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Uganda: Eight Pick Nomination Forms for Presidency
Fri, 09/10/2010 - 02:33Eight presidential aspirants have picked nominations forms to run in next year's elections. The main political players are yet to do so.
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Tanzania: U.S. Sugar Imports to Hurt Economy
Fri, 09/10/2010 - 02:29A DECISION by the US government to open its market to more sugar imports is likely to have a negative impact on low producers of the commodity worldwide including Tanzania.
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South Africa: Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates
Fri, 09/10/2010 - 02:26The Reserve Bank has cut the repo rate by 50 basis points, to 6 percent.
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Somalia: Hijacked Chemical Tanker Released
Fri, 09/10/2010 - 00:25MV PANEGA was hijacked on 11 May 2010, approximately 100 nautical miles east of Aden (Yemen) in the Gulf of Aden. Today, 9 September, the vessel was released from Garacad from under pirate control.
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Somalia: Insurgents Claim Airport Attack
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:59Somalia's main insurgent group, the Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab, claimed responsibility Thursday for a suicide attack on Mogadishu's main airport. The assault killed at least two African troops, three civilians and five suicide attackers.
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Madagascar: UN Warns of Locust Plague
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:56The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned of an "imminent and severe threat from the increasing number of swarms of Migratory Locusts" in Madagascar, requiring "immediate response assistance to prevent a humanitarian disaster".
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Congo-Kinshasa: Radio Okapi Wins International Award
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:55The United Nations-sponsored radio station based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has the largest Francophone audience in sub-Saharan Africa, is the winner of this year's Free Media Pioneer award bestowed by the International Press Institute (IPI), it was announced today.
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Kenya: Help HIV-Positive Children in Pain, Urges HRW
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:52A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Kenyan government needs to do more to provide palliative care for children with chronic illnesses, including cancer and HIV/AIDS.
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Somalia: Civilian Deaths Reach 'Alarming' Levels, Says UN
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:50Clashes between Somali government forces and Al-Shabab fighters in Mogadishu have reached "alarming levels", with at least 250 people killed and 400 wounded in the past two weeks, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned.
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Africa: Drug-Resistant HIV Threat Looming
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:50HIV-positive patients about to start antiretroviral treatment are warned not to skip even the occasional dose of their medication because of the virus' ability to mutate rapidly and become drug resistant; but what about patients who have never taken treatment and already have a drug-resistant strain of the virus?
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Gambia: Court Jails Human Rights Defender
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:45The Director of African Democracy and Good Governance Edwin Nebolisa Nwakame was on Monday sentenced by Magistrate Abeke of Banjul Magistrates' Court to a mandatory jail term of six months imprisonment with hard labour.
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Sudan: Radio Presenter Gunned Down
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:31Following Sunday's murder in Angola of Alberto Graves Chakussanga, a radio journalist with a station critical of the ruling MPLA government, authorities must conduct a thorough and transparent investigation exploring all possible leads and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday.
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Somalia: Mogadishu Clashes Claim 20 Lives
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:24At least 20 people have been killed and dozens others injured in fresh clashes between Somali government and the insurgent groups, Al-Shabaab that rocked Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports.
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Somalia: Deadly Suicide Bomb Attack on Mogadishu Airport
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:23At least 25 people have been killed after a suicide car bomber exploded at the gate to Mogadishu's airport Thursday, where a high ranking international delegation was having talks with the leaders of the Transitional Federal Government, Radio Garowe reports.
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Nigeria: Sack of Service Chiefs Well-Timed, Defence Minister Says
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:19COMMENDATIONS and condemnations, yesterday, trailed Wednesday's sack of service chiefs and the Inspector General of Police by President Goodluck Jonathan.
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Zimbabwe: A Long Dry Season
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 22:17Headmaster Njabulo Mpofu has weathered long dry spells before, but the water troubles affecting his school in the arid Midlands region of Zimbabwe are severe.
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Sudan: Obama to Help Rescue Peace Deal; Northern Official Says Secession Not 'Inevitable'
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:58A senior Sudanese official on Thursday said Sudan was continuing to work to achieve unity of the country's north and south and did not believe that southern succession was "inevitable" as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated on Wednesday.
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Uganda: Alliance Not Party's Target
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:02The Democratic Party (DP) has not entered, and has no intention of entering into an alliance with UPC.
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Uganda: Qwela's Real Coming Out
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:02At a hastily arranged house party in Munyonyo in early 2009 a maximum of twenty guests milled around the pool. At one point a whisper circulated amongst those in attendance that Qwela, then known as the band who played regularly at Emin Pasha on Friday nights, would be performing. By the time the band arrived they constituted about half the people in attendance.
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Uganda: Opposition Welcomes Online Voters Register But Decries Missing Pictures
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:01The Electoral Commission (EC) partnered with the United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development, to post Uganda's entire voter register online in a searchable and secure format. The online system will make the vote registrar more transparent and accessible by allowing individual voters to verify their registration status and polling stations via the internet.
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