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Eritrea: Eritrea’s 20th Anniversary – Haunted By Perceptions or Reality?

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 12:05 pm

[RFI]Eritrea celebrates its 20th anniversary of independence on Friday with state-run media describing festivities across the country. But A...

Museveni removes army chief

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 12:04 pm

Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has removed his head of the military Aronda Nyakairima, and moved him to a civilian position as the minis...

head minister of international affairs president Uganda Yoweri Museveni

AU’s efforts to tackle problems ‘strained’

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 12:04 pm

The AU's efforts to tackle the continent's problems, especially conflict, are strained by a shortage of cash, poor organisation, lack of cap...

African Union

Eating naartjies in the bioscope: a little guide to South African English | Mind your language

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 12:01 pm

The vocabulary and grammar of spoken South African English are coated in a fine layer of Afrikaans dust. It's been there so long that most o...

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Mugabes under the spotlight – Zimbabwe’s first family filmed at home

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David Smith
May 24, 2013 12:00 pm

Soft-focus documentary catches Robert Mugabe over lunch with his wife and children, talking of love, family, politics and Tony BlairFlowers,...

Zimbabwe: June Election ‘Unlawful’ in Terms of New Constitution

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:04 am

[SW Radio]The new Constitution that was formally gazetted by Robert Mugabe on Wednesday makes his desired June election date technically unl...

Robert Mugabe SW Radio

Guinea: UN Envoy Initiates Meeting Between Govt, Opposition Leaders

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:04 am

[UN News]A United Nations envoy today convened a consultative meeting in the Guinean capital, Conakry, between the Prime Minister and opposi...

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Zimbabwe: Churches March for Peace

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:04 am

[The Herald]WORSHIPPERS from different churches yesterday held a peace awareness campaign in Mhondoro ahead of the country's watershed harmo...

Muzavazi Primary School The Herald Watyoka Clinic

Tunisia: ‘Salafist Movement Must Clearly State Its Position On Violence, Terrorism’ – PM

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:03 am

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Kasbah -Interim Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said the Salafist movement "must state clearly its position on violence an...

Ali Larayedh Interim Prime Minister Prime Minister Salafist

Zimbabwe: Key Allies Dump MDC-T

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:03 am

[The Herald]KEY allies snubbed MDC-T's national policy conference last Friday, scuttling party leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to form an ...

Morgan Tsvangirai party leader The Herald

Kenya: Kenyatta, Moi Seized 17 Percent of White Farms – TJRC

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:03 am

[The Star]PRESIDENT Jomo Kenyatta and his successor President Daniel arap Moi grabbed 17 percent of white owned land after independence, acc...

Kenya president RT The Star

Zimbabwe: Saints of Dictatorship Versus Prisoners of Defunct Legitimacy

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:03 am

[Pambazuka]The events of 2008 in Zimbabwe led to bloodshed and the present-day Government of National Unity. ZANU PF has exposed its cast-ir...

National Unity Zimbabwe

Egypt rulers woo former regime tycoons

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:02 am

Almost three years after an uprising fuelled by the old regime’s venality, Egypt’s cash-strapped Islamist government is making amends wi...

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Kenya wants Kenyatta case quashed

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:01 am

Kenya has had a chilly reception to its appeal to the UN to "terminate" ICC cases against the president and deputy president for planning an...

International Criminal Court Kenya president and deputy president for planning United Nations

Swazi albinos plead for protection

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:01 am

Swaziland's albinos have called on the government for protection ahead of elections expected later this year, fearing their body parts will ...

Swaziland

Darfur conflict ‘displaces 300,000′

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Africa News Cloud
May 24, 2013 9:00 am

Some 300,000 people have fled fighting in Sudan's Darfur region in the first five months of 2013, the UN's top aid official Valerie Amos war...

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Jim Luce: Prince Harry: From Polo in Connecticut to Orphans in Africa

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Jim Luce
May 24, 2013 3:03 am

Not often do I have the chance to meet with royals who care deeply about orphans. Unable to get out of meetings in Manhattan, I did the nex...

African leader says Int’l court designed to ‘humiliate’

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May 24, 2013 3:02 am

Salva Kiir spoke Thursday during a visit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces ICC charges related to Kenya's post-election violence...

International Criminal Court Kenya president Salva Kiir Uhuru Kenyatta

FAO Project Will Track S. Sudan Food Production

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Andrew Green
May 24, 2013 3:01 am

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Thursday launched a $9 million project aimed at helping South Sudan to better ...

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New Strife in Darfur Leaves Many Seeking Refuge

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May 24, 2013 3:01 am

A recent surge in fighting in Darfur has led to an unnerving increase in civilian upheaval, displacing nearly 300,000 people, according to t...

Darfur United Nations

Niger Hit by Two Suicide Attacks

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ADAM NOSSITER
May 24, 2013 3:00 am

The attacks on a military base and a uranium mine were the first in Niger, which has taken a leading role against jihadism in West Africa.&n...

Niger west Africa

World Briefing | Africa: Congo: U.N. Leader on Peace Mission

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 24, 2013 3:00 am

The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said Thursday that security must go hand in hand with development in the Democratic Repub...

Ban Ki-moon Democratic Republic of Congo Goma secretary-general United Nations

DRC has chance for peace – Ban

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Africa News Cloud
May 23, 2013 9:01 pm

Troubled eastern DRC has the best chance in years to secure a lasting peace but the United Nations stands ready to pacify the region by forc...

Ban Ki-moon secretary-general United Nations

Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned

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Gabe Joselow
May 23, 2013 9:00 pm

Two months ago, Kenyans elected a president and deputy president both facing charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC). While the...

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NIGER: Hostages taken in attack on Niger army barracks

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News Wires
May 23, 2013 3:04 pm

The al Qaeda-linked group MUJAO has claimed responsibility for coordinated suicide attacks in Niger on Thursday targeting an army barracks a...

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19 dead, hostages taken in Niger attacks

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Africa News Cloud
May 23, 2013 3:04 pm

Islamist militants have staged brazen twin car bomb attacks on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger, killing at least 19 peop...

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At Least 19 Soldiers Killed in Niger Attack

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VOA News
May 23, 2013 3:02 pm

Niger's government said at least 19 soldiers were killed Thursday in a gunbattle that followed twin bombings at a military base and a French...

Agadez car bomb attack government spokesman Niamey Niger Niger's government spokesman

Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria

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Heather Murdock
May 23, 2013 3:02 pm

Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency n...

Doctors Without Borders Nigeria

UN Chief Goes to Eastern DRC After Clashes

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VOA News
May 23, 2013 3:01 pm

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon flew into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday, just hours after a halt in fighting between rebels and g...

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South Africa: Clash of Booker titans

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Africa News Cloud
May 23, 2013 3:00 pm

With freedom of expression under threat in South Africa again, Anton Harber recalls an electric confrontation between two Booker prize winne...

Politics

Eritrea: Eritrea’s 20th Anniversary – Haunted By Perceptions or Reality?

Museveni removes army chief

AU’s efforts to tackle problems ‘strained’

Eating naartjies in the bioscope: a little guide to South African English | Mind your language

Mugabes under the spotlight – Zimbabwe’s first family filmed at home

Zimbabwe: June Election ‘Unlawful’ in Terms of New Constitution

Guinea: UN Envoy Initiates Meeting Between Govt, Opposition Leaders

Zimbabwe: Churches March for Peace

Tunisia: ‘Salafist Movement Must Clearly State Its Position On Violence, Terrorism’ – PM

Zimbabwe: Key Allies Dump MDC-T

Kenya: Kenyatta, Moi Seized 17 Percent of White Farms – TJRC

Zimbabwe: Saints of Dictatorship Versus Prisoners of Defunct Legitimacy

Egypt rulers woo former regime tycoons

Kenya wants Kenyatta case quashed

Swazi albinos plead for protection

Darfur conflict ‘displaces 300,000′

Jim Luce: Prince Harry: From Polo in Connecticut to Orphans in Africa

African leader says Int’l court designed to ‘humiliate’

FAO Project Will Track S. Sudan Food Production

New Strife in Darfur Leaves Many Seeking Refuge

Niger Hit by Two Suicide Attacks

World Briefing | Africa: Congo: U.N. Leader on Peace Mission

DRC has chance for peace – Ban

Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned

NIGER: Hostages taken in attack on Niger army barracks

19 dead, hostages taken in Niger attacks

At Least 19 Soldiers Killed in Niger Attack

Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria

UN Chief Goes to Eastern DRC After Clashes

South Africa: Clash of Booker titans

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