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Children vote: Mandela a hero
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Mandela and Machel, who married in 1998, jointly won the World's Children's Prize in 2005 and were recognized for the enormous contributions they have made in promoting the rights of children in their
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Yemen: Somali pirates hijack Panamanian cargo ship
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SANA'A, Yemen -- Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa. A coast guard official
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Somalia to join child rights pact, only U.S. outside
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* UNICEF says Somali government plans to ratify child treaty * Somalia, U.S. only two states outside of child rights pact * Move comes on 20th anniversary amid positive U.S. signals (Adds U.S. saying
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South Africa Plans New Nuclear Power Plant
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PRETORIA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - South Africa, plagued by chronic power shortages, plans to have the country's new nuclear power plant up and running by 2020, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters told a nuclear conference
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S.Africans are among Guinea mercenaries: sources
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DAKAR (Reuters) - South Africans are amongst a group of mercenaries working for Guinea's military junta, according to security sources and copies of emails seen by Reuters on Friday.
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Zimbabwe warms to news networks
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Four months after an agreement with Zimbabwean officials to repair what one minister dubbed a 'mutually ruinous relationship,' the BBC and CNN are reporting openly from the troubled African nation for
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Scholarships fuel fury in Namibia
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Like parents everywhere, mothers and fathers in Namibia, an impoverished southern African nation, worry about tertiary education costs and opportunities for their children. Beijing has stepped forward
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Can Somali pirates be defeated?
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Why have the world's most advanced navies failed to end piracy in the seas around Somalia? The BBC's Middle East correspondent Paul Wood reports from the EU anti-piracy taskforce flagship, Evertsen, in
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UPDATE 2-Nigeria renews three ExxonMobil oil licences
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licences currently produce 580,000 bpd * Exxon granted a further 20year renewable lease * Oil minister repeats Nigeria could sell jv stakes to (Adds quotes, details) By ABUJA, Nov 20 (Reuters) Nigeria
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Kenya's elephant orphanage
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Sala saunters in the red soil, her wrinkled skin glistening in the sun as she tries to keep up with the rest of the herd. It is hard to believe the 6-week-old, dwarfed by her human keeper, will grow up
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Ex-official warns of Rwanda violence
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A former speaker of the Rwandan parliament warned that his country could again descend into chaos and violence, 15 years after the genocide that killed as many as 1 million people. Joseph Sebarenzi, who
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FACTBOX-Ghana sets sights on growth, oil
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ACCRA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Ghana cut its interest rate for the first time in nearly three years on Friday, two days after the unveiling of a 2010 budget which signalled an increase in government spending
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'Many flee' Congo fishing clashes
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Many ethnic groups in DR Congo rely on fishing for their livelihoods More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks,
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Kenya central bank FX reserves edge higher
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NAIROBI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Kenya's central bank said on Friday its official usable foreign exchange reserves stood at $3.356 billion, up for a seventh week in a row. Here are highlights from the bank's
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Kenya 2009 growth to be 3 pct -c.bank governor
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LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Kenya's GDP growth is likely to be 3 percent in 2009, Kenya's central bank governor said on Friday, and the country plans to launch a sovereign bond in 2010. Speaking via videolink,
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Trade deal agreed in East Africa
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Kenya is the biggest economy in the East Africa Community Leaders from five East African nations have signed a common market treaty. The presidents of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi have
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S.Africa lowers 2009/10 sugar output f'cast
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has lowered its forecast for the 2009/10 season's sugarcane output based on information received from farmers, the South African Sugar Association (SASA) said on
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