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Egypt on Monday downplayed media reports that it was brokering mediation talks between the Palestinian Hamas movement and Israel, saying it could do little without commitment from the parties themselves.
"The ability to destroy is greater than the ability to construct, when one party wants positive reconciliation, its ability is much weaker compared to the... |
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Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has changed his chief of defence staff and installed new figures at the head of the army, navy and air force.
Air Marshal Paul Dike becomes new Chief of Defence Staff, Major General AB Dambazau took over as the head of the army and Rear Admiral Isaiah Ibrahim became chief of the navy.
Air Marshal...
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Kenya's former anti-corruption chief John Githongo returned home to speak at a public forum Wednesday three years after fleeing the East African nation amid fears for his life.
Githongo said he received threats after his investigation found that state contracts worth over one billion dollars were being awarded to fake companies in an...
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Pirates have hijacked a Malaysian tanker with over 20 crew members on board in the Gulf of Aden, the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting centre said Wednesday.
The body said that the ship, which is carrying crude palm oil, is thought to be heading into Somali coast waters.
A ransom demand is expected to be issued...
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Zambia's vice-president Rupiah Banda, 71, who was poised Tuesday to become acting president following the death of Zambia's leader of seven years, Levy Mwanawasa, is a career diplomat with a sideline in business.
Under the Zambian constitution, when a sitting president dies, the vice president automatically becomes president but must...
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Zimbabwe's inflation rate reached a new high of 11.2 million per cent in June, state media reported, quoting figures from the central statistics office.
The new rate compares with an official figure of 2.2 million per cent for May, a figure that had been deemed unrealistically low.
Faced with critical cash shortages, Zimbabwe's...
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Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Samuel Mumbengegwi on Tuesday blamed rising food prices and Western sanctions targeting the country's ruling elite for the new leap in inflation to over 11 million per cent.
In an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa following the release of the shocking new statistics, Mumbengegwi said Zimbabwe was...
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Nomadic East African pastoralists who been largely ignored and marginalized by their governments need support to cope with the effects of climate change, British charity Oxfam said on Monday.
A new report released by Oxfam said that climate change, which has already hit Africa and is expected to create further problems in the future,...
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Nigerian militant group the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it rescued two German employees of construction firm Julius Berger from a group holding them hostage by pretending to hold a grudge against the firm.
The two men - named by MEND as Jurgen Vetten, 43, and Bernd Mechlen, 60 - were abducted in July...
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Ugandan chimpanzee Zakayo, the star attraction at the Uganda Wildlife Education Center (UWEC) near Kampala, is scheduled to cut a cake on Friday as he turns 44.
The ageing primate, who will share a birthday drink with well- wishers, was plucked from the wild in western Uganda in 1972 after losing his parents to poachers.
But while...
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Six civilians died and four were wounded when Ethiopian troops opened fired on a minibus just south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said Thursday.
A witness told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the Ethiopians "opened fire indiscriminately" shortly after a gun battle between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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