Casamance conflict is unhealed sore for Senegal
ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (Reuters) - When he took office in 2000, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade promised to end decades of separatist rebellion in his country's southern Casamance region ...
View ArticleIndia face tough test vs South Africa
New Delhi: The Indian women's team will take on South Africa in the title clash of the Olympic hockey qualifiers at the Dhyan Chand Stadium on Saturday.They had entered the final on Friday ...
View ArticleGunmen kill 5 Muslim worshippers, attack prison in Nigeria
AFP photo Suspected Boko Haram Islamists in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Friday killed five Muslim worshippers in a mosque and attacked a prison and police station, officials said.Police ...
View ArticleUS to assist in rebuilding Tunisian economy
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged on Saturday that Washington would help Tunisia rebuild its economy and cement its democracy, as the cradle of the Arab Spring struggles with ...
View ArticleMugabe's birthday celebrated in Mutare
Thousands of people gathered at a stadium in Zimbabwe's eastern border town of Mutare on Saturday for celebrations to mark veteran President Robert Mugabe's 88th ...
View ArticleSenegal's Wade in the running for third term
Senegal's presidential candidates held their final rallies and protesters marched in the streets as a respected African statesperson shuttled between the opposition and the government to broker ...
View ArticleSouth Africa court set to hear Zimbabwe torture case
Human rights groups have filed a case at the South African High Court seeking to compel the authorities to investigate and prosecute Zimbabwean officials accused of ...
View ArticleWhy Kenya food prices may go up again
Prices of basic food items are headed for a new high as local markets respond to the effects of extreme weather and a yet to be identified maize disease that has hit parts of the Rift ...
View ArticleDeadly cyclone likely to hit Madagascar again
PHOTO/AFP/ ANDREEA CAMPEANU A woman looks at her collapsed home after the passage of Cyclone Giovanna, in a village near Brickaville, in eastern Madagascar, on February 16, 2012. The cyclone is ...
View ArticleBlame game over falling education standards
PHOTO | FILE Pupils in a Ghanaian school enjoy a meal. Teacher absenteeism, poverty and cultural impediments are being cited for an alarming dip in education standards in the West African ...
View ArticleTunisia conference will shed more blood
Free Syrian Army officers discuss future plans before attending a demonstration againts Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad regime in Kafar Taharim, north Syria, Friday, Feb. 24., 2012. (AP ...
View ArticleAB de Villiers hits a century to steer South Africa past New Zealand
South Africa after they had slumped to 17-2 and 35-3 in reply to New Zealand's moderate total of 253-9, and guided the visitors to victory with 28 balls to spare. The skipper scored his 106 ...
View ArticleNigeria bombers attempt prison break, kill two police
LAGOS (Reuters) - Gunmen set off bombs in an attempted prison break in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe late on Friday and then blew up the local police station, killing two policeman, the ...
View ArticleEU and illegal deals in Morocco
The report 'Conflict Tomatoes' (attached) reveals massive growth in the Moroccan agriculture industry in occupied Western Sahara and its trade to the EU. The report will be published on 14 ...
View ArticlePanicked Catholics Flee Violence In Northern Nigeria
(http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=24169)ABUJA, NIGERIA, January 26 (CNA) .- As many as 35,000 people have fled their homes in northern Nigeria after continuing attacks from the Islamic ...
View ArticleDisabled in Tanzania Draw Religions Together
UK-based Charity Seen as Prism for Global DynamicBy Edward PentinROME, JAN. 26, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Kakuru, age 22, greets you with a beaming smile as you enter his small mud hut in the remote Kagera ...
View ArticleStanding Her Ground in Uganda
Bishop of Kotido on Evangelization, Education and DevelopmentROME, JAN. 27, 2012 (Zenit.org).- The bishop of Kotido explains that his diocese is the poorest in the central African country of Uganda. ...
View ArticleBomb at Arabic school in adds to sectarian fears in Nigeria
Published Date: December 29, 2011 LAGOS: Attackers threw a bomb into an Arabic school in mainly Christian southern Nigeria, wounding six children and an adult, police said yesterday, after ...
View ArticlePolio returns to cripple Angola and its neighbours
"My parents took me to the hospital, but they couldn't do anything," she said. Afonso doesn't know the name of her disease because polio, the acute viral infection that can ...
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