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Paris – US, European and Arab leaders on Saturday held a Libya crisis summit with the threat of military strikes against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces growing ever more intense. A French envoy said strikes against the Libyan leader could start within … read more »
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Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fired artillery shells into the rebel-held city of Misrata early on Saturday and water supplies were still cut off, a resident said. “They (Gaddafi’s forces) bombed the town with four or five artillery shells … read more »
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February 26, 2011 by benim
Mbabane – A Facebook group is calling for the overthrow of Swaziland’s king, Africa’s last remaining absolute monarch, through protests inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Lybia. Known as “The April 12 Uprising!!!” it promises, “all hell will break … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Southern Africa, Swaziland
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, African tribes, breaking news, Egypt, Embassies and Consulates, Facebook, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, lybia, Mbabane, Mswati III of Swaziland, News local news, Politics, Social Issues, Suicide, Swazi people, Swaziland, tragedy, Tunisia, War Conflict, World news
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January 20, 2011 by benim
Tunisia’s fragile new government emerged from its first meeting hopeful that it can reunite a country scarred by deadly riots. Government spokesman Tayyib Al Bakouchi told reporters Thursday the multiparty government pledged to make security their top priority, to prepare … read more »
Posted in News, North Africa, Tunisia
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KANO, Nigeria — Unidentified arsonists burnt a church in a northern Nigerian city where Islamists torched two churches and killed six worshippers on Christmas Eve last month, police said on Monday. There were no casualties in the weekend attack against … read more »
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About three hours before 10.27pm on Christmas eve, bombs exploded in Jos North local government area of Jos, Plateau State killing scores. At about the same time,500km away in Maiduguri, Borno state, North east Nigeria, another set of people launched … read more »
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At least 19 people were killed during heavy clashes on Saturday, with government forces staging a violent mutiny in a separate incident, Radio Garowe reports. The fighting sparked overnight Friday after Al Shabaab insurgents attacked bases of Somali government forces … read more »
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December 25, 2010 by benim
The Sudanese government says that its forces have killed 40 rebels in clashes in northern Darfur. A military spokesman, Captain Khalid Sawarmy, said that a field commander for the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Mohamed Osman Janjaweed, was among … read more »
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December 25, 2010 by benim
BAGHDAD — When police came hunting for a 19-year-old woman they believed had been recruited by al-Qaida to be a suicide bomber in a town north of Baghdad, they found she was already dead: Slain by her father, who told … read more »
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December 24, 2010 by benim
West African leaders were huddling in Nigeria on Friday over how best to defuse an escalating crisis in Ivory Coast, where President Laurent Gbagbo refuses to concede power. The 15-member Economic Community of West African States has already urged Gbagbo … read more »
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December 18, 2010 by benim
The photographs, dating back to the 1980s, are published online by Los Angeles police The Los Angeles police were deluged with calls today in response to their grim release of pictures of 160 women, some feared to be possible victims … read more »
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December 7, 2010 by Bimbo
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Clashes between rival clans in central Somalia have killed at least 20 people, residents said Tuesday. Liban Abdi said he had seen the bodies of at least 20 people killed in fighting in the central Mudug region. … read more »
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Tagged 20 dead in somali figthing, Africa news, African Union, Clan fighting, Indepth Africa, Islamism, Mogadishu, Peacekeeping, Somali people, Somalia, Somalia News, tragedy
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November 26, 2010 by benim
Cape Town – British tourist Shrien Dewani is apparently a suspect in the police investigation into the murder of his Swedish wife, Anni Dewani, the Mail and Guardian reported on Friday. The newspaper said it learnt from “two highly reliable … read more »
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Tagged Albert Fritz, Anni Dewani, Cape Town, disasters-news, Gugulethu, IndepthAfrica, Khayelitsha, Law Crime, Murder, South Africa, tragedy
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November 19, 2010 by benim
Officials of the State Security Service (SSS) yesterday displayed a car that they said Henry Okah, purchased and wired with a bomb for use in the twin bombings in Abuja on October 1st. Marilyn Ogar, a spokesperson for the agency, … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Business Finance, geography, Government of Nigeria, Henry Okah, Hospitality Recreation, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Law enforcement in Nigeria, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Ogar, Mazda 626, Nigeria, Political geography, Port Harcourt, South Africa, State Security Service, tragedy
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November 17, 2010 by benim
Picture of happiness: Shrien and Anni Dewani are seen on their wedding day in India in new pictures released today. They were two weeks into their Cape Town honeymoon when they made the fatal decision to leave the safer tourist … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Albert Fritz, Anni Dewani, Cape Town, IndepthAfrica, Khayelitsha, Law Crime, South Africa, tragedy
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November 15, 2010 by benim
Authorities in Nigeria’s southern state of Akwa Ibom said on Monday they had arrested more than 400 people as part of a clampdown on rampant kidnappings for ransom in the region. Abductions of foreign oil workers and prominent Nigerians have … read more »
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Tagged Akwa Ibom State, Aloysius Akpan Etok, geography, Goodluck Jonathan, Niger Delta, Niger River, Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Samuel Edem, tragedy
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