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Africa Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Africa.

Results 1 - 20 of 151,015 in Africa

  1. Nigeria targets N118b global fund to tackle tuberculosis, malariaRead the original story

    5 min ago | Guardian Newspapers

    H AVING accessed N53.10 billion or $450 million of global funds in the past six years to fight Human Immuno-deficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , tuberculosis and malaria, Nigeria is now ...

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    Related Topix: Nigeria, World News, HIV/AIDS, Health

  2. EC: Mahan is safe, but Indonesian airlines remain bannedRead the original story

    5 min ago | Air Transport World

    Eighth edition of the European Commission's blacklist of banned airlines does not include Iran's Mahan Airlines, thanks to "significant efforts and progress accomplished by this carrier which were verified ...

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  3. Reps intervene, U.S. wants dialogue on Niger DeltaRead the original story

    5 min ago | Guardian Newspapers

    I N Nigeria and the United States , the Niger Delta crisis has continued to attract the attention of the two countries' leaders.

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    Related Topix: Nigeria, World News, Bauchi, Nigeria

  4. Additional early vaccination may reduce measles outbreaksRead the original story

    20 min ago | Huliq.com

    ... and there may well be a need to provide measles vaccination at an earlier age. A measles outbreak in Guinea-Bissau in Africa offered Professor Peter Aaby and colleagues a unique opportunity to assess the protective effect of earlier vaccination at ...

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    Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, World News, Guinea-Bissau

  5. TriNorth Capital Announces Investment Chevalier ResourcesRead the original story

    23 min ago | Huliq.com

    TriNorth Capital Inc. is pleased to announce it has made an investment of $2 million in Chevalier Resources Inc.. TriNorth purchased 4,000,000 shares in Chevalier at $0.50 per share as part of a private ...

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    Related Topix: Financial Services, Investment Services, Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, Congo

  6. Britain, Mugabe, Zimbabwe, AfricaRead the original story

    20 min ago | Guardian Newspapers

    I T is never too late to establish this moral position, even after 500 long years ... If indeed Brown's intention on his Zimbabwe "confrontation" is to embark on a British policy of amends in Africa, the ...

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    Related Topix: Umaru Yar'adua, Nigeria, World News, Onitsha, Nigeria, Opinion

  7. Lessons from Cote d'IvoireRead the original story

    20 min ago | Guardian Newspapers

    "I F they try it, I will personally carry a placard and march from Lagos to Abuja.

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    Related Topix: Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria, World News, Opinion

  8. Africa announces world's largest protected freshwater siteRead the original story

    23 min ago | Surfbirds News

    ... around the Lake Tumba region in the Central Western Basin of the DRC and contains the largest freshwater body in Africa, the second driest continent. Furthermore its rivers and lakes constitute a major sink for CO2. Wetlands provide water for ...

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    Related Topix: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News

  9. CPLP vows to promote Portuguese at ministerial meetingRead the original story

    25 min ago | Xinhuanet

    The 13th meeting of the Ministers' Council of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ended here Thursday with several resolutions aimed at promoting the Portuguese language around the world.

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    Related Topix: Guinea-Bissau, World News, Sao Tome and Principe, Southeast Asia, East Timor

  10. Zimbabwe rival parties formally start talksRead the original story

    30 min ago | Xinhuanet

    Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Changes formally started talks Thursday in South Africa's administrative capital Pretoria to seek an end to Zimbabwe's political ...

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    Related Topix: Gauteng, South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, World News, South Africa, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe), Harare, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe

  11. Business confidence is growing in ZimbabweRead the original story

    37 min ago | SABC News

    Business confidence is growing slowly in Zimbabwe after talks began in earnest in Pretoria between Zanu-PF and Movement for democratic Change representatives.

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    Related Topix: Zimbabwe, World News, Robert Mugabe

  12. ANC arms deal bombshellRead the original story

    38 min ago | Daily News

    In an explosive report by an ANC task team, President Thabo Mbeki has come under fire for his role in South Africa's controversial arms deal.

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    Related Topix: South Africa, World News

  13. 'ANC undoing own achievements'Read the original story

    40 min ago | Daily News

    Robert Mugabe, Julius Malema, the disbanding of the Scorpions and parliament's controversial proposed Expropriation Bill could all undo what the ANC government has achieved in the past 14 years, says former ...

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    Related Topix: Robert Mugabe, Cape Town, South Africa, Western Cape, South Africa, South Africa

  14. Arms deal probe falls wide of the targetRead the original story

    40 min ago | Daily News

    ... some former employees were involved in wrongdoing, but this had nothing to do with the sale of corvettes to South Africa," said prosecutor Arno Neukirchen on Wednesday, "and we have ended our investigation". The ANC committee was set up in the days ...

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    Related Topix: South Africa, World News

  15. Mbeki was never 'on the hook'Read the original story

    40 min ago | Daily News

    ... and defamatory, according to the Justice Department. "President Mbeki or any other individual or entity in South Africa were never mentioned in any of the correspondence between the German authorities and the department," it said in a statement on ...

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    Related Topix: Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, World News, South Africa, I.D., Industrial

  16. DA wants arms deal documentsRead the original story

    40 min ago | Daily News

    The Democratic Alliance has submitted two applications in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act to access all documents pertaining to the mutual legal assistance agreements between South Africa, ...

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    Related Topix: Democratic Alliance (South Africa), South Africa, World News

  17. What will come of new arms deal report?Read the original story

    41 min ago | Daily News

    ... d British law enforcement agencies are in-vestigating corruption related to their own companies' involvement in South Africa's arms deal. This article was originally published on page 3 of The Cape Argus on May 20, 2008 NEWSLETTER

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  18. Vietnam backs UN's continued role in CongoRead the original story

    43 min ago | VietNamNet

    The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo should be maintained at its current strength in order to fulfill its mandate, said a Vietnamese senior diplomat.

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    Related Topix: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News

  19. South Africa's ANC President Zuma Promises to Address PovertyRead the original story

    44 min ago | Voice of America

    The leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress party is pledging to address what he described as the perennial poverty problem in the country.

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    Related Topix: African National Congress (South Africa), Gauteng, South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, World News, South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, Public Relations

  20. Ghana Government Plans to Sell Telecom Company Generate ControversyRead the original story

    44 min ago | Voice of America

    President John Kufuor's government plan to sell telecommunications giant Ghana Telecom Company is generating intense debate after a pressure group vowed to oppose the sale at all cost.

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    Related Topix: Travel, Ghana, World News, Ghana Travel