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afrol News, 9 October - Music stars at this weekend’s MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) in Nairobi, Kenya, can have a significant impact in educating young people about HIV and changing their behaviour, a top UNAIDS official said today.

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afrol News, 7 October - Young people across Liberia will get their shot at fame as national auditions get under way for a televised music contest in the West African country, the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) announced today as it helped launched the event.

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Egypt
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Egypt demands Pharoanic coffin back

afrol News, 23 March - Egyptian authorities are expected to make an official request to the United States government demanding the return of the Pharoanic wooden coffin which was allegedly smuggled out of the country over a century ago, the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt said in a statement.

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Cameroon
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Cameroonian songbird jailed for rioting

afrol News, 10 October - Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) has condemned three-year prison sentence and excessive fine imposed on well-known Cameroonian singer-songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga (real name Pierre Roger Lambo Sandjo) who was arrested earlier this year for allegedly being part of anti-government demonstrations.

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Egypt to retrieve ancient statue from Netherlands

afrol News, 23 July - Discovered in Saqara in 1985, stolen then auctioned, an ancient funerary statue "could finally go home to Egypt where it belongs," according to the Cairo government.

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» 04.06.2007 - Angola, Zimbabwe go for cultural tourism
» 26.03.2007 - Nigeria's native languages to promote science application
» 04.01.2007 - Liberia scolded for trying to uproot Weah's statue
» 11.12.2006 - Egypt's historic sites seriously threatened
» 30.10.2006 - Senegal increases subsidies for private media
» 27.10.2006 - South African airport named after anti-apartheid hero
» 13.09.2006 - Preparations for Timbuktu manuscript centre advance
» 04.09.2006 - Somali Islamists ban music; "intimidated" top artist agrees
» 24.05.2006 - South Africa's film industry joins forces with UK
» 03.05.2006 - More African World Heritage sites wanted
» 02.05.2006 - Burundi sued over photo on 10,000 franc note
» 03.04.2006 - Egypt's top mufti bans statues
» 24.02.2006 - Nigeria hopes for forex revenues on arts, culture
» 07.02.2006 - Editorial: Banning blasphemy would be an insult to Islam
» 04.11.2005 - Seychelles Creole seeks a place in the Internet
» 26.04.2005 - Axum obelisk has returned to Ethiopia
» 31.03.2005 - Role of African memorial museums discussed
» 18.03.2005 - Axum obelisk finally returning to Ethiopia
» 09.03.2005 - Protests as South Africa plans to rename capital Tshwane
» 03.03.2005 - Ouagadougou culture life blossoms during Fespaco
» 01.03.2005 - Finances discussed at pan-African film festival
» 10.02.2005 - South Africa's Robben Island hosts Valentine's weddings
» 09.02.2005 - African rock art "under severe threat"
» 08.02.2005 - Guinea-Bissau launches Bolama as world heritage site
» 30.09.2004 - Next year's carnival prepared in Guinea-Bissau
» 24.09.2004 - Plans made for railway museum in Sierra Leone
» 13.09.2004 - Nigeria's filmmakers "comply with censors board"
» 19.08.2004 - Zambian TV employees fired after "masturbation film"
» 24.05.2004 - South Africa addresses deaths at traditional initiations
» 13.04.2004 - Nigeria upgrades main local languages
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