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Mining company boss Steve Letwin was ecstatic when he struck a precedent-setting deal with the Canadian government to work together on a training project for African youth. “I think it’s the model of the future,” says the president of IAMGOLD Corp., the...
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Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed. Judith Tebbutt told British broadcaster ITN that she was "very relieved" and was looking...
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Le 56e anniversaire de l'indépendance de la Tunisie a été marqué, mardi, par une grande manifestation dans le centre de Tunis, organisée à l'appel d'associations de la société civile pour la démocratie. Un an après le renversement du régime Ben Ali, le...
Lire la suiteThe imam climbs across the wreckage that was once his home. Then he bends over. "These are criminals," he mumbles as he pushes aside a few bricks with his calloused hands. It was the same thing that had already happened so many times since last summer....
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Guinea Bissau's former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior scored 49 percent in a presidential election, poll authorities said on Wednesday, well ahead of his main rival but just short of the absolute majority needed to avoid a second round. But runner-up...
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C'est une première au Maghreb : désormais, tous les citoyens marocains bénéficieront de l'assurance maladie. Plus de 8 millions de personnes, dont 4 millions de très pauvres, sont concernées. Le 13 mars, à Casablanca, le roi Mohammed VI a donné le coup...
Lire la suiteA court in Zimbabwe has fined six civic activists $500 each and ordered them to do community service for conspiring to commit public violence during a meeting at which they watched video footage of mass uprisings in Egypt. The Harare magistrate Kudakwashe...
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Après plusieurs jours de tractations, le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, dont la Russie et la Chine, s'est entendu, mercredi 21 mars, sur une déclaration de soutien à la mission de Kofi Annan en Syrie, qui vise à obtenir un arrêt des violences,...
Lire la suiteA former Tuareg rebel who became a close aide of ex-Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been arrested by authorities in Niger. Police said Aghali Alambo was suspected of involvement in smuggling arms and explosives from Libya. Mr Alambo led a Tuareg...
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An iPhone can do a lot of things. But can it arm Congolese rebels? That is the question being debated by a battalion of lobbyists from electronics makers, mining companies and international aid organizations that has descended on the Securities and Exchange...
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If New York, London, Paris and Milan have been the traditional compass points of world fashion, Lagos has typically not even figured on the map. But according to Penny McDonald, organizer of the Arise Magazine Fashion Week held in Nigeria's largest city...
Lire la suiteLa Corée du Nord a invité les inspecteurs de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA) pour aider à appliquer l'accord conclu récemment avec les États-Unis, qui comprend un moratoire des activités nucléaires de Pyongyang en échange d'une aide...
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West Africa's top regional decision-making body urged member states on Monday to back Mali with military equipment and logistics in its fight against northern rebels, but also said it would launch mediation efforts within days. Fighting erupted in Mali's...
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Tearful and wearing black, tens of thousands of Egyptian Coptic Christians joined a funeral mass for their patriarch, Pope Shenouda III, led by senior clerics at the main cathedral in Cairo. St Mark's Cathedral was packed with local clerics, visiting...
Lire la suiteLe mouvement islamiste armé touareg Ançar Dine ("défenseur de l'islam", en arabe) affirme qu'il contrôle le nord-est du Mali et qu'il veut libérer au moins cent dix prisonniers civils et militaires qu'il détient, dans un communiqué adressé mardi 20 mars,...
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