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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Zimbabwe’s new empowerment law that compels foreign-owned companies to give-up a 51% stake in their businesses to black Zimbabweans was greeted with shock by investors when first announced.
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Zimbabwe: How New Empowerment Laws Will Affect Business
Tags: businesses, compels-foreign-owned, from-the-fulani, left-scores, mohammed, mohammed-lerama, muslims, police-spokesman, their-businesses, zimbabweans
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The power balance in Africa’s crude oil production landscape is set to shift in the near future as a number of new oilfields come online.
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Africa: New Oil to Flow From Continent’s Hotspots
Tags: africa, compels-foreign-owned, crude-oil, left-scores, mohammed, mohammed-lerama, muslims, new-oilfields, power-balance, production-landscape, the-near, their-businesses
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
THE police said, yesterday, that 49 people are to be charged with murder after communal violence left scores of villagers dead. Most of those facing charges are Muslims from the Fulani group, police spokesman Mohammed Lerama told the BBC.
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Nigeria: Police to Press Murder Charges Over Jos Killings
Tags: africa, bbc, communal-violence, from-the-fulani, fulani, left-scores, mohammed, mohammed-lerama, muslims, police-said, police-spokesman, told-the-bbc
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
On 3 March, the state governors decided to block a vote that could have set in motion President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s enforced resignation on medical grounds. This has won his supporters in Abuja more time but does nothing to resolve the crisis caused by the power vacuum at the centre of government.
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Nigeria: Reappearance of the President Has Worsened the Political Paralysis - and the Splits in the PDP Government
Tags: africa, centre, council, days-earlier, electric, his-supporters, niger, niger-delta, policy-on-key, power, president-umaru, supporters
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Kenyans affected by the violence that erupted after the country’s disputed presidential elections in 2007 may soon be able to speak out without fear. A new bill will offer better protection to state witnesses.
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Kenya: New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed
Tags: 2007-may, africa, better-protection, council, days-earlier, disputed-presidential, electric, his-supporters, new-bill, power, president-umaru, speak-out, supporters, violence
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and wrongly so.
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Africa: Continent’s Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
Tags: care-or-civil, civil-liberties, even-as-africa, latin-america, new-bill, power, success-stories, vibrant-topic
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
The government could save Sh200 million during a 30-day foreign travel ban imposed on Cabinet ministers.
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Kenya: Travel Ban on Ministers to Save Sh200 Million
Tags: 30-day-foreign, africa, cabinet, imposed-on-cabinet, million-during, sh200, travel-ban
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
A Hizbul Islam official called Bare Ali Bare was on Tuesday gunned down by unknown assailants in Mogadishu ’s Bakara Market, a stronghold for Somali rebel fighters.
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Somalia: Hizbul Islam Official Killed in Bakara Market
Tags: africa, bakara-market, cabinet, gunned-down, hizbul, hizbul-islam, imposed-on-cabinet, million-during, mogadishu, sh200, somali, tuesday, unknown-assailants
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
The head of the global financial lending body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said it is still not prepared to offer Zimbabwe any new loans, citing the ongoing political crisis in the country.
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Zimbabwe: IMF Chief Says Aid for Country Not Possible Yet
Tags: 20-year-moratorium, citing-the-ongoing, country, financial-lending, global, imf, international, kenya, monetary-fund, moratorium-on-ivory, ongoing, ongoing-political
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