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DEPUTY president William Ruto yesterday clarified that he is on "an official bilateral trip" to four African countries, as the Senate saw heated debate on the issue. Ruto denied claims he is on a shuttle diplomacy to gain support against the International Criminal Court where he and President Uhuru Kenyatta, together with radio journalist Joshua arap Sang are standing trial
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Harare - A lecturer at a government university in Zimbabwe has been jailed for three months for labelling veteran President Robert Mugabe "a rotten old donkey," in the latest such case, lawyers said on Saturday. Chenjerai Pamhiri, 38, a lecturer at Great Zimbabwe State University in Masvingo city, was convicted and jailed on Friday by a magistrate on Friday, Zimbabwe
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France will buy two medium-altitude Reaper drones from the United States air force to back up its operations against Islamists in Mali, the Air et Cosmos specialist magazine reported on Friday. It said on its online edition that an agreement had been reached for the purchase of two non-armed MQ-9 drones from the US air force. It said the French
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Lagos - A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced two officials from a pharmaceutical company to seven years in prison, over the sale of an adulterated teething drug that killed 84 babies in 2008. Children between 2 months and 7-years-old, died from renal failure after taking the painkiller, which was found to contain high levels of diethylene glycol, a poisonous solvent
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Lagos - A sweeping offensive against Boko Haram Islamists has left dozens of insurgents dead, the defence ministry spokesperson told AFP on Friday, as the military pressed on with air raids and ground assaults across three states. "Dozens of the insurgents have likely been killed," Brigadier General Chris Olukolade said, without offering a precise figure. He earlier told AFP that
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Harare - Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is poised to win the presidency in upcoming elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday his party championed a new constitution accepted in a March referendum. "We have a new constitution, we must definitely have a new government" to open
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Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists could face charges of crimes against humanity, the UN's human rights office warned on Friday, also urging the government to ensure civilians are not swept up in an army counter-offensive. "Members of Boko Haram and other groups and entities, if judged to have committed widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population - including on grounds
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Tuareg separatist rebels who held a chunk of Mali's vast north and still occupy the key town of Kidal are ready for talks to end the west African country's crisis, President Dioncounda Traore said on Friday. Traore, who met French counterpart Francois Hollande at the Elysee presidential palace, also pledged that elections would be held on July 28 to replace
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Kano - Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria's northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on an Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across the north. It was not clear who carried out the attack. Several gunmen were killed during a clash with police
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Addis Ababa — Despite comments by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn suggesting the pending withdrawal of his country's troops from Somalia, many experts have voiced doubts that Ethiopia will pull out of Somalia before it is capable of handling its security without assistance. "Ethiopia has a big interest in Somalia and will remain, keeping its eyes wide open there for
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The Moroccan authorities must immediately launch a full, independent and impartial investigation into allegations that six Sahrawi activists - including a child - were tortured in police custody in Western Sahara, Amnesty International said. On 15 May, 17-year old El Hussein Bah was jailed in Laayoune, Western Sahara, in spite of a previous decision to release him on bail. He
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Harare - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party on Friday unveil plans to win back foreign investors and clip the security services' wings if it wins upcoming elections, party officials said. The proposed government platform aims to remake the economy and trim the size of the security forces, while introducing new standards of professionalism. "We are in the last mile
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Tunis - The Tunisian government will decide by Saturday whether to allow or ban Salafists from holding their annual congress, the interior minister said on Friday rejecting "death threats" made by the radical Islamists. "The final decision will be taken today or tomorrow," Lotfi Ben Jeddou told Kalima radio. "The government will not be swayed by death threats," he added.
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Gaza - Egyptian policemen blocked the crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest against the kidnapping of Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, witnesses and sources said. Locals said police had placed barbed wire across the entrance to the border and closed the gates with chains, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded on both sides of the fence. Islamist
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Khartoum - Chad's air force targeted Sudanese rebels along the Darfur border after, a breakaway rebel leader reputedly backed by N'Djamena was killed, the insurgents charged on Thursday. Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) spokesperson Gibril Adam Bilal said Chad had bombed the frontier in North Darfur state's Tina district on Monday. "So far no, there are not any casualties from
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Bolgatanga — Over 120 women, drawn from various women's groups, movements and associations in Bolgatanga, have advocated the immediate passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law. The proposed Affirmative Action Bill final draft, which was validated in April this year in Koforidua, if passed into law, would ensure the Ghanaian government keeps to its promise of a 40% quota
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Maiduguri - Mobile phone service has been cut in areas of northeast Nigeria as the military sends more soldiers to the region to fight Islamic extremists. Soldiers raided areas in the Sambisa Game Reserve, a remote savannah of some 500km² in Borno state where Islamists have established bases, two security sources who asked not to be named said. They did
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Yola - Nigeria sent fighter jets in support of troops fighting increasingly powerful Islamist insurgents in its northeast on Thursday, the second day of a military offensive that has divided opinion over how best to tackle the rebellion. A Reuters reporter saw two Alpha jets land in the city of Yola, in Adamawa state, one of three over which President
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The Resources Governance Index of the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) has ranked Nigeria weak in its oil revenue. Report of the Institute for 2013 released yesterday in the United States said Nigeria's hydrocarbons sector is at a crossroads as a result of the current efforts to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill. The report ranked Nigeria 40 out of 58 countries
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Niamey - US military instructors in Niger will train African forces participating in a UN-backed offensive against al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in neighbouring Mali, senior military officers said on Thursday. The United States and several European nations have backed a French-led military intervention which since January 11 has driven militant insurgents out of the towns of northern Mali. Pockets of Islamist
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Mogadishu - A warlord in southern Somalia's Jubaland region has declared himself "president" of the region, leaders said on Thursday, shortly after the election of another militia commander to the post. With tensions already high, the move raised the risk of clashes between rival factions in the southern port city of Kismayo, a former stronghold of the al-Qaeada-linked Shabaab, where
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Cairo - Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Thursday summoned his defence and interior ministers over the kidnapping hours earlier of policemen and soldiers in the Sinai peninsula, the official MENA agency reported. The crisis talks at the presidential palace come after unidentified gunmen kidnapped three Egyptian policemen and four soldiers in the lawless Sinai peninsula, security officials said. The servicemen
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Following infighting in the National Union for Democratic Progress (NUDP), its political leader Nimba County Senior Senator Prince Y. Johnson has announced quitting the party he founded which won third place in the 2011 presidential and legislative elections. Sen. Johnson told a press conference Monday that he has quitted the party and would formally present his decision in a detailed
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Bamako - France's first lady Valerie Trierweiler arrived in Mali late on Wednesday for a tour of the war-torn nation described as "part of a mission for children and women". Upon arrival at Bamako airport the partner of President Francois Hollande said her presence was "a very good symbol" as her husband and the Malian leader attended a donors conference
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Ahead of the donors' conference for Mali in Belgium, Mali's interim leader President Dioncounda Traore says the country's presidential vote will take place on July 28. "I do believe it will be kept to the 28th of July, we will do everything for the presidential elections to start on that day," Traore said. He also confirmed that he will not
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