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West Africa's regional bloc wants to know who's responsible for attack on Mali's president
Tue, 22 May 2012 05:41:08 -0700
West Africa's regional bloc says it will investigate who is responsible for allowing Monday's attack on Mali's president to happen.
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East Africa: Sezibera Assumes Leadership of Inter-Regional Grouping
Mon, 21 May 2012 02:59:59 -0700
[New Times] The Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Dr Richard Sezibera, has taken over the rotational chairpersonship of the coordination team of the Inter-Regional Coordinating Committee (IRCC).
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Hughes Showcases Advanced Broadband Satellite Technology at SatCom Africa 2012
Mon, 21 May 2012 04:00:00 -0700
JOHANNESBURG, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, is showcasing its latest technology innovations during the ...
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Eutelsat at Satcom Africa: new Resources and Services to Boost Broadcast and data Markets Across Africa
Mon, 21 May 2012 03:31:00 -0700
JOHANNESBURG, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --21-24 May 2012, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, Stand 26Closing the infrastructure gap in Africa: innovative satellite solutions for affordable ...
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Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa
Mon, 14 May 2012 06:49:56 -0700
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to record strong economic growth, despite the weaker global economic environment.
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World Bank to help spread agricultural technologies across West Africa
Wed, 23 May 2012 13:19:28 -0700
The World Bank on Wednesday approved $120 million financing for the second phase of the West African Agricultural Productivity Programme, expected to improve food production by spreading new agricultural technologies in Ghana and Senegal.
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W. African Group Probes Attack on Mali President
Tue, 22 May 2012 05:41:08 -0700
West Africa's regional bloc wants to know who's responsible for attack on Mali's president
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East Africa: Someone Tell Uganda That EALA Is No House for Partisan Interests
Tue, 22 May 2012 07:45:09 -0700
[Focus] Last Friday, legislators from both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate elected Rwanda's nine representatives to the Arusha-based East African Community Legislative Assembly (EALA).
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W.Africa nations to send troops to Bissau in days
Mon, 14 May 2012 10:25:02 -0700
ABUJA (Reuters) - West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS will start deploying troops to Guinea-Bissau by Friday to oversee a reform of the local army and a transition back to civilian rule after an April 12 military coup, Nigeria's defence minister said on Monday. "We will deploy before the 18th of this month," Mohammed Bello Haliru told reporters on the margins of a meeting of the 15-state bloc's ...
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Africa: Food Security Will Fuel Future Growth - UNDP
Tue, 22 May 2012 23:29:58 -0700
[MediaGlobal] Within the last year alone, food crises have devastated millions in sub-Saharan Africa, moving from the Horn of Africa to most recently the Sahel. Despite a decade that broke from a track record of poor policy prescriptions and lagging economic growth, the region has not made parallel progress in addressing food security and nutrition.
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