Tunisia Sets Presidential Poll Date
08/07/2014Voter registration in Tunisia is underway as politicians scramble to increase participation in the legislative and presidential elections slated for later this.
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Senegal Names New Prime Minister
08/07/2014Mohamed Dionne, a close aide to Senegal’s president who once worked for the United Nations, was named the country’s new prime minister.
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Nigeria’s National Conference Proposes More States
05/07/2014The National Conference on Thursday adopted a recommendation of its Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government for the creation of.
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Speculation Grows on Zambia Leadership
05/07/2014Despite President Michael Sata’s allegedly poor health, his son Mulenga Sata is making an ambitious run at the presidency to become the.
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AU to Grant Immunity to Sitting Leaders
03/07/2014The decision by the Assembly of the African Union (AU) to grant sitting African leaders immunity from prosecution for genocide, war crimes.
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Johannesburg Aims to Be Africa’s Greenest City
27/06/2014Johannesburg — Southern Africa’s biggest metropolis has big plans to become one of the continent’s greenest cities. With Addis Ababa, Cairo and.
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China launches $2 billion African Development Fund
26/06/2014The Government of China recently launched a $2 billion African Development Fund to be invested through the African Development Bank. This marks.
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ECOWAS URGED MEMBERS TO DOUBLE EFFORT AGAINST TERRORISM
26/06/2014The Chairman of ECOWAS Council of Ministers and Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mrs. Hanna Tetteh has called on.
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World Leaders Criticize Egypt Over Journalists’ Jailing
24/06/2014United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed deep concern over a string of recent court.
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U.S. Releases $575 million Suspended Funds to Egypt
24/06/2014The U.S. government has reportedly released about U.S.$575 million of suspended funds to Egypt. The Americans ‘froze’ some of the annual military aid.
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