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Nigeria
Politics
Niger Delta crisis set to end

afrol News - Peace talks scheduled for later this month on Niger Delta are believed would stop all acts of violence and criminality that have beleaguered edgy oil-rich region.

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Zimbabwe | Gambia
Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights
Gambia leader validates Mugabe's re-election

afrol News - 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.

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Africa | Kenya
Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
Hope for African banana farmers

afrol News - 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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Comoros
Politics | Society | Human rights
Toybou confirmed Anjouan president

afrol News - Moussa Toybou has been confirmed the winner of Anjouan's hotly contested presidential run-off by the Constitutional Court, beating his challenger, Mohamed Djanfari.

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Africa | Congo Kinshasa
Politics | Human rights
Congo ex-leader appears in court

afrol News - Congolese warlord and rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague today.

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Nigeria
Politics | Society
Dispute over ceding of Bakassi continues

afrol News - Disagreement over the handing over of disputed oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon by Nigeria continues, despite efforts by both West African states to permanently resolve the matter.

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Czechs and Angolans formalise aid agreements in 2001

Africa | World
Economy - Development | Politics
Eastern Europe starts repaying Africa

afrol News - The fall of the Iron Curtain cost Africa much in terms of reduced investments and development aid, which in the 1990s was redirected to Eastern Europe. But now, following EU demands and increased wealth, country after country in the region is setting up development cooperation agencies focusing on Africa, with booming budgets.

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Protected reef coast in Seychelles: "Stay in Europe to protect the climate"

Africa
Environment - Nature | Agriculture - Nutrition | Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
Africa to pay for Europe's "green policies"

afrol News - In efforts to make quick and symbolic gains in Europe's otherwise failed policies to curb climate gas emissions, environmental and anti-globalisation politicians are aiming at Africa's few economic success stories. Campaigns to buy locally produced food and travel to local destinations particularly hit out against African products.

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Environment - Nature | Science - Education
The Mangroves
an undervalued ecosystem

afrol News - Historically classified "unhealthy wastelands" or "useless swamps" by development-eager authorities and businesses, the mangrove forests actually are one of the most fascinating resources in tropical Africa. The trees manage to live on the edge between flooding rivers, tidal waves intruding with salt water and the drylands, where they create new land and environs rich in fish, birds, wood and other resources. Finally, their value is being discovered.

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