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 | Mauritian police cancel anti-Israel demo | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Police on Friday prevented an anti-
Israeli demonstration in front of the US Embassy in Port-Louis, to denounce the
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ttack on Monday by an Israeli commando against the ships of the peace flotila fe
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rying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
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| South Africa slams attack on aid ships | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government has noted 'with gr
ave concern' reports that Israeli forces attacked a convoy of ships carrying aid
materials to Gaza and that there were casualties following the attack.
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| Road accidents claim 17 lives in Luanda | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - At least 17 people were killed and 11 others seriously i
njured in traffic accidents which occurred between Sunday and Tuesday in Luanda,
the Angolan capital, police said Wednesday.
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| Hisbul Islam insurgents arrest radio journalists in Somalia | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Insurgent group Hisbul Islam has arrested three
broadcast journalists working for Mogadishu-based radio stations in the latest
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iolation of press freedom in war-torn Somalia, the National Union of Somali Jour
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alists (NUSOJ) reported Wednesday.
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| UN peacekeeper killed in east DRC | | New York, US (PANA) - An Indian soldier with the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was killed on Monday, when his patrol went to the aid of national army forces caught in an ambush by unidentified gunmen in the east of the country.
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| EAC destroys illicit arms to mark Africa Day | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - In a double celebration of Africa Day and the A
frican Union's 2010 Year of Peace and Security, the East African Community (EAC)
has organized a symbolic pubic destruction of illicit arms and weapons to be hel
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Tuesday at Bukoba in the northwestern Kagera Region of Tanzania.
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| '3 die in fresh crisis in Jos' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A fresh outbreak of violence in Nigeria's volatile north
ern city of Jos has left three Fulani herdsmen dead, the local press reported Su
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| BCEAO workers in Dakar evacuated over fire alert | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - For the second day running, workers in the head office o
f the Central Bank of the West African States (BCEAO) in Dakar, the Senegalese c
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pital, were evacuated Friday from their offices, following a fire alert.
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| Ethiopian opposition warns of post-election violence | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia’s opposition said Thursday the style of deploying the police and the army might cause post-election violence if the forces intervene during celebrations of victory or expression of disgust at the vote outcome.
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| Nigeria police commit extrajudicial killings - report | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A report launched Wednesday by the Open Society Justice
Initiative and the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) said
Police in the country commit extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, and extortio
n with relative impunity.
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| UN anti-terrorism committees call for greater cooperation | | New York, US (PANA) - The heads of the three committees, set up by the UN Securi
ty Council to support the efforts of UN member states to combat terrorism, have
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eported increased cooperation within the past six months among their respective
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odies and their expert groups.
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| Organization launches action against armed violence | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Movement against Light Weapons in West Africa (MALA0), in partnership with civil society organizations, among them Présence chrétienne and SOS Equilibre, on Monday in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, launched a week-long action against armed violence.
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| ICC out to indict 3 Kenya post-poll violence perpetrators | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocam
po landed in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday night, saying his principal goal is to indic
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at least three key individuals suspected to be the major perpetrators of the 20
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8 post-election violence.
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| Nigerian workers begin nation-wide strike Monday | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Workers in the Nigerian civil service, under the Joint N
ational Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), on Friday gave the Federal
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overnment notice that they would would embark on a five-day warning strike from
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onday following "governmentâ?s indifference to their demands for an increase in
their wages and elimination of salary disparities between various cadres in the
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ivil service, according to local media.
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| '2 Ethiopian state TV journalists under arrest' | | New York, US (PANA) - In the light of the Ethiopian governmentâ?s long-standing
practice of jailing journalists on trumped-up criminal charges, the Committee t
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Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned about the detentions last week of two go
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ernment Television journalists on allegations of misusing state property, saying
that it was monitoring the legal proceedings closely.
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| CPJ decries death threats to 4 Nigerian journalists | | New York, US (PANA) - Four Nigerian journalists who reported the recent dismissa
l of the electoral commission chairman on Wednesday received anonymous death thr
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ats via text messages, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
The messages, sent from the same number, said the reporters would meet the fate
of three slain Nigerian journalists.
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| Gambia's new anti-drug czar declares war on narcotics | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Benedict Jammeh, Gambia's new anti-narcotic czar, has de
clared war on drugs in the West African nation, saying he was prepared to put hi
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life on the line than sit and wait for his country to drift into "a narcotic st
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te", Gambia's pro-government newspaper, the Daily Observer reported Friday.
30/04/2010 full text... |
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| African human rights delegation okays Angola rights situation | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The delegation of the African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) that visited Angola 19-26 April to assess the situation in the country has expressed satisfaction with the progress recorded in this field, PANA reported from here, quoting the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP).
27/04/2010 full text... |
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| Nigeria opposition worried over rising killing of journalists | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's most vocal opposition party, the Action
Congress (AC), has expressed serious concern at the rising killing of
journalists in the country, following the murder of Edo Sule Ugbagwu of The
Nation newspaper in Lagos, as well as two others in Jos - Sunday Bwede and
Natan Dabak - last weekend.
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| Abducted UNAMID peacekeepers freed | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Four South African peacekeepers serving under
the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) have been safely
released after being held in captivity for 16 days, UNAMID has announced.
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| Gambia gets new anti-drug agency boss | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Benedict Jammeh, Gambia’s dismissed police chief, has been named the new Executive Director of the West African nation’s anti-drug agency, official sources told PANA in Banjul Monday.
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| Fresh violence leaves 5 dead in Nigerian city | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sectarian violence flared again in Nigeria's volatile ce
ntral city of Jos Saturday, leaving five persons dead and
residents increasingly worried about their security, the local press reported Su
nday
The slow-motion violence in the city, which has been wracked by incessant sectar
ian killings since January, played out again Saturday
when Muslims mobilised to avenge the killing of one of their own, whose body was
found dumped in a sack in a construction site.
25/04/2010 full text... |
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| Ex-bank workers protest in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some former workers of one of the leading financial inst
itutions in Nigeria, Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, on Monday staged a peaceful demo
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stration at the headquarters of the bank, in the commercial city of Lagos, deman
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ing for the payment of their severance package.
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| 8 Zambians among the dead in Zimbabwe auto accident | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Eight Zambians are among those who died on the spot
while five other Zambians are battling for their lives after a South
Africa-bound public passenger bus from Lusaka, the Zambian capital, collided
with a truck in Zimbabwe.
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| UN General Assembly to meet over maritime piracy | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN General Assembly is scheduled to convene an informa
l meeting on the international maritime piracy in mid-May, Jean-Victor Nkolo, sp
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kesperson for the General Assembly president, said here on Wednesday.
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| WOZA protests poor electricity supply in Zimbabwe | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The pressure group, Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), on Monday peacefully protested on the streets of Bulawayo against “poor electricity service and high tariffs” by Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), PANA reported.
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| 4 abducted expats freed in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The four expatriate construction workers, kidnapped by g
unmen in Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt, have been freed unharmed, the
police said Tuesday.
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| Banda mourns Polish President | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Rupiah Banda has expressed his sincere condolences to the Polish government over the untimely death of the President Lech Kaczynski and the First Lady, Maria, who died in a plane crash on Saturday.
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| Nigeria's Opposition urges govt. to halt Jos killings now | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's most vocal opposition party, the Action Congre
ss (AC), has called on the Federal Government to take a decisive step to stop th
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continuing but slow motion violence in Jos, the capital of the central Plateau
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tate, and its environs, where attacks have persisted since the March massacre.
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| Gambians to demonstrate in London | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambians will stage a “peaceful demonstration” in London on Thursday (15 April) against the “harsh, perverse and politically-motivated imprisonment” of top opposition figure, Mr. Femi Peters, PANA reported Monday.
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| Gambians remember 14 'slain' students | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambians across the globe this weekend held activities i
n remembrance of the 14 students killed in Banjul and other towns in 2000 while
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n a peaceful demonstration with the opposition party, Gambia Moral Congress (GMC
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, PANA reported from here.
11/04/2010 full text... |
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| Thousands bid farewell to slain SA right-wing leader | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Thousands of people, including a large continge
nt of local and foreign media representatives, on Friday attended the funeral of
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader, Eugene Terre'Blanche, who was murder
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d in his Ventersdorp farm in South Africa last weekend.
09/04/2010 full text... |
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| Gunmen abduct 4 expats in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Unknown gunmen Friday abducted three Syrians and 1 Leban
ese at Etche, located
some 30 kilometres from Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria's southern Rivers stat
e, the police said.
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| 20 die in Rwanda shipwreck | | Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least 20 passengers died when their ship sank Wednesd
ay in Lake Kivu, eastern Rwanda, PANA learnt from official sources here on Thurs
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ay.
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| Ivorian govt. ready to tackle disasters with medicine | | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian government has provided drugs to
enable it cope with natural disasters as experienced recently in the country,
the Minister of Civil Service and Employment, Emile Guiriéoulou, said Wednesday
in Abidjan, the capital.
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| British government concerned over freedom in Gambia | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The British Government Tuesday expressed concern over "t
he heavy sentence of one-year imprisonment without the option of a fine" slammed
on one of Gambia's leading opposition politicians, Femi Peters, "and the negativ
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impact of the prosecution on freedom of assembly and freedom of expression" in
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he West African country.
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| Malawi court sets 18 May as ruling date on gay couple | | Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Blantyre Chief Resident Magistrate Nyakwawa Usiwa-Usiw
a has set 18 May as the day he will rule in a case in which Malawi's first openl
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gay couple are being charged with three counts of gross indecency and unnatural
acts between males.
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| Girl raped to death in Angola | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The police have confirmed that an eight-year old girl wa
s raped and asphyxiated to death in Rangel district, here, PANA reported Monday,
quoting a report in the Angolan news agency, ANGOP.
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| Easter police blitz kills three in Angola | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - At least three people were killed and another three inju
red in two road accidents in Luanda, during an Easter police blitz, PANA report
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d Friday, quoting the country's news agency, Angop.
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| Crime statistics down in Mauritius - PM | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam told Par
liament Tuesday that crime statistics had gone down in the Island from 49,111 in
2008 to 44,914 in 2009, representing a decrease of 8.5 per cent.
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| Jammeh promises to tackle terrorism, crimes in Gambia | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, has renewed his resolv
e towards tackling crime in the West African nation, while stressing his governm
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ntâ?s avowed policy of â?zero toleranceâ? for terrorism, drug trafficking and
other forms of crimes, PANA reported Monday.
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| Nigeria's Acting President to meet ex-militants | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, in a move
to shore up the federal government's widely acclaimed
amnesty programme, is expected to meet with some former militants in the capital
city of Abuja Friday, the local press reported.
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| Kidnapped ICRC worker freed in Sudan | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Gauthier Lefčvre, who was abducted in West Darfur, Sudan, on 22 October, 2009, was set free Thursday, the ICRC said .
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| Fresh fighting 'leaves 13 dead' in Jos | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A fresh outbreak of sectarian violence in Riyom communit
y on the outskirts of
Jos, capital of Nigeria's central Plateau state, Wednesday left 13 dead, accordi
ng to the state's Commissioner for
Information, Mr. Gregory Yenlong.
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| Nigerian Opposition AC to MEND: Give peace a chance | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Opposition Action Congress (AC) party has appea
led to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to give peace
a chance in the oil region, saying reverting to attacks against oil facilities a
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d other acts of violence, as threatened by MEND, will not advance the course of
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eace.
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| '3 killed in Nigeria bomb blasts' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The two car bombs that exploded at the venue of Monday's
post-amnesty dialogue in
Delta state, in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta oil region, left three persons dea
d and six others injured,
the local media reported Tuesday.
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| Bombs scuttle post-amnesty talks in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A post-amnesty dialogue involving major stakeholders in
the country's restive Niger Delta oil region,
scheduled for the Delta State Government House in Warri Monday, ended abruptly a
fter bombs planted in two cars went off
within minutes of each other.
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| Explosion rocks venue of post-amnesty talks in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Explosion rocked the Delta State Government House in War
ri, in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region, Monday, just before the start of p
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st-amnesty dialogue organised by the private Vanguard newspaper and sponsored by
the state government, the News Agency of Nigeria reported.
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| '50 persons still missing after Jos violence' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 50 people are still missing a week after sectarian
violence in Nigeria's central state of
Plateau left hundreds of people dead and many property, especially houses, burnt
, the private Punch newspaper reported
Sunday, quoting a Nigerian Red Cross Society document.
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