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Special Report: The real force behind Egypt’s ‘revolution of the state’

In Hosni Mubarak’s final days in office in 2011, the world’s gaze focused on Cairo, where hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded the resignation of one of the Arab world’s.

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Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor challenges UK jail sentence

Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor has asked to serve his 50-year sentence for war crimes in Rwanda, rather than the UK. In a letter sent to the court that convicted him,.

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THE WEST’S CONTEMPT FOR AFRICAN PEOPLE AND AFRICAN THOUGHT MUST STOP – Former President Thabo Mbeki

THE WEST’S CONTEMPT FOR AFRICAN PEOPLE AND AFRICAN THOUGHT MUST STOP –Former President Thabo Mbeki Thabo Mbeki, former South African President, says the time has come for Africans, and African.

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Folorunsho Alakija unseats TV queen, Oprah Winfrey as the richest black woman on earth with $7.3b oil fortune

Move over Oprah, Nigerian oil tycoon Folorunsho Alakija is now the richest black woman in the world with an estimated fortune of $7.3 billion. Africa boasts 55 billionaires – far.

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Dangote To co-Chair 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos-Kloster, Switzerland

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has been appointed to co-chair the next year’s annual meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos-Kloster, Switzerland. According to Nigerian Tribune, the Executive Chairman.

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Tutu warns African leaders not to withdraw from ICC

Tutu warns African leaders not to withdraw from ICC CAPE TOWN, South Africa – South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu warned African leaders against leaving the International Criminal Court.

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WITH 20 BILLIONAIRES, NIGERIA TOPS AFRICA BILLIONAIRES LIST

There are far more African billionaires than previously thought, Ventures magazine said Monday in a report on the continent’s mega-rich, but the number of Africans living in extreme poverty has.

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Development Finance Institution Will ‘Ease’ Access To Funds In Nigeria – Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigeria is billed to set up a development finance institution that will make access to funds easy and spur economic growth. Speaking at a Centenary Lecture of the Lagos Chamber.

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WESTGATE ATTACK: KENYA UNITED IN PRAYER

Those attending included workers from the Nakumatt supermarket, where some of the attackers barricaded themselves. The prayers were hosted by Kenya’s Inter-Religious Council with clerics from different faiths, who sat.

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Africa The ‘Awakening Continent’ – Rama Sithanen, Former Finance Minister Of Mauritius

PORT LOUIS — Africa has become the “awakening continent” after being seen as the “hopeless continent” for many decades, Rama Sithanen, former finance minister of Mauritius, said in Mauritius on.

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