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Draft resolution calls for sanctions on Eritrea

A proposed U.N. resolution is calling for an arms embargo and other tough sanctions against Eritrea for supplying arms to opponents of the Somali government and refusing to resolve a border dispute with Djibouti. Some council...

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Africa: NEPAD And Agra - Partnering for Action On Africa's Farms

African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government....

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Women Are Citizens With Indivisible Rights - President Jammeh

The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, has said that women are first and foremost human beings with God-given rights, citizens with indivisible rights, guarantee the survival of the...

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Nigeria: Bakassi - Take Cameroon to UN, AU, Representatives Urge FG

Worried by the recent attacks on Nigerians in the Bakassi Peninsula by Cameroonian gendarmes, the House of Representatives Thursday advised the federal government to formally report to the United Nations Organization (UN), the...

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Africa: Leaders Tackle Plight of Their Victims

Kampala — Five heads of state, ministers and delegates from across the African continent met in Kampala last week for a special summit to deal with forced displacement in Africa. The focus of the conference was especially on...

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Successful Human Rights Dialogue between the EU and the African Union

Vrijdag 20 november 2009 | Swedish Presidency of the European Union ] The fifth successful round of the AU-EU Human Rights Dialogue shows that the Dialogue has become a valuable and useful part of the AU and

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Rwanda: Parliament Passes Anti-Terrorism Bill

Kigali — Parliament yesterday gave a nod to the ratification of the African Union protocol on prevention and combating of terrorism which was adopted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July 2004. The protocol sets out obligations of...

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Activist Probing Guinea Massacre Denied Entry

Activist Probing Guinea Massacre Of Opposition Supporters Denied Entry To Country (AP) BANJUL, Gambia (AP) - A human rights activist says he's been denied entrance to Guinea, where he planned to investigate a massacre of...

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Africa: Declaration of Sharm El Sheikh of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation

Below is a statement prepared on the 12th of November, 2009, by member countries of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) approving of the Sharm El Sheikh Plan arrived at during the last meeting in Egypt.

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Zimbabwe: Respect Our Foreign Policy

opinion Harare — THERE is a saying that goes, "Show me your friends and I will tell who you are". This could best surmise Morgan Tsvangirai's insistence against all decency to fly to Morocco today -- for the second time in...

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