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Africa Testimony By Assistant Administrator for Africa Earl Gast Before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee On Africa
Chairman Coons, Ranking Member Flake, and Members of the Subcommittee, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. I appreciate your continued interest in how U.S. policies and assistance programs can help Zimbabweans build a peaceful and stable democracy in which prosperity is available to all. I would also like to thank the Acting Assistant Secretary for Africa at ...
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Gambia FAO and AGIB Sign MOU to Improve Agriculture
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Arab Gambian Islamic Bank (AGIB) on Thursday,13th June,2013, at a ceremony held at the FAO office in Fajara, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support access to affordable and sustainable financial services to the agricultural sector, particularly for those in the rural area. In his statement at the signing ceremony, ...
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Africa Secretary Kerry At 10th Anniversary of Pepfar
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson June 18, 2013 REMARKS Secretary of State John Kerry At the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) 10th Anniversary Celebration June 18, 2013 Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, D.C. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very, very much everybody. What a pleasure to be here. This is a really great celebration. This is special. ...
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South Africa SA Cities to Get Own Domain Names
In the near future, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban may have their own top level domain names on the internet, which could spark innovative ways of promoting business and tourism in South Africa's main centres. The suffixes dotJoburg, dotCapetown and dotDurban will be launched later this year. General Manager of the ZA Domain Name Authority (Zadna), Vika Mpisane, said the suffixes are ...
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Africa Japan Boosts Financial Support for African Development
WASHINGTON, DC -- In June, Japan made a five-year commitment of $32 billion dollars in public and private funding to Africa. It will be used in areas prioritized as necessary for growth by the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (or TICAD). Japan's new pledge is nearly four times larger than its last commitment to the group. The plan of action is ambitious. ...
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South Africa SA to Test Fuel Cell Home Generator
The South African government is to provide investment funding to support field trials of a prototype methanol-fuelled "home generator" with the potential to provide economical electric power to remote rural African households. As part of its beneficiation strategy, and in a bid to extend the uses of platinum, the government will partner with Canadian company Ballard Power Systems and ...
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Pope Meets with President Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca of Cape Verde
Discuss Role of the Church in Education and HealthVATICAN CITY, June 04, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Yesterday, Pope Francis received President Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca of the Republic of Cape Verde in audience at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. President Fonseca then went on to meet with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, ...
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31 suspected terrorists killed in northern Nigeria
Nigeria's Joint Task Force in northeast Yobe State said on Sunday that it has killed 31 and arrested 10 suspected terrorists during a gun battle in Kandahar and Cemetery areas of Damaturu, the state capital. The announcement was made in a statement issued by spokesman Lt. Eli Lazarus in Damaturu, who added that a field commander of the terrorists was among the suspected Boko Haram members ...
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Italian fishing boats seized by Libya
Two Italian fishing vessels were detained and escorted to Benghazi by a Libyan motorboat that fired several shots, the mayor of the vessels' Sicilian home port said on Sunday. "The boats were approached by a Libyan vessel. They were obliged to sail to the port of Benghazi after arms were used," Nicolo Cristaldi, mayor of Mazara del Vallo in south-western Sicily said. He added ...
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Sudanese president announces opening of border with S. Sudan
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday announced opening of the border as well as the border land and river passages with South Sudan, directing for implementation of the cooperation agreement between the two countries, official Sudan Radio reported. Al-Bashir made the announcement at a meeting with Sudan's Ambassador to South Sudan Mutrif Siddiq, who is to head to Juba to assume his ...
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At least 17 killed in military plane crash in Sudan security source
KHARTOUM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 17 people were killed on Sunday when a Sudanese military plane crashed west of Omdurman city near the capital Khartoum, a security source said. "A Plane, Antonov, carrying 21 military personnel, crashed in Omdurman city, east of the Sudanese capital Khartoum," the security source told Xinhua anonymously. "So far there is no official ...
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12000 striking miners sacked in South Africa
The world's largest platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) on Friday said it had fired 12,000 striking miners. Amplats spokesperson Mpumi Sithole said the decision to sack those miners was made after repeatedly calling for the miners to resume work. Those dismissed miners failed to attend the disciplinary hearings instituted against them for embarking on illegal strike, said ...
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One killed 11 injured in Nigeria bomb blast
JALINGO, Nigeria, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's Federal Medical Center in central north Taraba State on Friday said one person was confirmed dead following a bomb blast at a drinking joint in Jalingo, the state capital, late on Thursday. The explosion occurred at Dorowa Ward off Barde Way in Jalingo at about 7:40 p.m., local time. Umaru Yakubu, a Medical Officer at the center told ...
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4 peacekeepers killed 8 wounded in Sudan UNAMID
Four peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured by gunmen in an ambush in Sudan's Darfur region, the United Nations-African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said Wednesday in a statement. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a UNAMID patrol late Tuesday about 2 km away from their base in El Geneina town, the capital of West Darfur State, according to the statement, a copy ...
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25 killed in Nigeria college attacks
Assailants have shot and stabbed to death at least 25 people, mostly students in the attacks near colleges in Nigeria's troubled northeast. Police say the attacks occurred between 10 p.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday at the Federal Poly-technic campus in the remote town of Mubi in Ada-mawa state. A spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency says the crisis is thought to have ...
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Death toll of minibus crash in Zimbabwe rises to 15
The death toll of a commuter omnibus crash in eastern Zimbabwean province of Manicaland has risen to 15 as two more passengers died in hospital, police said on Sunday. Nine died on the spot when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in collided head-on with a haulage truck along the Harare-Mutare highway, while four others were pronounced dead on admission at Rusape General Hospital. Two ...
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Severe floods displace more than 64000 people in Nigeria IFRC
Severe flooding in Nigeria has left at least 148 people dead and displaced more than 64,000 people in 18 of the country's 38 states, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Tuesday. IFRC said in a statement that it launched an emergency appeal on Tuesday for about 920,000 U.S. dollars to help people affected by the floods. An estimated 134,000 ...
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Grenade blast hits church in Kenyas capital
People stand on the roof of a building near the site of a grenade blast at St. Polycarp Church along Juja road in Nairobi, Kenya. Sept. 30, 2012. (Xinhua/Ding ...
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Arab League hails Sudan-South Sudan agreements
The Arab League General Assembly on Friday welcomed in a statement the agreements regarding security and cooperation reached between Sudan and South Sudan, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported. The pan-Arab group said it trusts the good intentions of the two neighbors will settle the pending issues between them, according to MENA. Also, the Arab League strongly called on the ...
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Ebola kills 20 in D.R. Congo WHO
GENEVA, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that 20 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been killed by Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) as of Sept. 24, with seven confirmed cases and 13 probable. A total of 19 confirmed and 32 probable cases have been reported as of Sept. 24, and another 28 suspected cases have been reported to date, according ...
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Anti-aircraft missiles stolen in Libya
The commander of a powerful Libyan militia said Monday that looters had stolen "a large number" of shoulder-fired, heat-seeking missiles from the militia's base when protesters who called for dismantling the country's militias overran the compound, The Washington Post reports from Benghazi. Ismail Salabi, the commander of Rafallah al-Sahati, a powerful Islamist militia in ...
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Sudan South Sudan leaders meet to solve pending issues
ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir Mayardit met here Sunday after months-old tensions, and they are expected to reach agreement to solve the outstanding disputes between the two countries. The two leaders met for nearly two hours to start their face-to-face talks to avoid any renewed conflicts between the two ...
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Libya dissolves militia forces
Libya's interim government on Sunday ordered the breakup of all militias that do not fall under its authority, and demanded that those militias pull out of military compounds and public property within 48 hours. President Mohammed el-Megaref said late Saturday all of the country's militias must come under government authority or disband. The order came in response to public anger at ...
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Muslims protest cartoon movie in northern Nigeria
Hundreds of Muslims in Nigeria's northern state of Katsina on Sunday protested against the U. S.-made movie and the French cartoon that denigrated the Prophet Mohammed. The protesters shouted anti-U. S., France and Israel slogans with a call on the international community to punish those behind the sacrilegious movie and cartoon. They condemned those using the media to attack Islam, ...
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At least 3 killed in suicide bomb attack at northern Nigeria Catholic Church
At least three people were killed and 22 others sustained serious injuries in an explosion which rocked a St. John's parish of the Catholic Church located in Wunti area of northern Nigeria's Bauchi State on Sunday, during a morning mass, rescue officials have said. Spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Yushau Shuaib confirmed the incident to Xinhua, but was ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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