June 12, 2008
Zimbabwe: Police Hold Tsvangirai - Again
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Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was held by police for the third time in a week while campaigning for the June 27 presidential run-off election. Read more »
Liberia: Farm Workers Killed in Clash
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At least 13 farm workers are dead after a violent clash over a plot of farmland 55 kilometers south-east of the capital, Monrovia. Read more »
June 11, 2008
Sudan: Dozens Die In Airliner Fire
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A Sudanese airliner erupted into flames after landing in Khartoum late Tuesday night, killing dozens of people. Read more »
June 10, 2008
Africa: Soccer Fans See Comebacks, Surprises and Family Affairs
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The last two weekends of qualifiers for the next African Cup of Nations and World Cup 2010 tournaments were characterized by a number of themes: a North African comeback, the… Read more »
June 07, 2008
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Using Food as Political Tool, Says U.S.
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The American ambassador to Harare has lashed out at the Zimbabwean government, accusing it of using food as a political tool. Read more »
June 06, 2008
Zimbabwe: Opposition Leaders Gloomy on Run-off Election
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Zimbabwean opposition leaders have expressed deep pessimism over the potential of the June 27 presidential election run-off to end the country's political crisis. Read more »
June 05, 2008
Africa: Things Go Worse With Oppression, Says Coke [interview]
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Economies can grow in countries which do not meet Western standards for democracy, says Neville Isdell, the world-wide head of The Coca-Cola Company. But once they are growing,… Read more »
Liberia: Market Women Raise Funds in New York
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A group of newly-painted red and yellow buildings lines United Nations Drive in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city. The buildings provide shelter for dozens of market women who spend… Read more »
June 04, 2008
South Africa: Ugly Politics Aggravate Xenophobia [guest column]
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The attacks on migrants from elsewhere in Africa in South Africa recently are not simply a result of xenophobia. They are a product of ugly, debased politics in which mainstream… Read more »
Africa: Kenyan PM Attacks Continent's Leaders
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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga launched a slashing attack on Africa's leaders at the World Economic Forum for Africa on Wednesday. Read more »
June 03, 2008
South Africa: Leaders Deal With Bars to Nigerian Business
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Obstacles to Nigerians doing business in South Africa appear to have received as much attention in talks during President Umaru Yar'Adua's state visit to South Africa as recent… Read more »
Africa: Yar'Adua Explains Stand on Africom
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President Umaru Yar'Adua reiterated in South Africa Tuesday that he had asked the United States to give military assistance to groupings of African nations, but that he had… Read more »
June 02, 2008
Somalia: UN Security Council Pushes Peace Process
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The United Nations Security Council is beginning a 10-day, five-nation mission to Africa with a drive to support the Somali peace talks being held in neighbouring Djibouti. Read more »
Liberia: Soccer Fans Die at World Cup Match
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At least eight people died of suffocation caused by overcrowding at the stadium where Liberia faced the Gambia in a soccer match Sunday, according to published news reports in… Read more »
Liberia: Defense Attempts to Undermine Samuel Kargbo's Testimony [blog]
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The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org Read more »
May 30, 2008
Africa: Big or Small, Soccer Teams Race for World Cup
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More than 40 soccer teams from across Africa this weekend join the race for one of the prize slots in the 2010 World Cup and in the African Cup of Nations finals. Read more »
May 29, 2008
Sudan: Abyei Conflict Threatens to Escalate [guest column]
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Sudan could be sliding back into a national civil war. Read more »
Chad/Sudan: World Cup Qualifier Called Off
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This weekend's soccer World Cup qualifying match between Chad and Sudan has been called off, news agencies are reporting. Read more »
Africa: Soccer Teams Compete for 2010 Places
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Most of Africa's national soccer teams are heading for stadia around the continent this weekend, only four months after the Cup of Nations ended in Ghana with Egypt pocketing a… Read more »
May 28, 2008
Sudan: U.S. Candidates Urge End to Darfur Violence
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All three remaining United States presidential candidates have demanded that the "genocide and violence in Darfur be brought to an end" in an advertisement in Wednesday's… Read more »
Kenya: Top Community Organizer Empowers Youth [interview]
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Kenyan health care advocate, activist and academic Dr. Miriam K. Were is in Japan today to receive a major new prize established by the Japanese government, the Hideyo Noguchi… Read more »
May 27, 2008
South Africa: The Mathematics of Migration [blog]
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Unreliable and inflated statistics on the number of foreign nationals in South Africa have contributed to the growth of the xenophobia which has triggered violence against them,… Read more »
May 26, 2008
Africa: The Meaning of Africa Day [guest column]
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Oh, that sunset on the beach of Sali, south of Dakar… the peace and quiet of the mountains of Lesotho… the beat of Mozambican, Cape Verdean and Angolan music…… Read more »
South Africa: A Cape Town Suburb Copes With Refugees [blog]
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Violence or the threat of it has forced an estimated 20,000 migrants out of their homes to places of temporary shelter in Cape Town. AllAfrica intern Faatimah Hendricks blogs on… Read more »
May 25, 2008
Congo-Kinshasa: Belgium Arrests Former VP
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The former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Jean Pierre Bemba, was arrested on war crimes charges in Belgium Saturday. Read more »
