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Politics
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 | Government provides more money for Comoros elections | | Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - The Comoros government has made available another 138,2
20 euros to the National Independent Election Commission (CENI) to hold general
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lections planned for 6 and 20 December, Ahmed Hassane El Barwane, the Minister o
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Economy, said on Friday in Moroni.
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| Malian president visits Qatar Sunday | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian president, Amadou Toumani Touré, will leave Ba
mako on Saturday for Doha, the capital of Qatar, for a three-day official visit,
official sources said here Friday.
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| ECOWAS Council of Ministers meets | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ministers responsible for ECOWAS Affairs in Member State
s were due to meet here Friday under
the auspices of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers to set the budget for the ECOWAS
Commission and its institutions, among
other tasks.
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| Mauritius launches Poverty Observatory | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Industry and Science and Research Minis
ter Dharam
Gokhool launched the Mauritius Poverty Observatory Thursday night in a bid to de
al more effectively
with poverty.
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| Kadhafi receives Guinea Bissau's President | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan leader and chair of the African Union (AU), M
ouammar Kadhafi, on Thursday received the President of Guinea Bissau, Malam Baca
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Sanha, who arrived in Tripoli from the Italian capital city of Rome.
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| Kibaki assures Kenyans on new constitution | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday called on Kenya
ns to rise above individual and partisan interests and approach the constitution
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making exercise with a sense of sobriety in order to deliver the much-awaited n
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w constitution to Kenyans.
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| UN inquiry into deadly Guinea crackdown opens | | New York, US (PANA) - As the Commission of Inquiry into September's violent crac
kdown on unarmed
demonstrators in Guinea is set to begin, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednes
day met with the members
of the Commission.
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| SA to feature at global conference on road safety | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele, accompanie
d by senior government officials,
will attend the first Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow Thu
rsday and Friday as well as the 25th
Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London 23-27 Novemb
er 2009.
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| SADC election observer team in Namibia | | Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - About 100 election observers from the Southern Africa
n Development Community (SADC) arrived in Namibia Wednesday to observe the count
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yâ?s 27 and 28 November elections.
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| 'Lack of electoral integrity caused corruption in Nigeria' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's most vocal opposition party, the Action Congre
ss (AC), has said the country's failing anti-corruption war, as shown by the lat
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st rankings of 180 countries by Transparency International, is a consequence of
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he lack of electoral integrity in the country.
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| Aziz sends independence-day congratulatory message to Morocco | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian Head of State Mohamed Ould Abdel Azi
z, Wednesday sent a congratulatory message to the Moroccan King, Mohammed VI, on
the occasion of the celebration of the National Holiday of the Cherifian Kingdom
on Thursday, official sources told PANA here.
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| Burundi upbeat about 2010 elections | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi has entered the final lap of preparations fo
r the second post-conflict general elections
with the the chairman of the national Independent Election Commission (CENI), Pi
erre Claver Ndayicariye, saying the country's
electoral code and agenda will come out on 25 December.
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| Malawi's veteran opposition leader defeated by protege | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - In what can be described as political earthquake, vete
ran main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader, John Tembo, has lost his
bid to lead the opposition in Parliament to his erstwhile youthful protege, PANA
reported from here Tuesday.
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| Ghanaian Ibn Chambas appointed Sec Gen of ACP Group | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Chairman of the Commission of the Economic Commun
ity of West African States (ECOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has been appointed Sec
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etary General of the Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP), offic
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al sources in Brussels, the Belgian capital, told PANA here on Tuesday.
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| Zimbabwe to host SADC parliamentary session | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe said Tuesday it had been selected to host the
26th Plenary Session of the Parliamentary Forum of the Southern African Develop
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ent Community (SADC), according to a PANA report.
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| ECOWAS Mediator heads to Niger | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Mediator for Niger, retired Gen. Abdusalami A
bubakar of Nigeria, left Abuja
for Niamey Tuesday in continuation of his ongoing consultations with key stakeho
lders in Niger, PANA reported.
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| Morocco King's envoy meets Mauritanian President | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Abdel A
ziz, on Monday evening held talks with
the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Teyib El Fassi El Fihr
i, who brought to him a message from King
Mohamed VI, the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI) reported on Tuesday.
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| U.S., Angola hold strategic partnership dialogue meetings | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The United States and Angola Monday launched meetings un
der a new Strategic Partnership Dialogue (SPD)
framework at the Department of State in Washington, DC., the department said in
a statement obtained by PANA here
The meetings follow the decision reached during US Secretary of State Hillary Cl
intonâ?s visit to Angola on 9-10 Aug., 2009, when she and Angolan
Foreign Minister Assuncao Affonso dos Anjos agreed to jointly create a new mecha
nism for bilateral cooperation between the United States and Angola.
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| Civil Society pushes for local elections in Malawi | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Civil society leaders in Malawi have urged the Malawi
government not to renege on its constitutional duty to call for local government
elections a year after holding the presidential and parliamentary elections.
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| Paris hosts Senior African personalities Wednesday | | Paris, France (PANA) - Several African personalities, including former Prime Min
ister of Senegal, Moustapha Niasse, will take part Wednesday in Paris, France, i
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a meeting on the "place of Africa in the world of the 11th century", sources cl
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se to the event told PANA here on Monday.
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| PDCI backs postponement of Ivorian presidential polls | | Paris, France (PANA) - The Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire/African Democratic
Rally (PDCI-RDA) is willing to accept a two-month postponement of the Ivorian pr
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sidential elections, scheduled for 29 November, a close aide to the party leader
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former head of state, Henri Konan Bedie, candidate of the PDCI, told PANA on Mo
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day.
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| SA approves multiple visa for Nigerians | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Pending the signing of the visa-waiver agreement between
the two countries, South Africa has
approved a three-year multiple visa for Nigerians with official and diplomatic p
assports, Nigeria's 'Next'
newspaper reported Monday.
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| Deby, Baghdadi discuss AU Commission transformation | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Chad and Libya have agreed to streamline the position of
the Community
of Sahelo-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) on the implementation of the recommendations
of the 13th summit
of the African Union (AU) held in Sirte, Libya, in July, regarding the transform
ation of the AU
Commission into an Authority.
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| SA, Nigeria boost trade relations | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa is looking forward to working with
Nigerian businesses to further open up trade
opportunities and allow investment to grow between the two countries, Deputy Pre
sident Kgalema Motlanthe said on Sunday.
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| Salim stresses good governance, transparency in Africa | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The former Secretary-General of the defunct Org
anisation of Africa Unity (OAU), Salim Ahmed Salim, has enjoined leaders and oth
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r stakeholders to promote good governance, transparency and true democracy in or
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er to achieve development in the continent.
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| Kadhafi meets Chadian and Zambian presidents | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi, incumbent President
of the African Union (AU), on Saturday met the Chadian President Idriss Deby and
the Zambian President Rupiah Banda, who stopped over in the Libyan capital on t
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eir way to Italy to take part in the world summit on food security.
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| Congo's ex-PM Bernard Kolelas dies in Paris | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese former Prime Minister Bernard Kolelas, who
was also the mayor of Brazzaville, died Friday in Paris, France, where he had b
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en receiving treatment for months, aged 76, Congolese state radio announced.
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| Ben Ali welcomes "the noble position" of Gaddafi on French interference | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Friday
welcomed "the noble position" adopted by the Libyan revolutionary leader, Mo
uamar Gaddafi, who chairs three pan-African bodies, on the condemnation of Franc
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for its interference in internal affairs of Tunisia, official sources said in T
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nis.
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| Belgium to deliver arms ordered by Libya | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Minister-President of the Walloon government, Rud
y Demotte, on Friday ordered the delivery of the remaining arms, ordered by Liby
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, shunning the recommendation of the State Council, the highest administrative a
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thority of Belgium, which decided in October to cancel the licences to export we
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pons to Tripoli.
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| Belgium to deliver arms ordered by Libya | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Minister-President of the Walloon government, Rud
y Demotte, on Friday ordered the delivery of the remaining arms, ordered by Liby
a
, shunning the recommendation of the State Council, the highest administrative a
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thority of Belgium, which decided in October to cancel the licences to export we
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pons to Tripoli.
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