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Breaking News Wed, 8 Feb 2012
Arouna (second left) warms up with Ivorian teammates at African Cup of Nations 2008 in Ghana.
Africa   Ghana   Photos   Soccer   Wikipedia: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations   		 The Guardian 
Ivory Coast and Ghana heavily fancied for finals
Wed 8 Feb 2012
By Mark Gleeson LIBREVILLE, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast and Ghana are heavily fancied to succeed in Wednesday's African Nations Cup semi-finals and set up a dream finish to the tournament at the wee... (photo: Public Domain / Kumordzi)
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 file photo, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers his speech at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Conference organizers say the global diamond industry's oversight body has failed to reach a hoped-for compromise with Zimbabwe to export its vast stockpile of diamonds. Israel Diamond Institute spokeswoman Sharon Gefen said talks by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme ended Thursday without a deal.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)
African Union   Government   Photos   Wikipedia: Zimbabwe   Zimbabwe   		 The Independent 
Mugabe general 'killed in blaze' cannot be exhumed, says court
Wed 8 Feb 2012
| The inquest is being watched for signs of divisions in Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party, where General Mujuru's wife, Joyce, was among the leading candidates to replace the veteran President. Wi... (photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)
Chinese technicians man drilling equipment on an oil rig in Paloich, South Sudan. Militants apparently captured 29 Chinese workers after attacking a remote work site in the volatile South Kordofan region of neighboring Sudan, and Sudanese forces were increasing security for Chinese projects and personnel there, China said Sunday.  The Star  Wed 8 Feb 2012
Kidnapped Chinese workers freed in Sudan oil state
| KHARTOUM/BEIJING (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels released 29 Chinese workers on Tuesday, ten days after kidnapping them in the main oil-producing state of South Kordofan where the army has been fighting... (photo: AP / Pete Muller)
Business   China   Khartoum   Photos   Wikipedia: Sudan  
A Syrian man cleans while attached to his shop is a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic words reading: We love you, Welders homes peace on you," in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Sept. 15, 2011.  WPXI  Tue 7 Feb 2012
AP News in Brief at 8:58 p.m. EST
| Russian foreign minister pushes reforms in Syria as bloodshed intensifies | BEIRUT (AP) — Days after blocking a U.S.-backed peace plan at the U.N., senior Russian officials pushed for reforms ... (photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman)
Peace   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: Timeline of the 20112012 Syrian uprising (from January 2012)  
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A head-to-toe veiled Iranian woman walks past a satirized drawing of the Statue of Liberty, painted on the wall of the former US Embassy in Tehran, in an annual state-backed rally, marking the anniversary of take-over of the embassy in 1979 by militant students, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. The Examiner Tue 7 Feb 2012
A World At Risk
In a world that is filled with continued atrocities against man and nature how can any one individual survive, let alone prosper? A sobering question considering the comp... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Century   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Politics of the United States   World  
FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures during an interview at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, May 19, 2011. FIFA President Sepp Blatter says a whistleblower from Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid will be interviewed over allegations that bribes were paid to African voters. The whistleblower claims that FIFA executive committee members Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma were paid US $1.5 million to vote for Qatar. CNN Tue 7 Feb 2012
FIFA gives $250K to families of Egypt riot victims
PRINT EMAIL FACEBOOK Tweet RSS SHARE | ZURICH (AP) -- FIFA is giving $250,000 in aid to the families of the victims of last week's soccer melee in Egypt. | FIFA says it w... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus)
Egypt   FIFA   Football   Photos   Wikipedia: Port Said Stadium clashes  
Angelina Jolie arrives at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday Jan. 29, 2012 in Los Angeles. Orange News Tue 7 Feb 2012
Jolie faced gun-toting youngsters in Sierra Leone
| Angelina Jolie was left terrified on an aid mission to Sierra Leone when she had to pass a checkpoint manned by "kids with guns". | The Hollywood actress was on one of ... (photo: AP / Matt Sayles)
Africa   Humanitarian   Photos   Sierra Leone   Wikipedia: Angelina Jolie  
FC Barcelona's Seydou Keita from Mali Goal Tue 7 Feb 2012
Alain Giresse: Seydou Keita is a reference point for Mali
Mali coach says although the Barcelona midfielder is not his captain, he considers the player as an inspirational leader of the Eagles | Bet: £5 £10 £20 &#... (photo: AP / David Ramos)
Barcelona   Mali   Photos   Soccer   Wikipedia: Seydou Keita (footballer)  
15 Mar 2001: Portrait of PSV Eindhoven coach Eric Gerets during the UEFA Cup Quarter Finals second leg match against Kaiserslautern played at the Philips Stadion, in Eindhoven, Holland. Kaiserslautern won the match 1-0. Goal Tue 7 Feb 2012
Moroccan FA renews confidence in Eric Gerets despite 2012 Afcon exit - report
Morocco’s football federation president Ali Fassi Fihri says that the Belgian coach has long-term goals with the Atlas Lions and there is no intention to sack him | Sig... (photo: Jamie McDonald/Allsport)
Football   Morocco   Photos   Soccer   Wikipedia: Eric Gerets  
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 15 August, Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) sort through a haul of munitions that were used by the extremist group Al Shabaab to make improvised explosive devices. AMISOM troops and Transitonal Federal Government (TFG) forces dislodged remnants of Al Shabaab from the site following the withdrawal of most of the extremist group's forces from the city ten days ago, discovering the bomb making facility at the former steel factory in northern Mogadishu which contained evidence that the group had used the site to manufacture improvised explosive devises, suicide vests and car bombs. AU-UN IST / STUART PRICE. Al Jazeera Tue 7 Feb 2012
Will the London conference change Somalia's future?
| - The upcoming London Conference on Somalia is, potentially, a promising occasion to finally put the country on the road to peace, stability and democracy. Whether... (photo: UN / Stuart Price)
Conference   London   Photos   Somalia   Wikipedia: London Conference  
Harvesting groundnuts at an agricultural research station in Malawi.The main agricultural products of Malawi include tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, corn, potatoes, sorghum, cattle and goats. Joy Online Tue 7 Feb 2012
Ghana is a potential food bank – MDA boss
Ghana has a unique potential of becoming the leading West African supplier of agricultural products to neighbouring countries and beyond the continent, Chief Executive Of... (photo: Creative Commons / Swathi Sridharan)
Agriculture   Food   Ghana   Photos   Wikipedia: Agriculture in Ghana  


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Woman carries boiled eggs on her head as she passes the Rokel Commercial Bank at the Congo Cross in Freetown.Such street trading is a common feature in a country with low unemployment . African banks say it is possible to buy a European bank in next 5-10 years Ghana Business News
Liberian Nobel Peace Prize winners President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, center left, and peace activist Leymah Gbowee, center, meet with some of the women Gbowee inspired to pray and protest for peace beginning during Liberia's civil war, in Monrovia, Liberia Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011. Barbecuing to boost Liberia's economy BBC News
Banana - Fruit - Health Ghana exports 62,000 tonnes bananas Joy Online
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A Syrian man cleans while attached to his shop is a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic words reading: We love you, Welders homes peace on you," in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Sept. 15, 2011. AP News in Brief at 8:58 p.m. EST WPXI
FILE - This Aug. 3, 2011 file image taken from Egyptian State Television shows Hosni Mubarak,83, lying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom as his historic trial begins on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him. Mubarak may be moved to prison hospital The Siasat Daily
Tasmanian mosquito Malaria Deaths Hugely Underestimated - Lancet Study Peace FM Online
Poverty
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, left, and South African President Jacob Zuma, right, shake hands as they met at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. African Union summit, food crisis in the Sahel and global hunger figures The Guardian
Brigitte Lahou COTE D'IVOIRE: Separated children yet to return home IRINnews
Somali refugee children share a meal inside a tent in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia. Fleeing drought and famine in their home country, thousands of Somalis have taken up residence across the border in Dollo Ado One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns The Star
Education & Society
A Sampa( dancer for the Bondo society-female genital mutilation secret society dancer) performs during a unveiling ceremony of a village school at Mothem Village in Sierra Leone. Nearly 2,000 African communities end female genital mutilation - UN United Nations
ALTERNATE CROP OF PNG102 Three life rafts from the MV Rabaul Queen float above the sunken hull of the ferry in the open waters off Papua New Guinea's east coast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. 238 saved, 100-plus missing as PNG ferry sinks Sydney Morning Herald
Egyptians react after learning of the death of relatives during clashes at a soccer stadium outside a morgue in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Egypt mourns victims of football tragedy Independent online
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