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 | Libya's demand for compensation from colonialists dominate press | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan papers this week focused on the call on forme
r colonial powers to apologise to the peoples they colonised, compensate them an
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give them back their cultural property such as the manuscripts and archaeologic
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l pieces and archives of their history during the colonial period.
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| Mauritania media highlight terrorism in Sahelian-Sahara | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania newspapers this week devoted front pa
ges to developments in terrorist events in the Sahelian-Saharan sub-region, with
the release by Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), of the Spanish hostages Roque
Pascual and Albert Vilalta, kidnapped on the Nouadhibou-Nouakchott road in Novem
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er 2009.
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| Politics dominates Malawi media | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The surprise sacking of four key ministers by President Bingu wa Mutharika and the battle for succession at the top job continued to dominate the Malawi media this week.
21/08/2010 full text... |
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| Clergyman's faux pas, gaffe by ruling party chairman hit front pages | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A senior clergyman's open endorsement of the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and an angry criticism of the judiciary by the chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Adjei, following a string of losses of court decisions by the Attorney-General were some of the major stories in the Ghanaian media this week.
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| Kufuor's "secret childrenâ?, new youth policy dominate Ghana media | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - In 2005, an American woman, Gizelle Yazji, became a househ
old name in Ghana. The reason? - Gizelle, who had worked at the Ghana Ministry o
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Finance, grabbed the headlines when she claimed that former President John Agye
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um Kufuor was the father of her set of twins -- John and Philip.
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| Senegalese newspapers highlight crippling telecom strike | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegalese newspapers on Friday highlighted the chaos in the country's telecommunications sector on Thursday following crippling disruptions to internet service and the telephony network, Orange, following a strike by employees of the national telecommunication company (SONATEL).
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| Honour for U-20 women's team, politics dominate Nigerian papers | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Rewards for the silver-medal winning Nigeria's national U-20 women's team, the Falconets, following the
recent FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in Germany, and ''knocks'' for former President Olusegun Obasanjo ''for promoting
corruption'' were among the main stories in Nigeria this week.
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| Housing deal, opposition party primaries make headlines in Ghana | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The approval of a controversial housing deal between a Kor
ean construction company and the
government and Saturday's primaries to elect a presidential candidate of the mai
n opposition New Patriotic (NPP) for the
2012 election were some of the main stories highlighted by newspapers in Ghana t
his week.
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| Presidents, dogs dominate front pages in Malawi | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Although dead 13 years ago, Malawi's founding president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, is still making front-page news, courtesy of a 37-year-old Swedish Malawian who has claimed the former leader, who officially died a bachelor and childless, was his biological father.
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| Ghana media highlight housing deal, 'oil war', tax demand on Black Stars | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Controversy on a huge housing deal the government is propo
sing with a Korea company, STX Engineering and Construction and â?warâ? with US
oil company, Kosmos Energy, over its decision to sell its stake in the Jubilee
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il Field offshore western Ghana were some of the major developments that occupie
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the front pages of newspapers this week.
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| Libyan newspapers highlight African issues | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The call of Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi for the inclu
sion of Ukraine into the Non-Aligned Movement and the Libyan-Sudanese relations
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ade the headlines of the dailies here this past week.
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| Heroes' welcome, reward for Black Stars dominate Ghana's newspapers | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Football World Cup, especially the heroes' welcome given
to Ghana's Black Stars when they returned home on Monday night from FIFA 2010
World Cup in South Africa, and government's announcement of a USS$20,000
reward for each player for their performance dominated Ghanaian newspapers
during the week.
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| Ghana newspapers congratulate Black Stars after 'painful exit' | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghanaian newspapers on Saturday congratulated the
senior national football team, the Black Stars, for their heroic
performance at the ongoing FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa after a
painful exit on penalties to Uruguay at the quarter-final stage and
called for a hero's welcome for them on their return.
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| Nigeria Vs FIFA, inauguration of new Electoral umpire dominate front | | pages
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's two-year ban on
Nigeria's participation in international football competition and the
reaction of World Football Governing Body, FIFA, as well as the swearing
in of Professor Attahiru Jega, his National Commissioners and the
Resident Electoral Commissioners made front pages in Nigeria this past
week.
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| First World Cup in Africa, June 12 make headline news in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The FIFA World Cup, football's biggest “party”, being staged for the first time in Africa, and June 12, 1993, when military President Ibrahim Babangida scuttled the result of an election considered as the first credible polls in the country, were the main stories in Nigeria during the week.
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| Budget turns Tanzanian papers' attention away from World Cup | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - As newspapers in Africa feted on the first World Cup being hosted by the continent, Tanzanian papers paid greater attention to the government's budget for the 2010/11 fiscal year unveiled on the eve of the momentous football month staged in South Africa.
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| Tanzanian media caution govt on unchecked public expenditure | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - As Tanzania's Minister of Finance and Economic
Affairs, Mustafa Mkulo, readies to unveil the government budget for the 2010/201
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fiscal year, the public and local media are already criticizing part of the pro
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osals he intends to table in parliament for approval.
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| Tanzanian papers stress economic reforms, value added exports | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - As democracy increasingly takes hold and anti-c
orruption campaigners become emboldened, Tanzania progressively tackles addictiv
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corruption and fosters accountability as part of its new economic and political
development reforms, said the Daily News this week.
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| Nkrumah, Essien's World Cup shocker dominate Ghanaian media | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A colloquium to climax a year-long centenary celebration o
f Ghana's first president and pan-Africanist, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, and the shocking
news that Ghana's midfield general Michael Essien would miss the World Cup in So
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th Africa due to injury dominated the media this week.
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