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AFRICA News, Aug 29, 2011


China consumerism latest threat to Africa's
Reuters Africa
By Tom Kirkwood NAIROBI (Reuters) - China's fast-growing consumerism and lax policing of ivory laws are the latest threats to wild elephant populations, said an author of a recent report on endangered species. Poaching of elephants and other species ...
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Calls to raise Israel-Egypt treaty troop limits
The Associated Press
In recent years, tens of thousands of illegal African migrants have shown how easy it is to sneak into the country over the porous frontier with Egypt. Further evidence comes from the thriving weapons and goods-smuggling trade Palestinian militants ...
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The Associated Press
Hair, good for avoiding dates, exercise
Catholic Online
It's the topic of one of her latest crusades, to encourage women to exercise, in spite of their hair. Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin is urging women to stop using their hair as an excuse to avoid exercise. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) ...
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NHI could be a tax squeeze
Independent Online
The paper's analysis of the latest statistics from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the National Treasury for the 2009/10 tax year show that, at 34.3 percent, personal income tax is the biggest source of tax revenue for the government. ...
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Independent Online
Honda SA expands
iAfrica.com
Honda South Africa is expanding its commercial operations, and has commenced selling its products in the SADC region. As a result, the company, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, will become known as Honda Motor Southern Africa. ...
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Adidas Aims for 2012 Gold
Wall Street Journal
In 2010, the World Cup in South Africa helped Adidas to generate football-related sales in excess of €1.5 billion, up from €1.3 billion in 2008 and €1.2 billion in 2006, two other years with a European or World Cup. As for the Olympics, Mr. Hainer says ...
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Keke to grace Open Heavens Crusade
NewsDay
Emotions must be dealt with because we have our freedom and Africa has more than what it needs,รข€ he said in a recent interview. All in all, Keke has recorded three live DVD albums with thelatest called Holy of Holies. Keke is a presenter on etv, ...
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New airport for Rwanda under review
eTurboNews
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN | Aug 28, 2011 (eTN) - Plans for a new international airport outside Kigali in Bugesera, Rwanda, are being reviewed, with the latest studies revealing a staggering cost of at least US$600 million. This figure is likely to rise ...
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Conditions are right to set up Base in Kenya
The West Australian (blog)
The latest theory doing the rounds concerns a string of recent mop-up deals, where miners that already own a stake in another company have taken advantage of sharemarket doldrums to mop up the shares they don't already own. ...
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Urdu, mysticism and Japanese scholars
DAWN.com
By Rauf Parekh | From the Newspaper LAST week was not particularly a very pleasant one for Karachi and Karachiites as the fallout of the recent disturbances in the city continued in one way or the other. However, some Japanese scholars and their ...
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Develop me: Indigenisation: Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
NewsDay
The recent threats to banks and mines have become as syndromatic as an institution faced with a drought of ideas. Economic empowerment and perhaps economic development has been reduced to mean one thing — taking and harvesting where one never sowed. ...
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Global reach of extremism
The Australian (blog)
The audacious suicide bombing of UN offices in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, demonstrates al-Qa'ida's stepped-up activities in Africa. Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic movement responsible for the bombing, is akin to the Taliban. ...
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Somaliland: the defenseless democracy
Asian Tribune
However, for the last 10 years or so, these groups watched each other's back and have been shoulder to shoulder with themselves in aggression and destabilization in the entire Horn of Africa to prevent people from utilization of their natural resources ...
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A Reply to David Duke's Post-Zionist White Pride Utopia By Rev Ted Pike
Al-Jazeerah.info
Speaking of expatriation of blacks to Africa, you say, "It is only the Jewish power over media and government that literally keeps this peaceful and popular (though logistically difficult) solution to the race problem from occurring. ...
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Reprisal Violence As Libyan Rebels Gain Control
NPR
Guest host John Ydstie discusses the latest news from Libya with NPR's Jason Beaubien. JOHN YDSTIE, host: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm John Ydstie. Rebels in Libya say they've completely liberated the capital, Tripoli. ...
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Stock market expected to make 'big move'
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
The index recomposition was the result of the latest review covering trading activity from July 2010 to June 2011. "With the revisions in calculating our index, we hope to boost liquidity which is one of the stock market's biggest challenges. ...
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Steep reduction in global trade levels
CPI Financial
Capgemini Consulting's figures from the latest edition of its Global Trade Flow Index have revealed a significant decline in global trade flows. Driven largely by the impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the resulting effect on trade with ...
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CPI Financial
Gadhafi Forces Suspected of Mass Murder of Prisoners
The Epoch Times
The mass grave in Gargur is the latest discovered in recent days that Gadhafi forces are also suspected to be responsible for, the rights group said. On Friday, 18 bodies were discovered near the Internal Security building in a dry riverbed. ...
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Paralympics 2012: Tim Hollingsworth, the man in charge of the Games
The Guardian
To that end, the latest Paralympics GB simulation camp in Bath has in recent weeks been attempting to prepare British athletes – who will number a record 300 in 2012 – for the unique experience awaiting them next summer. But if 2008 represented a step ...
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The Guardian
Farrow Draws Attention To Plight Of African Refugees
NPR
In recent weeks, high-profile international visitors have paraded through the dusty camps. The latestis actress and activist Mia Farrow. She's a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and traveled to Dadaab, ...
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John Bellamy Foster: 'Capitalism is unable to respond to climate change'
Green Left Weekly
The United States with and without NATO is involved in one war after another in the Middle East and North Africa, in what is seen as an attempt to “stabilise” access to strategic resources and secure key geopolitical regions for capitalism. ...
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Green Left Weekly
MDC: The Implosion that might come sooner
Bulawayo24
This is where Zimbabwe is a bit different, and balks the dominant African experience. Zimbabwe has compendiously had its own Chiluba, Mwanawasa and potentially a moderate and reconnecting Banda, without sacrificing its own Kaunda. ...
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Summary of the American and International Press on the Libyan Revolution ...
Tripoli Post
The African Union's Peace and Security Council issued a communique that urged the "formation of an inclusive transitional government." Al Qathafi, who served as chairman of the organisation in 2009, has strong ties to some of its members, ...
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Safety of UN Nigeria HQ in question after bombing
CBS News
Friday's attack was the first suicide attack targeting foreigners by Boko Haram, a group which has reported links to African terror groups al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and al-Shabab of Somalia. The sect wants to implement a strict version of Shariah ...
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Faroole” Al shabaab Wakhtigooda wuu dhamaaday” | Gedoonline
By wararka
Faroole ayaa sheegay in Al shabaab ay dhibaatooyin xooggan ku hayaan guud ahaanba umadda Soomaaliyeed isla markaana xilligan dhibkoodii soo dhamaaday kadib markii uu soo kala dhexgalay khilaaf xooggan. Gedoonline News ... UN News Centre - Africa ); Security Council and Ban condemn deadly attack on UN compound in Nigeria ( UN News Centre - Africa ); Brown Calls for Increased Humanitarian and Refugee Assistance ( THE FRIDAY BULLETIN » LATEST NEWS ...
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AfriMoney.com | Somalia: PM, Puntland Leader Meet in Garowe Town
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Africa's latest financial, business and commerce news. Headlines · Latest News · Banking/Insurance... of regional administration. Article by AllAfrica NewsLatest (c) AllAfrica NewsLatest - Read full story here. Filed Under: Latest News ...
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Idols South Africa · Home News Video. Latest News. more · News: Joan Ramagoshi Rates Lloyd Cele Miss SA 2003 Joan Ramagoshi features on Mzansi ...
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Latest African Music News | Black Africa
The season ends with the 2009 Tony winning. ... Latest African Music News ... 35th anniversary of Ensemble, the Southwest's oldest African-American theatre. ...
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