The desire by the Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnah Lidda Awati Wal Jihad, known in the local parlance as Boko Haram, to release their members, numbering about 100, from detention may be responsible for last Friday’s deadly attacks on Kano. About 166 people died in the multiple blasts.
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U.S. defense officials say an American woman and a Danish man who were kidnapped last October in Somalia are safe, after being rescued by U.S. commandos in a daring operation northwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.Pentagon officials say American forces swept into an encampment in the vicinity of the town of Cadaado, northwest of Mogadishu, and pulled American Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted, a Danish national, to safety.Western officials said U.S. special forces arrived aboard helicopters early Wednesday. Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters the kidnappers were heavily armed.“They had explosives nearby and there were very concrete plans for removing…
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A security analyst says dismissed police chief General Hariz Ringim is not to blame for the failure of Nigeria’s security agencies to curb the violence perpetrated by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram.
Major (retired) Yahya Shunku says the replaced head of police was sacrificed over what he describes as the “porous” ability of the State Security Service (SSS) to identify and combat the threat and violence of the radical sect.
“One may not be wrong to say they are sacrificial lambs because of the [inability] of the State Security Services to detect and prevent crimes against the internal security…
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WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign
Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, today hosted the Opportunity: Africa
conference in Wilmington to connect Delawareans with some of the nation's leading
authorities on sustainable development and trade with Africa. Participants at the
half-day conference, which was held at the University of Delaware's Wilmington
Campus, examined how businesses, faith communities and individuals in Delaware can
benefit from engagement with Africa.
"In trade, health, and security, Africa is rapidly becoming one of the most
important parts of the world," Senator Coons said. "Whether it is businesses taking
advantage…
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Business & Economy
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The Arab Spring appears not to have sprung into sub-Saharan Africa, where journalists face increasing repression while trying to cover anti-government protests.
In its 2011-2012 Worldwide Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders cites Angola, Uganda and Malawi as cases in point. The group also ranked Eritrea as the worst country for press freedom in the world. However, not all the news from the group was bad. Cape Verde, off of Africa’s west coast, is the highest ranking non-European country in the press freedom index, coming in at number nine. And the southern African nation of Namibia ranked 20th in the…
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Fixtures and tables for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Holders: Egypt
Group A
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W
D
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GF
GA
Pts
Eq Guinea
2
2
0
0
3
1
6
Zambia
2
1
1
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4
3
4
Libya
2
0
1
1
2
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1
Senegal
2
0
0
2
2
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0
21/01/12: Equatorial Guinea 1-0 Libya, Bata21/01/12: Senegal 1-2 Zambia, Bata
25/01/12: Libya 2-2 Zambia, Bata25/01/12: Equatorial Guinea 2-1 Senegal, Bata
29/01/12: Equatorial Guinea v Zambia, Malabo29/01/12: Libya v Senegal, Bata
Group B
P
W
D
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GF…
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Arts & Culture
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Senegal, once considered a francophone cradle in West Africa, is now increasingly turning from French to the local Wolof language. Scholars say this is a boost for democracy, but also a problem in some regions of the country.A collective of rappers sings what has become an opposition anthem in the streets of Senegal's capital, Dakar. The song, which is also the name of an activist movement, “Y'en A Marre,” translates as “Fed Up." The title and refrain of the song are in French, the language of former colonial power France and Senegal's official language, but the lyrics are in Wolof,…
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Ugandan opposition leaders have re-launched last year’s political protest movement, called Walk to Work,
with a series of demonstrations marked by arrests and scuffles with police. The movement hopes to take advantage of the economic discontent sweeping the country.They are calling it Walk to Work Reloaded: a protest movement against the government of President Yoweri Museveni that picks up where last year’s demonstrations left off.Once again Kizza Besigye, leader of the opposition party the Forum…
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The U.N Environment Program (UNEP) has found significant data to suggest that the African continent is at the forefront of the drive for policy making in the area of clean energy, in a bid to limit the climate change across the region. Climate change across Africa is having a significant and real effect, with people going without food as it simply cannot be produced.
Whilst those in Western, industrialised states are thinking about renewing their truck insurance or planning their next holiday, thousands across Africa are thinking about how they’re going to find their next meal. This need for change…
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One evening, some 40 years ago, a progressive north Sudanese was giving a lecture in Khartoum. He was talking about the problems posed by the chronic underdevelopment of south Sudan, and the need to entrench brotherhood and unity among all Sudanese if we were to develop as a nation.
A southern man stood up and brought the audience back to earth. “That is all fine, sir,” he said to the speaker. “But will you allow me to marry your sister?”
The prejudice to which he alluded has remained sadly relevant up to today, when the south of my country is…
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“If you behold a chicken chasing after you in the morning, have rapid dialogues with
your legs, since you wouldn’t know if it had grown teeth overnight”, an Isoko
wisecrack admonishes. The Goodluck Jonathan government’s uncommon resolve to
remove fuel subsidy so early in its life and dare Nigerians means more than meets
the eye. Nigerians need to look at it critically in the manner of the chicken
chasing after someone in the morning because decisiveness and bravado haven’t been
attributes of this government. Obasanjo, renown for his grit and audacity, was too
scared to tread on the terrain of…
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The Nigerian people will have to decide this all important question. We have to be honest about our union and respond for the best interest of everyone calling themselves Nigerians. We all know how the name Nigeria was coined from Niger area in a very casual way. It appears that there was no proper consideration, indeed, no serious thought was given of the people being grouped together as one country. Since this injustice, it has been a struggle for the numerous people of Nigeria with their different languages, dialects, cultures, religions and beliefs to co-exist. Wars of different kinds have…
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MARRIAGE AS AN INSTITUTION
From my last write up “HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE MARRYING THE RIGHT PERSON” I explained vividly the major things that will show these possibilities, having ascertain those facts and you are convinced that you have discovered your life partner then let’s move on to the next level which is planning your marriage, but first you need to have an ardent knowledge of what marriage means. In this write up you will find out more as I explained further. Happy reading.
MARRIAGE: A DEFINITION
Marriage as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. The institution whereby men and…
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Africa Reporters Man of the Year 2010: “Mo Ibrahim is an expert in mobile communications and founder of one of Africa’s most successful companies, Celtel International.”
It is said that to whom much is given much is also expected. This appears to be Mr. Mo Ibrahim’s mantra. The Sudanese-born entrepreneur, “an expert in mobile communications and founder of one of Africa’s most successful companies, Celtel International” is giving back to Africa through leadership fellowships to Africa’s next generation, scholarships to the continent’s youth, and a plethora of other programs and activities designed to empower the continent’s civil society, and reward…
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Babatunde Adegoke was a hunk of a guy. He was a ladies’ man. He held the girl and kissed her. The girl kissed him back hungrily, pressing herself against his firm body. She was on fire. Her name was Dupe Balogun. Her father, Chief Kehinde Balogun, was the director general of the National Electric Power Authority, NEPA. From contracts, kickbacks, and outright theft of public funds, the man had become one of Nigeria’s billionaires, and his daughter had as a result become a millionaire. Thinking about how loaded she was, Adegoke kissed her more passionately, but he felt no passion…
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MARRIAGE AS AN INSTITUTION
From my last write up “HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE MARRYING THE RIGHT PERSON” I explained vividly the major things that will show these possibilities, having ascertain those facts and you are convinced that you have discovered your life partner then let’s move on to the next level which is planning your marriage, but first you need to have an ardent knowledge of what marriage means. In this write up you will find out more as I explained further. Happy reading.
MARRIAGE: A DEFINITION
Marriage as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. The institution whereby men and…
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