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RFI (Paris)-Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has pulled out of the race for the presidency of the African Union's Assembly, Gambia's foreign minister told RFI on Thursday. This leaves Benin's President Boni Yayi the likely winner of the rotating one-year term.
Read More... Application Deadline for African Diaspora Marketplace Extended to February 15thThu, 02 Feb 2012 13:16:00 -0800
The Western Union Company , a leader in global payment services, its Foundation, and the United States Agency for International Development have extended the application deadline for the African Diaspora Marketplace to February 15, 2012.
Read More... Gambian journalist arrested on defamation chargeWed, 11 Jan 2012 08:33:48 -0800
A journalist has been arrested and charged with defamation in the tiny west African nation of Gambia, police said Wednesday, after he wrote an article accusing a local chief of mismanaging public funds.
Read More... Arik Air, West Africa's Leading Airline, Appoints C Moore Media as Its Public Relations Agency of RecordTue, 31 Jan 2012 05:37:36 -0800
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Read More... The vagabond kingTue, 07 Feb 2012 06:59:12 -0800
When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world’s youngest head of state. Today he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the roadside. What went wrong?
Read More... Africa: Will AU Regain Face This Time?Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:09:53 -0800
Nation (Nairobi)-With elections at the African Union scheduled for Sunday and Monday, questions about the International Criminal Court (ICC), especially its ruling on the Kenyan post-election violence cases and the implication for other member countries in which a culture of impunity still obtains, are bound to arise.
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