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Africa : Clinton honours Uganda rights group, calls for Sudan deal
on 2012/8/4 10:36:17
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AFP
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday paid tribute to a Ugandan human rights coalition working for gay rights, hours after a brief stop in Juba where she called for a compromise deal between the rival two Sudans.

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Africa : Clinton heads across Africa to Uganda, S. Sudan
on 2012/8/4 10:08:28
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AP
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton took off Thursday for the next stops in her seven-nation tour of Africa, flying across the continent from Senegal to Uganda and South Sudan for security talks with those countries' leaders.

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Africa : Uganda denies backing DR Congo rebels
on 2012/8/3 16:55:33
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AFP
Uganda on Friday denied backing insurgents in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, a day after the UN Security Council called for "outside countries" to halt support for the rebellion.

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Africa : Clinton challenges Africa to embrace democracy
on 2012/8/2 17:50:27
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AP
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In veiled swipes at China's investments in Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged African leaders to embrace democracy and partnerships with responsible foreign powers as a means to improving their living standards and addressing the root causes of extremism on the continent.

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Africa : African Union, Senegal discuss how to try Chad ex-dictator
on 2012/7/22 10:20:00
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AFP
African Union experts and Senegal officials were on Saturday poring over how to organise the trial of Chad's former dictator Hissene Habre for crimes against humanity.

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Africa : ICJ tells Senegal to try or extradite Chad's ex-dictator
on 2012/7/21 11:03:02
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AFP
Senegal pledged Friday to put former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre on trial for crimes against humanity, after the International Court of Justice ruled he must be tried there or else be extradited to Belgium.

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Africa : China doubles loans to Africa to $20 billion
on 2012/7/19 18:38:56
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AFP
China said Thursday it would offer $20 billion in new loans to Africa, underscoring the relationship's growing importance, as Chinese companies agreed to operate more responsibly on the resource-rich continent.

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Africa : African leaders meet on AU top job, hotspots
on 2012/7/15 16:46:51
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AFP
African Union leaders opened their biannual summit on Sunday to discuss the continent's hotspots including DR Congo and Mali, although elections for the bloc's top job overshadowed the agenda.

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Africa : 54 Africans die at sea attempting voyage to Italy: UNHCR
on 2012/7/11 16:54:33
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2012-07-11
Xinhua
A total of 54 people died in the Mediterranean in an failed attempt to reach the Italian shores from Libya, bringing the death toll in such accidents to some 170 so far this year, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.

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Africa : Mali-based Islamist group claims Algerian attack
on 2012/6/30 17:10:50
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AFP
A Mali-based Islamist group Friday claimed responsibility for a dawn attack against the regional headquarters of the paramilitary police in the centre of the Algerian town of Ouargla in which one person was killed and three were wounded.

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Africa : Chad's former president Habre to be tried in Senegal: Sall
on 2012/6/26 16:56:46
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AFP
Senegal's President Macky Sall said that Chad's ex-president Hissene Habre, accused of mass murder, will not be extradited to Belgium but tried in Senegal, in an interview published Monday.

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Africa : Sub-Saharan Africa's giant cement factory opens
on 2012/6/12 15:41:52
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AFP
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday inaugurated one of sub-sahara Africa's biggest cement factories, with a capacity to produce 5.25 million metric tonnes a year.

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Africa : African sleeping sickness shrouded in superstition
on 2012/6/10 16:21:45
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AFP
A frail 65-year-old woman sitting under the mango trees in a rural village in Chad suffers from a tropical disease that eats into the brain, and the locals blame on witchcraft.

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Africa : Watchdog aims to broaden 'blood diamond' ban
on 2012/6/9 15:17:28
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AFP
Blood diamonds were once the scourge of African nations used to fund years of brutal civil wars. Now a UN-mandated watchdog aims to stop gem greed from fueling more violence in trouble spots.

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Africa : African economy to grow 4.5% in 2012: report
on 2012/5/29 10:28:45
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AFP
The African economy should grow 4.5 percent this year after recovering from the impact of the 2009 global economic crisis and the 2011 North African revolts, experts predicted in a report Monday.

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Africa : African leaders seek ways to woo diaspora
on 2012/5/27 16:34:17
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AFP
African leaders met in South Africa on Friday to discuss ways of drawing in the diaspora to help advance the world's poorest continent.

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Africa : Hunger returns to Africa, stalking 1M children
on 2012/5/27 16:18:27
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AP
GOUDOUDE DIOBE, Senegal (AP) — It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his family's hut.

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Africa : G8 pledges to lift 50 million Africans out of poverty
on 2012/5/20 15:12:43
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AFP
G8 leaders on Saturday pledged to lift millions of Africans out of poverty by promoting investments in sustainable agriculture.

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Africa : Obama turns to private sector to feed world's poor
on 2012/5/19 15:18:13
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AFP
US President Barack Obama on Friday reached out to the private sector in hopes of lifting 50 million people in the developing world from poverty, as wealthy nations grapple with a budget crunch.

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Africa : Africa growth not ending food insecurity: UN
on 2012/5/16 14:03:24
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AFP
Sub-Saharan Africa posts economic growth rates higher than the worldwide average but has the planet's greatest food security problems, the UN development agency said in a report Tuesday.

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