The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over widespread looting and displacement in various parts of the Central African Republic (CAR), and appealed to the Government to enhance access to vulnerable population so they can receive assistance. After conducting an assessment mission last week in Bambari, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) found […]
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Khartoum — Sudanese government and a splinter group of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on Sunday signed a cease-fire agreement in Doha before to engage political talks. A rebel faction led by Mohamed Bashar signed on 24 January a framework agenda to negotiate a peace deal based on the Doha Document for Peace in […]
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Kutum — Multiple sources assert that 200 Land Cruisers with Islamist militants from Mali fleeing the hostilities in their country have arrived in Kutum, North Darfur, in the past 10 days. They told Radio Dabanga on Monday the groups are stationed in three different areas around Kutum, adding they are “inciting a state of fear […]
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Kano — Commercial activities in the northern trade hub of Kano are down by half since 2010 because of the campaign of violence waged by militant group Boko Haram and government efforts to curb it, says the Kano traders’ union. “The north is losing heavily due to the violence. When you destabilize Kano, which is […]
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Wazobia FM journalists, Yakubu Musa Fagge (presenter) and Mubarak Muhamad Sani (reporter), arrested on Sunday, were arraigned before a Magistrate court today. Arraigned alongside with them was the former director of the Kano Films and Censorship Board, Abubakar Rabo. The trio were arraigned for alleged criminal conspiracy, abetting, inciting disturbance, obstruction of public officers from […]
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Ericsson today announced winners of the Apps for African City Life Competition. Team Shinsekai from Senegal won first prize for developing an app that aims to support environmental sanitation and hygiene development in cities. Second and third prizes went to two Kenyan teams, Easy Parking for their application aimed at helping motorists locate and pay […]
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by Gary Axelbank Mamadou Gueye New York, NY – The Monroe Mustangs 2012-13 indoor track team is writing an amazing story. The latest chapter was composed at Friday’s Great Dane Classic hosted by the University at Albany at the NYC Armory. It opens with jumper Mamadou Gueye from Senegal, who went airborne on a long jump […]
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Newark – A medical student from Essex County went out of his way twice during the blizzard to try to find a homeless manm who had nowhere to go. Rameez Ulhassan has been providing aid and comfort to Paul Boateng for about a year. Boateng has been confined to a wheelchair anf living on the […]
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MORRISANIA — Four members of The Bronx’s growing African community have entered a closely watched City Council race, delighting supporters who seek more political muscle, but worrying leaders who fear a fractured African vote. The African candidates in the contest for the 16th District City Council seat include a Nigerian medical researcher, a Guinean businessman […]
By Kwabena Opong The Council of Ghanaian Associations of New Jersey (COGANJ) received on behalf of the Nima Police Station in Accra a number of policing paraphernalia from the Essex County Sheriff at Newark, NJ. The presentation made at the offices of the County Sheriff Armando B. Fontoura was a follow-up to the visit of […]
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