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| Ould Daddah biography | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Former Mauritanian president
Moctar Ould Daddah, who died Tuesday in Paris was born in 1924 in
Boutilimit, 154 km east of Nouakchott in Trarza region.
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| SA minister condemns non-declaration of hazardous cargo | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South African Environmental
Affairs and Tourism Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa has strongly
condemned the non-declaration of extremely hazardous chemicals on
board Sea Elegance, a vessel that caught fire last weekend
outside the Durban harbour.
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| Admirers remember Sankara | | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Sympathetic political parties
and civil society groups commemorated the 16th anniversary here
Wednesday, of the assassination of former Burkinabe leader Thomas
Sankara calling for unity and justice.
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| Algerian workers go on a general strike | | Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - Tension is running high in Algeria
against the backdrop of strikes in several sectors, after a
fruitless meeting involving the government, trade unions and
employers.
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| Kenya test-tube baby project generates controversy | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A research breakthrough announced last
Sunday by a team of Kenyan medical doctors on test-tube
conception has sparked a heated debate, especially among the
religious community, which condemned the move as "an abuse of
mankind".
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| DR Congo musicians denied visas to Belgium | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Musical "Afrique en Classique,"
comprising Belgian and DR Congo musicians, has called off
a planned tour of Belgium after the Belgian embassy in
Kinshasa refused visas to the Congolese members of the
group, official sources said Wednesday in Brussels.
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| Malian Diaspora urged to invest at home | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Some 400 Malians, mostly in junior
positions work in about 50 international, regional and sub-
regional organisations, according to figures released here by the
ministry in charge of Malians living abroad.
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| Madagascar bubbles ahead of local elections | | Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Madagascar is in the grip of
political effervescence in view of council elections billed for
17 and 23 November, with the ruling Tiako i Madagasikara (I love
Madagascar) party saying it expects to land at least a thousand
out of the 1,513 mayors to be elected.
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| UN representative to meet former Ivorian rebels Thursday | | Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The special representative of the
UN Secretary General and chairman of the Follow-up Committee on
the Ivorian peace agreements, Albert Tevoedjre would meet here
Thursday with leaders of the New Forces (former rebel coalition)
as part of efforts to rekindle the process of national
reconciliation.
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| Gambia to launch NEPAD Coalition | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian Vice-President Isatou
Njie-Saidy, will Thursday launch an "NGO Coalition on
NEPAD (the New Partnership for Africa's Development),"
the organisers said in Banjul Wednesday.
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| ACP-EU parliament discusses Zimbabwe | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The ACP/EU Parliament discussed a
report Tuesday on Zimbabwe, presented by co-chairman Adrien
Houngbedji of Benin, who recently led a delegation of ACP MPs to
the embattled southern African country, sources disclosed here
Wednesday.
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| Kenya plans to abolish death penalty | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government plans to
abolish the death penalty because it is not only an
infringement on human rights but also against the
corrective measures for which prisons were established,
Home Affairs Assistant Minister Wilfred Machage said
Wednesday.
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| France backs UEMOA cotton initiative | | Paris, France (PANA) - French Industry minister Nicole Fontaine
is due in Burkina Faso 16-17 October to affirm France's support
for an initiative by several African cotton producing countries
to push for fair world market conditions, the minister indicated
here Wednesday.
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| Fresh fighting in Liberia | | Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - Barely 48 hours after the
inauguration of Liberia's transitional government,
fresh fighting has been reported in the south and
central parts of the country, UN and rebel officials
said Wednesday.
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| Remains of ex-Mauritanian President due in Nouakchott | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The remains of former Mauritanian
President Moctar Ould Daddah, who died Tuesday evening at the age
of 79 in a Paris hospital after a long illness would be flown
home on Friday for burial, reliable sources indicated Wednesday.
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| European envoys meet Mauritanian presidential candidate | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Presidential hopeful Mohamed
Khouna Ould Haidallah met Tuesday at his home with four European
diplomats here, including Patrick Nicoloso of France, Derdn
Morast of Germany, Enriqué Ruiz-Moléro of Spain and EU resident
representative Dominique Pavard.
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| Ghana wins All-Africa Games men's soccer bronze | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ghana Wednesday won the bronze medal
in the men's soccer event at the All-Africa Games, beating
Zambia 4-1 on penalties after both teams had played a 2-2
draw at full time in Nigeria's south-eastern city of Calabar.
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| Nigerian boxers depart for Afro-Asian Games in India | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The seven Nigerian boxers who
made the final of their weight categories at the current
All-Africa Games in Abuja have travelled to India for
the inaugural Afro-Asian games billed to start 24 October,
Nigerian officials said Wednesday.
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| Fredericks blasts absentee stars at Africa games | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Namibian star runner Frankie
Fredericks Wednesday blasted African top athletics
who stayed away from the ongoing Eighth All-Africa
Games in Abuja, after winning a silver medal in the
200m race, clocking 20.43 seconds.
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| Cameroon gets US$94.7 million from Global Fund to fight AIDS | | Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - The Global Fund to fight AIDS,
Malaria and Tuberculosis has granted Cameroon 94.72 million
dollars to support its programmes on the control of the three
killer diseases for five years (2004-2009), the Public Health
Ministry announced Wednesday in Yaounde.
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| Nigerian bourse upbeat in midweek trading | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Mid-week transactions at the
Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) were upbeat Wednesday
with some 49.46 million shares worth 921.62 million
Naira traded in 2,710 deals, against the 35.63 million
shares valued at 430.49 million Naira exchanged in
2,654 deals Tuesday.
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| Midweek trading up at Nairobi bourse | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Midweek trading at the Nairobi
Stock Exchange rose Wednesday to 63 million Kenyan shillings
on a volume of 1.3 million shares, against the 56 million
shillings realised from 1.5 million shares Tuesday.
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| Cameroonian opposition leader for political change | | Paris, France (PANA) - Cameroonian opposition leader Jean-Jacques
Ekindi, who heads the Progressive Movement of Cameroon, has urged
his abroad-based compatriots to join the Front of Cameroonian
Forces for Change he created recently in Paris.
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| WFP, UNICEF to feed rural Zambian children | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP)
is collaborating with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to
provide food and basic health assistance to 19,000 school
children in rural Zambia, a WFP official said in Lusaka
Wednesday.
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| Former senior minister joins opposition party in Malawi | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Former senior Malawian cabinet minister
Harry Thomson on Wednesday announced that he has joined the
opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) because he had seen
the potential among its ranks similar to the ruling United
Democratic Front (UDF) when it was being formed in the early
1990s.
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| Late Mauritanian leader's family against State Funeral | | Paris, France (PANA) - The family of Moctar Ould Daddah,
Mauritania's first president, said they were against the holding
of State Funeral for him as suggested by the current regime of
President Maouya Sidi Ahmed Ould Taya, official sources told PANA
on Wednesday.
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| Nigerian boxing finalists depart for Afro-Asia games | |
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Seven Nigerian boxers who made it into
the finals of their weight categories at the current All-Africa
Games in Abuja have travelled out to India to attend the
inaugural Afro-Asian Games starting on 24 October 2003, Team
Nigeria officials said on Wednesday.
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| Young Patriots to march in support of Ivorian army | | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Patriotic Youth Alliance for
National Revival (AJSN), a movement close to Ivorian President
Laurent Gbagbo, said that it would hold a demonstration in
support of the country's armed forces on Saturday in Tiebissou, a
town located 60 km from the central city of Bouake.
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| French industry minister visits UEMOA Thursday | | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - French Industry Minister
Nicole Fontaine arrives here Thursday on a two-day working visit
to the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), the
French embassy announced Wednesday.
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| Gambia reports drastic drop in leprosy cases | | Banjul, The Gambia (PANA) - Leprosy is on the verge of being
eradicated in Gambia, according to Keway Saidy-Khan, senior
Leprosy and TB Control Officer in the Gambian health ministry,
who said just 41 leprosy cases were recorded in the country in
the past 12 months.
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| Kenyans demand Truth Commission | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Over 90 percent of Kenyans told a
task force appointed by President Mwai Kibaki early this year
that a truth and justice reconciliation commission must be
created to probe past ills committed against humanity since
the country's independence in 1963.
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| Libreville to host meeting on business law in Africa | | Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Justice and Finance Ministers from
Central and West Africa are expected to gather here 17-19 October
for a ministerial session of the Organisation for the
Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), organisers have
affirmed.
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| Liberians lay hopes on platform of interim leader | | Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - A cross-section of Liberians on
Wednesday expressed cautious optimism that Chairman Gyude Bryant
of the national transitional government would rescue their
country from the brink of destruction and place it on the path to
recovery.
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| Commonwealth underscores need for dialogue in Zimbabwe | | Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Commonwealth secretary
general Don McKinnon on Wednesday stressed the importance of
dialogue in Zimbabwe between the two major parties, saying this
was critical to the resolution of all other issues affecting that
country.
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| Northern Kenyans on the verge of starvation | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The authorities in the northern Kenya
district of Marsabit on Wednesday said the district was in dire
need of urgent relief supplies following a two-year dry spell
that has affected both human and livestock.
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| Women in northern Mali combat desertification | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Women in Mali's remote northern town of
Bourem grouped in some twenty associations have launched a vast
reafforestation campaign to combat the surge of sand dunes,
according to sources at the environment ministry here.
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| Nigeria police prosecutes arrested labour leaders | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian police Tuesday evening
arraigned the six labour leaders arrested Monday before an Abuja
magistrate court on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy,
trespass and inciting the public in a manner that is likely to
cause a breach of the peace.
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| Mauritania's Moktar Ould Daddah dies in Paris | | Paris, France (PANA) - Moktar Ould Daddah, first president of
Mauritania after independence, passed away late Tuesday at the
military hospital of Val-de-Grace in Paris, where he had been
admitted for several weeks at the intensive care unit, a reliable
source said Wednesday.
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| Gambari urges concrete action on Africa's development | | New York, UN (PANA) - The current debate on the New Partnership
for Africa's Development (NEPAD) at the UN General Assembly is an
opportunity to press for concrete action from the UN system and
development partners to deliver on their pledges, Under-Secretary
General and Special Adviser on Africa Ibrahim Gambari said here
Tuesday.
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