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Uganda: 'The Dream' Ouma Weds Jalia on Saturday
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:08:15 GMT
After years of Ugandan media speculation, US-based Ugandan boxer Kassim 'The Dream' Ouma will finally walk down the isle with long-time girlfriend Jalia Nandawula, a practicing nurse and pharmaceutical proprietor in Texas.
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Ethiopia: Bob Marley Stirs It Up
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:26 GMT
REGGAE LEGEND BOB MARley's musical influence, like his sales, continues to grow more than 25 years after his death. He is now revered both as a reggae icon and as a major force for raising influence in black consciousness among new fans all over the world.
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Tanzania: Canada Moves to Protect Its Mining Interests
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:21 GMT
Canada is moving to safeguard its business interests in Tanzania, in the face of an outcry over the lopsided contracts dished out in the latter's mining sector.
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East Africa: Suspicion Over New EAC Trade Deal With the U.S.
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:18 GMT
There are murmurs of discontent over the manner in which a trade and investment agreement between the East African Community and the United States was reached last month.
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Africa: WTO Talks Had to Collapse
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:18 GMT
The opportunity that had been provided by a high level summit to salvage a global trade pact collapsed recently in Geneva after the United States, China and India failed to compromise on farm import rules after nine days of talks.
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Angola: Angolans in Philadelphia Informed About Country's Situation
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:58:08 GMT
The Angolan general-consul to New York, Júlia Machado, explained last weekend to the Angolan community residing in Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania (USA), about the current moment in Angola.
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Nigeria: Chevron Faces Charges Over Delta Killings
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:24:16 GMT
Oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited, will stand trial in the United States (US) in September, after exhausting all appeals meant to stop the company from being tried for the alleged murder of villagers in the Niger Delta region in two separate incidents between 1998 and 1999.
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Nigeria: Obama Obscenity
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:03:04 GMT
SUPPORT for US senator Barack Hussein Obama, 46, an African-American, with roots in Kenyan's Luo ethnic group, and the Democrats' presidential candidate in November's election, began gradually, but it has turned into an obsession for some Nigerians, and assuming obscene proportions. From some cars that bore Obama stickers, emails that sold his candidacy, to posters that have found their places on the otherwise posterless streets of Abuja, the Nigerian side of the campaign is assuming a senselessness.
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Zimbabwe: The G8 Has No Right to Judge
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:51:04 GMT
Legitimacy is a philosophical-political concept. It is also an ethical concept. In Western philosophy a distinction is sometimes made between legality and legitimacy. Before the dawn of liberal democracy in the West, the will of the sovereign monarch constituted the legal order.
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Africa: Olympic Rebels With a Cause
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:51:01 GMT
The Olympics are now in their second week, with the US finally overtaking China in the total medal count towards the end of last week.
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