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SOMALIA: Islamist insurgents assault Mogadishu airport Somali insurgents attacked Mogadishu airport on Thursday in the latest assault on the country's embattled government, which controls only parts of the capital city. At least seven people were killed. 09/10/2010 12:55 PM |
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NIGERIA: Suspected Islamic sect frees more than 700 in prison break Suspected members of a Nigerian Islamic sect known as Boko Haram have attacked a prison and freed more than 700 inmates, security officials said Wednesday. The sect, described as the Nigerian Taliban, launched an uprising against the state last year. 09/08/2010 10:34 PM |
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DR CONGO: UN admits failure to prevent Congo mass rapes More than 500 systematic rapes were committed in Congo since late July, the UN revealed on Tuesday, as a senior official admitted that the UN's peacekeeping force in the country, MONUSCO, had failed to protect civilians from the violence. 09/09/2010 02:23 AM |
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RWANDA: Ban Ki-moon in Kigali to calm UN war crimes report row UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon meets state officials in Kigali Wednesday amidst a row over a leaked UN report accusing Rwandan troops of massacring civilians in DR Congo in 1996-97. Rwanda is threatening to pull troops from peacekeeping missions. 09/08/2010 12:45 PM |
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RWANDA: President Kagame sworn in after landslide re-election Thousands of Rwandans and several African heads of state gathered in Kigali on Monday for the inauguration of President Paul Kagame (pictured), who won a landslide re-election last month after running virtually unopposed. 09/06/2010 03:48 PM |
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EGYPT: Facebook at centre of Egyptian political scandal Prospective Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei has blamed opponents for hacking his daughter’s Facebook page after images of her drinking alcohol and wearing a bikini sparked outrage. 09/08/2010 05:25 PM |
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Slovak tourists mistaken for coup plotters A group of Slovak citizens who were seized by the army in the Central African Republic (CAR) last week have been released, the authorities in Bratislava said Monday. The armed safari hunters had apparently been mistaken for coup plotters. 09/06/2010 06:50 PM |
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SOUTH AFRICA: ANC officials rush to end crippling state workers' strike South African government officials are scrambling to reach an agreement with labour unions to end a civil servants’ strike -- now in its third week -- that is adding strains on the ANC’s already shaky governing alliance. 09/02/2010 11:38 PM |
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MOZAMBIQUE: Govt confirms more deaths on second day of violent protests Mozambique's government has confirmed the deaths of seven people on the second day of violent protests against rising prices. Some 288 people have been injured in the clashes. 09/02/2010 09:55 PM |
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ON THE OBSERVERS: Bloody protests in Mozambique: "We can't deal with the inflation" Protests against the rising costs of food, fuel and water have turned ugly in Maputo. We spoke to an Observer in the capital of Mozambique, who brought us this account. 09/02/2010 10:46 PM |
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RWANDA: Rwanda threatens to withdraw peacekeepers from Darfur over UN report Rwanda has threatened to withdraw all its troops from UN peacekeeping missions, including some 3,000 soldiers in Darfur, if the world body releases a report on alleged Rwandan war crimes in Congo. 08/31/2010 10:05 PM |
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SOUTH AFRICA: Unions to vote on new govt offer of 7.5 percent wage hike State employees in South Africa will vote on Tuesday on the latest wage offer made by the government in an attempt to end a nearly three-week-long strike. The government has offered a 7.5 percent wage hike while the union demands 8.6 percent. 08/31/2010 01:05 PM |
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SOMALIA: Four Ugandan peacekeepers killed in fresh clashes Four Ugandan peacekeepers were killed in Mogadishu on Monday in a mortar attack by al Shabaab rebels. The attack comes as authorities in Somalia called for more international assistance to quell the insurgency. 08/30/2010 11:21 PM |
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Giant drill at Chile mine greeted with cheers Scores of flatbed trucks began unloading a huge oil drilling machine Friday to dig a third rescue tunnel to 33 trapped miners, as one drill was nearly one-third of the way down and another lay idle for repairs. The families of the trapped miners cheered and waved flags as they welcomed the first of 42 trucks that rolled in around 8:30 am (1230 GMT). "These trucks are enormous," marveled Maria, sister of trapped miner Dario Segovia. "We were up all night here in the camp waiting for them." 09/11/2010 04:56 AM |
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It's beside you! Pride before fall for blunder keeper It's been dubbed the craziest penalty in the history of football and has made an Internet hit out of a very embarrassed Moroccan goalkeeper. Khalid Askri thought he had saved a crucial spotkick in a Moroccan Cup game playing for FAR Rabat against Moghreb Fes on Thursday when he pushed the ball away and turned to soak up the adulation of his fans. However, as he saluted the crowd, the ball span back and rolled over the line into the empty net. The goal stood and Fes qualified for the quarter-finals. 09/11/2010 04:16 AM |
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IMF warns of debt menace as recovery slows High levels of national debt and a still shaky financial sector threaten to derail the global economic recovery, the IMF warned on Friday. Amid concerns about the health of European banks and of public finances in Europe, Japan, and the United States, the IMF warned that a stronger-than-expected recovery would now begin to slow. "Downside risks to the recovery have intensified. The combination of sovereign risk and a still weak financial sector in many advanced economies poses significant risks to the recovery," the IMF said. 09/11/2010 04:16 AM |
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NY Times partners with Betaworks on social news service The New York Times is teaming up with technology incubator Betaworks to create a personalized news service called News.me. "We're building something wonderful and amazing in the social news space," John Borthwick, chief executive of Betaworks, told the newspaper. Betaworks companies include TweetDeck, a popular program for using Twitter, and Bit.ly, a tool for shortening Web addresses or URLs. 09/11/2010 03:56 AM |
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Legendary TV pub landlady bows out One of Britain's best-loved television characters, pub landlady Peggy Mitchell, bowed out on Friday after 16 years at the heart of long-running BBC soap "EastEnders". Mitchell was played by 73-year-old actress Barbara Windsor, who found fame as a buxom blonde in the "Carry On" movies of the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1994 Windsor has played the loveable, no-nonsense landlady of the Queen Victoria boozer in the show, set in east London. Mitchell's catchphrase was screeching "Get out of my pub!" as another unwelcome customer got the boot. 09/11/2010 03:56 AM |