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AFRICA News, Sep 11, 2011


Dozens Die, Many Missing, After Ferry Sinks Off Zanzibar
International Business Times (press release)
Dozens of people have drowned off the coast of Zanzibar in East Africa when an overcrowded ferry sank. According to latest reports, at least 163 people have died and many more are missing. The boat was carrying at least 600 people when it sank. ...
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International Business Times (press release)
Chiefs' blunder gives cup to Pirates
AFP
For a long time it seemed like only penalties would separate the clubs in the latestepisode of a leading African football rivalry with clearcut chances rare in a game dominated by midfielders. The opening half was a huge let-down with poor passing, ...
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AFP
UK selling snipers to Gaddafi just weeks before uprising began
Telegraph.co.uk
Last February Britain blocked a £37 million sale of helicopters, armoured cars and machine guns brokered by Unionlet to the small African state of Swaziland, fearing the weapons could end up in Iran. The latest revelations come two days before the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Qatar moves to reach food sustainability
Kuwait Times
KUWAIT: Many Gulf countries have been investing in foreign farmland, mainly in fertile Africa, to serve as their bread basket. But Qatar has recently announced that it was going to boost its own food security and start investing in a master plan to ...
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Fresh central Nigeria attacks kill 15
Frontier Post
NIGER (Agencies): Fresh overnight attacks killed at least 15 people in central Nigeria, the latest in a wave of recent killings in an area beset by sectarian violence, a local government official said Saturday.”Fifteen people were killed … in Vwang ...
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A beacon among its contemporaries
Boston Globe
The sleek waterfront building that opened in 2006, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is only thelatest. But its appearance signaled new ambition on the part of an institution that, though it had much in its past to boast about, ...
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Heavy trucks fuel natural gas shift
Calgary Herald
An abundance of cheap natural gas has industry players the continent over clamouring to advertise the fuel's use for anything from power generation and home heating to the latest craze - transportation. Espousing the virtues of the cleaner-burning fuel ...
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Cheetahs can wait
Daily Pioneer
In such a scenario, the Centre's plan to bring six to 12 cheetahs from Africa or Iran or both, to the Palpur Kuno sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh by early 2012 has triggered disbelief among wildlife experts such as Belinda Wright, who question the ...
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Terror threat clouds start of 9/11 ceremonies
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
The group will put special emphasis on counterterrorism in the Sahel and Horn regions of Africa, which include hotspots such as Somalia and Sudan. The United Nations also marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on Friday, with UN General ...
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Saving the Soul of America: The Eisenhower, Jefferson, King Debate
The International News Magazine
Nobel Lecture, 12/ 11/1964 It will(To establish that balance within politics we must) look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no ...
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Americans and the world after 9/11
Louisville Courier-Journal
Al Qaeda is not yet dead, but its aspirations are being vanquished vividly in the streets of the Middle East and North Africa. The people in Tunis and Cairo and Tripoli have not been risking their lives in the name of tyranny, repression and crimes ...
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Decade After 9/11, Al-Qaeda in Shambles
Onislam.net
Al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen (known as Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP) and northAfrica (known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) are seen as the best-organized franchises of bin Laden's original network. Somalia-based Al-Shabaab, ...
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Founding Principles Remains Relevant 50 Years On, Secretary-General Tells ...
IEWY News
Early action and cooperation between the United Nations, the African Union and Sudanese authorities from Khartoum and Juba allowed for the successful organization of the recent referendum in South Sudan, leading to that country's independence. ...
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Sahara Surreal: a billion new sand-grains a minute
The National
Working with a band of Tuareg fixers, Dudouit has managed to get into the rarely seen interior of north Africa, revealing a merciless way of life on which the deepest desert's inhabitants subsist. "I'd heard a few rumours about these wreckages in the ...
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The National
The big problem that India urgently needs to address
Equitymaster.com
The latest to catch his attention is called 'Operation Twist'! Now before you let your imaginations run wild let us assure you that the term refers to twisting of nothing else but interest rates. Agree that the interest rates in the US are already near ...
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A recent report by CBRE has revealed that more than 60 per cent of multinational companies already have a base in the Emirates, highlighting how significant Dubai's position as a gateway between Asia, Africa and Europe has become. ...
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