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  • Hezbollah has global fundraising reach 26 Nov 2009 00:51 GMT
    ... from funds provided by Lebanese Shiite immigrants who have dominated the diamond business in West Africa since the precious stones were discovered in Sierra Leone in 1930. © 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ...

  • Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds 25 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... out of Congo, helping sustain one of Africa's bloodiest and most complicated wars. A gold ... gems unearthed in the rebel-held areas of West Africa that fueled gruesome civil wars in Liberia, Angola and Sierra Leone. It is a ...

  • Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds (Today) 25 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
    ... out of Congo, helping sustain one of Africa's bloodiest and most complicated wars. The lengthy ... gems unearthed in the rebel-held areas of West Africa that fueled gruesome civil wars in Liberia, Angola and Sierra Leone. It is a ...

  • Al-Houthis recruit African refugees for their battles 25 Nov 2009 10:50 GMT
    ... of nurses working for al-Houthis discovered Thirty Somalis were arrested over the past two days ... the government is having to deport 194 Africans this year alone for illegally entering the country. ... 46 Eritrean, 20 Sudanese, and 14 are Nigerian. It added that the group includes 16 ...

  • Nigeria buys helicopters for oil missions 25 Nov 2009 23:18 GMT
    ... Abuja - Nigeria has agreed to purchase five used Super ... in the impoverished Niger Delta have battered Africa's biggest energy industry over the past three ... the next step but has accused the military of instead rearming. A military spokesperson last ...

  • Pentagon Helping 80 Countries With AIDS Prevention 25 Nov 2009 18:13 GMT
    ... Department's HIV/AIDS Prevention Program. Initially focused on African militaries where about one third of the ... said. Started in 1982 for the U.S. military, the Pentagon uses the program to reach ... the 3rd of December the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces HIV and AIDS Prevention ...

  • Mass killing 25 Nov 2009 08:13 GMT
    ... has accused the junta of recruiting South African mercenaries to train ethnic militias loyal to Captain ... demanded that the military leaves power. The West African grouping Ecowas has also called on the ... an Ecowas-appointed negotiator, President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, subsequently offered Capt Camara a deal ...

  • Ahmadinejad Visits Venezuela to Boost Business Ties 25 Nov 2009 15:14 GMT
    ... lithium reserves. Mr. Ahmadinejad is on a five-nation overseas tour that began in the West African nation of Gambia and continued in Brazil. He is due to return to Africa to end the ...

  • Village massacre case comes as ICC accused of show trials 25 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT
    ... judging war crimes in the Balkans and Liberia) - as prosecutors described the horrors of ... gold, diamonds and oil. Rather than a military operation, however, Moreno-Ocampo described how two mobs ... Second War, referred to by many as Africa's World War which pulled in soldiers, money and ...

  • PART 1: MUSLIMS IN 21st CENTURY AMERICA--VIOLENT CLASHING CULTURE 25 Nov 2009 22:07 GMT
    ... killing by Muslim U.S. Army Major Nadal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan blasted away at 42 military personnel and civilians as they stood defenseless ... blew up barracks filled with soldiers in Africa, bombed night clubs in Balli, killed Theo Van ...

  • International Criminal Court trial of two former Congolese leaders opens tomorrow 25 Nov 2009 10:52 GMT
    ... witness on gender issues and on the military aspects of the crimes, during the upcoming ... and war crimes. Development / Accra / Ghana / Africa / ...

  • Remarks By The First Lady At Indian State Dinner Press Preview 25 Nov 2009 03:32 GMT
    ... House and the State Department and the Military Office who've worked so hard to put ... nurses in the maternal health clinic in Ghana, in Africa, that we got to see. See, all ...

  • What are US Strategies in West Africa? 21 Nov 2009 09:23 GMT
    ... necessarily represent or reflect the views of Modernghana.com." During the Week of November 22nd The ... US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on Africa held crucial hearings regarding US strategy in West Africa in Regards to Counterterrorism Operations. Some of ...

  • Africa's silent child -- Togo 20 Nov 2009 01:18 GMT
    ... phone, one minute for 50 “cefa,” or West African CFA francs. In touring Lome, another spot of ... same road that would take you towards Benin and then Nigeria. The asphalt road ends, ...

  • Kwame Nkrumah versus East African Federation 20 Nov 2009 23:43 GMT
    ... had been virtually the unrivalled voice of Pan-Africanism and the symbol of the continent’s quest for ... attempted to forge a union between Guinea, Ghana and Mali. But these attempts at unification ... than Nkrumah had stood in his own West African ventures. Predictably, Nkrumah’s reaction to the Pan-African ...

  • Kwame Nkrumah Versus East African Federation [opinion] 23 Nov 2009 10:04 GMT
    ... had been virtually the unrivalled voice of Pan-Africanism and the symbol of the continent's quest for ... attempted to forge a union between Guinea, Ghana and Mali. But these attempts at unification ... than Nkrumah had stood in his own West African ventures. Predictably, Nkrumah's reaction to the Pan-African ...

  • Opponents of Guinea Military & Power-Sharing Plan 24 Nov 2009 02:33 GMT
    ... Most Opponents of Guinea Military Reject Power-Sharing Plan Scott Stearns | Dakar ... of leaders from the Economic Community of West African States or the International Contact Group on Guinea. ...

  • Count Army out of politics, says Danbazau 23 Nov 2009 21:56 GMT
    ... The Nigerian Army (NA), Monday stated in Lagos, that ... press literally calling for what they termed 'Military solution' in the political affairs of the ... country’s ambition of being the giant of Africa among the twenty most developed global economies ...

  • Nigerian Army Says Insecurity in Niger Delta is Over 22 Nov 2009 00:54 GMT
    ... Nigerian Army Says Insecurity in Niger Delta is ... | Abuja 21 November 2009 The Nigerian military says the oil-rich Niger Delta has returned ... fighting in the region that has cost Africa's top oil exporter billions of dollars in ...

  • 63% Say Political Correctness Kept Military From Preventing Ford Hood Massacre 24 Nov 2009 16:11 GMT
    ... U.S. voters say political correctness prevented the military from responding to warning signs from Major Nidal Malik Hasan that could have prevented the Fort ... under 40. Whites were more likely than African-Americans to think political correctness kept the military ...

  • AFRICA/GUINEA - If talks between the military regime and the opposition fail, ethnic card may be played, a local Church source tells Fides 23 Nov 2009 13:20 GMT
    ... AFRICA/GUINEA - If talks between the military regime and the opposition fail, ethnic card ... Forces". This week, talks began in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) between the two sides, mediated by ...

  • Where crisis begins at birth 22 Nov 2009 05:41 GMT
    ... ANGELES TIMES World health officials fear that West African countries such as Sierra Leone are unable ... trafficking, small-arms trade and public health crises. West Africa is of particular concern to world health ...

  • US concerned by reports of training in Guinea 20 Nov 2009 00:17 GMT
    ... is "deeply concerned" by reports that South African "military instructors" are training militiamen backed by the ... in a camp formerly used to house Sierra Leone refugees outside Forecariah. Around 40 military instructors ... men from Camara's home region close to Liberia and Sierra Leone. - Sapa-AFP Social bookmarking ...

  • SA mercenaries 'worry US' 20 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... is "deeply concerned" by reports that South African "military instructors" are training militiamen backed by the ... in a camp formerly used to house Sierra Leone refugees outside Forecariah. Around 40 military instructors ... men from Camara's home region close to Liberia and Sierra Leone. ...

  • US concerned by reported SA training in Guinea 20 Nov 2009 07:22 GMT
    ... is "deeply concerned" by reports that South African "military instructors" are training militiamen backed by the ... in a camp formerly used to house Sierra Leone refugees outside Forecariah. About 40 military instructors ... men from Camara's home region close to Liberia and Sierra Leone. - AFP ...


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