thomas Douth, ...
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Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds Make Familiar SAFE HOUSE Better Than It ...
CultureMob (blog)
Frost is apprehended in the US consulate and transported to a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa, which is run by a bored junior agent named Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds). When Frost arrives in cuffs and interrogated, the safe house is suddenly ...
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CultureMob (blog)
DISTREE EMEA 2012 drives channel growth
Zawya (registration) (press release)
The event brought together representatives from 130 international vendors with representatives from 400 distribution and retail organisations across 70-plus countries in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. Firmly established as the leading ...
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Pingers go off globally
Noosa News
"We have received enquiries about the new Whale Pinger from Governments and scientists in South Africa, Portugal, Ecuador, Tanzania, and the USA to name a few. "It‟s important now that we keep the momentum in Pinger interest going.
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5 Recommended Dividend Stocks For 2012
Seeking Alpha
Sprint Nextel Corporation (S), another competitor of Verizon, does not offer any dividends. With the recent failure of the AT&T and T-Mobile deal (resulting in a loss of $6.7 billion), customers are flocking towards a more stable company (Verizon).
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Kenya`s Kiplagat wins speedy mile by 0.03 seconds - In2EastAfrica ...
By In2EastAfrica
East Africa Business Summit And Expo 2012 · Home · National ... WorldNews · East African Community ... “It was a very fast race all around,” Kiplagat told reporters after the first six finishers dipped under the year`sprevious fastest mile.
In2EastAfrica - East African...
AfricaNews - S. Sudan Ex-Minster embezzled $60 Million - The ...
He said that he was keeping the secret because he does not want to spoil the process that was leading the south Sudanese as the people of southern Sudan to ...
voicesofafrica.africanews.com/site/S_Sudan...60.../41090
BBC News - Nelson Mandela banknotes to be issued by South Africa
South Africa is to put the image of Nelson Mandela on all its banknotes, marking the 22nd anniversary of his release from prison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16996809
S.Africa's Zuma squashes mine nationalisation talk | Top News ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - President Jacob Zuma squashed more than two years of talk on Friday about the nationalisation of South Africa'smassive mining ...
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE81900J20120210
South African retailers are resilient - Commercial, News
South African retailers are resilient : Defying the noose which is tightening around retailers in the US and Europe, South Africa's national retailers are proving ...
www.property24.com/articles/south-african-retailers.../14747
S.African bonds weaken, rand steady, eyeing Greece [50181124 ...
Business news feed S.African bonds weaken, rand steady, eyeing Greece... JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government bonds fell further on ...
theafricareport.com/.../s.african-bonds-weaken-rand-steady-ey...
S.Africa announces AIDS drug venture with Swiss Lonza < South ...
The plant will create about 2600 jobs once it's running in 2016, he added.
www.expatica.com/.../safrica-announces-aids-drug-venture-wit...
Ginsburg Likes S. Africa as Model for Egypt - ABC News
Amid fresh clashes in Egypt, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo has posted an Alhayat TV interview of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She traveled to the region last ...
abcnews.go.com/.../ginsburg-likes-s-africa-as-model-for-egypt...
S.African police arrest 'resurrected' singer - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: South African police arrested a man on Monday after he claimed to be a popular musician who died in 2009, sparking a frenzy among the ...
news.yahoo.com/african-police-arrest-resurrected-singer-2259...
S.Africa's PMI rebounds to 53.2 in January - Africa News
South Africa's Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 53.2 in January, its highest level since June, rebounding from 49.4 in December, sponsors Kagiso Asset ...
www.africanews.it/.../s-africas-pmi-rebounds-to-53-2-in-janua...
South Africa: Land Claim Beneficiaries Warned of Opportunists ...
Ga — Deputy Rural Development and Land Reform Minister, Lechesa Tsenoli, has warned communities receiving land claim compensation to invest their ...
www.southafricanews24.co.za/south-africa-land-claim-benefic...
S Africa: rand rally | beyondbrics | News and views on emerging ...
beyondbrics, from the Financial Times, brings news and comment from more than 40 emerging economies, headed by China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, ...
blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/02/02/s-africa-rally/
Zuma unveils S.African rail and port investment push, news ...
Zuma unveils S.African rail and port investment push. South Africa will invest 300 billion rand ($39.6 billion, 29.7 billion euros) in rail and port... South Africa will ...
www.starafrica.com/.../south-african-job-crisis-pressure-for-zu...
Blog Africa | Travel Blog | This Week: Africa.com′s Top 10
This week, we\'re reading stories about a new leader in the South African ...of news headlines about Africa, sign up for Africa.com's Top 10 newsletter and make ...
www.africa.com/.../blog,this_week_africa_com8242s_top_10,...
South Africa News: China: South Africa's latest role model ...
South Africa News: Is China's state-capitalism South Africa's economic role model? Why some economists say South African politicians have chosen the ...
www.globalpost.com/.../china-south-africas-latest-role-model
  

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