Zimbabwe | Gambia
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Economy | Elections | Law | People | Violence
Gambia leader validates Mugabe's re-election
afrol News, 4 July - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has validated the re-election of his Zimbabwean counterpart in a controversial presidential polls re-off in which Robert Mugabe was the sole candidate. Read more
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Africa | Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Development | Economy | Food Security | People | Trade
Hope for African banana farmers
afrol News, 4 July - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's commitment to grant US $74,000 to sponsor the planned pan-African banana conference in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa is a blessing for African banana farmers.
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Algeria
Expression | Law | People | Religion
Algerians convicted for Christianity
afrol News, 3 July - Two Algerian Christians were each handed a (British Pounds) £800 fine and six-month suspended jail terms yesterday, after Algerian court found them guilty of unlawfully trying to convert Muslims to their faith. Read more
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Congo Kinshasa
Children | Crime | Law | War Crimes
Congolese warlord released
afrol News, 3 July - International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have ordered for the release of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga after prosecutors failed to provide critical information to the defence lawyers. Mr Lubanga is held detained in The Hague, Netherlands.
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Zambia
Affairs | People
Zambia's President Mwanawasa "has died"
afrol News, 3 July - South African media report that Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died today following the consequences of a stroke, quoting a Zambian High Commission spokesman in Pretoria. His reported death has not been announced yet in Zambia.
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Chad
Religion | War & Peace
Dozens killed in Chad religious clashes
afrol News, 2 July - Chadian troops killed 72 followers of a Muslim spiritual leader who had threatened to launch a "Holy war" in defence of the Islamic faith, Interior Minister Ahmat Magamat Bachir confirmed today. Chad has no history of religious clashes since pre-colonial times.
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South Africa
Affairs | Crime | Diplomacy | People | Terrorism | War & Peace
Mandela off US terror list
afrol News, 1 July - President George W Bush has finally appended his signatures on the removal of Nelson Mandela, the former South African President and leader of the governing African National Congress (ANC), from the United States terror watch list, the White House confirmed.
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Ghana
Affairs | Good governance | People | Religion
Tussle over Ghana's presidential award
afrol News, 30 June - President John Kufuor has finally broken his long silence on the wild public punching that followed the creation of the new highest honour, the "Grand Order of the Star and Eagle of Ghana", dispelling notion from some quarters that he had designed the award for himself. Read more
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Sudan
Disasters | Infrastructure
Cargo plane crashes in Khartoum
afrol News, 30 June - A Sudanese cargo plane has crashed near Khartoum airport today shortly after takeoff, killing at least four crew members on board. It is the second cargo plane crash in Sudan in a week and the third this month. Read more
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Africa
Affairs | HIV-AIDS | People
Africa alone reels with heterosexual AIDS epidemic
afrol News, 27 June - The head of the AIDS efforts at the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Kevin De Cock, has said the threat of a heterosexual AIDS pandemic is officially over and decades of predictions that the disease would spread through general populations across the globe were wrong except in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more
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Cape Verde
Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Finance | Fisheries | Food Security | Nutrition | People | Poverty | Trade
More funds for Cape Verde's rural poor
afrol News, 27 June - Cape Verde Island's poverty eradication drive has been boost by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development's (IFAD) pumping of US $4.2 million to the West African country's rural poor communities, bringing the agency's total supplementary loan funding for the programme to US $13.5 million.
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Gambia
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Economy | Law | Mining | People
Gambia gets "huge" iron ore
afrol News, 26 June - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has announced the discovery of "huge" deposits of iron ore in his country, refusing to reveal the exact location of the natural resource until mineral exerts have finalised their work.
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