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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, March 24th, 2014
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan rounded up his state visit to Namibia yesterday where he was conferred with “Order of Welwitschia”, the Namibia highest national honour, by President Hifikepunye Pohamba.The ceremony took place at the Independence Stadium, Windhoek, and was attended by the founding President and the father of the Namibian nation, Dr Sam Nujoma.Over 35,000 persons […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
BELBEK (AFP) – Armed forces backed by armoured vehicles broke inside a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea on Saturday, firing from automatic weapons into the air, an AFP correspondent saw.An armoured vehicle rammed through the gate of the base, and an ambulance was also seen approaching with sirens blaring, as armed men went inside and pointed […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Israel says it has attacked several Syrian military sites in retaliation for a bombing that wounded four of its troops in the occupied Golan Heights. Among the targets were a headquarters, a training facility and artillery batteries, the Israeli military said. The Syrian army had “aided and abetted” the attack on a patrol near the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
[print] Bayo Olupohunda Bayo Olupohunda | credits: File copy Leave our miniskirts alone,’’ screamed one of the posters held by hundreds of women in Johannesburg, South Africa defending the rights of women to wear miniskirts without harassment. The protest which was an outrage against a young woman who had her clothes torn off by hawkers […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
March 13, 2014 by Greg Odogwu Up till now, the whole world is still wondering what could have happened to the Boeing 777-200ER which took off from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, at 12:41 a.m. on Saturday, with 239 people on board. It was expected to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. the same day, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
FREETOWN (AFP) – Sierra Leone’s former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, widely credited with returning peace to the shattered west African nation after years of brutal civil war, died on Thursday aged 82. Kabbah, who led the country during an 11-year conflict in which thousands had their limbs hacked off and 120,000 people were killed, was […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria on Thursday protested the “merciless beating” of one its nationals by South African police and demanded that the perpetrators be punished. Amateur video footage of two armed uniformed policemen and private guards punching and kicking a man on a Cape Town street went viral last week. The alleged victim has been […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Five people, including a one-year-old girl, have been buried alive in an illegal gold mining pit in Ghana’s Central Region, an Accra-based radio station has reported. It said the accident occurred at Akookoso, in the Amansie Central district, on Tuesday when they were in the pit digging for gold. The child was with her parents […]
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Africa & World Politics, Aviation, Headlines
Sunday, March 9th, 2014
An Indian artist, Sudersan Pattnaik, working on a sand sculpture with a message of prayers for the passengers of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 … on Sunday. | credits: AFP. Vietnamese navy planes have spotted what could be fragments from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared almost two days ago. Officials said it […]
