Central Africa

Rwanda: UN Calls for Action Against FDRL

Kigali — The United Nations has welcomed the recent arrest in Germany of top leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), and urged other nations to follow suit. Allan Doss, the United Nations top envoy...

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Of Twitter, Plagiarism and Online Journalism

Posted by Zach Lowe As online journalists, we bristle when people think the standards for Web stories are lower than for those in print. In the first, the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, a family-owned paper based outside of...

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Zambian coach receives African Cup draw "with pinch of salt"

LUSAKA, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Zambian soccer coach Herve Renard has received the draw for next year's African Cup of Nations with mixed feelings, saying the group his team has been placed in was tough, the Zambia Daily Mail...

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Gabon grapples with fight against child trafficking

Whereas the entire humanity was on Friday marking the 20th anniversary of the convention on children's rights, in Gabon, a number of children, illegally brought into the country from West Africa, continue to be exploited by the...

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New sanctuary for baby gorillas

Goma - Conservationists say Congolese schoolchildren will soon be able to take a closer look at baby mountain gorillas. Virunga National Park spokesperson Samantha Newport says the park is building a sanctuary where...

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Algeria, Tunisia climb in latest FIFA rankings

Algeria climbed one spot to reach 28th place in the latest FIFA world football rankings. According to the list published Friday (November 20th) on the world football body's website, Algeria rank 4th in Africa, behind Cameroon,...

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Morocco vies to host 2016 CAN

Morocco will soon submit its candidacy to host the 2016 African Cup of Nations, Goal.com reported on Friday (November 20th). The decision is reportedly part of a wider plan to update the country's football infrastructure....

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34 LRA rebels surrender in DR Congo

By Vision Reporter A total of 34 rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have surrendered to the UPDF intelligence squad in Faradje in eastern Congo Nzara, according to military sources. “They turned themselves in at 11:00am...

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Three of a kind: Revealing language`s universal essence

On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are...

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Africa: Opacity Blamed for Bad Oil Deals in Africa

Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining industries, have blamed opacity in oil and mineral...

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