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• The ultimate road trip: 12,500 miles across Africa on a motorcycle

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Africa , Botswana , Burkina , Burundi , Central African Republic , Chad , Kenya , Lesotho , Mali , Mauritania , Morocco , Mozambique , Namibia , Niger , Rwanda , Sudan , Swaziland , Tanzania , Uganda , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Spain , Budget Travel Thomas Tomczyk is serious about ...
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• Médiation de la CEDEAO dans la crise nigérienne (25 novembre 2009)

  
  Database of Press Releases related to Africa — Authority: 519
  Médiation de la CEDEAO dans la crise nigérienne (25 novembre 2009)  PARIS, France, 25 novembre 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — La France apporte tout son soutien à la médiation engagée par la CEDEAO.La procédure prévue par l’article 96 de l’accord de Cotonou est engagée :  l’Union ...
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• CONTRACT DRIVERS at MSH

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 165
  MSH is looking for several qualified, motivated and skilled individuals for FCT and 6 state offices to work on temporary basis. They will be engaged from time to time for varied durations during 2010/11 program year.CONTRACT DRIVERSLOCATION: ABUJA. KOGI, ADAMAWA, KEBBI, KWARA, TARABA & NIGER STATEThe drivers must ...
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• Nigeria, SPDC achieves record gas production at 512MMscf/d

  
  Oil and Gas News — Authority: 137
  The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), operators of a joint venture with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has set a record gas production with a total of 512 million standard cubic feet of gas (MMscf/d) in Western Niger Delta.SPDC said the production level was the highest in two years from ...
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• Govt to overhaul security at borders – The Guardian

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 152
  An  overhaul of the security arrangement in Nigeria’s border routes is being tinkered with by the Federal Government.It is aimed at checking the smuggling of contraband goods, arms and ammunition through the routes, which the government has classified as porous.The exercise, The Guardian learnt, will begin at the ...
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• Africa Lags Behind on the Millennium Development Goals on Agriculture

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  The African-wide conference kicked off in Ethiopia on Monday with a report disclosing that Africa is still far from achieving the millennium development goals on agriculture, which aims to cut poverty by half by 2015. Around 100 African researchers, policy makers and development partners have gathered in Addis Ababa ...
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• T. Miles puts TMND in his place

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 408
  See Tommy Miles’s critique of my recent post on Newsweek’s Sahel piece, here and here (as well as my responses). Miles is known to this blog for work on the Tuaregs and Mali and Niger. His comments are especially relevant because they offer a strong account of the terrorism issue in Mali and Niger, showing [...]
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• European Union gives Nigeria $1bn for peace - Militants have been demanding a greater share of the oil wealth

  
  Niger Watch — Authority: 107
  From BBC News online, November 23, 2009: European Union gives Nigeria $1bn for peace The European Commission has signed a $1bn (£602m) development pact with Nigeria, aimed at tackling corruption and promoting peace. A substantial amount of the funding will be spent on resolving conflict in the oil-rich and ...
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• Will Amazon’s Global Kindle Work in YOUR Country?

  
  Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas — Authority: 107
  Amazons Global Kindle Reader I heard that Amazon now has a global version of Kindle. I was disappointed to find this morning that the new version still will not work in my country. Since I’ve wanted one for some time, but have been waiting until they got a version that would work in my country, I checked out ...
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• Scott Johnson Of Newsweek Is An Idiot

  
  PUNK ROCK REPUBLICAN — Authority: 142
  ‘The Maghreb Myth: America Wants To Expand The War On Terror To Northern Africa. It Shouldn’t’ By Scott Johnson for Newsweek . I read this article twice just to make sure that Scott Johnson actually thinks that Al Qaeda is organizing in North Africa because it wants to conquer the Sahara Desert. Apparently ...
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• Strangely, but Copenhagen, can already be considered a success in some respects.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 510
  The success is on the individual Nations level – “In a short span, many nations have pledged to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases by considerable amounts, well beyond any commitments they had made before,” notes a commentary appearing last month in Nature magazine (Oct. 22). “Norway, for example, offered ...
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• Newsweek on the Sahel: no news and no use

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 408
  In the 20 November edition of Newsweek, Scott Johnson presents an unfortunate account of terrorism in the Sahel. Johnson sees fit to present readers with an article that brings little enlightenment. The central thesis of “The Terrorist Myth in North Africa,” is to debunk the notion that al-Qaeda “affiliates are ...
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• Displaced Zimbabwean Farmers Set Down Roots in Nigeria

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 533
  Importing technical knowledge from Zimbabwean migrants is part of the Nigerian government’s plan to increase food self-sufficiency. The Nigerian government is inviting foreign farmers and giving them 1,000 hectares of land with 25-year leases in the agricultural hub of Shonga in order to improve food production, ...
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• Inventing Famines

  
  Esther Garvi — Authority: 127
  William Easterly, professor of Economics at the New York university, recently posted a piece entitled “Famine Cover-Ups vs. Fake Famines”. The Famine Scam that took place in Niger in 2005 is one of the two examples mentioned in this piece. Although the tone is politically correct, it raises a few questions on ...
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• Togo to Host 7th International Trade Fair

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Some 550 exhibitors from several countries in the world are expected at the Lome 7th International Trade Fair which opens on Friday in the Togolese capital. The director of the Togo Exhibitions Center (CETEF) Kueku-Banka Johnson said during a press conference that exhibitors are from 16 countries namely, Benin, ...
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• UK region hit by severe floods

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 460
  A policeman remains missing after a bridge collapsed in Cumbria amid floods that have seen more than 200 people rescued. View original post here:  UK region hit by severe floods
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• ‘Dream killer’ cleared of murder

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 460
  A man with a sleep disorder who killed his wife while he said he had a dream about an intruder is cleared of murder. Read the original here:  ‘Dream killer’ cleared of murder
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• FG begins payment of allowances to former militants – Daily Trust

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 152
  The Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta region. Each of the former militants is entitled to N65,000 per month as stipend for the period of rehabilitation. There are two rehabilitation camps in Rivers and Delta States.The former ...
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