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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Africa Leader.com http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:24:29 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:24:29 -0500 30 CAIRO - Three people were killed in Cairo, and 6 in Suez, as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the death http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203208013/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:09:18 -0500 Africa Leader.com http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203208013/cs/1/ African -American CEOs account for a mere one percent of the chiefs of the 500 largest companies in the US, a new study has revealed. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203227363/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:10:08 -0500 ANI http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203227363/cs/1/ The Western Cape High Court has dismissed an application on the Dalai Lama's visa, claiming that it was too late to fix the past, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) said on Friday. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203224615/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:20:57 -0500 ANI http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203224615/cs/1/ China has long adhered to a foreign policy of non-interventionism, where it tries to appear neutral in disputes outside its borders. As the country becomes more of a global power, however, it is less http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203211280/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:16:25 -0500 VoA - Asia http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203211280/cs/1/ Uganda has signed two oil production agreements with an Anglo-Irish firm, Tullow oil. The agreements allow the company to finalize a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France's Total and China's http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203211278/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:16:12 -0500 VoA - Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203211278/cs/1/ The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed by reports of renewed atrocities committed against internally displaced Congolese. The UNHCR says it has reports of IDPs (internally displaced peop http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203211275/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:16:04 -0500 VoA - Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203211275/cs/1/ A coalition of human rights groups Thursday has appealed to the Obama administration to lead a cross-border aid operation into South Sudan to deliver much-needed food and medicine to the people of war http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203211271/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:15:50 -0500 VoA - USA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203211271/cs/1/ NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining n http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203208431/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:24:13 -0500 Africa Leader.com http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203208431/cs/1/ In a new study, an international team of scientists pooled their radio observations into a database to produce the highest precision map to date of the magnetic field within our own Milky Way galaxy. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203223251/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:00:17 -0500 ANI http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203223251/cs/1/ The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203214261/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:18:05 -0500 U.N. - Health, Poverty, Food Security http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203214261/cs/1/ The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) said today that he hopes to decide next week on the partial certification of parliamentary elections held in the West Afric http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203214233/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:17:21 -0500 U.N. - Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203214233/cs/1/ The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203214197/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:15:21 -0500 U.N. - Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203214197/cs/1/ JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC on Saturday upheld a decision to ban youth leader Julius Malema for five years for bringing the movement into disrepute, sending into the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235421/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:24:06 -0500 West Australian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235421/ A black ribbon on the tie of Sudan's coach Mohamed Abdallah in solidarity with the victims of Port Said stadium in Egypt, as he holds his hand across his breast during a minutes silence at the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235434/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:20:07 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235434/ TUNIS, (Reuters) Tunisia has started the procedure for withdrawing its recognition of the Syrian leadership under President Bashar al-Assad and for expelling the Syrian ambassador, the Tunisian ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235432/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:58:35 -0500 asharq alawsat http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235432/ Bata - Zambia strode into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with a one-sided 3-0 win over Sudan to book a last four place for the first time in 16 years. They now await either Ghana or Tunisia as ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235417/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:24:42 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235417/ KHARTOUM, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Tensions escalated between Sudan and South Sudan as the African Union's (AU) efforts failed to settle the oil dispute that has engaged the two sides since last ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235425/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:01:30 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235425/ ADDIS ABABA, Jan, 30 (Xinhua) -- An election is scheduled for Monday for the top post of the African Union Commission (AUC) at the ongoing summit of African leaders in the Ethiopian capital Addis ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235426/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:01:26 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235426/ People protest past policemen following the removal of fuel subsidy by the Government in Lagos ,Nigeria, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. Labor unions began a paralyzing national strike Monday in oil-rich ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235427/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:47 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235427/ An African Union soldier serving with the Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) stands guard in Mogadishu in December 2011. African Union troops in Somalia's war-torn capital will investigate an attack ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235428/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:46 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235428/ A former colonel in Moamer Kadhafi's military has been appointed as the new chief of staff of the Libyan army, two members of the country's ruling National Transitional Council told AFP on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235429/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:29 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235429/ KHARTOUM, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Six crew members were killed when a military plane crashed Friday after taking off at an airport in western Sudan, the official news agency ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235430/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:21 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235430/ When will this cricket season please start? It is taking far too long to produce genuine cricket excitement. The HRV Cup had its moments but let's face it; that was domestic cricket. I was so ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235422/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:30:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203235422/ The national government gave no names and provided few specifics. But a visitor doesn't have to spend much time in this province of 5 million people before seeing suspended or abandoned ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233662/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:12:29 -0500 Richmond Times-Dispatch http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233662/ More than 100 people are missing, feared dead, after a ferry sank off the north-east coast of mainland Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Thursday morning. The MV Rabaul Queen was travelling from Kimbe, on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233458/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:11:58 -0500 wsws.org http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233458/ A former Libyan diplomat who went over to the opposition National Transitional Council last year was detained and then tortured to death by a militia force based in the town of Zintan, according to ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233665/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:11:50 -0500 wsws.org http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233665/ NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's military has struck al Shabaab targets in one of the most devastating attacks against the al Qaeda-linked insurgents since it launched an operation in Somalia to ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233643/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:09:01 -0500 West Australian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233643/ PHOENIX, Arizona, February 4. THE February issue of Swimming World Magazine features an Olympic preview entitled Lane Lines to London, sponsored by Competitor Swim ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233644/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:06:44 -0500 Swimming World http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233644/ The Beijing government "will exert every possible pressure" on the southern Sudan to secure the release of the 29 workers of Sinohydro Corporation taken away by force on 29 January. But ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233641/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:06:08 -0500 Spero News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233641/ NAIROBI, Kenya -; A Red Cross official says 25 people have died in western Kenya after a truck crashed into a minibus. Kenya Red Cross spokesman Fredrick Gori said Saturday that the Friday night ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233571/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:05:06 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233571/ GIYANI, South Africa — The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region. Instead, they have become a ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233632/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:46:17 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233632/ By Col. Abubakar Umar Boko Haram's ambition of creating a climate of fear, terror and panic ahead of their plan to re-invent Nigeria, seem close to reality. A visitor to some of the major ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233666/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:39:17 -0500 Sahara Reporters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233666/ Young South African men walk on giant water pipes near the Limpopo province town of Giyani, South Africa, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012. The giant pipes lying idle by the dozens along the road were supposed ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233664/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:25:50 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233664/ The suicide strike left 25 people dead and the U.N. headquarters in tatters. It also drew global attention to Boko Haram, the militant group from northern Nigeria which has claimed responsibility ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233659/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:24:50 -0500 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233659/ The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region. Instead, they have become a symbol of government greed ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233655/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:12:51 -0500 ABC News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233655/ , better known locally as "Hassan Fantastic," was gunned down outside his Mogadishu home at 6:30 p.m. today, Reporters Without Borders has learned from its partner organization in Somalia, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233660/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:11:18 -0500 Reporters without Borders http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233660/ Johannesburg - Convictions handed down by the National Disciplinary Committee to ANC Youth League leaders were upheld by an appeals committee on Saturday. However, the embattled leadership was ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233628/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:06:19 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233628/ His is an efficient workhorse in the Black Stars, midfield and quietly goes about his business on and off the field in a focused manner. It was pretty much the same scenario at Ngouni Complex in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233629/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:06:14 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233629/ Kisumu - At least 26 people are dead following a grisly road accident that occurred on Friday night on the busy Kisumu-Kakamega highway at the Mamboleo black spot. The accident involving two Nissan ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233652/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:06:11 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233652/ Three popular African singers have released a CD in collaboration with Vatican Radio to spread the message of the African Synod and mark the pope's upcoming trip to Benin, the Vatican said on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233639/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:58:22 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233639/ As Nigerian motorists and unions vented their anger on Monday at a sudden doubling of fuel prices, the radical Islamist group Boko Haram gave Christians living in the north three days to leave the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233640/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:58:18 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233640/ Bishop of Kotido on Evangelization, Education and DevelopmentROME, JAN. 27, 2012 (Zenit.org).- The bishop of Kotido explains that his diocese is the poorest in the central African country of Uganda. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233648/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:53:29 -0500 EWTN http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233648/ UK-based Charity Seen as Prism for Global DynamicBy Edward PentinROME, JAN. 26, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Kakuru, age 22, greets you with a beaming smile as you enter his small mud hut in the remote Kagera ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233647/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:53:26 -0500 EWTN http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233647/ (http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=24169)ABUJA, NIGERIA, January 26 (CNA) .- As many as 35,000 people have fled their homes in northern Nigeria after continuing attacks from the Islamic ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233649/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:53:15 -0500 EWTN http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233649/ Enlarge Young South African men walk on giant water pipes near the Limpopo province town of Giyani, South Africa, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012. The giant pipes lying idle by the dozens along the road ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233636/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:53:09 -0500 Gadsden Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203233636/ Young South African men walk on giant water pipes near the Limpopo province town of Giyani, South Africa, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012. The giant pipes lying idle by the dozens along the road were supposed ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231598/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:30:02 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231598/ The hills around Nyeri will reverberate with the roar of turbo-charged machines when the KCB Micro Banking Rally goes to the slopes of Mount Kenya on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231466/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:21 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231466/ Kenya have a huge mountain to climb in Abeokuta, Nigeria, on Saturday when they take on hosts Nigeria in the women Under-17 Fifa World Cup, first round, second leg ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231695/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:15 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231695/ But Zambia will prove stern opposition after they topped their group and the Chipolopolo are seeking their first semi-final appearance since ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231696/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:06 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231696/ "Cancer of the thyroid is one of the cancers in human beings that are curable when diagnosis and treatment is done early," Dr David Ndirangu, head of the nuclear medicine unit at KNH, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231565/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:24:59 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231565/ GIYANI, South Africa -- The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region.Instead, they have become a symbol ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231670/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:23:02 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231670/ Sudan's military bombed a Bible school built by a US Christian aid group, prompting students and teachers at the school to run for their lives in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231694/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:22:31 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231694/ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -; A South African youth leader who has stirred furious debate over race relations and economic policy will get a chance to argue against a possibly career-ending ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231713/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:55 -0500 CTV http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231713/ Violence on the Horn of Africa continues unabated. A suicide bomber targeted a once-powerful warlord in an assassination attempt in central Somalia Thursday. One person was killed in the attack. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231712/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:08:56 -0500 CBN News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231712/ KHARTOUM, (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said Friday tensions with South Sudan over oil transit payments could lead to war between the two countries. Asked in an interview ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231718/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:05:09 -0500 asharq alawsat http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231718/ Bongoville – Tunisia are set to start Evian striker Sabeur Khalifa ahead of more established strikers Issam Jemaa and Sami Allagui in Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231699/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:52:19 -0500 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231699/ The national government gave no names and provided few specifics. But a visitor doesn't have to spend much time in this province of 5 million people before seeing suspended or abandoned ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231704/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:50:16 -0500 Associated Press http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231704/ TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia has started the procedure for withdrawing its recognition of the Syrian leadership under President Bashar al-Assad and for expelling the Syrian ambassador, the Tunisian ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231716/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:47:03 -0500 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231716/ JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A ruling South African ANC appeals panel on Saturday upheld a decision to expel its firebrand youth leader Julius Malema for bringing the movement into disrepute, sending ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231714/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:47:02 -0500 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231714/ CAIRO (Reuters) - Syrian demonstrators ransacked their country's embassy in Cairo and broke into the missions in London and Kuwait, part of protests around the world against the worst bloodshed ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231715/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:47:02 -0500 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231715/ The world has developed a taste for South Africa's rooibos tea in recent years, mainly because of its perceived health benefits. Annual exports have quadrupled since 1999 to 8,000 tonnes, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231685/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:35:26 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231685/ Football graffiti on Mohamed Mahmoud Street as protesters mass in Cairo. CAIRO: The Tunisia national football team as requested from the African Cup of Nations organizers to wear black armbands ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231722/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:30:18 -0500 bikyamasr http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231722/ Juba/Bentui - On Thursday the Unity state minster for information and communication, Gideon Gatpan, said 15 people were killed in Mayiandit in a coordinated attack by Unity state forces who came on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231684/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:55 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231684/ Growth is a decision THE experiences of the last 36 months since the formation of the Government of National Unity have proved that growth is a decision that any nation takes on its own accord. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231267/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:42 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231267/ The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing rations in Mozambique, where an estimated 70,000 people are in urgent need of assistance after the country was pounded by two ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231372/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:41 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231372/ NATIONAL Social Security Authority (NSSA) has acquired a controlling stake in ReNaissance Merchant Bank (RMB), businessdigest has established. Sources close to the deal said on Wednesday NSSA had ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231705/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:39 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231705/ Old Mutual Property is redeveloping and refurbishing several malls in previously disadvantaged areas as part of its contribution to sustainable community development and township upliftment in South ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231450/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:34 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231450/ Western Europe is "finished" as a top Formula One racing destination and will soon host only five Grand Prix races, the sport's supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231692/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:21:46 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231692/ A shoot-out among South Sudanese security forces using truck-mounted machineguns killed 37 people and injured a United Nations policeman on Wednesday, U.N. and government officials said on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231693/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:19:17 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231693/ KHARTOUM, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday condemned the attack launched by Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) on a site of a Chinese ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231707/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:05:32 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231707/ LAGOS, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- More than 61 people have been killed in the past days in the clash between the Nigerian army and the militant sect Boko Haram in the West African country's ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231709/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:04:12 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231709/ TUNIS, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's Constitutional Assembly voted late on Friday to approve the country's new government presented by Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, the official TAP press ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231710/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:04:11 -0500 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203231710/ An A330-200 - with a weekly capacity of up to 160 tonnes - will operate every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from Lusaka and Harare to Dubai, providing businesses in Zimbabwe and ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228055/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:01:57 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228055/ PHOTO/FILE Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia Augustine Mahiga (left) and Somali Prime Minister Abdiwali Mohamed Ali (centre) walk outside Mogadishu airport, Somalia. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228556/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:01:48 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228556/ Police fired tear gas and birdshot at protesters on Saturday in the third day of deadly clashes in Cairo, as anger at Egypt's ruling military boiled over after 74 people died in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228629/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:59:42 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228629/ CAIRO, Feb 4, 2012 (IPS) - The illegal trade in ivory continues in Egypt, with ivory products sold openly in local tourist markets by traders who operate with impunity, a new study by the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228632/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:55:58 -0500 IPS http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228632/ BOBOYE, Niger, Feb 4, 2012 (IPS) - Women have been left in charge of many of the households in the village of ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228631/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:55:56 -0500 IPS http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228631/ The stampede by wealthy states for arable land across Africa and other developing regions could trigger a series of conflicts if governments fail to protect the rights of their people, two recent ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228644/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:34:05 -0500 UPI http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228644/ An exceptional harvest after good rains and food deliveries by aid agencies have ended famine in Somalia for now but food stocks could run out again in May, the United Nations said ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228633/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:21:21 -0500 The Independent http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228633/ CAIRO (Reuters) - Clashes between rock-throwing protesters and riot police eased in Egypt on Saturday as activists argued over how to build momentum in their push to oust the country's ruling ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228639/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:15:22 -0500 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228639/ KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) - Heavy weapons fire rang out in and around the northern Malian town of Kidal overnight, residents said on Saturday, in a sign that a Tuareg-led rebellion was nearing the most ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228640/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:15:21 -0500 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228640/ BEIJING (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan's government ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228643/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:15:20 -0500 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228643/ CAIRO (Reuters) - Two American women kidnapped by gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Friday were released into army custody a few hours later, security sources ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228641/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:15:18 -0500 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228641/ Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only 20 percent of its population has direct access to electricity, and in some rural areas four out of five people are completely ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228178/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:55:05 -0500 World Press Review http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228178/ Ghana's quest to end a 30-year wait for an Africa Cup of Nations title will face its biggest challenge yet on Sunday when they battle Tunisia for a place in the semi-finals of the 2012 ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228621/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:48:42 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228621/ Rank outsiders Equatorial Guinea reached the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals on Wednesday and eliminated Senegal with a shock 2-1 triumph at rain-soaked Estadio de ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228622/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:48:38 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228622/ Ghana hopes its gifted squad can finally end a run of near-misses at the Africa Cup of Nations and deliver a fifth title, 30 years after its ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228623/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:48:36 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228623/ The deaths of tens of thousands of people during the drought in east Africa could have been avoided if the international community, donor governments and humanitarian agencies had responded earlier ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228625/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:48:18 -0500 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/203228625/