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Ghana took a huge step towards reaching their third straight World Cup finals by thrashing Egypt 6-1 in the first leg of their 2014 play-off. Asamoah Gyan thumped in the opener and it was 2-0 after Michael Essien's run led to an own-goal from Wael Gomaa....
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The world's most valuable individual prize - the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa - has gone unclaimed yet again. The $5m (£3.2m) prize is supposed to be awarded each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and...
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Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth should increase to 5.3 percent next year, with strong private and public investment underpinning the region's robust performance, the World Bank said on Monday. The bank lifted its forecast for 2014 from the 5.1 percent...
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Saran Kaba Jones est passionnée par l’accès universel à l’ eau potable : elle est Libérienne et fondatrice de FACE Africa, une organisation caritative basée aux Etats-Unis et qui œuvre pour l’accès des communautés rurales du Libéria et d’autres pays africains...
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Selon une enquête qui devrait être publiée en octobre, la plupart des doctorants africains étudiant à l'étranger envisagent de rentrer chez eux, à la fin de leurs études. 90% des quelque 400 étudiants africains interrogés souhaitent travailler dans leur...
Lire la suiteL'ex-président tchadien Hissène Habré a été inculpé mardi 2 juillet à Dakar de crimes de guerre, crimes contre l'humanité et tortures. Un de ses avocats, Me El Hadji Diouf, a cité le terme de génocide parmi les chefs d'inculpation retenus. L'ex-dirigeant...
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Ethiopia dismissed Egyptian talk of military action against a giant dam it is building on the Nile as "psychological warfare", and said on Tuesday it would defend itself and carry on with the work regardless. Bellicose rhetoric between two of Africa's...
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Egypt's foreign minister, vowing not to give up "a single drop of water from the Nile", said on Sunday he would go to Addis Ababa to discuss a giant dam that Ethiopia has begun building in defiance of Cairo's objections. Speaking to Egypt's state news...
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Le président américain Barack Obama va effectuer du 26 juin au 3 juillet sa première grande tournée africaine depuis son arrivée au pouvoir, en se rendant au Sénégal, en Afrique du Sud et en Tanzanie mais en évitant la terre natale de son père, le Kenya....
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La Chine a investi plus de 75 milliards de dollars en Afrique au cours de la période 2000-2011, s'approchant des montants dépensés par les États-Unis même si l'argent apporté par Pékin l'a été dans des domaines bien différents, selon une étude publiée...
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New President Xi Jinping has hailed the strength of China's ties with African nations. Mr Xi described Africa as "a continent of hope and promise". He was speaking in Tanzania - the second country he has visited since taking power 11 days ago. Addressing...
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Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82 after a brief illness. A statement from his family said his "wisdom and courage" were an "inspiration to all who knew him". One of Africa's best known authors, his 1958 debut novel Things...
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Apps4Africa has just announced the three winners of its 2012 competition, showcasing the best in African innovation. The winners, chosen from nearly 300 submissions, were Ffene, from Uganda, an app that helps small and medium businesses reduce administrative...
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Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon's Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004, Gabon's government said on Wednesday, with the massacre fuelled by increasing demand for ivory in Asia. The densely-forested central African country...
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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has unveiled a bespoke Windows-run smartphone exclusively available in Africa. The customised device is being launched today in partnership with Microsoft as part of its new 4Afrika Initiative. This includes plans to develop...
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