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Photos Top 5 African countries for a safari
SafariBookings.com , an online marketplace for African safari tours, conducted a two-year study, gathering reviews from more than 1,000 safari-goers, as well as hundreds from guidebook authors to crown the best safari country in Africa. Here are the top 5 and how they rated on a five-star ...
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Indiscriminate Shelling Kills UN Peacekeeper in Sudans Oil Region
A deadly shelling of the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM) interim headquarters in Kadugli, Sudan's Southern Kordofan state has killed one United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) peacekeeper from Ethiopia. Reports say the shelling was perpetrated by the elements of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N). The shelling also ...
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Terrorism in Tanzania – tourists scared
TANZANIA (eTN) - As more details about recent terror incidents in northern Tanzania's tourist city of Arusha are flowing through the media, the United States of America has issued a strongly-worded statement condemning the Saturday bombing at a public rally organized by the opposition Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo political party . The statement that was issued by the US Department of ...
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Africa Advocacy Groups Congo Experts Applaud Appointment of Feingold as Great Lakes Envoy
Washington, DC - Nineteen advocacy groups and Congo experts applaud U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his appointment of former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) as the new U.S. Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They congratulate Special Envoy Feingold in an open letter, and call on him to apply leverage and use incentives to focus ...
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Africa McCann Health Hosts Toyin Saraki and Other Dignitaries from UN Secretary Generals Every Woman Every Child Initiative at 2013 Cannes Lions Festival
McCann Health, partnering with Great Guns and Massive Music, is gearing up for the launch of Lions Health in 2014 by hosting meetings with dignitaries from the U.N. Secretary General's Every Woman Every Child effort and top global creative leaders this week at the 2013 Cannes Lions Creative Festival. The goal: to highlight the importance of bringing creative ideas and solutions to improve ...
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Africa Childerns Investment Fund Foundation Applauds G8 for Puttng Nutrition Compact on Global Agenda
London - The Children's Investment Fund Foundation applauds G8 leaders for putting the Global Nutrition for Growth Compact on the international agenda. Under-nutrition is the underlying cause of almost half of global child deaths, and reduces GNP by as much as 11 percent in Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia. A historic shift has taken place in recent weeks in which simple, ...
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ICC trials for Kenyas new leaders may shift partly back home
Newly elected president Uhuru Kenyatta and deputy president William Ruto were indicted by the ICC for 2007 election violence. Is Kenya ready to watch the hearings up ...
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Ghana to begin GMO Testing
Although the politicians in Ghana’s parliament have done their bit and have allowed Monsanto lobbyists and scientists influenced by this corporate giant to pass the Bio-Safety Bill in Ghana, that does not stop conscientious objectors from continuing to point out the gross error these politicians in parliament have ...
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Some Aid Programs in Sahel Prefer Cash to Food
DIOURBEL, SENEGAL -- Humanitarian agencies in Africa's Sahel region are struggling to deal with a cycle of chronic food crisis. Some are moving away from traditional food aid in favor of "cash for work" programs that pay villagers to work on community improvement projects. The U.S. government is considering shifting as much as 45 percent of its $1.4 billion of traditional food aid ...
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UN Says Libya Continues to Face Difficult Transition
NEW YORK -- A senior United Nations diplomat says Libya continues to face a difficult transition from the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, whose 42-year rule ended in ...
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Piracy in West Africa outstrips Somalia report says
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new report says piracy affected more ships and sailors off West Africa than off Somalia's coast last year.The report, drawing on data from the International Maritime Bureau, said nearly 1,000 seafarers and fishermen were attacked by pirates armed with guns or knives in the Gulf of Guinea. More than 200 people were taken hostage.The report said attacks on ...
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AB de Villiers says South Africa will be Trophy champions or chokers
AB de Villiers has it in his power to keep South African tears at bay at The Oval on Wednesday - unlike the last time his country met England in a global semi-final.In March 1992 an eight-year-old De Villiers could only watch television in Pretoria as his heroes got the rawest of deals in Sydney. South Africa returned following a 12-minute rain interruption to discover, having needed 22 runs ...
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West Africa has worlds worst piracy rate report
A ship of the Nigerian navy, taking part in a counter-piracy patrol on September 28, 2011. Wast Africa has overtaken Somalia as the world's piracy hot-spot with 966 sailors attacked last year, a report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on ...
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Egypt and Ethiopia try to roll back threats of war
CAIRO, Egypt Egypt's foreign minister is in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa today to diffuse a diplomatic standoff over access to the Nile River that had led President Mohamed Morsi to threaten his Ethiopian counterparts with the prospect of "war." Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr's visit comes a week after Ethiopia's parliament voted to strip Egypt of its right to ...
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Nigeria Year After Church Bombings Kaduna Struggles to Rebuild
ABUJA - Sectarian violence has plagued central Nigeria for decades and tens of thousands of people have been killed. Many mosques and churches are still rubble and in some cities the population has segregated itself out of fear. It is the first anniversary of triple church bombings that sparked sectarian riots in the central city of Kaduna. There is no roof on this mosque in Kaduna and no walls ...
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South Sudan Theft From S. Sudan Presidents Office Inside Job
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN - A spate of alleged thefts from the office of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir may have been an inside job, officials investigating how tens of thousands of dollars went missing from Kiir's office said Monday. Some $70,000 U.S. that was kept in the president's office to pay staff who do not have bank accounts, along with two laptops, went missing from Kiir's ...
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North Africa AQIM Reportedly Confirms Commanders Death in Mali
The militant group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is reported to have confirmed the death of one of its top commanders. The Mauritanian news agency ANI says it received a statement from the militant group, saying that Abdelhamid Abou Zeid was killed while fighting French and Chadian troops in northern Mali. The statement says other jihadists also were killed in the clash, including another ...
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Africa AU Says Africa Should Move Toward Prosperity
GENEVA - A top African Union official says Africa has everything it needs to move toward a prosperous future and to become a leading player in global affairs. AU Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says Africa has many hurdles to overcome, but she remains optimistic that the continent is up to the task. The African Union is celebrating its 50th anniversary. AU Commission Chairperson ...
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Africa UN - Dont Let Our Future Dry Up
Water covers most of our planet, but only about two and a half percent of it is freshwater. And of that small amount, U.N. experts say, "The total useable supply for ecosystems and humans is less than one percent." This year's World Day to Combat Desertification slogan is: Don't Let Our Future Dry Up. "Desertification, and particularly drought, is one of the major ...
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Refugees leave Nigeria for Niger Cameroon U.N. says
The United Nations said Tuesday an ongoing crisis in Nigeria has caused more than 6,000 refugees to flee to neighboring Niger and Cameroon. A statement from the United Nations said in recent weeks, "anti-insurgent operations and general insecurity" have uprooted thousands during a state of emergency declared in May in Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. "Crossings of ...
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African nations set negotiations on planned Nile dam
A controversial dam on the Nile River will be the subject of negotiations by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, foreign ministers of the countries announced Tuesday. The negotiations will deal with the political and technical aspects of dividing the river's waters between the countries, Egypt's Ahram Online reported. The $4.2 billion dam is planned by Ethiopia to power a hydroelectric plant. ...
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World Brief | Africa Six Men Sentenced for Attacking Sufi Shrine in Tunisia
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US House Wont Consider Immigration Bill Unless Republicans Back It
People shout out against the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act in the hall outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 18, ...
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US Agriculture Industry Opposes Changes to Food Aid Program
CAMBRIA, WISCONSIN -- The Food for Peace program costs about $1.5 billion annually and provides U.S.-grown food to countries in need. But President Barack Obama’s proposed 2014 budget includes changes to the 59-year-old program - replacing some commodity shipments with direct cash purchases in foreign countries. While some aid agencies welcome the proposed changes, farmers and millers in ...
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Iranians Observers Wonder How Rowhani Was Allowed to Win
W hen tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Hassan Rowhani's presidential victory last weekend, one chant stood out: "Dictator! Thank you!" In the back of their minds, the protesters must have been asking themselves the same thing surprised Iran observers are wondering: Why would Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the "dictator" who has ...
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Kenya leading the world on credit access
Kenya has been hailed by the World Bank as a world leader in financial innovation, revamping its financial services sector in such a way that access for the poor to micro-loans is made easier, providing the means to independence and future prosperity.
Proponents of micro-loans argue that they are a significant means of lifting the poor out of poverty and providing them with the means by which to develop financial independence. When one considers that Kenya has a population in which around 56% of people live below the poverty line, the government’s efforts to increase access to credit and financial services for the poor becomes poignant. Read more
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