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allafrica

With the five other African representatives - South Africa, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroun and Algeria - already eliminated in the first round, Ghana has been adopted by the entire continent to carry her banner at the on-going World Cup in South Africa. There were celebrations across the continent from Lagos to Nairobi and from Accra to Cairo as the Black Stars sent the USA packing.

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allafrica

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday urged member countries of the G8 Summit to consider 100 per cent cancellation of debts owed them by African countries.

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BBC

At least 11 people have died in Senegal after the terrace where they were watching a World Cup football match collapsed, police say.

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voanews

A leading member of Burundi’s ruling CNDD-FDD party says the government has tightened security to ensure the presidential election scheduled to begin Monday morning is credible and devoid of violence.

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reuters

Sudanese police briefly detained more than 20 models, make-up artists and designers after a rare mixed-sex fashion show in Khartoum, participants said on Saturday.

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reuters

China has dismissed U.S. comments that Beijing is blocking a new trade agreement, saying that it was the United States that was stalling progress in the World Trade Organization's long-running Doha round.

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reuters

Congo's top rights campaigner was buried to anti-government chants on Saturday as authorities came under pressure to explain the death this month of Floribert Chebeya after he was summoned to a police appointment.

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reuters

As Alvin Kaidar mingled with the opposition ahead of a shanty town soccer match on a red dirt clearing, he spoke of his fears -- not about the upcoming game, but simply of being able to stay alive.

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reuters

G8 wealthy countries said on Saturday the global economic crisis threatened to undermine 2015 global targets for halving extreme poverty around the world.

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reuters

Voters in Guinea rushed to the polls on Sunday, forming long queues for their first chance to freely elect their leadership since the coup-prone West African state won independence from France in 1958.

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reuters

Sudan on Sunday said it had asked Libya to expel the leader of Darfur's rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), accusing him of trying to undermine peace talks and threatening attacks on Khartoum.

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reuters

Higher interest rates in Kenya will be "a recipe for recession" as the recovery in east Africa's largest economy is still fragile and inflation is not a threat, the central bank governor said on Sunday.

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africanews

Guineans went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president and reports say turn out was impressive and calm. The election being contested by 24 presidential candidates was the first democratic one since the West African country gained independence.

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africanews

West African nation Ghana made history in the 2010 World Cup as the only African side to qualify for the quarter finals. It was the first time in eight years that an African team has made it to the last eight in the global football fiesta in South Africa.

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reuters

World leaders cast about for a common approach on Saturday to securing an uneven economic recovery that is showing signs of fading.

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reuters

A Cairo criminal court postponed a verdict on Saturday in the retrial of Egyptian property tycoon and politician Hesham Talaat Moustafa until Tuesday, the state news agency said.

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reuters

Potential Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei led thousands of people on Friday in an anti-torture protest that analysts said was significant for joining disparate groups in a common cause.

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reuters

Zimbabwe police said on Friday they had detained two Pakistani men heading to South Africa, one of them under an international arrest warrant, which state media said was for terrorism.

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africanews

The sledgehammer FIFA is hanging over Nigeria, following government interference in the way football is run in the country, officials have disclosed. The Sepp Blatter led administration is not happy with government's decision to suspend a federation's election.

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africanews

President Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, will host a 50th anniversary celebration of 18 African nations' independence in Washington this summer, senior U.S. officials said on Friday.