Category: Africa News
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Oil-rich Delta poses first big test for Nigeria’s new leader
By Obbina Anyadike PORT HARCOURT, (IRIN) – An early test for Nigerian president-elect Muhammadu Buhari is how his incoming administration will handle the volatile oil revenue-generating Delta, where former militia commanders pledged their support to Goodluck Jonathan, their clansman, who was emphatically beaten in the 28 March presidential election. The former Ijaw militants, all now…
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Barotse ex-prisoner speaks out
By Staff Reporter A former Zambian Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), public prosecutor Mr.Muleta Kalaluka from Mungu, has denounced the appointment of Inonge Wina, Zambia’s Vice President as a demise. “Inonge Wina her blood, is in Barotseland if she spits saliva on the floor whether she spits that saliva in state house for Northern Rhodesia, that…
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What you need to know about DRR
NAIROBI, (IRIN) – A new global plan to prepare for future natural and climate-linked disasters agreed in Sendai, Japan today has been condemned by development agencies as lacking in ambition and short-changing poorer countries that are most at risk. The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction agreed a framework for the next 15 years that…
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Zim cultural group to tour Namibia
By Burzil Dube A ZIMBABWEAN cultural dance group based in Hwange called Pezhuba Pachena will during the Easter Holidays embark on a tour of Namibia and Botswana as part of efforts to promote traditional music and dance beyond the country’s borders. In a recent interview with Caprivi Vision, the group’s artistic director,Mr Luckmore Munzambwa said…
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Nigeria’s north sanguine after elections postponed
MAIDUGURI, (IRIN) – Nigerian civil society is in uproar over the pressure exerted by the military on the country’s election body to postpone scheduled voting by six weeks. But in the northeast, the heartland of the Boko Haram insurgency the security forces say they need more time to crush, there is support for a delay.…
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Why democracy may have to wait in the Central African Republic
BANGUI, (IRIN) – Insecurity and a lack resources could derail elections in the Central African Republic, crucial for the return to normality after almost two years of intense conflict. Already delayed once, the parliamentary and presidential polls – now scheduled for July and August – are provoking a debate over what should come first: national…
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Heading to The Hague – Uganda reacts to surrender of top LRA man
KAMPALA, (IRIN) – Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a longstanding Ugandan rebellion, will soon be transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to face trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Abducted by the LRA at the age of 10 Ongwen, who rose…
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Boko Haram and Nigeria’s elections
NAIROBI, (IRIN) – The terrible news keeps on coming from Nigeria’s embattled northeast. Two suspected child suicide bombers reportedly [ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/child-suicide-bombers-nigeria-market ] blew themselves up in a crowded market on Sunday – the second such attack in two days linked to Boko Haram in which young girls were strapped with explosives. Meanwhile, the Islamic extremist…
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DR Congo: Security Council condemns massacres of civilians, attacks on peacekeepers
NEW YORK, / PRN Africa / — The United Nations Security Council has condemned in the strongest terms the massacres perpetrated against civilians on 20 November near the city of Beni in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as well as the ongoing attacks targeting peacekeepers. “These attacks have increased to…
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UN Chief welcomes appointment of Burkina Faso interim president
NEW YORK, / PRN Africa / — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people of Burkina Faso on the signing of the Charter of the Transition and on the appointment of former foreign minister Michel Kafando as Transitional President. The Charter of the Transition will provide the legal framework for a civilian-led transition…
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