Uganda: UPC diehards want Miria Obote out
By Cyprian Musoke OVER 200 members of the UPC National Council have signed a petition seeking to remove party president Miria Obote from office. The members include senior officials whom Miria threw out of her cabinet recently, as well as members of Parliament previously holding high positions in ...
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Uganda: Benny Hinn lost sh4b in Uganda
Pastors Benny Hinn and Kayanja preaching at Rubaga Miracle Centre last month By Conan Businge PASTOR Benny Hinn made a loss of $2m (about sh4.4b) on his recent visit to Uganda and two other African countries. Speaking on Light House Television on Tuesday night, the ...
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Liberia: Controversial Mayor is Talk of the Town
Myaha Johnson sits with her family beneath a flimsy shelter of black plastic, looking with despair at the charred remains of what used to be their home. Mary Broh, Monrovia’s controversial mayor-designate, had just swept through the neighbourhood with her task force, vigorously tearing down residential structures along the back ...
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Comoros: Air crash survivor back in France
The only known survivor of the Yemenia flight which crashed into the Indian Ocean has arrived back in Paris on a French government plane.The 12-year-old girl, Baya Bakari, was found clinging to wreckage in the sea, hours after the crash. She had been treated in hospital in the Comoros Islands ...
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Libya: Gaddafi wants Caribbean states to join AU
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the head of the African Union, has called on Caribbean nations to join the grouping. "These countries are considered to be African, but they are in the Caribbean," he said in opening an AU summit in the coastal town of Sirte in Libya on Wednesday. ...
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Nigeria: FG: Only Criminals ‘Locked Out’ in N’Delta
The Federal Government yesterday denied a report in THISDAY that the Joint Task Force (JTF) was stopping persons displaced in the course of recent operations against militants, from returning to their villages.It said rather, the task force was taking necessary measures to keep “criminal elements” out of the communities, to ...
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Uganda: 450 bags of fake cement impounded
Barbara Kamusiime, an official of the Uganda National Bureau of Standards, displaying the fake cement in Kampala yesterday By Conan Businge THE UGANDA National Bureau of Standards has confiscated 450 bags of fake cement. Officials confirmed yesterday that the 22,500kg of cement, seized from a make-shift ...
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Uganda: Uganda resists pressure on gay rights
Uganda would resist pressure from donor countries to soften its stance on homosexuality and planned to pass a law that significantly clamped down on gay rights, Ethics Minister James Nsaba Buturo has said. "I have been receiving a number of friends from outside Uganda telling me that we should ...
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Nigeria: Nigerians take dim view of Nigaz gaffe
The Russian energy giant Gazprom has inadvertently walked into an online racism debate with the announcement of its new joint venture in Nigeria - Nigaz. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Nigerian counterpart last week agreed the $2.5-billion venture to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in ...
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Nigeria: JTF Invasion: House Advises FG to Pay N1bn Compensation
House of Representatives yesterday directed the Federal Government to pay one billion naira to Odioma Community, Bayelsa State, to compensate for invasion of the community by the Joint Military Task Force in 2005.The House also urged security agencies to investigate the murder of 12 persons, including four councillors, in Nembe ...
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