Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. The prosecution at the Special Court for Sierra Leone wanted an 80-year prison term, which the defense said […]
May 30 2012 | Posted in
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Marc-André Boisvert/IRIN Polling station. Cape Town — An opposition party led by a veteran Basotho politician who once served in the Cabinet of long-time Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has made an unexpectedly strong showing in the country’s elections. With results in three-quarters of the country’s constituencies declared on Monday, Tom Thabane’s All Basotho Convention […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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By Sam Kebongo ACTUALLY, there are a lot of African inventors. A quick scan at sites such www.kumatoo.com will give you surprising and interesting results. So why is it that we don’t know them? We know a lot about Alexander Bell, The Wright Brothers, Galileo Galilei, Montessori, Thomas Edison, the late Steve Jobs (RIP), Charles […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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By Brad Morgan Marsha Marescia will captain the best prepared South African women’s Olympic squad yet at the London Olympic Games. Now aged 29, she has been a member of the national team since 2001. She made her debut in October of that year at the age of 18. Almost 11 years later, when she […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, has predicted that Team Nigeria would surpass all previous attempts at the Olympics at the London 2012 Olympics which begins on July 23. Governor Akpabio said this during a courtesy call on him by members of the Nigeria Olympic Committee led by its President, Sani M. Ndanusa, after the […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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By Jinty Jackson Maptuo — Along a dirt road in Mozambique’s Sofala province, a long line of men on bicycles stretches into the distance, each carrying an impossibly big bag of charcoal strapped to his bike. The journey to town takes two days from where they or their families cut down trees and put logs […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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Nairobi — A massive explosion has rocked a building on Moi Avenue in Nairobi, adjacent to the Mount Kenya University. The cause of the blast at Assanands House remained unclear but several people could be seen being pulled out of the damaged building. Witnesses said some of the injured women appeared to be in a […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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Renewed violence erupted between the two factions in the Akyem Kotoku chieftaincy dispute on Saturday. Three persons, including the Oda Municipal Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr. Issah Mohammed Cantona, sustained gunshot wounds. ASP Cantona, whose right chest was grazed by a bullet, has been treated and discharged, while Kwame Mintah, 35, and […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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The immediate past Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Martin Amidu, has described government’s intervention in the controversial Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey Bungalow saga as “unconstitutional”. Government last week served notice it is no longer selling the bungalow at No. 2 Mungo Street at Ridge, which has being the subject of a Supreme Court ruling, describing the acquisition […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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The Director of Radio at Ken City Media, Kwabena Kwakye, fondly called KK, is the target of a killer squad assembled to, according to information reaching DAILY GUIDE, eliminate or render him physically incapable of sustaining his occupation at the media network. A report about the possible assassination has been reported to the Kwabenya Police […]
May 24 2012 | Posted in
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