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AFRICA News, Sep 12, 2011


Explosions rock Nigerian city beset by sectarian unrest
AFP
One person was reportedly wounded in the blasts -- the latest to hit Nigeria, Africa'smost populous country, in recent months. Plateau state government spokesman Pam Ayuba said they suspected a member of the Islamist sect Boko Haram had planted "two ...
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Latest Wikileaks Releases Give Zimbabweans Insights Into Political Parties
Voice of America
Africa Confidential newsletter publisher Patrick Smith says one effect of the Wikileaks releases in Zimbabwe will be to discourage senior officials from sharing their thinking with diplomats even when given assurances of confidentiality. ...
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Latest action from the Liverpool Cricket Competition's Premier Division
Liverpool Daily Post
South African Shaun Vosloo (69) helped set up a healthy score, as he shared an opening stand of 112 with Guy Edwards. John Wildman (4-49) and Nick Doggett (3-30) made life difficult for Hightown, but the Ocean View side posted a competitive 213 for ...
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Arab Spring hits tourism in the MENA region
Al-Bawaba
Tourism to the Middle East and North Africa declined sharply in the first half of the year, going against an international trend of growth in arrivals to record levels. But there are some signs of recovery in parts of the region, the UN World Tourism ...
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ANALYSIS-Suspicion greets China's Europe expansion
Reuters Africa
Just as China's first forays into investment in small African countries went largely unremarked on, so has its recent European expansion with infrastructure projects, company takeovers and sovereign debt purchases. Poetry-writing former government ...
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Nigerian property scammers move to Sydney after succeeding in Perth
SmartCompany.com.au
Successfully done twice in Perth, the latest attempt to sell a $1 million apartment has been thwarted before its scheduled auction. The apartment was listed without the knowledge of the landlord, its South African-dormiciled investor, who has since ...
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Great Weekend Reads
Daily Beast
That debut memoir described the Fullers' life as a white family in Africa when colonialism was in its last throes and being white was, at best, unfashionable and often dangerous. The Fullers persevered out of stubbornness, but more important out of an ...
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Daily Beast
How competition will drive future of telecoms industry
BusinessDay
Despite Nigeria 's saturated tele-density, many multinational telecom corporations still craved for space in Nigeria , West Africa 's leading market. The reason seems to be a notion in the global telecoms market that any operator with strong financial ...
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Back at the races
Sunday Business Post
When Henry Beeby signs off on the latest accounts for Goffs later this month, he will be drawing a line under a turbulent period in the bloodstock auctioneer's 145-year history. The booming economy brought a surge in sales of racehorses, ...
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Small Talk: Enterprise calls time on FTSE 250 listing
The Independent
The pubs group, once a member of the FTSE 100, was booted out of the FTSE 250 as part of thelatest index reshuffle, and will relinquish its mid-cap berth after the close this Friday, when the results of the review are implemented. ...
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Rwanda goods on local market up
East African Business Week
KIGALI, RWANDA- Rwanda's manufactured goods on the local market have increased, according torecent statistics at National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda(NISR). The latest publication on national statistics official website indicate that the index ...
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Science Weekly Podcast: Dava Sobel on Copernicus
The Guardian
This week Alok Jha meets the historian Dava Sobel, author of the worldwide best seller Longtitude to discuss her latest adventure into science history A More perfect Heaven, how Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. Alok and Dava discuss the ...
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Steve Reich
Sequenza21
Now that we've gotten the cover art discussion out of the way – and Nonesuch has acquiesced to the concerns of those who felt the artwork exploitative and inflammatory – let's consider the music on Steve Reich's latest recording. ...
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The legacy of 9/11
Baltimore Sun
In recent weeks, much has been written and broadcast about the shock and horror of that day and its lasting influence on public policy and even the national psyche. Such a commemoration is only natural, given the gravity of that day. ...
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Malaysia To Chair Third Committee Of United Nations On Tuesday
Bernama
Indeed, Hussein is also expected to meet the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, a prominent South African national who became the first woman to start a law practice in her home province Natal in 1967 when South Africa was run by ...
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Chrome Exports Ban Anti-Indigenisation [opinion]
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
We cannot hope to compete with China and South Africa in this global sector. Based on oral evidence presented by their senior management at a recent Parlia-entary Portfolio Committee on Mines hearing that I attended, by the time ZIMASCO and ZimAlloys ...
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PURVEYOR OF FRAUD
ChristianNewsToday.com
He ignores facts and disregards the latest findings by experts in the field of science while accusing others of “running from science.” It is Huntsman who is clearly “running from science” as he displays an Obama-Pelosi-Reid dictatorial style of ...
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Unease over devaluation of naira
NEXT
According to Yvonne Mhango, Sub-Saharan Africa economist at Renaissance Capital, the scenario does not display a true reflection of the country's earnings. “This implies that there are additional, unknown pressures on forex reserves, which explains why ...
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Ching Ching for food franchises in Zim
BusinessLIVE
Cash is proving to be king for fast food operator, Innscor Africa, which runs franchise outlets for Nando's, Chicken Inn and Steers counters mainly in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya and Ghana. Innscor Africa, a blue chip company on Zimbabwe's stock exchange, ...
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BusinessLIVE
EXCUSE ME: Federal Republic of Guaguako
NEXT
Preventable tragedies that have befallen Nigeria in recent times have no antecedents; they happen suddenly, what the Esan people call Guaguako. As a nation our rulers are usually stunned when these catastrophe strikes, because there are never warning ...
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Our Cup runneth over
ESPNScrum.com
Sadly, it was a familiar story as France found the extra gear to quell the uprising but the damage had been done and the latest IRB press release hailing the investment in the developing nations was surely being penned. "A highly-charged and dramatic ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including 'Abu Dhabis oil major spreads net to North Sea ...
Proactive Investors UK
Thirty-two% of people want government expenditure decreased, 34 believe it should be maintained at current levels, and 29% want it to go up, according to the latest GMF Transatlantic Trends survey. Ecclestones adviser quits: Stephen Mullens, ...
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Kombat Mine saga rages on - by Desie Heita
New Era
Central to the tussle is the ownership in the licence for the mine, which Grove Mining wants transferred to a South African holding company. The transfer of the licence, sources tell New Era, has been on ice for more than 10 months now as government ...
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France - Statements made by the Ministry of Foreign and European Spokesperson ...
ISRIA (registration)
While the famine in the Horn of Africa is worsening, France is continuing to mobilize its efforts. France announced on August 1 that it would triple its bilateral emergency assistance, increasing funding from the Ministry of Foreign and European ...
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Eto'o: Dagestan's latest celebrity
Hindustan Times
Former four-time African footballer of the year Eto'o signed a three-year multi-million euro deal with the ambitious club from war-torn Dagestan after being lured from Italian giants Inter Milan last month. Around 5000 people turned up to get a glimpse ...
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James R. Carroll | Americans and the world after 9/11
Louisville Courier-Journal
In truth, as recent polls outside this country show, the United States is a target of some of that anger and madness, for imagined and real policies. At the same time, the United States, as the only superpower, is looked to in many other places as the ...
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