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| Wade requests Ould Taya's magnanimity for putschists | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye
Wade, who ended a state visit to Mauritania Thursday, has asked
President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya to exercise "magnanimity"
in dealing with the 8 June aborted coup, the state-owned radio
announced here Friday.
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| Cote d'Ivoire needs 60 billion FCFA for reintegration | | Paris, France (PANA) - Cote d'Ivoire needs at least 60 billion
FCFA (about $91 million Euro) to demobilise and reintegrate
combatants of the rebellion that broke out on 19 September 2002
in the country, Prime Minister Seydou Elimane Diarra announced
here Friday.
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| Taylor's General calls on fighters to resist rebel advance | |
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - The general supervisor of defence and
security forces in Liberia, General Benjamin Yeaten, Friday urged
President Charles Taylor's fighters to resist rebel advance on
the capital until the Economic community for West African States
(ECOWAS) peacekeeping force arrives Monday.
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| Book on President Wade makes front-page news in Dakar | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese dailies and weeklies this week
amply dwelt on the book written by journalist Abdou Latif
Coulibaly, entitled "Wade an opponent in power: a booby-trapped
political change?"
The book has continued to be the focus of attention, arousing
anonymous death threats against the author.
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| Liberians label ECOWAS team as liberators | |
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - War-weary Liberians could find no
better way to show their desire for peace than to turn out en
masse to greet a trailblazer reconnaissance team of the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that visited the
embattled Liberian Capital Monrovia this week.
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| RSF urges President Wade to assure Coulibaly's security | | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
has urged Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to "take measures
to assure the security" of the journalist Abdou Latif Coulibaly,
who has received death threats following publication a book very
critical of President wade.
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| Wheat production drops in Zimbabwe | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwean farmers predicted
Friday that winter wheat output would fall sharply this
year and force the country to import large quantities,
because of a combination of government land policies
and high production costs.
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| 52% of Ivorian HIV victims are women | | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian minister in charge of
HIV/AIDS eradication, Christine Adjobi, has disclosed here that
women constitute 52 percent of the one million HIV-positive
persons in Cote d'Ivoire.
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| Zimbabwean government seizes more farms from whites | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe government Friday
listed almost 100 farms owned by whites for acquisition
for resettlement, in the latest wave of land seizures
which has driven off thousands of commercial landowners
from their properties since 2000.
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| Zimbabwean expert to open eye bank | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A Zimbabwean eye specialist
said Friday he would open an eye bank, the second such
facility in Africa after South Africa, to help restore
eye sight to thousands of people in the country.
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| Taylor to receive ECOWAS delegation Saturday | | Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - Liberian President Charles Taylor
will Saturday in Monrovia receive the ECOWAS ministerial
delegation, Togolese Defence Minister, Assani Tidjani told
PANA in the Liberian capital Friday.
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| Ghanaian newspaper warns Liberian war belligerents | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's biggest selling newspaper, Daily
Graphic, Friday said the "avoidable and meaningless agony" that
ordinary Liberians are experiencing because of the intransigence
of the government and two rebel groups would have to be accounted
for one day.
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| Five music prizes to be awarded at FESPAM 2003 | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Organisers have planned to award five
music prizes to the most deserving artists of the pan-African
Music Festival (FESPAM) during the 2-9 August cultural in
Kinshasa, the minister of culture, arts and tourism, Jean-Claude
Gakosso, said.
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| Pretoria agrees to repatriate ex-Sao Tomean soldiers | | Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe (PANA) - South-African
authorities have agreed to examine the possibility of
repatriating the remains of ex-Sao Tomean soldiers who died
fighting in the "Buffalo battalion" of the former Apartheid
regime, diplomatic sources in Sao Tome said.
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| Whereabouts of Liberia's Charles Taylor uncertain | | Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - Liberian president Charles Taylor is
said to have been missing for several hours, according to
persistent rumours circulating in Monrovia since midday Friday
and confirmed by sources close to US intelligence services.
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| AU moots peacekeeping force for Somalia | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) is in the process
of sending a transitional peacekeeping force to Somalia as part
of the country's reconciliation and peace-building process, AU
special envoy to Somalia, Muhammad Ali Foum hinted here Friday.
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| Machel demands free education for HIV/AIDS orphans | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Concerns raised by visiting UN Goodwill
Ambassador Graca Machel about the lack of educational support to
children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Uganda coerced the government in
Kampala to pledge commitment to provide them free education.
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| Niger requires 11,000 new teachers in four years | | Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger requires some 11,000 new
teachers in the next four years under its 10-year
Education Development Programme (PDDE), designed to
achieve a universal education goal by 2015, an official
survey by education experts has shown.
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| Somali peace talks enter crucial phase | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali peace and reconciliation
talks taking place in Mbagthi, Nairobi, have entered a
third and critical phase as the more than 500 delegates
prepare to discuss the draft Charter for the establishment
of a unity government, delegates said.
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| Nigeria shortlists Metsu, Kasperczak for top coaching job | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Senegal's World Cup coach Bruno Metsu,
and Henri Kasperczak, who led host Mali to fourth place at the
2002 African Nations Cup, are among six foreign coaches to be
considered for the post of Nigeria's coach for next year's
Nations Cup in Tunisia, Nigerian FA officials told PANA in
Lagos Friday.
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| Rwandan police arrest five politicians | | Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Five Rwandan politicians, including a
presidential aspirant whose candidacy was rejected, have been
undergoing interrogation since Tuesday at the police in Kigali
and Gitarama (centre), police have said in Kigali.
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| S. Africa's Gold Fields quarterly earnings increase | | Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Gold Fields Limited on Friday
reported net earnings for the quarter of R789 million (167 cents
per share) compared to R805 million (171 cents per share) for the
previous quarter and R1,180 million (251 cents per share) for
last year's June 2002 quarter.
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| Nigeria's busiest airport has faulty radar | |
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Officials at Nigeria's busiest airport in
the commercial city of Lagos have reported a faulty radar system
at the airport, causing long flight delays and difficulties in
controlling air traffic, the local press reported Friday.
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| Obasanjo plans monthly luncheons with ministers | |
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is
to meet members of his cabinet at an informal lunch setting on a
monthly basis as part of efforts to create better rapport with
them, the local press reported on Friday, quoting the secretary
to government Ufot Ekaette.
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| Namibia's Fredricks wins in Austria | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Frank Fredricks of Namibia and
Kenya's Job Tanui were among the African athletes who
won their races at Thursday's Intersports Gugl meet
in Linz, Austria.
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| 29 Ethiopian athletes in camp for Paris meet | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian sports authorities have
picked a 29-member squad of athletes to take part in the 9th
International Amateur Athletics Federation World Championships to
be staged in Paris later this month.
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