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 | ICC enlists 396 witnesses for Kenyan poll violence probe | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has identified 39
6 victims and witnesses to testify against suspected perpetrators of the Kenyan
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ost-election violence, visiting ICC Registrar Silvana Arbia, a former Italian pr
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secutor, disclosed in Nairobi on Thursday.
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| Nigerian police arrest five robbers | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Five people who are involved in Monday's robbery of fore
ign exchange dealers at the Beninese-Nigerian border of Seme-Krake have been arr
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sted by Nigerian police, official sources said on Thursday in Cotonou.
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| Tanzania hosts regional confab on south-bound mixed migration | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Representatives of government and civil society
from 12 countries in East Africa and the Great Lakes region will meet here next
week to devise strategies for responding to an effective, coordinated and protec
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ion-sensitive manner to the growing irregular migration of people from the regio
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to southern Africa, the UN Refugee Agency said here Thursday.
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| Libyans celebrate Mouammar Kadhafi revolution | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyans on Wednesday poured on to streets of Tripoli, th
e Libyan capital, in their thousands to mark the 41st anniversary of the 1 Septe
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ber 1969 revolution which brought their leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, to power.
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| UN official urges member states to ratify disability convention | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Aff
airs, Sha Zukang, on Wednesday called on all member states to become party to th
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world bodyâ?s landmark convention, which seeks to protect the rights of the est
imated 650 million people with disabilities.
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| Two die in Ghana floods | | Tamale, Ghana (PANA) - Two persons have died in the West Mamprusi District of Gh
ana's Northern Region following floods caused by torrential rains and the openin
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of the spillways of the Bagre Dam in neighbouring Burkina Faso.
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| 34 US volunteers begin service In Malawi | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The US Peace Corps Programme, in Malawi since 1963, We
dnesday added another class of 34 health and education volunteers, according to
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he US Embassy in the capital, Lilongwe.
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| Libyan Economic Fund to be dissolved | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan General People's Committee is considering the
dissolution of the country's Fund for Economic and Social Development, a progra
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me created by the authorities to fight poverty and distribute wealth to the low-
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ncome group, the Qareen newspaper reported Wednesday.
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| 3 dead, 2 injured In Malawi "macabre" religious mass suicide bid | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - In a macabre case of religious zealotry, three sibling
s of five children of the same parents have died while the other two were injure
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, one of them seriously, after they all jumped into a ball of fire in Malawi's c
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mmercial capital, Blantyre, police have confirmed.
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| WIPO hails moves to protect Africa's folklore, traditions | | New York, US (PANA) - Francis Gurry, Director-General of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), has commended
the adoption by a number of African States of a new legal instrument that seeks to protect the continent’s traditional knowledge and folklore.
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| Cholera epidemic stabilises in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The cholera epidemic that ravaged 11 states in Nigeria a
nd caused 352 deaths from 6,497 cases has
stabilised, as no cholera death has been recorded in the African nation in the p
ast two days, health officials said.
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| EU funds education support programme in Somalia | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The European Union (EU), in conjunction with the UNICEF,
has said it will fund an ambitious 5-million-Euro
programme to support Somali administrations in developing a well-structured educ
ation and training system in Northwest Somalia (Somaliland)
and Northeast Somalia (Puntland).
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| South Africa's education boss bows out | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Sithembiso Nzimande, group chairman of the Educ
or group, South Africa's largest private educational group, on
Tuesday announced his resignation from the group with immediate effect.
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| SA's crippling strike may end soon | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Public service trade unions were expected to ac
cept or reject government's latest wage offer later on Wednesday,
after a crippling national strike that has dragged on for two weeks.
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| 'Gains of Libyan Revolution include human rights' | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The gains of the Libyan Revolution include upholding of
human rights, particularly with the dissolution of the people's tribunals and th
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easing of the internal political scene with the existence of several groups of
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ctivists belonging to the Islamist sphere of influence.
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| 'Gains of Libyan Revolution include human rights' | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The gains of the Libyan Revolution include upholding of
human rights, particularly with the dissolution of the people's tribunals and th
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easing of the internal political scene with the existence of several groups of
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ctivists belonging to the Islamist sphere of influence.
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| Mali to release 3bn CFAF for teachers' salary arrears | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government will make available, by the end of 2010, over 3 billion CFAF (about US$ 5.7 million) to clear the arrears of salaries for teachers in tertiary institutions in the country, according to official sources in the Malian capital, Bamako.
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| UN seeks succour for Niger drought, flood victims | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN is seeking urgent assistance for Niger, where recent flooding has displaced nearly 200,000 people and aggravated a food crisis in which almost half of the country's 15 million people are experiencing hunger.
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| US sues Gambia over rights records | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The American Congress has received a bill calling for th
e suspension of financial help to the Gambian government for failing to improve
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n its rights records, PANA reported from here Tuesday.
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| Zimbabwe violence victims sue ministers for US$22m | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A group of Zimbabweans Monday filed a US$22 million su
it against some cabinet ministers
and top security officials for alleged torture, malicious prosecution, abduction
and unlawful detention at the height of the
country's political instability in 2008.
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| Kenya's population hits 38.6m | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan population grew fast over the last 10 years t
o hit 38.6 million from the 28.7 million in 1999, according
to the 2009 population census conducted in the East African nation.
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| France uncomfortable with Al-Bashir's trip to Kenya | | Paris, France (PANA) - The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Monday expressed t
he country's regret at the recent trip of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir to N
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irobi to attend the promulgation of the new Kenyan Constitution despite an arres
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warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on him.
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| UNESCO Chief to visit flood-hit Pakistanis | | Paris, France (PANA) - UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova will visit flood-stricken areas and meet with national and regional authorities during a visit to Pakistan on 31 August, the UN Agency said in a press statement here Monday.
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| 'Nine journalists threatened in Togo' | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Accra-based sub-regional media rights body, Media Fo
undation for West Africa (MFWA), has said nine
members of Union of Independent Journalists of Togo (UJIT) has been targeted and
threatened "for expressing their opinions", on radio
stations within the West African country.
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| Algeria donates to Mauritanian flood victims | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Algerian government has donated 60 tonnes of
foodstuff, medicines, blankets and tents to the victims of the floods that foll
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wed the down-pour in Mauritania, PANA reported Saturday.
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| Road deaths up by 4.5% in Mauritius | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Seventy people have been killed in road accidents
that occurred between January and June this year, compared to 65 for the same p
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riod last year, a 4.5 per cent increase, according to the Central Statistics Off
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ce (CSO), PANA reported from here Saturday.
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| UNFPA calls for more investment in youth development | | New York, US (PANA) - The Executive Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA),
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, has called for more investment in youth development,
saying "with half of all of the world's nearly 2 billion young people living
on less than US$ 2 a day, now is the time to invest in the leaders of today
and the makers of tomorrow".
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| France gives 200,000 euros for DRC refugees | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The French government has given 200,000 euros for th
e purchase of drugs
for refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who are settled in the
department of Likouala,
in the northern part of Congo Brazzaville, a source close to the Congolese Minis
ter of Social Affairs and
Solidarity told PANA here.
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| CPJ condemns Benin newspaper ban in Togo | | New York, US (PANA) - The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
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condemned Wednesday's ruling by a criminal court judge in Togo to indefinitely b
an the distribution of a
Benin newspaper that had raised questions about the alleged involvement of a hal
f-brother of
President Faure Gnassingbe in drug trafficking.
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