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  • November 22
  • East African East Africa: Ugandans, Kenyans Work as 'Mercenaries' in Iraq

    Thousands of Ugandans and Kenyans are working in Iraq and Afghanistan as contractors for US-based security companies.

  • IPS Africa: Women Assess Continent's Progress Since Beijing

    The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources and decision-making power.

  • Arusha Times Tanzania: Drought Devastates Maasai Communities

    The drought spell that has hit most parts of Arusha and Manyara regions for about two consecutive years is tearing apart the Maasai social fabric and driving youths in large numbers to seek employment or beg for food in urban areas.

  • Shabelle Somalia: Islamist Fighters Take Over Control of a Town

    The Islamist fighters of Jubba regions under the management of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen have taken over the control of Af-madow town in Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia, just as there is no fighting continuing there in southern Somalia, officials told Shabelle radio on Sunday.

  • Nation Africa: Agriculture Ignored in World Climate Talks, Say Experts

    More than 60 prominent agricultural scientists and leaders have decried the almost total absence of agriculture in the climate talks, warning that the climate deal to be reached next month could lead to widespread famine and food shortages in the years ahead.

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  • Namibian Namibia: Why We Must Vote [editorial]

    NEXT week Namibians will go to the polls in the Presidential and National Assembly elections. While voting is not compulsory in this country, it is nevertheless important that our people turn out in high numbers to exercise this right.

  • New Times Rwanda: Genocide Survivors Threaten to Cut Ties With Tribunal

    The president of Ibuka, an umbrella body of Genocide survivors' associations, has threatened to cease cooperation with the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for what the group described as "unfair judgment" in two cases where top Genocide suspects were acquitted.

  • BuaNews Sudan: South Africans to Train Police

    The South African Police Service has signed a R55 million agreement with the Norwegian embassy to support a police-training project in Sudan.

  • Argus South Africa: It Takes Fancy Footwork to Do the Diski

    Diski dance, a sequence of moves based on soccer tricks, is the official World Cup dance - and the city is out to set a world record for the most people doing it at the same time at the launch of the Cape Town Summer Festival this weekend.

  • November 21
  • Citizen East Africa: Presidents Sign Common Market Pact

    Heads of State of the five East African Community partners yesterday signed the protocol on the establishment of the East African Common Market.

  • This Day Nigeria: Swiss Authorities Convict Abacha's Son of Graft

    Swiss authorities yesterday convicted Abba, one of the sons of the late military dictator, General Sani Abacha, for graft and ordered $350 million worth of assets to be seized from him.

  • Nation Kenya: Will Politicians Block New Constitution Again? [analysis]

    The draft constitution cobbled together by the Committee of Experts is now public. But the question is if it will ultimately be the graveyard for Kenyan politicians. Will the politicians, as usual, derail the country's quest for a new constitution and consequently a reconstituted state?

  • Accra Mail Chad: Cambodian Troops Bolster UN Force

    The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia.

  • New Times Rwanda: UN Calls for Action Against Militia

    The United Nations has welcomed the recent arrest in Germany of top leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), and urged other nations to follow suit.

  • New Vision Uganda: More LRA Rebels Surrender in DR Congo

    A total of 34 rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have surrendered to the UPDF intelligence squad in Faradje in eastern Congo Nzara, according to military sources.

  • Leadership Nigeria: Tribunal Orders Arrest of Anti-Corruption Leader

    The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) yesterday ordered the police to arrest former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and detain him in their custody.

  • Namibian Namibia: Elections Reveal Worst-Case Scenario About Tribalism And Race [opinion]

    FIFTEEN political parties will contest the forthcoming Presidential and National Assembly elections. Of these fifteen, the overwhelming majority of them can't claim to have a constituency that is broadly a reflection of the diversity of our Republic.

  • U.S. Congress Somalia: Abusive Behavior in Puntland [press release]

    In late October, the Puntland government arrested five men of Ogadeni origin.  These men came to Puntland using Somali travel documents provided by Somali authorities in Yemen.

  • New Times Africa: Cup of Nations Draw Made in Angola

    ANGOLA versus Mali will be the opening game of the tournament. Group A will be based in Luanda, Group B will be in Cabinda in the north of the country, Group C will play in Benguela, and Group D will be based in Lubango.

  • Global Witness Equatorial Guinea: Secret Documents Reveal Multi-million Dollar Shopping Spree by Dictator's Son [press release]

    Confidential U.S. government documents uncovered by campaign group Global Witness and reported on in today's New York Times, strongly suggest that Teodorin Obiang, son of the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, purchased a $33 million private jet, a $35 million Malibu mansion, speedboats and a fleet of fast cars using corruptly acquired funds.

  • November 20
  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Party in Turmoil Over Internal Struggle

    ZANU PF's main wing led by retired army commander Solomon Mujuru has crushed a rival faction headed by Emmerson Mnangagwa, leaving the party in turmoil.

  • CISA Uganda: Christians Condemn Anti-Gay Bill

    Global opposition is growing to the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" recently proposed in Uganda, which would introduce the death penalty for homosexual activity.

  • IRIN Congo-Kinshasa: New Wave of Refugees Flees Fresh Fighting

    Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials.

  • Leadership Africa: Top World Food Official Laments Lack of Summit Targets

    The three-day United Nations summit on world food security was recently wrapped up in Rome with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.

  • This Day Nigeria: Budget Deadlock Grips Legislature

    President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was making frantic efforts last night to resolve the supremacy battle between the Senate and the House of Representatives as fears of a prolonged dispute on the passage of the 2010 budget gripped the Presidency.




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