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 | Guinea Bissau's Premier receives UN team | | Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) - Prime Minister Carlos
Gomes Junior of Guinea Bissau on Wednesday received a
here a UN delegation led by Antonio Evora, a political
affairs adviser in the department of disarmament.
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| Libya, South Africa discuss bilateral commission | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - South African deputy President Jacob Zuma
and the secretary of the Libyan general people's committee
(parliament) Dr Choukri Ghanem on Wednesday chaired bilateral
talks aimed at bolstering ties between the two countries.
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| Change in govt is "complex and difficult", admits Guebuza | |
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza
on Wednesday admitted "complexity and difficulty" to make changes
in governance, because there will always be resistance from those
who benefited from the status quo, and support from those who
believe they will benefit from change.
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| Carlos Gomes Junior not in Bissau presidential race | | Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) - Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior
of Guinea-Bissau said he will not be a candidate during the next
presidential election scheduled in June 2005
"I know I am a natural PAIGC candidate at the next presidential
election. But, I insist on informing everybody that in the name
of internal cohesion within the party and political stability,
and in view of my commitments with the international community, I
am not going to put up my candidacy at the next presidential
election", Carlos Gomes Junior said.
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| Senate approves Nigeria's 2005 budget | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's upper legislative chamber,
the Senate, Wednesday passed the 2005 Appropriation Bill of
1.799 trillion naira, five months after it was submitted to
the parliament by President Olusegun Obasanjo. (133 naira=1USD).
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| Nigeria to get new RORO port in Lagos | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian cabinet Wednesday
approved the construction of a new Roll-On-Roll-Off (RORO)
facility in the nation's bustling Tin Can Island port
at Apapa, Lagos.
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| Togo's Gnassingbe meets Nigerian officials in Abuja | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Faure Gnassingbe, son of the late
Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema, who resigned from
office to pave the way for constitutional order of succession
in his country, was Wednesday in Abuja holding talks with
Nigerian government officials.
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| Libya differs with Kofi Annan over Darfur | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya bitterly criticised UN Secretary-
General Kofi Annan on Wednesday for suggesting that an
international force be sent to Darfur, where the situation is
horrible and dangerous.
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| Mohamed VI played no mediation role in Nouakchott | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - King Mohamed VI of Morocco, who
ended a two-day friendly and working visit here Tuesday, "had not
come to mediate between Burkina Faso and Mauritania," the
Mauritanian minister of communication, Hamoud Ould Abdy,
clarified here Wednesday.
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| Kadhafi, Kabila discuss AU | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi
and DR Congo President Joseph Kabila, discussed on telephone
Wednesday, progress at the African Union (AU), officials said
in Tripoli.
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| Activists want UNAIDS substantiate AIDS funding figures | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Health activists have called on UNAIDS to
justify a US$6 billion reduction in estimates in global HIV/AIDS
resource needs it plans to present Wednesday at a meeting in
London organised by the UN agency, the UK, US and French
governments on global AIDS financing.
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| Burundi civil society hails constitutional referendum | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A coalition of civil society
organisations, COSOM, that participated in the supervision and
monitoring of the 28 February constitutional referendum in
Burundi has declared the process credible, "despite minor
irregularities".
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| Seychelles leader due in Mauritius Thursday | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - President James Michel of
the Seychelles arrived in Mauritius on Thursday where he
is expected to attend 37th independence anniversary
celebrations of the fellow island nation on Saturday.
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| Niger-Benin joint commission to meet amid border row | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Notwithstanding representations made to
the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over border
demarcation, the ninth session of the Niger-Benin joint
commission will still convene this year in Niamey, Niger, foreign
ministry spokesman Cosme Arouna said here Wednesday.
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| WB explores $25b debt waiver for Sudan | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The World Bank plans to reduce the
26-billion US dollar debt owed by the Sudan government to
six billion dollars to enable the war-ravaged nation to be
re-admitted to the list of eligible international
borrowers, a World Bank official said on Wednesday here.
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| Research shows malaria cases grossly under-reported | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A new comprehensive investigation
into the extent of the deadliest form of malaria shows
that the number of malaria cases might be twice as many as
previously estimated, according to researchers in the
latest issue of Nature science magazine.
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| WHO, UNICEF reaffirm common vision for Africa | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO)
new Regional Director for Africa, Luis Gomes Sambo and UNICEF
Director for West and Central Africa, Ezio Murzi, have pledged
to develop a lasting partnership for the improvement of the
health conditions in Africa.
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| Kuwait calls off Zambia friendly | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Kuwait has cancelled a two-game soccer
friendly against Zambia slated for this weekend, citing
circumstances beyond its control, Football Association of Zambia
(FAZ) announced here Wednesday.
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| Sudan reconstruction fundraiser targets $7.8 billion | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An international donor pledging
conference slated for 11-12 April in Oslo, Norway is aimed at
raising 7.8 billion US dollars to reconstruct war-ravaged
southern Sudan, an official of the Khartoum government said here
Wednesday.
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| Congolese govt to recognise rebel leader | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government is to
award official status to Pastor Frederec Bintsamou, the
head of the rebel National Resistance Council (CNR), said
officials in Brazzaville on Wednesday.
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| 33 DR Congo boxers training for contest | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo has lined up 33
boxers to train for the Zone IV of the Supreme Council for
Sport in Africa (SCSA)'s tournament slated for
21-27 March in Libreville, Gabon, DRC Boxing Association
(FECOBOXE) sources have said.
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| Bissau authorities ban Ahmadia sect | | Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) - The government of Guinea-Bissau
has banned the Ahmadia sect, charging that it has been "a threat
to peace and stability" since being authorised in the country
last January.
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| Holding company to clean up Zambia's Copperbelt region | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - ZCCM Investments Holdings Plc, a
government mining company is to commit 50.8 million dollars to
cleaning up the mineral rich Copperbelt region following
privatisation of all copper and cobalt mines there, officials
confirmed here Wednesday.
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| FIFA rejects Zanzibar's bid for separate membership | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - FIFA has rejected Zanzibar's application
for admission to the international football federation, arguing
that the area, which is a twin-state with Tanzania was not
recognised by the international community as an independent
entity, nor was it likely to be in the foreseeable future.
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| TI urges crackdown on corruption in Africa | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Transparency International (TI),
the global non-governmental body devoted to combating corruption,
has urged African business executives and governments to
strengthen accountability and curb corruption.
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| ICG report blames UN over inaction in Darfur | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN Security Council must
overcome its divisions over the troubled Sudanese region
of Darfur and act immediately to halt the mounting
atrocities and the rising death toll there, according to
the Brussels (Belgium)-based International Crisis Group
(ICG).
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| Nigerian MPs push for repudiation of external debt | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's House of Representatives
(Parliament's lower chamber) has passed a resolution urging the
federal government to stop further payment of the country's
external debt estimated at $35 billion to free much-needed funds
for social programmes.
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| Obasanjo to commission power plant | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria is
billed to commission a $471-million independent power plant (IPP)
built by Agip oil company at Okpai in oil-rich Delta state, by
the end of March.
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| Nigeria lures Turkish investors | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar
has asked Turkish companies to invest in Nigeria, saying this
would further cement the cooperation between Africa and Europe.
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