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AFRICA News, Sep 14, 2011


GCI ranking: Is sub-Saharan Africa's competitiveness improving?
BusinessDay
Africa has clearly weathered the global economic crisis better than many other parts of the world. Given Africa's recent impressive economic performance, the question of whether the growth can be expected to continue into the future remains. ...
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BusinessDay
Sasol Hones In On US Natural Gas As Road Fuel
NASDAQ
JO, SSL), a chemical company long known for squeezing motor fuel out of coal, is now turning its sights on the glut of natural gas in the US South Africa-based Sasol on Tuesday announced plans to build a plant, at a cost of as much as $10 billion, ...
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ShelterBox allocates more than $3.5 million to Horn of Africa relief
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The recent months have been busy for ShelterBox, with deployments to six countries involving dozens of ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) members. In the last few weeks, ShelterBox has deployed disaster assessment and response teams to six ...
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US durum prices down slightly but still strong
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide
“As we anticipated sales to the European Union are down, but more dramatically, we have no sales on the books to North Africa as of yet,” Peterson noted. In its latest projections which were released the end of August the International Grains Council ...
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The Volume Stays Up
New York Times
Maria Cornejo's prints looked as if something exploded in the kitchen; they were in fact digitalized blowups of Bolivian and African artifacts. Americans don't know when to quit, but that's not the problem here. Because all this intensity began a year ...
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New York Times
SA a target for cyber crime
The New Age Online
The recent surge of new banking Trojans continues to give us more things to worry about. The latestone, named Feodo, has been around for months but is probably considered to be a just variant of the more popular ZeuS and SpyEye malware. ...
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The myth of the 'China model' in Africa
Asia Times Online
From this perspective, the latest Western criticism may be off target. leave. And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism inAfrica." Asked whether China was a role model for ...
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South Africa's farmers struggle to cope with changing climate
Reuters AlertNet
Recent studies at the University of Cape Town predict that temperatures will increase over the whole of South Africa due to climate change. According to Peter Johnson, an applied climatologist with the university, January temperatures are expected to ...
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UN Security Council releases report on Integrated Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
Sierra Express Media
On the recent clashes between supporters of the two main political parties, Mr. Schulenburg, urged Sierra Leonean politicians not to forget what the country has achieved, build on those accomplishments, and conduct their affairs responsibly. ...
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Sierra Express Media
Why Odd Future's Tyler the Creator Is Hip Hop's Latest Renaissance Man
ARTINFO
Yet amid all this success, a question lingers: Will Earl Sweatshirt, a key member of the group curiously absent form recent appearances (and the son of South Africanpoet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile), come out of hiding to reap the fruits of the ...
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ARTINFO
MPs seek Cwele's version of spy drama
Business Day
Other reports linked the wrangle to the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, with youth league spokesman Floyd Shivambu saying individuals who had been identified as state security agents were interrogating members of his organisation in a ...
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New Yacoubian Poll Shows Wharton in Easy Win
Memphis Flyer
Ford gets double-digit ratings (and low ones, at that) only among African Americans and the group making between $10000 and $20000 annually. Yacoubian noted that his poll results were taken just before a recent rash of publicity regarding opponent ...
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Memphis Flyer
No South African recognition for Libya NTC ahead of African meeting
NOW LEBANON
The inclusive government should represent all of Libya's people, said Nkoana-Mashabane. SouthAfrica boycotted a recent conference on rebuilding the war-torn country in Paris, saying it was unhappy with how the UN agreement was implemented.
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Debt crisis: as it happened, September 13, 2011
Telegraph.co.uk
Visit the Telegraph Finance page for the latest on the eurozone debt crisis. We'll be back tomorrow. 22.10 The Financial Times is running a story on Angela Merkel on its front page tomorrow. "Merkel bid to stamp out Greece default talk," reads the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
TSX-V news: Digital Shelf Space, Majescor, Soho Resources, Xcite Energy ...
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
The latest NI 43-101 compliant estimate includes the most recent 31 drill holes completed during an 8524 metre definition drilling program. Investors welcomed the update, sending shares up over 6% to $1.65. Xcite Energy (LON:XEL, CVE:XEL) has announced ...
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South Africa: Department of Labour Employment Equity Directorate Will Be ...
AllAfrica.com
Oliphant said it was disturbing to note that while black people accounted for approximately 86 percent of employees covered in the latest reports analysed, they only accounted for 16,9 percent at Top management and 35,9 percent at the Senior Management ...
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Cocaine use in Australia on the rise: UN
NEWS.com.au
The rise in cocaine seizures in recent years indicates a potential expansion of the cocaine market in Australia, the report released yesterday says, detailing the latest year of published data. Cocaine use is at its highest level since 1993, ...
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Simple Steps Can Save Millions of Newborn Lives
Voice of America
The latest estimate is that more than three million babies die each year within the first month of life. A report says this is down from 4.6 million deaths in two thousand nine. Still, newborn babies represent about forty percent of all deaths in ...
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Live Q&A: 11 am ET
Washington Post (blog)
A new space for the Washington area's African-American community. Checkpoint Washington is produced by the national security staff of The Washington Post. By Greg Miller Al-Qaeda has been decimated by a barrage of US operations in recent months but ...
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$12bn power, water projects 'ongoing in ME'
Trade Arabia
The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2011 report, produced by the United Nations Environment Programme showed that investment growth in the Middle East and Africa last year was up 104 per cent, with developing countries overtaking the ...
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The 2011 Elections and the Advent of Vuvuzela Politics
Liberian Daily Observer
Similar or related scenarios have been played out elsewhere in West Africa. In Sierra Leone, President Tejan Kabbah witnessed his own Vice President beaten by Ernest Bai Koroma. Before Rawlings stepped aside for the opposition in 2000, Gen. ...
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Fool's Gold's Luke Top Talks Singing in Hebrew and Not Sounding Like Vampire ...
Dallas Observer (blog)
The band is notorious for incorporating and African flavor into their music and their second album Leave No Trace, which dropped on August 16, holds true to that style. But frontman Luke Top says the concept behind the album points in a totally new ...
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Dallas Observer (blog)
Palm oil, poverty, and conservation collide in Cameroon
Mongabay.com
Given recent trends of African governments leasing and selling large tracts of land to foreign companies and countries, there is a rising awareness of 'land grabbing' on the continent. Herakles Farm's 99-year lease means that the current government ...
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Mongabay.com
GWEN ANSELL: Jazz
Business Day
IF YOU enjoyed DeeDee Bridgewater's spellbinding sets at the Bassline during the Joy of Jazz, you may already have her most recent album, last year's Billie Holiday tribute, Eleanora Fagan (DDB/Universal), in your collection. ...
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4 Outsized Stocks From The Aussie Region
Seeking Alpha
The company was formed in 2001 in a merger between BHP of Australia and Billiton, which had its base in London and operations in South Africa. BHP is currently valued around $225 billion, with a price/earnings ratio of 9.6 (for the trailing twelve ...
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The War Over Land in Guatemala
Upside Down World
(IPS) - The violent eviction of 91 rural families in northern Guatemala was the latest incident in the ageold conflict over land in a country where the army is frequently called in to force peasant farmers off their land. "This has been the government ...
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