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Gambia Industrial Tribunal Orders Little Star Co Ltd to Pay Plaintiff
Magistrate Jobarteh, chairman of the Kanifing Industrial Tribunal, recently entered judgement in favour of one Ansu Sanneh, who dragged his former employer, Little Star Co Ltd, to the tribunal for unlawful dismissal. In delivering his judgement, chairman Jobarteh told the tribunal that by a praecipe filed by the plaintiff, Ansu Sanneh, sought the following from the defendant: the recovery of ...
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In Zimbabwe Will Next Election Be More Peaceful
Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about Zimbabwe's upcoming presidential election and efforts to alleviate its international ...
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Nigeria Rebels Could Face War Crimes Charges for Population Cleansing - UN Rights Office
Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram and other extremist ...
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NYT Morgue overflowing as Nigerias dirty war rages
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. "They were not properly shot," recalled a security official here. "I had to call the J.T.F." -- the military's joint task force -- "and they gunned them ...
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Obama Focuses on Middle-Class Jobs
U.S. President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the economic recovery of big ...
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Gunmen Kill Iraqi Police Officer and Family
Officials say the gunmen gunned down an administrator for the al-Rasheed district Saturday, and also killed the police captain's wife and their two children. The attackers also killed at least one security officer nearby. On Friday, a series of bomb attacks targeted Sunnis in Iraq, including in Baquba, just north of Baghdad, killing 70 people and increasing fears of renewed sectarian ...
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South Africa Gupta family President Zuma could face embarrassment
NRI News: The never-ending saga of the Gupta family continues in South Africa. President Zuma, including his children who are all closely associated with the Gupta family including business ventures could face a wave of embarrassment from the proposed charges ...
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Five held for explosives in Tanzania
Arusha, Tanzania - Tanzanian police said Saturday they have arrested five people in possession of explosives in the economic capital Dar es ...
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Africa At AU Summit Kerry Should Speak Out for a Free Press
May 16 - Honorable John Kerry U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Mr. Secretary: We are writing to bring to your attention the deteriorating state of press freedom in Ethiopia, where you will attend this year's African Union Summit. A vibrant press and civil society is fundamental to hold governments accountable and to ensure long-term development and ...
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Workers on illegal strike at chrome mine in S.Africa-union
By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG | Sat May 18, 2013 5:56am EDT JOHANNESBURG May 18 (Reuters) - Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group LANXESS have been suspended since Thursday after workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Saturday. The dispute at the mine in Rustenburg, 120 km (70 miles) ...
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Microfinance in Madagascar helps small businesses buck the system
Madagascar 's southern Atsimo-Andrefana region. The work is hard, but in the past year, access to microcredit has boosted both her business and her hopes for the future."Before, I used to make 10,000 to 20,000 ariary ($4.50-9.00, about 3) a day. Now, with the credit, I can make double that amount," she told IRIN. "I can put my four [grand]children in school, buy some ...
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Africa AU Must Promote Justice for International Crimes
In an impressive show of strength, civil society groups from more than 30 African countries have called on African Union (AU) member countries to ensure that the AU promotes justice for grave international crimes In a letter to the foreign ministers of African Union member states which was sent in advance of the AU's 21st summit, the groups noted that recent strain in the African ...
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Africa Funding Nutrition - a Moral Imperative an Effective Investment
Paris - An international conference to fight child malnutrition called by UNICEF ended today in Paris with a call to hasten world progress on child nutrition and the funding for it. "The Paris conference produced a very strong consensus on responses to be made. It also marked an important step in expressing the political will to attack this scourge by governments, both in the South and the ...
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Africa Pastoralisms Economic Contributions Are Significant but Overlooked
Nairobi - Pastoralism is often regarded as an antiquated practice ill-suited to the modern economy, yet trade between pastoral communities in Africa - much of it informal and illegal - generated an estimated US$1 billion each year, according to a new book published by the Futures Agriculture Consortium,. "If we shift our gaze from the capital cities, where the development and policy elite ...
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Africa French Senators Take Back Message of Africas Road Map
A visiting delegation of French Senators is taking back a message to France and other European partners to align with Africa's road map for the next fifty years. The delegation was received in audience by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.They came with great interest to understand what the future holds for ...
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Africa UNDP Chief Hails Crucial Role of Local Government in Fight Against Poverty
Kampala - Maximising the power of local government will be crucial to realizing the ambitions of a post-2015 global development agenda which can lead to eradicating extreme poverty, tackling inequalities and putting the world on a sustainable path. That was the message from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark during a keynote address at the 2013 Commonwealth ...
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Afghan Police Chief Assassinated
Officials say Police Chief Abdul Ghani was near his home late Friday when gunmen shot him. No one has been detained in the case. The Associated Press quotes a local official as saying Ghani had led a crackdown on insurgents in his district of Khaki Safad that resulted in the killing and capture of several Taliban leaders. The spokesman said that made him a target for Taliban ...
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US Train Crash Injures 60 Suspends Service
Officials say the crash took place around 6 p.m. local time Friday near Bridgeport, Connecticut, about 100 kilometers northeast of New York. Connecticut state governor Dannel Malloy told reporters that five people were critically injured in the crash, including one person with very serious injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Malloy said there is "no reason to believe ...
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North Korea launches short-range missiles
North Korea has launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, according to South Korea's Ministry of Defence quoted by Yonhap news agency. The ministry said it detected two missiles fired on Saturday morning, followed by another in the afternoon. It said the country had reinforced monitoring on North Korea and was maintaining a ...
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Earthquake Hits Northern Japan No Reports of Damage
Seismologists say a strong earthquake has struck off the northeastern coast of Japan's main Honshu island, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of ...
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Kenya Swiss national decries high bail terms in porn case
court in Mombasa with luring 11 Kenyan women into prostitution has moved to the High Court to challenge the Sh1 million bond slapped on him on ...
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Kenya Kidero promises to work with Government
Speaking in his office at City Hall, Mr Kidero said he is prepared and anxious to co-operate with Jubilee's central administration despite being popularly elected on the opposition's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) ...
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French President Signs Same-Sex Marriage Into Law
the BBC reports , after the Senate and National Assembly approved the bill, it "was quickly challenged on constitutional grounds by the main right-wing opposition UMP party of former president Nicolas Sarkozy." Friday, a ruling by the Constitutional Council cleared the way for the president's signature. The council found the bill in accordance with constitution, ...
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UN condemns Papua New Guineas plans to resume death penalty
New York, May 18 : The United Nations human rights office Friday expressed serious concern over Papua New Guinea's announcement that it will resume the death penalty more than half a century since it last carried out an execution, stressing this would represent "a major setback" for the ...
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Clashes at Cairo protest calling for Morsi to resign
The demonstrators, most of them teenagers, threw molotov cocktails at the police who replied with volleys of tear gas cannisters, but there were no reports of casualties. The clashes took place near Cairo's Tahrir Square, the symbolic heart of the opposition movement that brought down President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Earlier Friday, marches had begun in various parts of the ...
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South Africa's small but growing cruise industry
The South African cruise industry has grown considerably in recent decades, recording an expansion of over 100% in recent years. The greatest growth came between the 1990s and 2010, led predominantly by Starlight Cruises, a household name in South Africa and the owner of the market share in the South African cruise industry.
The South African cruise industry is a growing one, in comparison to more developed countries it is tiny, with just one ship (sometimes two) that grace the coasts of South Africa once a year between November and April. Read more
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