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Earlier this year, a century-old wasteland of limestone and red dirt in south-west Nigeria was transformed into the biggest cement plant in Africa. The $1bn (£626m) Ibese plant will produce 6m tonnes of cement a year – expanding to 12m – cement that will...
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Les rebelles avancent à grande vitesse. Est-ce l'heure d'une opération militaire, d'une contre-offensive de l'armée dans le Nord ? La situation est critique, mais pas générée par le CNRDRE. C'est une des raisons pour lesquelles on a décidé de mettre fin...
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Morocco is under growing pressure to better protect women after a man who was allowed to marry a 16-year old girl he had allegedly raped was invited by a newspaper to join a discussion on improving women's rights. The man did not attend the roundtable...
Lire la suiteMali's ruling military junta has said it is considering charging the ousted president with high treason. Coup leader Capt Amadou Sanogo said the junta may also charge Amadou Toumani Toure with financial misconduct. The announcement came as the junta,...
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Selon un rapport de l’ONU publié la semaine dernière (12 mars) à l’occasion du Forum mondial de l’eau à Marseille en France, l’hydroélectricité est capable de satisfaire tous les besoins en électricité du continent africain si la coopération transfrontalière...
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Colombia's leftist Farc rebels have released their last 10 police and military hostages. The captives were collected from the jungle by a Brazilian military helicopter and flown to safety. They were welcomed by their relatives at the city of Villavicencio...
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Un sommet des chefs d'Etat de la Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cédéao) s'est tenu à Dakar ce lundi après-midi 2 avril, au sujet de la situation au Mali. Malgré les assurances faites par les putschistes ce week-end, la Cédéao a...
Lire la suiteUnemployment across countries that use the euro edged higher in February to 10.8%. That's up from 10.7% in January and the highest level since the introduction of the single currency in 1999. Spain has the highest rate of 23.6%. Meanwhile, a separate...
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The party of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said she had led it to a landslide election victory Sunday, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time and head a small opposition bloc in the military-dominated parliament. As results...
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Bashar al-Assad has been warned to implement a UN-backed peace plan to end more than a year of violence in Syria, amid growing scepticism at the lack of international resolve to tackle the bloodiest crisis of the Arab spring. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary...
Lire la suiteThe Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has nominated its deputy chairman, Khairat al-Shatir, as its candidate for the presidential elections in May. The choice of Mr Shatir, the group's financier, reverses a pledge made earlier by the group's leaders not to...
Lire la suiteCe dimanche 1er avril à la mi-journée, les rebelles touaregs du MNLA sont entrés dans Tombouctou, dernière ville du Nord du Mali encore contrôlée par l'armée malienne, après s'être emparés samedi de la ville de Gao. Dans un communiqué, le Mouvement national...
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