20100816
africanews

Gabon has signed $4.5 billion worth of deals with companies from India and Singapore in a bid to revamp infrastructure, improve living standards and diversify the economy of a nation with dwindling oil reserves.

20100816
africanews

Armed men abducted two U.N.-African Union (UNAMID) peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region in the biggest town Nyala. The mission said the two men were walking to a UNAMID transport dispatch point about 100 meters from their residence when they were approached by three individuals in a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

20100816
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - The growing burden of cancer in developing countries could be reduced without expensive drugs and equipment, scientists said on Monday, but it requires a global effort similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

20100816
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African autoworkers seeking wage increases more than triple the rate of inflation will continue to strike on Monday after talks with employers failed to agree a deal, a union official said on Sunday.

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reuters

LILONGWE (Reuters) - A measles outbreak has killed 197 people in Malawi since the start of this year, the highest number recorded in the country in the last decade, a senior health ministry official said on Sunday.

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reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Former Nigerian vice president Atiku Abubakar on Sunday formally declared his intention to run in elections due next January, posing a challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan for the ruling party ticket.

20100816
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The head of a commission to plan south Sudan's looming vote on independence said north- south divisions within the body were undermining preparations and threatened to resign if the deadlock continued.

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reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said on Sunday that sabotage of its crude oil pipelines in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta had increased in recent weeks, but was silent on whether there had been any impact on output.

20100816
reuters

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon has signed $4.5 billion worth of deals with companies from India and Singapore in a bid to revamp infrastructure, improve living standards and diversify the economy of a nation with dwindling oil reserves.

20100816
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tourist arrivals rose to 483,000 in the first half of 2010, officials said on Monday, beating for the first time the record numbers posted in 2007.

20100816
Monitor

The South African cabinet is due to meet on Wednesday to consider deploying its forces to bolster the African Union troops in Mogadishu, the UK press reported yesterday.

20100814
xinhuanet

LAGOS -- Nigeria's main opposition party, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said it was government in waiting in response to President Goodluck Jonathan's comment on opposition parties.

20100814
xinhuanet

NAIROBI -- There are "critical gaps" in assistance in some of the key areas where the Somali people need help, a senior UN official has said.

20100814
xinhuanet

KHARTOUM -- Two peacekeepers of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were abducted on Saturday by unknown gunmen in the South Darfur State in western Sudan, the peacekeeping mission said in a statement.

20100814
xinhuanet

RABAT -- Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba is due to visit Morocco on Aug. 23 for talks with his Moroccan counterpart in an apparent attempt to ease tensions erupted recently between the two countries.

20100814
xinhuanet

DAR ES SALAAM -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has termed the Tanzanian government and other stakeholders's political will and commitment as a must for successful implementation of Tanzania's Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) reforms, the local newspaper the Guardian reported on Saturday.

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xinhuanet

MBALE -- Five people were killed and dozens injured in a mudslide on Friday night in eastern Uganda, local official said here on Saturday.

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xinhuanet

ADDIS ABABA-- African ministers responsible for civil registration on Friday met at the United Nations Economic Commission For Africa (UN-ECA) Conference Center here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the first African Conference on Civil Registration.

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xinhuanet

ADDIS ABABA-- A book about the biography of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the struggle of the Tigray People Libration Front (TPLF) will be launched in Ethiopia after two weeks.

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xinhuanet

ACCRA (Xinhua) -- British High Commissioner to Ghana Nicholas Westcott, met Ghanaian officials here on Friday, during which they discussed issues of mutual significance especially with respect to infrastructural development.