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Obama lauds South Africa for dismantling nuclear program
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Tags: [US, president, Barack Obama, Jacob Zuma, nuclear, weapons, South Africa] ...
Monday, 12 April 2010
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Burundi disarmament drive nets over 70,000 weapons
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Tags: [disarmament, taskforce, arms, weapons, civilians, conflict, war, elections, Zenon Ndabaneze, Burundi] ...
Thursday, 29 October 2009
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Tuareg rebels renounce arms in Libyan ceremony
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Tags: [Tuareg, rebels, weapons, arms, peace, ceremony, Agaly Alambo, Mohamed Koumi, Ag Bahanga, Mali, Niger, Libya] ...
Thursday, 08 October 2009
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No nukes in Africa
(News/Lessons from Africa)
Tags: [nuclear weapons, Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Libya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, ...
Tuesday, 01 September 2009
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West Africa battles flow of illegal weapons
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Tags: [illegal weapons, Economic Community of West African States, Mohamed Lamine Coulibaly, restrict, West Africa] ...
Thursday, 27 August 2009
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Nigeria oil militants disarm, government hopeful
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Tags: [oil, militants, Niger Delta, weapons, amnesty, rehabilitation, Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigeria] ...
Friday, 21 August 2009
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South African find sheds light on development of human intelligence
(News/Lessons from Africa)
... early bows and arrows stems from the light the weapons shine on the technological and cognitive abilities of early Homo sapiens. "Hunting with a bow and arrow requires intricate multi-staged planning, ...
Monday, 06 September 2010
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Nigeria eyes greater share of rising oil investment
(News/Energy)
... of their former selves and those who can afford it prefer to study in Europe or the United States. But thousands of former militants who gave up weapons under an amnesty programme in the restive Niger ...
Thursday, 26 August 2010
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US says Nigeria airline security improving
(News/Travel and Tourism)
... using full-body scanners ordered after the failed bomb attempt, which use radio waves to generate a picture of the body that can see through clothing and spot hidden weapons or packages. The United States ...
Thursday, 12 August 2010
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France, African countries move to counter al-Qaida-linked groups in Africa
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... troops and allow the peacekeepers to fire their weapons, if they face imminent attack. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the recent bombings in Uganda that killed dozens of people, saying the attacks ...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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Antibiotics could help control malaria: study
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... not developing this or proposing this as a vaccine as such," Borrmann said in a telephone interview. "It would be one additional tool in the larger set of weapons against malaria which could be used in ...
Friday, 16 July 2010
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U.N. watchdog backs Egypt nuclear power plant plans
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... on the Mediterranean coast, where Egypt planned to build a power station in the 1980s. Egypt has long pressed for making the Middle East a nuclear-weapons-free zone and backed plans for a U.N.-sponsored ...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
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New Nigerian leader pledges electoral reform
(News/Leadership)
... his offer of amnesty last year led thousands of gunmen to lay down their weapons and has brought more than six months of relative peace in the region. The main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation ...
Friday, 07 May 2010
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Saharan states to open joint anti-Qaeda command HQ
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... plan to move towards joint military operations against terrorism, kidnappings and the trafficking of drugs and weapons," the source said. Security experts say better regional cooperation is key to containing ...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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South Africa: Wildlife poachers to be taken down
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... handles. In much of Africa rhino conservation efforts have been severely hampered by unrest, civil war and easy access to weapons. "We are predicting that by the end of this year, there will be 163 ...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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Obama lauds South Africa for dismantling nuclear program
(News/International Relations)
US President Barack Obama Sunday heaped praise on South Africa for taking the decision to become the first country to abandon a nuclear weapons program, as he met President Jacob Zuma. US President ...
Monday, 12 April 2010
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Peace accords start to bear fruit in Congo Republic
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... and 19,000 fighters who had demobilised themselves. "Thanks to the PNDDR, we have recovered more than 4,000 weapons from 5,000 ex-combatants. Major efforts have been made," Bibi said. "But planned ...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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North African states meet on Al-Qaeda terror threat
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... border cooperation, Medelci condemned growing links between terror and criminal groups in the region which has seen a rise in weapons and drug smuggling. AQIM, commanded from Algeria, carried out a number ...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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UN to help educate, employ former Nigerian militants
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... for the youths," he said. Thousands of militants last year handed over weapons in return for Yar'Adua's promise for clemency, monthly stipends, vocational training, jobs and investment. But the federal ...
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
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Italy offers Somalia help, urges others to follow
(News/International Relations)
... Washington sent weapons to the government last year, but poor morale among pro-government forces, who complain of not being paid, has led to some of the supplies ending up in Mogadishu's main arms market ...
Friday, 15 January 2010
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