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Sunday Nov 29 | Independent Online

Mandelas turn on Sexwale

By Fiona Forde Madiba's daughters have decided to take on Tokyo Sexwale and Denis Sassou-Nguesso over the Congolese president's semi-autobiographical book and Nelson Mandela's disputed foreword to it.

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Related Topix: South Africa

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Nelson Mandela 'fake foreword' in Congo president's book were his words

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over its allegations of a bogus endorsement after it emerged that the words in the foreward to a book by the president of Congo-Brazzaville were, in fact, penned by the anti-apartheid leader.

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Related Topix: Mandela, Drama Movies, World News, Congo, Africa, South Africa

Sat Nov 14, 2009

BBC News

Congo Ninja leader dies, aged 76

A former leader of Congo's Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76. Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in the capital, Brazzaville.

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Related Topix: Congo, Africa, World News,

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Daily Trojan

Global watchdog oversteps bounds

There are a lot of theoretical arguments these days about how much power non-state actors can legitimately wield in a globalized world.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, Teodoro Obiang, Equatorial Guinea, Omar Bongo

Sun Nov 01, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Africa: Transparency International To Probe into Three African Heads of State

French Appeal Court in Paris yesterday rejected the demand of the Transparency International organization for leave to open a probe in France into the estates of three African heads of state.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, Teodoro Obiang, Equatorial Guinea, Omar Bongo, Gabon

Fri Oct 30, 2009

TIME.com

Nelson Mandela Foundation Tries to Protect Leader's Name

Nelson Mandela was still in jail when the first street was named after him. By the time he retired as President of South Africa, hundreds of streets, squares and schools bore his name, as did many more pop songs, books and movies.

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Related Topix: Mandela, Drama Movies, Invictus, Prison, World News, South Africa, Africa, Congo

Thu Oct 29, 2009

The Independent

Charlize Theron told: Hands off Mandela...

Nelson Mandela welcomes Charlize Theron as a heroine in Johannesburg after her Best Actress Oscar win in 2004 enlarge Neither presidents nor film stars are safe from moves to protect the image of Nelson Mandela.

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Related Topix: Mandela, Drama Movies, Charlize Theron, Hot Chicks, World News, South Africa, Africa, Congo

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Bizcommunity

Sorry for using Mandela for marketing

The publishers of the autobiography of Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso have apologised for using former president Nelson Mandela's name to endorse his book, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said.

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Related Topix: Mandela, Drama Movies, Marketing, World News, Congo, Africa, South Africa

Sun Oct 25, 2009

The Mercury

Sexwale fingered in Mandela book row

By Fiona Forde Tokyo Sexwale has emerged as the middle man who authorised the use of Nelson Mandela's words in the biography of the Congolese president.

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Related Topix: Mandela, Drama Movies

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Independent Online

Madiba-Congo spat erupts

By Karyn Maughan and Sibusiso Ngalwa Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is insisting on the retraction of a Nelson Mandela Foundation statement condemning his alleged "brazen abuse" of Mandela's name.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, South Africa

Tue Oct 20, 2009

WSYX

Mandela Foundation denies claim he wrote foreword

Nelson Mandela's foundation is denying that he wrote a foreword to an African leader's book.

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Related Topix: Congo, Africa, World News, Weather

Mon Oct 19, 2009

United Nations

Top UN humanitarian official to attend African refugee summit in Uganda

The top United Nations humanitarian official is leaving for Uganda today on a five-day visit during which he will attend an African Union summit on refugees and internally displaced persons and tour areas of the country where nearly 2 million people have been driven from their homes by decades of fighting with rebels.

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Related Topix: Congo, Africa, World News

Thu Oct 15, 2009

The West Australian

Congo Republic's Pool region plagued by attacks

Gunmen have stepped up banditry and rapes in Congo Republic's Pool region, witnesses and officials said on Thursday, in a wave of insecurity that has broken a period of relative calm after a decade of instability.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, South Africa

Sun Oct 11, 2009

Catholic.net

Rodolphe Adada's Address to Africa Synod

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 11, 2009 .- Here is a Vatican translation of the address given Friday afternoon by the specially invited guest Rodolphe Adada, the former joint special representative of the secretary-general of the United Nations and former president of the Commission of the African Union in Darfur, Sudan.

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Related Topix: World News, Sudan, Africa, Congo

Fri Oct 09, 2009

IRIN

CONGO: Post-election clampdown on opposition

A campaign poster for President Denis Sassou-Nguesso: Authorities in the country have restricted the movements of several opposition politicians who claim President Sassou-Nguesso's July re-election was won through fraud - file photo BRAZZAVILLE , 9 October 2009 - Authorities in the Republic of Congo have restricted the movements of several ...

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa,

BBC

Downturn grounds Congo ministers

Congo's president has stopped ministers and senior civil servants from going on foreign trips, to save money.

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Related Topix: Congo, Africa, World News

Thu Sep 24, 2009

Independent Online

Congo hopes to finalise SA land deal in 2009

By Claudia Parsons The Republic of Congo expects to finalise a multimillion hectare land deal with South African farmers by the end of this year, Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, South Africa, Agriculture, Science

Wed Sep 23, 2009

Walta Information Centre

Africans see positive signals at NY climate summit

Africa's negotiator in U.N. climate change talks said on Tuesday he was encouraged by the message coming from industrialized countries at a summit in New York aimed at breaking the deadlock before December.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, China, Asia, Hu Jintao

Sat Sep 19, 2009

Guardian Newspapers

Africa

Mugabe claims progress on unity deal, seeks foreign investment -170909 A DAY after vowing to work with one-time rival but now Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangarai, in unity after brushing off criticism, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe yesterday said the coalition government had made "satisfactory progress" in creating a conducive environment for ...

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, Africa, World News, Robert Mugabe

Thu Sep 17, 2009

Voice of America

Concerned Congolese Displeased With New Government

Citizens of the Republic of Congo have expressed disappointment after President Denis Sassou-Nguesso named his new government following his re-election. A long line forms at a polling station in Makelekele, a suburb of Brazzaville, 24 June 2007 The president abolished the prime minister's position and named 10 new ministers to join his government.

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Related Topix: Congo, Africa, World News,

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