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New study shows millions risk losing lands in AfricaLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 New studies released in London suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest-unless national leaders and investors recognize the customary rights of millions of poor people who have lived on and worked these lands for centuries. "Controversial land acquisitions were a key factor triggering the civil wars in Sudan, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and there is every reason to be concer ... read more |
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 Sudan army frees 14 'kidnapped' Chinese: report The Sudanese military has freed 14 Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in the country's South Kordofan state, the official SUNA news agency reported on Monday. ... more | .. |
 New AU headquarters marks strong China-Africa ties Towering above the Ethiopian capital, cloaked in urban smog, the new Chinese-built African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa is a bold symbol of China's rapidly changing role in Africa. ... more | .. |
 US Navy SEALs prove their mettle again First they took out Osama bin Laden. Now the US Navy SEALs have earned their "special forces" designation once again by conducting a daring, pinpoint rescue of two aid workers held hostage for three months in Somalia. ... more | .. |
 Former colonial soldiers in Mozambique hope for pensions Paulo Salazar served on a Portuguese warship during Mozambique's long liberation war, leaving him stranded on the wrong side of history. ... more |
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 Nigeria police fire tear gas at Lagos protest Nigerian police fired tear gas Thursday in Lagos at hundreds of protestors marching against the authorities' security crackdown in the aftermath of a week-long strike over fuel prices. ... more | .. |
 Ethiopia: Thousands driven out in land grab Human rights activists say tens of thousands of people in western Ethiopia are being driven off fertile ancestral lands so the government can lease or sell large tracts of farmland for commercial agriculture to investors, including foreign governments. ... more | .. |
 Sudan rebels say key govt outpost taken Rebels in Sudan's South Kordofan have captured a key government outpost near the state capital, a rebel spokesman said, but the country's armed forces denied even being in the area. ... more | .. |
 S.African rangers kill poachers in Kruger park Authorities have killed two suspected poachers, arrested two others and found 11 rhino carcasses in the same area of South Africa's Kruger National Park in one week, a spokesman said Thursday. ... more |
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S. Africa slams Security Council over Libya crisis South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Thursday slammed the UN Security Council's handling of last year's Libya crisis and demanded the institution take greater account of African views in handling conflict. ... more | .. |
 Somalia: rebels and regional powers in the conflict Somalia's Islamist Shebab insurgents face increasing pressure from regional armies and government forces, with almost every Horn of Africa nation drawn into the two-decade-long conflict. ... more | .. |
Adrenaline rush with a township view at Soweto's towers Poupienah Makgatho drove 100 kilometres (65 miles) from Pretoria to help his terrified wife to overcome her fear of heights - by bungee jumping off the iconic cooling towers that dominate Soweto's skyline. ... more | .. |
 Boko Haram and U.S. plans in Africa Oil-rich Nigeria is gripped by an escalating uprising by Islamist militants that has triggered massacres of Christians, including a Christmas Day suicide bombing blitz, which the federal government seems unable to contain. ... more |
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French experts to report on pre-genocide Rwanda plane attack A group of experts mandated by a French inquiry to probe the 1994 downing of Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana's jet is due to say Tuesday where the fatal ground-to-air missile was fired from. ... more | .. |
Kenyan jets kill '60 or more' Somali Islamist insurgents Kenyan fighter jets killed at least 60 Islamist Shebab insurgents in southern Somalia in the latest assault by regional countries to heap pressure on the extremist rebels, officials said Saturday. ... more | .. |
$80 mn Chinese loan to Cape Verde for social housing China will extend a $80-million loan to Cape Verde for social housing as well as to build a sports stadium and revamp the presidential palace, the African island nation's news agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 G.Bissau to retire 400 troops under military reform About 400 troops will retire from Guinea Bissau's army this month under military sector reforms in the coup-prone country, Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Fears Nigerian emergency decree will lead to military abuses A state of emergency declared in Nigeria in areas hit by attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram has sparked concerns that the military will use the measure as legal cover to carry out further abuses. ... more | .. |
Coup scare points to power struggle in G.Bissau A clash between military units in Guinea-Bissau exposed the tangled affairs of this unstable nation where a powerful army and state are intertwined and cocaine cartels have deep roots. ... more | .. |
25 held over Bissau 'coup plot', weapons cache seized Twenty-five renegade soldiers involved in an apparent coup plot in Guinea-Bissau are being detained in the capital and at an air base north of Bissau, an AFP reporter said, after the army uncovered a large cache of weapons. ... more | .. |
Guinea Bissau says coup-plotter executed Guinea-Bissau's government has said that its security forces executed a police officer earlier this week as he turned himself in over his role in what the regime describes as a coup bid. ... more |
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Bissau back to normal after coup scare: AU chief African Union chief Jean Ping said Wednesday that normality had returned to Guinea-Bissau two days after the troubled west African state's army chief claimed to have foiled a coup. ... more | .. |
Ivorian leadership faces conundrum with rowdy ex-rebels Recent deadly clashes involving Ivory Coast ex-rebels highlight the most urgent and difficult task facing President Alassane Ouattara - reforming the armed forces without alienating the men who swept him to power. ... more | .. |
Coup foiled in Guinea-Bissau, navy chief held Guinea-Bissau's government and army said troops had foiled a coup attempt Monday in the impoverished west African country and arrested the leaders of the renegade troops. ... more | .. |
 Four dead in southern Ivory Coast clashes: officials Four people were killed in inter-ethnic clashes in Sikensi, a town near the Ivory Coast economic capital Abidjan, local authorities said Monday. ... more |
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