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 | Plea for humanitarian aid in northern CAR | | Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Humanitarian disaster is looming in
the regions of north-western Central African Republic this year
if nothing is quickly done in the rescue of residents of those
regions affected by conflicts in the past few years.
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| Kenyan police pounce on "alternative press" | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Kenyan police raids against two tabloid
newspapers on Monday "call in question" the country's commitment to
press freedom, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists
(CPJ) said on Tuesday.
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| Yaounde hosts 30th African insurance general assembly | | Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - About 400 delegates from 20 countries
on Tuesday entered the second day of the 30th general assembly of
the Federation of National Insurance Companies convening in
Yaounde under the theme "Insurance and sustainable development".
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| Senegal prepare for football friendly with Norway | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese national football coach
Abdoulaye Sarr released on Tuesday in Dakar the list of 21
players who will play against Norway in a friendly match here on
1 March at the initiative of the NGO Plan International.
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| US trains Nigerian officials on financial crimes | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A three-day training programme organised
by the US Government on financial crimes, asset forfeiture and
money laundering for Nigerian prosecutors and investigators got
underway in Lagos Tuesday, according to a statement from the US
Consulate in Nigeria.
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| Bangui denies presence of Ugandan rebels in CAR | | Bangui, Central Africa (PANA) - Authorities in the Central
African Republic (CAR) on Tuesday officially denied rumours that
Joseph Kony, who heads the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in
northern Uganda, was at Bambouti, 1,362 km east of the capital,
Bangui.
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| Police fire teargas as Ghana march turns rowdy | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The second demonstration against a
controversial bill that would allow Ghanaians outside the country
the right to vote in their countries of abode turned nasty on
Tuesday when police fired teargas to disperse the marchers.
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| Belgian party wants commission to regularise stay of migrants | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Belgian Socialist Party (PS), a
member of the ruling coalition, has submitted a draft law for the
creation of a permanent commission charged with the
regularisation of migrants lacking legal travel documents, a
source at the Chamber of Representative revealed in Brussels.
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| No case of bird flu in Libya | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan and World Health Organisation (WHO)
officials have confirmed that no case of avian flu has been reported in
the North African nation.
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| Mauritania, EU fishing talks hit snag | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Renegotiation of the fishing agreement
between Mauritanian and the European Union (EU) has hit a snag on the
question of the EU's financial commitment to access Mauritanian marine
resources, officials said here Tuesday.
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| Libyan official, European envoys discuss illegal immigration | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Secretary for Foreign and
International Co-operation, Abderrahman Chalgham, in Tripoli on Tuesday
met with ambassadors of Spain, France and Italy to discuss illegal
immigration and the organisation of a conference of the African Union
and the European Union to tackle the phenomenon.
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| Guinea Bissau wages campaign to stop corruption by officials | | Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) - Guinea-Bissau is waging a huge campaign to
stamp out the embezzlement of public funds by high ranking officials, and
the exercise Monday saw the arrest of several key officials, including
Rene Barros, the head of the country's electricity company (EAGB).
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| Judge hears oil firm in ex-Mauritanian minister's graft case | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A number of officials from the Australian
oil company Woodside appeared before an examining magistrate here in
connection with the case of former Energy and Oil minister Zeidane Ould
H'Meida, charged with "economic crimes", judicial sources revealed
Tuesday.
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| West Africa confers on FGM in Bamako | |
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A sub-regional conference on female genital
mutilations opened here Tuesday with over 200 delegates from nine
countries discussing the harmful traditional practice common across West
Africa and neighbouring regions.
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| West African experts discuss common position on cotton | | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Experts from the eight member States
of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) Tuesday continued
deliberations here on harmonising and carving out a common position on
cotton for the sub-region's francophone nations.
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| IGAD refugee meet roots for greater support for IDPs | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An Inter-Governmental Authority for Development
(IGAD) ministerial conference on refugees, returnees and internally
displaced persons (IDPs) in the IGAD region Tuesday called on the
international community to fulfil its commitments, particularly in
continuously providing aid to large groups of displaced persons in the
region.
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| Moroccan King due in Congo Brazzaville | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
is expected to begin a two-day visit to Congo Brazzaville
Tuesday evening, the first official trip to the country
by a Moroccan monarch, official sources said here.
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| African LDCs need more support, says UN official | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Although quite a number
of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) were on their way
to implementing the commitments with their development
partners, the latter need to provide additional
resources for the LDCs to achieve the agreed
development goals of this decade, a senior official of
the United Nations said here Tuesday.
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| Kerekou visits US | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin President Mathieu Kerekou left
Cotonou Monday night for Washington D.C., on a three-day official
visit to the US, an official statement said here.
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| Tension ahead of Uganda poll | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - There is palpable tension ahead of
Uganda's presidential election Thursday with opposition leader
Kizza Besigye claiming his supporters are being intimidated
by the country's army.
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