Tag Archives: Associated Press
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors have two weeks to finalize corruption charges against two dozen people who have been arrested, including a senior Cabinet minister. The 24 people charged include the head of Ethiopia’s … read more »
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Anti-Corruption, Associated Press, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Melaku Fenta, prosecutor, Rod Blagojevich corruption charges
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AP – Authorities have a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in custody and are taking him to federal court, according to the Associated Press. A spokeswoman for the the US attorney’s office in Boston would not comment to Yahoo … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Associated Press, Boston, Boston Marathon, CBS, CNN, Federal Bureau of Investigation, IndepthAfrica, NBC News, Yahoo News
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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Central African Republic’s self-appointed leader on Saturday announced the creation of a new council that will choose an interim president, a move aimed at placating the international community after he seized power by force … read more »
Posted in CAR, Central Africa, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Associated Press, Bangui, Central African Republic, Djotodia, France, François Bozizé, IndepthAfrica, Michel Djotodia, United States
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by Herman Grech The media is largely responsible for fuelling racist and xenophobic sentiments. Yes, I’m the first to admit it. Some news organisations have been responsible for driving racist stereotypes of African migrants, often without realising it. Some years … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, Somali, South Sudan
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Tagged Associated Press, Black people, Cecilia Malmström, Eastern Europe, Hal Far, IndepthAfrica, Irregular immigration, Malta, Times
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Oscar Pistorius wants to train again and recently went back to visit his regular track in South Africa’s capital, according to the double-amputee athlete’s agent. There was still no decision on an exact time-frame for the multiple Paralympic champion’s return … read more »
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Tagged 2012 Summer Paralympics, Amputation, Associated Press, IndepthAfrica, Oscar Pistorius, Pretoria, Reeva Steenkamp, South Africa, Track and field
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s Supreme Court has ordered the election commission to recount votes in some constituencies in regard to the country’s March 4 presidential election. The court on Monday heard arguments from civil society groups and the legal team … read more »
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Tagged Associated Press, Election, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, keyan election, Nairobi, Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga, Supreme Court of the United States, Uhuru Kenyatta
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Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — A militant official and a Somali resident say al-Shabab fighters have stoned to death a man for carrying out a homosexual sex act. The resident, Yusuf Abdi, said the group buried a blindfolded man to … read more »
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A French hostage has spoken in a video filmed three days ago with his family, weeks after extremists kidnapped them from northern Cameroon. The video’s audio airs a voice that identifies himself as Tanguy Moulin-Fournier. He … read more »
JOHANNESBURG — Forensic scientists on Tuesday exhumed two bodies believed to belong to young activists last seen 24 years ago at the home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as police said they have opened a new murder investigation. The case reopens a … read more »
This year’s 41st anniversary, celebrated two weeks ago, has been marked in particularly gloomy fashion. Reports have recently emerged floating the prospect of oil reserves drying up and arguing that new discoveries are failing to keep pace with production. This … read more »
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Tagged Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria, Algerian, Algiers, Associated Press, Canada, Houari Boumediene, IndepthAfrica, Sonatrach
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ACCRA, Ghana — Often cast as the social conscience of the church, Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson is viewed by many as the top African contender for pope. The 64-year-old head of the Vatican’s peace and justice office was widely credited … read more »
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Tagged Associated Press, Catholic Church, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Peter Turkson, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Turkson
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The Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa — A top official in the party of Zimbabwe’s prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, says he is concerned that political violence is again taking root ahead of a March 16 referendum on a new constitution … read more »
Amanda Sperber, policymic General elections are about to take place in Kenya. The media can’t stay away from stories about lots of bloodshed in African countries, and after 2007-2008’s violent election, has been waiting with bated breath for this big … read more »
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(AP) A French soldier has died in some of the most intense fighting thus far in the seven-week-old military campaign to push back a jihadist advance in Mali, officials said Sunday. Parachutist Corporal Cedric Charenton was killed Saturday night in … read more »
IN HIS OLYMPIC year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol dubbed by its manufacturer as “the most powerful production revolver in the … read more »
Ethiopia’s long-ruling leader died half a year ago, but it seems Meles Ze-nawi still holds on to power. In the capital, his face looks down from hundreds of posters plastered on walls, and government representatives vow to implement the late … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Associated Press, Counter-terrorism, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Government, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia
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A video apparently showing seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon has been posted online, with a man claiming that a radical Islamic group from Nigeria holds them. The video, posted Monday to YouTube, shows two men, a woman and … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Associated Press, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Islamism, Mali, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, West Africa, Youtube
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When we Ethiopians treat adult journalists that act as toddlers in a dipper it isn’t their fault but, ours. The havoc they cause on society in the service of tyranny is because we treat them as an adult; it is … read more »
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Tagged Associated Press, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, Information Revolution, latest ethiopian news, Mark Twain, news ethiopia, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Woyane
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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) – A South African prosecutor charges Olympian Oscar Pistorius with the premeditated murder of his model girlfriend. The prosecutor said Tuesday that Pistorius shot 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp four times through the bathroom door of his home … read more »
Posted in Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland
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Tagged Associated Press, IndepthAfrica, Olympic Games, Oscar Pistorius, Pistorius, Premeditated murder, Pretoria, South Africa, Valentine's Day
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Abuja: An explosion in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos killed a man and injured another on Monday sparking fears of violence spreading to the south of the country. The blast that occurred under a bridge, killed a sand dredger while … read more »
BY Justine John DYIKUK The Malian crisis has precipitated reactions and counter reactions from without and within the African continent. This conflict is one of great concern as many have bared their minds about its impending danger. The situation is … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Justine John DYIKUK, Mali, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Associated Press, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Nigeria, Nigerian, rivers state, Sharia, West Africa
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A suicide bomber has blown himself up near a group of Malian security troops in the central town of Gao, reports AP. The Malian army is currently fighting to wrest the north of the country from the hands of Islamist … read more »
Posted in Mali, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Associated Press, Bamako, Gao, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Military of Mali, Reuters, suicide bomber in mali
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Jacey Fortin Something strange happened Monday morning in Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, an African nation of about 5.5 million people on the southwestern shores of the Red Sea. Reports emerged of a coup attempt at the Ministry of … read more »
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Tagged Asmara, Associated Press, Committee to Protect Journalists, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean, eritrean news, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Monday, Saudi Arabia
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A South African court has convicted a Nigerian separatist leader of masterminding twin car bombings during a celebration in Nigeria. Twelve people were killed and three dozen wounded in the double bombing in October 2010 during a celebration in Nigeria’s … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged 2010 Nigerian car bombings, Associated Press, Henry Okah, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, South Africa, Warri
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Officials say South Sudan and Sudan have failed to reach an agreement on security arrangements and oil exports after several days of talks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The two sides were negotiating the … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Associated Press, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Juba, Khartoum, List of countries by oil exports, SouthSudan, Sudan
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(AP) — On the eve of an unimaginably long walk — one that starts in Africa, winds through the Middle East, across Asia, hops over to Alaska, goes down the western United States, then Central and South America and ends … read more »
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Tagged Associated Press, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Paul Salopek, Places In Between, Rory Stewart, Salopek, United States
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has likened attacks by a radical Islamist sect in his West African nation to the ongoing civil war in Syria, an unlikely acknowledgment from the seat of power about the violent unrest gripping the country. Jonathan’s … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Associated Press, bokoharam, Central African Republic, GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Sunday
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Witnesses said fireworks were stored in the warehouse in the busy market area of Lagos Island, and the blaze quickly spread to other buildings. The blast reportedly shook windows of homes several miles away and a thick cloud of smoke … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, bbc, explosion, Firecracker, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Lagos Island, lagos news, Nigeria
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President Barack Obama is condemning violence in Kenya that left at least 39 people dead in renewed fighting between farming and herding communities that have a history of violent animosity. The White House says in a statement that Obama urges … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Kenya
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Tagged Associated Press, Barack Obama, Friday, Kenya, kenya news, kenyan news, Orma, Pokomo people, River Tana, White House
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Ethiopia — Sudan and South Sudan officials are meeting in Ethiopia’s capital in an effort to resolve disputes. Atif Kiir, a South Sudan delegation spokesman, told The Associated Press on Monday that the delegations met earlier in the day. In … read more »
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Tagged Abyei, African Union, Associated Press, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, September, SouthSudan, Sudan
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