20110121
Zimbabwe Independent

"CARELESS" statements by politicians will derail the country's economic recovery pace economists said this week.

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allAfrica.com

The five candidates contesting the Central African Republic’s elections on Sunday are putting the final touches to their campaigns.

20110121
IPS

Kigali — For years, the various campaigns for sustainable use of forests just passed Pascal Segatashya by. But Rwanda's ambitious Forest Conservation Project eventually found him - and it has transformed his life and livelihood.

20110119
IRIN

Bunia — Almost two years into the trial of Thomas Lubanga for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), several international justice experts and observers say the court has had a largely positive impact on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but some differ.

20110121
Daily Trust

Juba — Riek Machar, the Vice President of the emerging new independent state of South Sudan said the region has already prepared a "roadmap" for post-referendum governance, dismissing fears of political instability after independence.

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Abuja — The on-going voter registration exercise in the country would be extended beyond the stipulated two weeks' duration if many eligible voters are not registered by the end of next week, both President Goodluck Jonathan and Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] chairman Professor Attahiru Jega said at separate occasions in Abuja yesterday.

20110121
allAfrica.com

Nine opposition political parties in Niger have demanded the postponement of elections due to be held in 10 days’ time.

20110120
The east african
Moments before he cast his ballot in the referendum that could, in July, give birth to a new nation, the crack in the voice of Salva Kiir, Vice President of the Sudan, may have gone unnoticed.

20110120
capitalfm
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 20 - The government was on Wednesday reading from different scripts on the planned compulsory land acquisition on Mombasa Road and Waiyaki Way, meant to pave way for road expansion.

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angop
Havana - Angola's vice-president, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, on Wednesday in Havana laid a wreath by the monument of Cuban hero, José Martí, Angop learnt.

20110120
allafrica
The political clouds are gathering by the day and signs are that Elections 2011 would be a dog-eat-dog affair not merely because aspirants are called to genuine service of the people but principally because elected positions in Government, at executive and legislative levels, are unusually lucrative and money-spinning.

20110120
xinhua
TUNIS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Violence-hit Tunisia Wednesday saw peaceful protests in its capital, with hundreds chanting national anthem and displaying cartoons to demand the ruling RCD party be out of the unity government, while no clashes were reported.

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xinhua
ABIDJAN, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The camp of Laurent Gbagbo, one of Cote d'Ivoire's presidential claimants, has voiced opposition to the UN plan to send additional 2,000 peacekeepers to the West African country.

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xinhua
ABIDJAN, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The camp of Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent Laurent Gbagbo has "rejected" Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga as the African Union (AU) mediator in the West African country because of his "manifest bias" for Alassane Ouattara, the other presidential claimant.

20110120
xinhua
ABUJA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the transparency exhibited in the party's National Convention would be replicated in the April general elections.

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xinhua
TUNIS, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- All members of the Tunisia's former ruling party RCD in the new-born interim government quit party, official TAP news agency reported Thursday.

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xinhua
BANGUI, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- One of Central African Republic's presidential candidates has threatened to reject "rigged elections" ahead of the Jan. 23 polls, which are considered historic to end the country's years of instability.

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xinhua
BANJUL, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Senegalese Foreign Minister Madickeh Niang sees relations with neighboring Gambia as "sweeter today," saying this is because there is absolute peace, love and unity between the leaders of the two countries.

20110119
xinhua

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Forces loyal to the former president of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, who declined to put down power despite his electoral defeat, have opened fire toward UN peacekeepers in a new "act of aggression," a UN envoy told reporters here on Tuesday.

20110118
xinhua

TUNIS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian interim president Foued Mebazaa and Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi quit Tunisia's ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally party (RCD) Tuesday, official TAP news agency reported.