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News Source: The Guardian
| 5 days ago
State dinners are the marquee social event in Washington, and tonight's guest list and menu will be closely scrutinised for signs of how the young Obama family compares to its predecessors. The White House east wing, the branch charged with
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News Source: BBC
| 14 days ago
Mr Ibrahim said the idea that 53 small African countries thought they could compete with China, India, Europe and the US was a "fallacy". Trade within Africa accounts for just 4-5% of the continent's international trade, something that is "not viable"
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News Source: Daily Nation
| 14 days ago
African states must integrate immediately or some will not survive, Mo Ibrahim, who funds the world’s biggest prize in support of leadership on the continent, said late on Saturday. Mr Ibrahim was speaking at the opening of a two-day event
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News Source: All Africa
| 19 days ago
Immunity Clause's Militarist Zacheaus Somorin 10 November 2009 Lagos — Former president of Ghana, Mr. John Kufuor, has said that immunity clause in any constitution is militarist and protective of dictatorship and corruption. He said this at the
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News Source: The New Vision
| about 1 month ago
October 21 and 24, and were intended to help the two sides come up with a formal structure to help them discuss ways to advance democracy. The meeting, organised by The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, drafted a Memorandum of
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News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 month ago
Instead of leading the country to be united, out of power, Ghana’s former presidents Jerry Rawlings and his successor John Kufuor have displayed open hatred with the former using any platform he mounts to hit out at his successor. The enmity
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News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 month ago
Congo pact means the country can stop importing most of its food Finally, there is some good news. This week, South African farmers got the right to till some 200,000 hectares of land in the Republic of Congo. The same day the news filtered out on
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
Mo Ibrahim , the Sudanese telecoms magnate, will not award his $5m African leadership prize this year, a decision seen as a rebuke to the former presidents of Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana, among others. The prize, now in its third year, is given