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Out of Africa
Leadership Magazine
However, North Africa, with its current social upheavals, is not part of that picture. And, SouthAfrica, as the continent's biggest economy, should ask itself why it has also not been invited to the party. In June the World Bank, releasing its latest ...
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South Africa: Malema's game
Tehran Times
After his latest outburst, calling for regime change in Botswana, which he said was “a foot stool of imperialism, a security threat to Africa and always under constant puppetry of the United States,” ANC leaders called again for him to be disciplined, ...
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Blacks Bearing Brunt of Economic Woes
Black Voice News
According to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment figures for the nation are at 9.1 percent. Those numbers for African American are 15.9 percent – figures that are double the 8.1 percent for white Americans. ...
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Equity Research on Tesoro Corporation and Sunoco Inc. - Oil and Gas Refiners ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Register with us today at www.stockcall.com/ to have free access to these researches. Oil and gas refiners have not been immune to the latest global economic slowdown. Investors' fears of weakening demand sent the industry downward as a whole last week ...
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Govt moves to earlier HIV treatment
Plus News
While the government has not released details of these costings, previous research by Boston University assistant professor Gesine Meyer-Rath found the move would add about 13 percent to the cost of treatment in South Africa. A more recent study ...
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Inside Kenya's Overflowing Refugee Camps
The Nation.
The TFG—the latest attempt at a central Somali government and the current beneficiary of international support in southern and central Somalia apart from African Union forces—is proving to be no exception. It is intractably dysfunctional; ...
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The case of the Matiba family business
Business Daily Africa
This school was established in 1974 with the lofty ambition of being Africa's Eton. I know from the personal testimony of a friend who taught in the school that even though it was a high cost school, it was a great place to work and offers great value ...
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Business Daily Africa
'Get ready for the fight,' Gaddafi tells loyalists as rebels advance on key towns
The Independent
But the message could not quell rumours – unsubstantiated – that South African aircraft had arrived in Tripoli to spirit away Gaddafi and his retenue. The putative progress in Gharyan was not the only sign that the tide could be turning against the ...
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Menthol Cigarette Debate Rages On
Consumer Affairs
Their study finds that menthol cigarettes are associated with decreased quitting in the United States, and that this effect is more pronounced for African-Americans and Puerto Ricans. , are being released as the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ...
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TAKE A LOOK-Special Reports from Reuters
Reuters Africa
Click through for recent Reuters Special Reports, which look beyond spot news to the issues, themes and undercurrents shaping markets, industries, economies and societies. LATESTREPORTS > How Indonesia crippled rainforest project r.reuters.com/web33s) ...
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In Midst of Sever Drought in East Africa, Puntland Governor Slaughters ...
SomalilandPress
But never before did his thuggish behavior shocked the region as much as his latest barbaric onslaught against unarmed Somaliland officials near the town of Taleh, in Sool province, of Somaliland, sent shockwaves throughout Somaliland. ...
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“One of a kind”
California Catholic Daily
Today we report on the latest developments in the situation at St. Joseph the Worker parish in Berkeley – our third story on the subject. It is just one example of the kind of reporting our readers have come to expect from California Catholic Daily, ...
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California Catholic Daily
A mixed bag of musical masterworks designed to please
Bangkok Post
Trippin' The Light Fantastic (Buzzin' Records, UK, 2009) is the band's latest album. Based around the dhol drumming of Buzz Singh and brother Ron's keyboards, most of the songs are likely to get you up and moving. There's a Bhangra'n'drum'n'bass feel ...
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Bangkok Post
Young Champions Ready to Move, With No Baggage
New York Times
Keep up with the latest news on The Times's golf blog. There is an exception to prove the rule about the four major championship winners this season. And, yes, the exception is Darren Clarke, the 42-year-old Ulsterman who won the British Open last ...
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Movie Stars
Boston Globe
(88 min., R) (Wesley Morris) Final Destination 5 In the horror franchise's latest installment, a busload of office workers cheat death, temporarily, when they ditch their ride moments before a bridge collapse. The 3-D effects are mostly underwhelming, ...
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Cameroon: Men detained for 'homosexuality'
StarAfrica.com
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, August 15, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Cameroonian authorities must immediately release two young men due to stand trial on 18 August on charges of homosexuality and repeal the discriminatory law used to imprison ...
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Twenty Percent of All Mammals at Risk of Extinction
Discovery News
Two species of antelopes in desert regions of North Africa are additionally in dire conservation status now: the Dama Gazelle and the Addax. Only a few hundred of each antelope are left, due to non-stop hunting. "Large size has often been linked to ...
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Rewinding firm receives SABS permit
Mmegi Online
FRANCISTOWN: A rewinding company in Francistown, Yorkdon Electrical, has attained a SouthAfrica Bureau of Standards (SABS) product certification mark. Yorkdon Electrical Managing Director Philippe Rivet said that the recent audit and acquisition of ...
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Tea Party Tar Babies
Huffington Post (blog)
This "tar baby" epithet is just the latest in an intermittent string of racialized stunts, deployed in dog-whistle fashion -- usually by folks on the right, to inject culturally divisive sentiments into an already vitriolic public discourse. Rep. ...
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For investors: does dollar have a future?
«Market Leader» - news and previews making you rich.
Maybe in 10-15 years Chinese Renminbi yuan will receive world recognition, but this will only happen in 10-15 years' time; • currencies of Brazil, Russia, and South Africa, which are currently striving to become regional currencies, ...
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ADR Report: Shares Higher As Deal-Making Helps Lift Sentiment
Wall Street Journal
HK), China's biggest chip foundry by capacity, Monday said Chief Operating Officer Simon Yang has resigned, in the latest of a series of management changes that have rattled the company. Shares fell 3.7% to $2.32. The recent sell-off in shares of ...
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Zawahiri's First 100 Days
Daily Beast
This is the latest in a dozen messages released so far this year by al Qaeda's As Sahab (In the Clouds) media forum and featuring the Egyptian terror leader. Already he has more than tripled his production of messages from his pace in 2010, ...
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Daily Beast
Foxman: Wrong on Sharia, Too
American Thinker (blog)
Abraham Foxman's latest uninformed rant, "Shout down the Sharia myth makers," re-affirms his nonpareil status as the most blindly agenda-driven organizational Jewish "leader." The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)'s Foxman sprays defamatory charges ...
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FACT CHECK: Perry exaggerates statistics on oil imports, federal debt
iWatch News
Perry did not identify the "nations that intend us harm," but in March we looked at a similar claim by Sarah Palin and found that from 2008 to 2010 net imports from the Middle East were down 24 percent. Those from Africa dropped 8 percent. ...
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Gold Exposure Through Country ETFs
Seeking Alpha
The largest net producers, meanwhile, are Australia, South Africa and Russia. I hold a neutral view of Australia as it has experienced accelerating inflation recently and its equities no longer look cheap compared to the stocks of other developed ...
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Press digest
Times of Malta
... and adding to the problems of famine and drought in the horn of Africa. In its latest report, the bank says that although average food prices were slightly below their recent peak in February, they were still 33 per cent higher than a year ago. ...
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Rockestra: 'Come, have fun and support a great cause'
Malta Independent Online
Last year, he was the projection consultant for the closing ceremony of the football World Cup in South Africa, while another of his most recent major events included the projections for the Queen's jubilee celebrations at Buckingham Palace. ...
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'Apes' Dominate Box Office For Second Week In A Row
Examiner.com
The Help, which explores the lives of African-American maids during the Civil Rights era through the eyes of a young white woman (Emma Stone) who had the wherewithal to stand up to racism when no one else did, had an extremely strong showing in its ...
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Smaller cars scale the US market
Financial Times
In the latest sign of European car culture crossing the Atlantic, GM confirmed last month that it would bring a diesel version of the Cruze, a vehicle developed initially for parts of Africa, Asia and Europe, to North America in 2013. ...
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Financial Times
Digital and social media marketing for the film industry
Bizcommunity.com
At the recent FilMart convention hosted in Durban, one of the main topics of discussion was how to incorporate the new digital face of marketing into our national film industry. The future looks bright for South African cinema through a lens of digital ...
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Sierra Leone takes on Malawi at soccer benefit event.
Cocorioko
The event will be commentated live on the field by Voice of America's radio host of “African Beat” David Vandy. Music will be provide by one of the top DJs in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area and event organizers while still maintaining their veil...
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Cocorioko
Do you back Dave or Ed over riots?
Silver Surfer Today
Our cod comes from Icelandic waters, our sardines from Portuguese and our Tuna from East Africanwaters. And we fish in them all. Nothing to do with call me Dave and Ed the Red but factual none the less. Btw to those who have yet another dig at the ...
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Somalia: Devastating Photos
LIFE.com
... along with the recent people-powered uprisings in the Middle East. His latest work -- documenting the famine wreaking havoc in Mogadishu -- can be seen in the stunning pictures ahead. Pictured: Ugandan troops, part of the 9000-strong African Union ...
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National HIV Prevention Conference – Highlights of Day 1
AIDS.gov blog (blog)
More than 3000 public health, medical and AIDS community leaders are gathered here to share thelatest research and discuss innovative strategies to drive down the number of new HIV infections in the United States. The meeting, organized by the Centers ...
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What's holding up Astros sale?
FOXSports.com
About $900000 went to back pay and damages for African-Americans, Hispanics and females employed by Eagle between Dec. 1, 1995, and Dec. 30, 2000, and job applicants who sought employment at that time. Crane is not unfamiliar to baseball — he ...
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Emotion and Valuation
Seeking Alpha
Right now the media and investors are forecasting doom and gloom after the most recent two weeks. At Behavioral Finance Investment Advisors, we believe the recency effect is to partly blame for thelatest market correction. Investors believe that the ...
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With Eye To Arab Spring, CSTO Strengthens Cyber, Military Powers
EurasiaNet
“Many new goals have appeared in light of recent world events, including those in the Arab states and in North Africa,” the Belarusian leader pointed out. “We have agreed that our countries will work out measures to fight potential threats, ...
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Whose bag is this?
Egyptian Gazette
Asmaa's mission is part of a big campaign launched by a local charitable organisation to help poor families in the African northern country, where poverty has reached a new high, according to World Bank statistics. In Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn ...
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South Africa's municipal workers on wage strike
NewsDay
JOHANNESBURG — At least 145 000 South African municipal (Samwu) workers were to walk off the job yesterday in a strike aimed at shutting down services including garbage collection, in thelatest dispute to disrupt Africa's biggest economy. ...
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Nationalist And Concession Agreements; Uplift Liberia From Poverty
Perspective (press release)
In Africa, Libya didn't only have a low rate of unemployment, but the country imported, as many as 2.5 million migrants, making it one of the biggest importers of labor in the region. (Hannah Gurman, FPIF, March 23, 2011). ...
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David's Goliath Task
Pitchcare (press release)
At the age of fifteen, Jason Hunter was already running his own landscaping business back in his native South Africa, whilst still at school. "I lived on a six acre property in Port Elizabeth, and the work I did on the grounds saw me gain a runners-up ...
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MTN's Joyous Celebration makes a comeback at Bloemfontein's Vista Arena
Media Update
The audience can also marvel at the versatility of MTN Joyous Celebration as they sing songs of praise in most of South Africa's official languages. The choir is known for its live performances. “As MTN Joyous Celebration, we have always had an ...
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Media Update
Corporate News
Arab News
This will further consolidate our numero uno position in the Gulf retail sector and help us spread our wings to other nearby countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. More than AED1.5 billion are being invested this year into these new projects ...
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If Israel Fails to Extend Sovereignty to Yesha...
Arutz Sheva
[1] Just as the Allies after World War I at San Remo gave the mandate over the Land of Israel to Great Britain, so did the Union of South Africa receive a similar mandate over Southwest Africa. Unlike the British, South Africa refused to give up the ...
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AfriMoney.com | Eritrea: Exemplary Village Health Representatives ...
By AllAfrica News: Latest
August 16, 2011 By AllAfrica NewsLatest. A total of 50 exemplary village health representatives in 22 administrative areas have received bicycle for their commendable contribution in endeavors to control malaria and other communicable diseases. Article by AllAfrica News: ... African Union Kwame Nkrumah Scientific awards. D/L 15 September.Arthur B. Schultz Foundation grants aimed at non-profit groups involved in women's empowerment and disabled mobility … [Read More...] ...
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Sheekh Shariif oo Burundi ka dalbaday ciidamo dheeraad ah | Gedoonline
By wararka
August 16, 2011 | Filed under: Latest News | Posted by: wararka. Bujunbuura-(GMN) Madaxweynaha dowladda KMG ah ee Somalia Shariif Sheekh Axmed ayaa dowladda dalka Burundi ka dalbaday ciidamo dheeraad ah kuwaasi oo xoojin doona ciidamada ...
Gedoonline
Terrestrial Network Broadband in Africa Adds 50000 km
In the twelve months since July 2010, an additional 45498-km of terrestrial fibre optic network has entered service across Africa, according to the latest additions to the Africa Telecom Transmission Map.
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Humanitarian news and analysis on relief, development, social, economic and political affairs, by the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) of the ...
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