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Resource-rich Guinea invites Indian investors
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Resource-rich Guinea invites Indian investors
Tue 5 Feb 2013
Tweet New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Guinea, the resource-rich West African nation, is ready to offer Indian firms farmland and mineral resources on lease for development. Guinea holds nearly two-thirds of... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Kofi Annan, left, the United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, arrives at the Great Hall of the People for talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, unseen, in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
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Kofi Annan tackles drug trafficking in West Africa
Thu 31 Jan 2013
ACCRA, Ghana — Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan launched a commission Thursday to tackle drug trafficking in West Africa as the region increasingly becomes a stopover point for... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan)
French soldiers are watched by local people, as they drive through the city streets of Timbuktu, Mali, Thursday Jan. 31, 2013.  The Star  Thu 31 Jan 2013
Malian president offers Tuareg rebels talks
TIMBUKTU, Mali/PARIS (Reuters) - Mali's president offered Tuareg rebels talks on Thursday in a bid for national reconciliation after a French-led offensive drove their Islamist former allies into... (photo: AP / Harouna Traore)
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This picture provided by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) and released Monday Jan. 28, 2013 shows a Chadian soldier securing Gao airport, north of Mali, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. French and Malian forces pushed toward the fabled desert town of Timbuktu on Sunday, as the two-week-long French mission gathered momentum against the Islamist extremists who have ruled the north for more than nine months.  Reuters  Sun 27 Jan 2013
French, Malian forces capture Gao rebel stronghold
KONNA, Mali/PARIS (Reuters) - French and Malian forces fighting Islamist rebels took control on Saturday of the rebel bastion of Gao, the biggest military success so far in an offensive against al... (photo: AP / Ghislain Mariette)
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A youth sleeps on granite sea rocks at the Lumley Beach in Freetown, sierra Leone Al Jazeera Sat 26 Jan 2013
Drug traffic fuels addiction in Sierra Leone
- Leaning against a wall, his eyes red and glazed over, Patrick Hindowa described how he spends his days getting high. "I got no job here," he explained. "Whatever... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
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a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Select a country - Afghanistan Angola Bangladesh Benin... (photo: UN / Rick Bajorna)
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Armed vehicles are seen driving as the sun rises over a desert road leading south out of Misrata, Libya, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. Al Jazeera Tue 30 Oct 2012
Libyan army has 'no control' in Bani Walid
Libya's defence minister has said that the army has no control over Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of Muammar Gaddafi's regime, and that armed groups there prevent... (photo: AP / Gaia Anderson)
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EU chief pledges help for Abidjan Independent online (SA) Thu 25 Oct 2012
EU chief pledges help for Abidjan
Abidjan - European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso pledged 115-million euros in support to Ivory Coast during a visit to the West African country on... (photo: EC / EC)
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Security Council Meeting on the situation in Guinea-Bissau. Special report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Guinea-Bissau (S/2012/280). United Nations Mon 22 Oct 2012
UN condemns attack on Guinea-Bissau military base
Print 22 October 2012 – The United Nations condemns an attack on a military base in Guinea-Bissau which resulted in numerous deaths, a spokesperson for the world body... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe)
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In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, soldiers walk after a failed coup attempt that took the form of an attack by gunmen on a military base near the airport in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. The army fought back and the coup plotters fled, but at least six soldiers were killed. Voa News Mon 22 Oct 2012
Bissau Accuses Portugal of Backing Coup Attempt
Guinea-Bissau's government has accused Portugal of supporting an alleged coup attempt, after a deadly attack on soldiers in the capital. The pre-dawn raid... (photo: AP)
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fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali, as they prepare to publicly lash a member of the Islamic Police found guilty of adultery. The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to Mali — if investigators can find the al-Qaida-linked group responsible for the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Plan to Combat Mali's Militants Finds Few Takers Wall Street Journal
The African Union's new headquarters complex in Addis Ababa. First ever woman AU Chief officially assumes office CNTV
French President Nicolas Sarkozy flanked by Cameroon President Paul Biya, second from left, French National Assembly President Bernar Accoyer, left, Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe, right, and Chad President Idriss Deby Itno, second from right, delivers his speech at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday July 13, 2010, at the start of a lunch given for 13 African heads of state, on the eve of July 14 when the 50th anniversary of independence of former French colonies will be celebrated.( What can Africa teach the eurozone? BBC News
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon along with The Right Honourable William Hague, MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, UNITED KINGDOM had Olympic Truce Event at Carlton Gardens UK to build human rights alliances, says William Hague BBC News
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 file photo, Egyptian girls chant slogans in Tahrir Square during a rally to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian women are growing increasingly angry and militant as they deal with one of the unintended consequences of the uprising _ an epidemic of sexual assault. Egypt's women fighting back against sex assaults The Guardian
Priest Anthony Obanla, conduct an evening mass at a Catholic church in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. In Africa, where the Catholic church continues to grow, worshippers and clergy greeted Pope Benedict XVI's announcement Monday that he planned to resign with hopes that the continent would see one of its own rise to lead the faithful. Why the next pope should be African CNN
Zambian political party agents look on as a woman casts her vote in Buyuni, 30km east of Lusaka, Zambia, Thursday Oct. 30, 2008. Zambians are electing a replacement for their president who died in office. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Democracy in Zambia ‘under siege’, opposition claims Business Day
Poverty
Palestinians hold slogans which read in Arabic "Oh free people, remove the blockade for us" (L) during a protest against the Egyptian decision to close the smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 1, 2012. Since last month, Egyptian military have destroyed about 30 tunnels and blocked more which were used for smuggling to and from the Gaza Strip. The tunnels are a vital lifeline for supplies of food, clothes, building materials and fuel into the impoverished Palestinian territory subjected to an Israeli blockade since 2006.Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Egyptian movie star: 'Arabs are not terrorists' CNN
Miami Heat celebrate during their victory parade after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder for the 2012 NBA Championship Miami, Florida - June 25, 2012 Why Africans will be basketball stars of tomorrow CNN
Africa's mineral wealth hardly denting poverty levels, says World Bank Africa's mineral wealth hardly denting poverty levels, says World Bank The Guardian
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