24/7 Africa News Coverage
August 17, 2012
TERROR WARS
Nigeria oppposes U.S. terror listing
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Aug 16, 2012
Nigeria's ambassador to the United States outlined his government concerns about the United States listing Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. Nigeria is opposed to the U.S. State Department listing Boko Haram as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" for a number of reasons, Ambassador Ade Adefuye said at a symposium of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos. After briefing the symposium about U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent visit to Nigeria, Adefuye s ... read more

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WAR REPORT

Sinai "nest of terrorists" :Israeli military source
If Egypt fails to restore order in the Sinai peninsula it could come to resemble the Afghan mountain hideouts which sheltered the Taliban and their Al-Qaeda allies, an Israeli military source warned on Thursday. ... more
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AEROSPACE

Kenya searches for Uganda chopper crash victims
Kenyan emergency teams searched for a third day Wednesday for four personnel still unaccounted for after three Ugandan military helicopters crashed at the weekend, officials said. ... more
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FARM NEWS

Friendships promote better farming in developing countries
A study that examined how rural farmers in Ethiopia learn new farming techniques and adopt them on their own farms discovered that learning from a friend was a stronger motivator than learning from ... more
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PILLAGING PIRATES

EU-NATO forces free hijacked vessel
EU and NATO naval forces freed a ship commandeered by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden this week, even as the number of such attacks has dropped sharply. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

South Africa's lion bones: Asia's new delicacy
Lion bones have become a hot commodity for their use in Asian traditional medicine, driving up exports from South Africa to the East and creating new fears of the survival of the species. ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Australia moves on offshore asylum centers
Australia aims to have asylum seeker processing centers available for use in Nauru and Papua New Guinea within a month. ... more
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WATER WORLD

Oceans suffering from sea sickness, says study
Seychelles and Germany have the healthiest seas of any inhabited territory, while Sierra Leone has the unhealthiest, according to a new index that says many oceans score poorly for biodiversity and as a human resource. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

Heavy fighting near Liberian border
Ivorian government forces have clashed with Liberian rebels near the countries' border. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

Kenya keeps up search after Uganda army choppers crash
Kenyan emergency teams searched for a third day Wednesday for five personnel still unaccounted for after three Ugandan military helicopters crashed at the weekend, officials said. ... more
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ENERGY NEWS

Tanzania to end power shortages in capital
Tanzania's government has made it a high priority to end electricity shortages in the capital Dar es Salaam. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Shell shuts oil station in Nigeria, activists report spill
Shell said Thursday it had shut down an oil processing facility in southern Nigeria over a pump failure, but denied reports that a significant amount of oil had spilled in the area. ... more
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ENERGY NEWS

Rwanda to begin geothermal drilling
The Rwandan government announced that geothermal energy drilling will begin there in December. ... more
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SUPERPOWERS

US says new Egypt defense minister wants close ties
The new defense minister appointed by Egypt's Islamist president has pledged to uphold the strong military ties between Cairo and Washington, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta said Tuesday. ... more
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MILTECH

Burnt wreckage of two Ugandan army helicopters found
The burnt wreckage of two Ugandan army helicopters was found Tuesday, two days after crashing in a remote mountainous region of Kenya while flying to war-torn Somalia, army officials said. ... more
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Early human ancestors had more variable diet
An international team of researchers, including Professor Francis Thackeray, Director of the Institute for Human Evolution at Wits University, will be publishing their latest research on what our ea ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Flooding in central Nigeria kills at least 28 people
Flooding caused by heavy rains in central Nigeria has killed at least 28 people, with many others still missing, while also destroying homes, bridges and farmland, officials said Tuesday. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

Eight Ugandans survive army helicopter crash; two dead
Eight Ugandan servicemen walked away from their helicopter after it crashed in Kenya en route to war-torn Somalia while two soldiers were confirmed dead in another crash, officials said Tuesday. ... more
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WAR REPORT

Truth as elusive as militants in Egypt's Sinai
As the sun set over his desert village in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Abu Asma sat down to break his Ramadan fast when he heard gunfire from the army outpost down the road. He ignored it, and then a bullet hit his little brick home. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

CCTV: Africa's true image or China's strategic vehicle?
The countdown starts and the Kenyan news reader runs through the top headlines for the evening bulletin. In a few minutes he will go on air in Nairobi, broadcasting live for China state television. ... more
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DEMOCRACY

Egypt defence minister 'retired' in surprise shake up
Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday ordered the surprise retirement of his powerful defence minister and scrapped a constitutional document which handed sweeping powers to the military. ... more
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DEMOCRACY

Egypt's Morsi empowered by army shakeup: media
Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi has emerged empowered by a "revolutionary" decision to dismiss his powerful defence minister and curb the military's sweeping powers, media said Monday. ... more
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INTERN DAILY

Walker's World: Why Pistorius matters
Future historians are unlikely to remember the 2012 London Olympics for the jolly jaunt through British history that opened it nor for the pop culture fest which closed it nor even for the spectacular performances of the athletes. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

'Very little' done on Mali military action: defence minister
Mali's defence minister said Monday that very little had been done to set up a possible military intervention by a West African force in the country's Islamist-occupied north. ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Can nature parks save biodiversity?
The 14 years of wildlife studies in and around Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park by Sarah Karpanty, associate professor of wildlife conservation at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources a ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Oil spill detected near Exxon operations in Nigeria
An oil spill has been detected along the coast of southern Nigeria near operations for US giant ExxonMobil, the company said Monday, but the cause and size of the leak remained unclear. ... more
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NUKEWARS

Outside View: Tehran's covetous plot
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei demands the closure of Camp Ashraf from the Iraqi government. The 1,200 men and women who still call Ashraf home would be dislodged at all costs, with violence if necessary. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a stooge of the clerical regime, is determined to do this unless the international community stands up. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

Nigeria's Boko Haram now political issue
Nigeria's ACN wants President Goodluck Jonathan to convene a national conference on security. ... more
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WATER WORLD

Microbes, sponges, and worms add to coral reef woes
Microbes, sponges, and worms-the side effects of pollution and heavy fishing-are adding insult to injury in Kenya's imperiled reef systems, according to a recent study by the Wildlife Conservation S ... more
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FARM NEWS

Researchers Demonstrate Control of Devastating Cassava Virus in Africa
An international research collaboration recently demonstrated progress in protecting cassava against cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a serious virus disease, in a confined field trial in Uganda ... more
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WHITE OUT

Two killed, two missing in S.Africa's heavy snow, rain falls
At least two people died and two went missing Wednesday as heavy snow and rain battered South Africa's southeast leaving swathes of the country without electricity, media reports said. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

Once mighty, Somalia's army struggles to rebuild
As hundreds of Somali army recruits march haltingly around a dusty parade ground on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Ugandan officer Assa Mutebi admits that sometimes his job can feel a little strange. ... more
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