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Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Rebel council seeks to transform Libya
Libya's rebels are a movement under siege and desperate for international recognition, assistance and a no-fly zone.
SA envoy 'guilty of hate speech'
South Africa's Equality Court finds the country's ambassador to Uganda guilty of hate speech for an anti-gay article he wrote before his appointment.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13603492
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Clinton visits Cairo's Tahrir Square, decries violence in Bahrain
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hails the "power of the human spirit" in a surprise visit to Cairo's Tahrir Square, a bright spot in a trip mostly focused on ominous developments elsewhere in the Middle East.
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Libya: Zuma Says Gaddafi Ready for Truce
Muammar Gaddafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, Jacob Zuma, the South African president, has said.
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Obama signals willingness to intervene militarily in Libya if crisis worsens
President Obama orders plans giving U.S. military "full capacity to act" in Libya if situation worsens but expresses several notes of caution.
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Ushahidi Strategy Meeting 2011
[Reposted from the Ushahidi Blog] Yesterday Ushahidi won the Kenya ICT Award for “Social Equity and Poverty Reduction“, which we’re extremely grateful for. None of us were able to attend the conference in Kenya due to the whole team being at our big annual meeting. The Ushahidi core team works from 7 different timezones ranging [...]
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Monday, 30 May 2011
Critics say Egypt getting crash course in constitutional confusion
With voting scheduled five weeks after the old regime was toppled, pundits and politicians have expressed deep concern that citizens are ill prepared to comprehend what proposed constitutional amendments mean.
Battle for Libya | May 28, 2011
NATO warplanes struck Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi?s compound in Tripoli on Saturday, as the new rebel administration warned it was fast running out of money because countries that promised financial aid have not come through.
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Egyptian Interior Ministry dissolves much hated state security agency
CAIRO - Egypt's interior minister on Tuesday dissolved the country's widely hated state security agency, which is accused in torture and other human rights abuses in the suppression of dissent against ousted Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30-year rule.
Obama administration seeks more U.N. authority to intervene in Libya
The Obama administration pressed Thursday for greater United Nations authority to confront Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's forces by land, air and sea, while insisting that Arab governments play a central role in any possible military action.
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Sunday, 29 May 2011
In Libya, Gaddafi's forces dig into populated areas
Opposition fighters cheered and flashed victory signs as allied jets streaked across the sky Monday over the strategic city of Ajdabiya,
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Angola
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On a Libyan field, allied airstrikes bring destruction and hope
Before attacks, civilians and rebels were frustrated by international community's lack of action.
Forgive and forget?
Will victims of Ivory Coast 'war crimes' ever see justice?
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13528781
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Egypt's leaders seek police force's speedy return to duty
CAIRO - Responding to public alarm over escalating lawlessness and sectarian violence, Egyptian political leaders urged police Thursday to return to the streets as soon as possible, saying their absence threatens to undermine the country's fledgling democracy.
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Saturday, 28 May 2011
Mobile Web Content in East Africa [Report]
Vodafone recently concluded a policy paper on “Broadband in Emerging Markets”, also titled “Making Broadband Accessible for All“. The position and reason for this paper is best summarized below. “The success story of mobiles in the developing world is well known. Yet in the case of extending data services in emerging markets, there is a [...]
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Gaddafi could turn to Libya's mustard gas stockpile, some officials fear
Western reconnaissance is focusing on a small garage at a remote site in the Libyan desert, though nothing untoward has been seen so far.
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Chad
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South Africa Exults Abroad but Frets at Home
South Africa has joined an elite group of emerging powers, but at home, it faces an erosion of confidence in the government.
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Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate
The exploits of a convicted swindler turned businessman have set off an animated conversation about the privileges of the black elite.
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Friday, 27 May 2011
Thinking 2020: The Future of Mobile in Africa
A few months back Rudy de Waele got in touch with Ken Banks and myself about helping to curate a collaborative outlook on the mobile industry in Africa, called “Mobile Trends Africa 2020“. Our task was to gather the mobile minds from across the continent and the world and ask them to vision out what [...]
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U.S. jet crashes in Libya, but pilots safe; Gates sees airstrikes slowing soon
Both members of a U.S. fighter jet crew were rescued in Libya after their F-15E Strike Eagle malfunctioned and crashed, the U.S. military said. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said "significant military fighting" in Libya "should recede in the next few days."
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Fire sweeps Egypt's Interior Ministry building as police protest outside to demand higher pay
CAIRO - An Egyptian security official says police protesting in front of Egypt's Interior Ministry have set fire to part of the downtown complex.
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Gaddafi's forces likely to push rebels back to Benghazi, analysts say
Analysts say uprising will be forced to retreat absent foreign intervention.
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Thursday, 26 May 2011
Egyptian voters say 'yes' to speedy elections
Constitutional amendments approved by wide margin in historic referendum.
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More pirates facing prosecution as attacks increase in violence; pirates jailed in 17 nations
NAIROBI, Kenya - Five Somali pirates are jailed for life by a U.S. court. Sixty-one suspected pirates captured at sea face trial in India. Somali prisons are running out of room.
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Obama concerned about Gaddafi's gains but says noose is tightening on Libyan leader
Obama administration edges closer to Libya's formal opposition but stops far short of recognizing the rebel transitional council as the legitimate government.
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Nigeria: 'Shekarau Bequeaths U.S.$209 Million Foreign Loans, Liabilities'
The transition committee constituted by the Kano State governor-elect, Dr Rabi'u Kwankwaso has expressed displeasure over the enormous liabilities and foreign loans the outgoing administration of Malam Ibrahim Shekarau will bequeath to the incoming government.
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011
China, after abstaining in U.N. vote, criticizes airstrikes on Gaddafi forces
China on Monday stepped up its criticism of the U.S.-led airstrikes against Libya, using the Communist Party's main media organs to say the military intervention undermines the United Nations charter.
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Businessman escapes Libya posing as Gaddafi loyalist
IN RAS JDIR, TUNISIA On the dusty road out of Libya, the flood of humanity has narrowed to a trickle, mostly carloads of Libyans doing cross-border trade or foreign laborers on foot, lugging cheap suitcases and overstuffed plastic bags toward a teeming tent camp.
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Ghana: Mills Supporters Confident of Party Re-Nomination
The Get Atta Mills Endorsed (GAME) campaign team has predicted that President Mills will win 95 percent of the total votes to be cast during the July 9 Congress of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105250124.html
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Uganda
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Liberia
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Two fighters, shoulder to shoulder, show the diversity of the Libyan rebel forces
One is a scruffy rabble-rouser, the other is a clean-shaven Islamist, but they are united in their fight against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
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More pirates facing prosecution as attacks increase in violence; pirates jailed in 17 nations
NAIROBI, Kenya - Five Somali pirates are jailed for life by a U.S. court. Sixty-one suspected pirates captured at sea face trial in India. Somali prisons are running out of room.
Obama praises Brazil as a model of democracy
With a crisis in Libya competing for his time, President Obama sticks to the agenda of his state tour of Brazil.
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Monday, 23 May 2011
Sola Odunfa: See no evil, speak no evil
How to experience a week of paradise in Nigeria
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13395300
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Ghana: Abolish Death Penalty, Urges Amnesty
Mr. Frank K. Doyi, the Growth and Activism Support Co-ordinator of the Ghana Branch of Amnesty International (AI) has urged the government of Ghana to do away with the Capital Punishment from the statute books of the country.
US Marshals: Woman accused in fatal Texas day care fire returns to US after capture in Nigeria
HOUSTON - Authorities say a woman accused of fleeing the country after a fire at her Texas day care facility killed four children has returned to the U.S. following her capture in Nigeria.
North Sudan Is Said to Have Taken Contested Town on South Border
Southerners voted in January to become independent on July 9, but the oil-producing Abyei region has emerged as an obstacle to a peaceful split.
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South Africans decry rapes of lesbians, call for government action
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Rights activists are speaking out against rapes targeting lesbians in South Africa.
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Sunday, 22 May 2011
On a Small Scale, Sustainable Energy Transforms Lives
Tiny renewable energy systems that light just one home at a time are playing an epic, transformative role in the lives of poor people in developing countries who live far the electricity grid.
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Sectarian clashes in Egypt challenge revolutionary idealism
With security still scant, violence in Cairo between Muslims and Christians raises the prospect of a deepening sectarian divide.
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In Libya, Gaddafi forces recapture strategic western town
ZAWIYAH, LIBYA - In the battle-scarred center of this small town, evidence abounds that the popular uprising here has been brutally crushed, in a bitter blow to the fast-fading hopes of rebels that they can succeed in toppling Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
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Saturday, 21 May 2011
Libya: African Leaders Seek a Political Solution to Impasse
The African Union has called an extraordinary summit to seek a political solution to the ongoing civil war in Libya.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210042.html
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Time to party
But can new Ivory Coast leader restore zoos and past glories?
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13457083
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In Tunisia, first steps toward democracy
Three months after launching the first in a series of revolts across the Arab world, Tunisians must figure out how to rule themselves.
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Somalia: The Transition Settles Into Drifting Conflict
From the last week of April through mid-May, the "transition" of Somalia's Transitional Federal Institutions (T.F.I.s) to a permanent constitutional order, which is supposed to take place by August, 2011 according to an international mandate, ground to a halt as the Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) and the Transitional Federal Parliament (T.F.P.) settled into a bitter power struggle over conflicting conceptions of how long and under what conditions their terms should be extended beyond August, and the Western "donor"-powers, which finance the T.F.I.s and attempt to exert influence on them through the United Nations, observed the fight from the sidelines after having failed in mid-April to control the "transition" and bring it to a conclusion.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210017.html
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Op-Ed Contributor : The Many Qaddafis
Over the 42 years of iron-fisted rule, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has taken on many roles.
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Stark contrast
Egypt disillusioned with Obama two years on
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-13466528
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Friday, 20 May 2011
Election fallout
Does South Africa's ANC still have people power?
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13475966
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Critics say Egypt getting crash course in constitutional confusion
With voting scheduled five weeks after the old regime was toppled, pundits and politicians have expressed deep concern that citizens are ill prepared to comprehend what proposed constitutional amendments mean.
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US Marshals: Woman accused in fatal Texas day care fire returns to US after capture in Nigeria
HOUSTON - Authorities say a woman accused of fleeing the country after a fire at her Texas day care facility killed four children has returned to the U.S. following her capture in Nigeria.
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Treasury officials freeze more assets as part of Libya sanction effort
Treasury Department officials on Tuesday ratcheted up the financial pressure on Libya, freezing the assets of the foreign minister and 16 state-owned entities in a widening of the three-week-old U.S. sanctions effort.
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Ghana: Konadu is Battle Ready for Mills
The foul atmosphere that has enveloped the campaign for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential primary is likely to continue all the way to Sunyani, where the final vote would be taken just before the end of the party's congress from July 8 to 10.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105200025.html
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Thursday, 19 May 2011
Gaddafi forces push deeper into rebel-held territory
The swift gains by Moammar Gaddafi's forces underscored their superior military capabilities against the ragtag rebel force.
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Obama visits Brazil with Libya on his mind
With a crisis in Libya competing for his time, President Obama stuck to the agenda of his state tour of Brazil, arriving Sunday morning in a once-notorious slum that Brazilian officials now hold up as a symbol of a rejuvenated country.
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Clinton, top US visitor since uprising, pressing Egypt's temporary leaders to stick to reform
CAIRO - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was pressing Egypt's transitional leaders Tuesday to follow through on pledges for democratic reform after the ouster of the country's longtime autocratic president in a popular revolt.
Doctors Go Far Afield to Battle Epidemics
A rise in programs sending doctors to some of the world?s poorest countries has met with an outpouring of enthusiasm from many recent graduates.
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Thinking 2020: The Future of Mobile in Africa
A few months back Rudy de Waele got in touch with Ken Banks and myself about helping to curate a collaborative outlook on the mobile industry in Africa, called “Mobile Trends Africa 2020“. Our task was to gather the mobile minds from across the continent and the world and ask them to vision out what [...]
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The Lede: Libyan Woman Describes Rape by Qaddafi Forces
Eman al-Obeidy, a Libyan woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel packed with foreign journalists in March to say that she had been raped by government forces, described her ordeal in an interview broadcast on Monday.
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Amid Libyan airstrikes, new rifts open in international coalition
Three days of heavy airstrikes have highlighted the murky nature of U.S. goals in Libya and opened up new rifts among key members of the international coalition involved in the effort.
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
VIDEO: Uganda unrest on Museveni's big day
Opposition supporters have clashed with police in the capital Kampala following the swearing-in of President Yoweri Museveni.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13385034
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Libyan rebels launch offensive; coalition continues pounding Gaddafi's forces
Despite the airstrikes, Gaddafi's forces were digging in outside Ajdabiya, which straddles highways that go north to Benghazi and east across the desert to Tobruk.
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Monday, 16 May 2011
The Lede: Qaddafi?s Visit Puzzles Journalists
Journalists staying at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, where the Libyan government hosts - or confines - the foreign press corps, are asking how Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi manged to hold a meeting at the hotel on Wednesday night without any of them noticing.
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Questions raised about U.S. role and goals in Libya
Administration officials and military leaders came under a barrage of questions - raised by members of Congress, outside experts and reporters - about the parameters of U.S. participation and the operation's goals, especially if Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi does not capitulate.
Critics say Egypt getting crash course in constitutional confusion
With voting scheduled five weeks after the old regime was toppled, pundits and politicians have expressed deep concern that citizens are ill prepared to comprehend what proposed constitutional amendments mean.
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Somaliland
An overview of Somaliland, including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media
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Sunday, 15 May 2011
The Google Global Cache hits Kenya
In January I wrote about the way the Google Global Cache is affecting Uganda – how local web caching is completely changing the internet user experience for that country. We’ve known for a couple weeks that this was underway in Kenya too. Well, here are some numbers on that. Here’s the aggregate month: We’re seeing [...]
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New York Times renews call for information on journalists missing in Libya
The New York Times says it is holding out hope that four of its journalists who went missing while covering the Libyan conflict are alive.
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Trouble brewing
Could Nuba mountain's beer-drinkers spark Sudan's next war?
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13351773
Sierra Leone: Promise of More Space for Women in Decision-Making
In Sierra Leone's highly patriarchal society, where institutionalised gender inequalities are exacerbated by discriminatory customs, one group is singing it's way towards changing this.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105140076.html
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Saturday, 14 May 2011
U.S., Europe considering naval operations to deliver humanitarian aid to Libya
The United States and its European allies are considering the use of naval assets to deliver humanitarian aid to Libya and to block arms shipments to the government of Moammar Gaddafi, even as they weigh the legality of imposing a no-fly zone without United Nations authorization, according to U.S...
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Friday, 13 May 2011
VIDEO: Tensions running high in Egypt
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen on tensions on the streets of Cairo following Egypt's revolution.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13356230
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Cicely Wolters: An unabashed advocate for the Peace Corps
FEDERAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK | A former Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua and now desk officer for Morocco and Jordan at headquarters in Washington, D.C., Cicely Wolters has watched as the Internet and cellphones have transformed the experiences of volunteers worldwide.
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Thursday, 12 May 2011
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Allies of Zimbabwe?s President Push for Quick Vote
With no credible successor to unite the quarrelsome factions that threaten to splinter the country?s ruling party, Zimbabwe hurtles into another violent political season.
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Nigeria: Farmer Tells How He Defeated Imo Speaker in Polls
Chief Luke Chukwu, an Imo State based farmer, said that he defeated the incumbent speaker of state house of assembly, Hon. Goodluck Opiah, because of what he did when he was chairman of the Ohaji/Egbema local government council.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105110218.html
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011
South Sudan's deadly cattle raids
At least 80 people have been killed in South Sudan after rebels attacked cattle camps, the southern army says.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13350791
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Obama administration prepares for possibility of new post-revolt Islamist regimes
The White House is acknowledging popular revolutions might bring a more religious cast to politics.
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Gates says U.S. military could enforce a no-fly zone in Libya if Obama ordered one
The comments appeared designed to counter the criticism surrounding his earlier remarks.
With Help From NATO, Libyan Rebels Gain Ground
NATO aircraft bombed Tripoli on Tuesday, as rebel breakthroughs elsewhere in Libya suggested strains on government forces.
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Communal conflict
Deadly Cairo clashes expose old enmities
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-13341900
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Sudan: Eritrean President Slams the Separation of Sudan Into Two States
The Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki criticized the split of Sudan into two states saying that it was a result of "political blunders".
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105091237.html
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Monday, 9 May 2011
Zimbabwe: Tension Over Cotton Prices
Tension in the cotton industry over the prices for seed cotton has reached boiling point with farmers expressing growing concern at being paid the minimum price of US$0,85 per kilogramme and doubting the promise by merchants to pay them top ups when the crop is graded.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105090480.html
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Allies of Zimbabwe?s President Push for Quick Vote
With no credible successor to unite the quarrelsome factions that threaten to splinter the country?s ruling party, Zimbabwe hurtles into another violent political season.
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Egypt: initial results show constitutional reforms passing, and unprecedented turnout
CAIRO - Partial results from a third of Egypt's provinces Sunday showed massive turnout and a vote overwhelmingly in favor of constitutional changes that eliminate restrictions on political rights and civil liberties.
Sunday, 8 May 2011
White House appears reluctant to take hard line with Arab monarchies
As Persian Gulf monarchs forcibly suppress street protests in the kingdom of Bahrain, the Obama adminstration has responded mostly with mild or muted objections - a sharp contrast from its demands for new governments in the republics of Egypt and Libya.
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Egypt's interior minister has dissolved of the country's hated state security agency
CAIRO - Egypt's interior minister has dissolved of the country's hated state security agency.
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Saturday, 7 May 2011
South Africa working to help Aristide return, says US should discuss any objections with Haiti
PRETORIA, South Africa - South Africa is helping ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide return to his homeland from exile in Pretoria, and any problems Washington has with that should be taken up with Haiti, the deputy foreign minister said Tuesday.
The Saturday Profile: Under Siege in War-Torn Somalia, a Doctor Holds Her Ground
Dr. Hawa Abdi helps nearly 100,000 people at her medical facility, persevering despite an attack by militants in May.
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Thinking About Africa?s Open Data
I love Afrographique, a site I just heard about today that does data visualizations on African data. It’s done by Ivan Colic, a South African designer, as a “small contribution to assist the changing perception of Africa…” What Ivan does is brilliantly delve into the data that’s freely open on the internet to show patterns [...]
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Gadhafi's government controls the skies by day; sundown brings rebels out in oil-rich east
TOBRUK, Libya - Moammar Gadhafi's warplanes, artillery and mortar shells can control huge swaths of territory by day, including oil ports, rebel supply routes and even hostile towns. Rebels say anti-government forces can still return in darkness to take advantage of Gadhafi's own thin supply lines a
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Friday, 6 May 2011
Amid Libyan airstrikes, new rifts open in international coalition
Three days of heavy airstrikes have highlighted the murky nature of U.S. goals in Libya and opened up new rifts among key members of the international coalition involved in the effort.
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Two fighters, shoulder to shoulder, show the diversity of the Libyan rebel forces
One is a scruffy rabble-rouser, the other is a clean-shaven Islamist, but they are united in their fight against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
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Thursday, 5 May 2011
Libya aid ship comes under fire
There is panic in the port of Misrata as pro-Gaddafi forces shell an aid ship embarking hundreds of fleeing migrant workers and badly injured people.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-13288168
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In Tunisia, first steps toward democracy
Three months after launching the first in a series of revolts across the Arab world, Tunisians must figure out how to rule themselves.
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011
The Battle for Libya | May 3
Colonel Qaddafi?s forces kept up their attack on the besieged city of Misurata, and a car bomb exploded in Benghazi.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=1baf054275158bb499c8c1303693882b
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US Marshals: Woman accused in fatal Texas day care fire returns to US after capture in Nigeria
HOUSTON - Authorities say a woman accused of fleeing the country after a fire at her Texas day care facility killed four children has returned to the U.S. following her capture in Nigeria.
Obama lauds Latin American democracies, defends Libya action during Chile visit
President Obama lauded Latin America's democracies in a speech here on Monday, casting them as example for countries around the world. Next, he heads to El Salvador.
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Libyan rebels' stronghold becomes ghostly war zone
Moammar Gaddafi's troops enter the eastern rebel stronghold, forcing thousands to pack their cars and flee in the direction of the Egyptian border.
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