| Activists and the Arab League urged the UN to take stronger action after an upsurge in violence this week in which dozens of people have died. |
| Voice of America - 5 hours ago January 21, 2012 New Breed of Poacher Decimates African Rhino Conservationists say poachers are using military tactics to target endangered rhino for their horns in South Africa. |
| Washington Post - 25 minutes ago DAKAR, Senegal - Senegal's highest court ruled Friday that the country's increasingly frail, 85-year-old president could run for a third term in next month's election, a deep blow to the country's opposition which has vowed to take to the streets if ... |
| Reuters - 23 minutes ago By George Georgiopoulos and Karolina Tagaris | ATHENS Jan 28 (Reuters) - Greece and its private creditors head back to the negotiating table on Saturday to put together the final pieces of a long-awaited debt swap agreement needed to avert an unruly ... |
| Written by ![]() in 1,008 Google+ circles Washington Post - 40 minutes ago Some Twitter users say they will boycott the service on Saturday after the company announced it may begin blocking tweets in specific countries. |
| Nigerian Tribune - 45 minutes ago The recent bomb attack by the Boko Haram sect on Kano has made it one attack too many. The bombing attacks on lives and properties have left the society devastated and people living in fear. |
| A suicide car bomber struck a Shiite funeral procession Friday, killing 33 people as suspected al-Qaida militants stepped up apparent efforts to provoke a counterattack by Shiite militias on Sunnis that could pave the way toward open sectarian warfare ... |
| The Associated Press - 49 minutes ago VIENNA (AP) - Austrians gathered in memory of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis condemned plans to hold a ball of extreme rightists later in the day Friday, saying the event's timing transformed it into a macabre dance on Holocaust victims' ... |
| While some NGOs are guilty of trying to apply western 'best practice' in unrealistic ways, or to put the safety of their own teams ahead of project work, MSF's reputation, built over decades of operations in the most inhospitable parts of the world, ... |
| Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago By PATRICK O'CONNOR THE VILLAGES, Fla.—If Mitt Romney wins Florida's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, older voters such as Ellen Hoffman are sure to deserve a big share of the credit. |
| Vice President Biden claimed Friday that Leon Panetta was the only member of the inner circle who definitively urged President Obama to green-light the raid on Usama bin Laden's compound, as Biden discussed new details about the behind-the-scenes ... |
| Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said he will withdraw his troops from Somalia once African Union forces are there. "We expect the Amisom [African Union] troops to be able to fill in the gaps before we withdraw," he said in Addis Ababa. |
| Voice of America - 7 hours ago January 27, 2012 DRC Opposition Chips Away at Kabila's Influence Gabe Joselow | Nairobi Partial results from November's parliamentary elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo show President Joseph Kabila's party is losing seats in the legislature. |
| Nigerian Tribune - 45 minutes ago The Supreme Court, on Friday, in Abuja sacked the five state governors whom their tenure was earlier extended by a Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal beyond May 29,2011. |
| New Vision - 2 hours ago Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has praised the government of Equatorial Guinea for its proper use of the country's oil revenues, particularly on human resource and electricity development. |
| The Associated Press - 5 hours ago LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A US citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta has been freed after a week in captivity, the US Embassy said Friday. |
| The National Lotteries Board (NLB) chairman Alfred Nevhuthanda has promised to investigate allegations of irregularities leveled against the board thoroughly. |
| Politicsweb - 6 hours ago The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) heartily welcomes the launch of Corruption Watch by union federation COSATU. Corruption Watch is a positive step towards giving ordinary South Africans a powerful role towards contributing in the ... |
| Independent Online - 9 hours ago By OMPHITLHETSE MOOKI Donovan Moodley s mother, Mary, says goodbye at end of the court session at the Johannesburg High Court. Moodley has pleaded with the judge for retrial after being convicted of his murdering Leigh Matthews. |
| Politicsweb - 4 hours ago There has been much speculation about whether I will run for the provincial leadership of the Democratic Alliance in Gauteng. I wish to make it clear that I have decided not to contest the provincial leadership at this time. |
| Independent Online - 5 hours ago CONSUMER delight at the new year drop in the fuel price turned to dismay yesterday, as the Department of Energy announced a 34c a litre petrol price hike from Wednesday. |
| The more details emerge about the finances of the Golden Lions Rugby Union (GLRU), the more urgent the need for clarity. The more details emerge about the finances of the Golden Lions Rugby Union (GLRU), the more urgent the need for clarity. |
| MyBroadband - 12 hours ago Jan Vermeulen is a technology journalist and web developer at MyBroadband. After receiving a Computer Engineering degree at the University of Pretoria he worked at... South African banks Absa and First National Bank left their corners swinging after ... |
| Written by ![]() in 1,440 Google+ circles Telegraph.co.uk - 8 hours ago South Africans use Twitter more than any other country in Africa, a vast new study has found. Portland PR and Tweetminster compiled the map of Africa's tweeting habits. |
| Written by ![]() in 492,935 Google+ circles by Molly Wood January 27, 2012 11:48 AM PST Follow @mollywood Open letter to Apple: You have the power to force good working conditions across the consumer-electronics industry, and it's time to make it happen. |
| Independent Online - 6 hours ago There will be no pornography on pay television in South Africa, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) ruled on Friday. |
| Daily Mail - 12 hours ago By Lina Das They were international superstars before retirement and a range of bottom-of-the-bill bookings sent them on their separate ways. |
| Independent Online - 4 hours ago The Stormers' enterprise proved decisive in their Super Rugby warm-up clash against the Lions who went down 28-6 at a windswept Newlands. |
| BBC Sport - 22 minutes ago By Stephen Fottrell Gabon snatched a late winner to progress to the Africa Cup of Nations last eight as they beat Morocco 3-2. Morocco had led 1-0 for much of the game, through captain Houssine Kharjah's first-half opener. |
| BBC News - 14 hours ago An asteroid hurtled past the Earth on Friday in something of a cosmic near-miss, making its closest approach at about 1600 GMT. The asteroid, estimated to be about 11m (36ft) in diameter, was first detected on Wednesday. |
| By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said ... |
| Irish Times - Jan 26, 2012 THE SOUTH African government's decision late last year to introduce a new policy to combat the HIV virus is expected to cause a dramatic turnaround in the fight against the disease by 2020, a United Nations official said recently. |
| New York Times - 7 hours ago PARIS - The case against the founder of a French company at the center of an international scandal over substandard breast implants advanced on Friday as he was placed under formal criminal investigation. |
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