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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrives for the burial of a prominent member of his party, Misheck Chando, in Harare, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009.
Geneva   Photos   Politics   Security   Zimbabwe  
 The Times 
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe pays security goons $5,000 a day
| WHEN President Robert Mugabe arrived in Geneva to attend an international telecommunications summit last October, he was greeted at the airport by a crack team of security officials from Zimbabwe's ... (photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
A company sign of BAE Systems is seen at a plant in Guildford, England, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.
Arms   Corruption   Defence   Photos   UK  
 BBC News 
'Outrage' as BAE Systems probes end after £280m deal
| Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | BAE Chairman Dick Olver: "We need to be a transparent, modern, clean company" | Campaigners have attacked a deal struck by U... (photo: AP / Sang Tan)
Zimbabwe's civil servants strike for higher pay  The News & Observer 
Zimbabwe's civil servants strike for higher pay
| HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's civil servants are on strike after the government refused to meet their salary demands. | The strike is another major challenge for the country's unity government, whi... (photo: WN / Eteh)
Africa   Civil   Economy   Photos   Zimbabwe  
Niger Delta states  IRINnews 
NIGERIA: Timeline of recent unrest in Niger Delta region
web | ABUJA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) - Despite abundant oil wealth in the Niger Delta region in southeast Nigeria, residents lack basic services including electricity, piped water, health clinics and s... (photo: IRIN news / wikimedia)
Abuja   Africa   Nigeria   Photos   Politics  
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Supporters celebrate after South Africa's prosecuting authority dropped corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, pictured in poster, clearing the way for him to become the country's next president, free of the cloud that has hung over him for years, in Johannesburg Monday, April 6, 2009. Zuma is the ruling party's candidate in the April 22 elections and is almost certain to win given the African National Congress' big major The Columbus Dispatch
South African president berated for 20th child
| JOHANNESBURG -- Jacob Zuma, the polygamous president of South Africa, was upbraided yesterday by commentators and rivals after a paper reported that he fathered a 20th ... (photo: AP / Denis Farrell)
Children   Government   Photos   Politics   South African  
President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, left, hands over a trophy to Deccan Chargers captain Adam Gilchrist during a presentation ceremony after Chargers beat Royal Challenger Bangalore in the 2009 Indian Premier League The News & Observer
President's sex life makes headlines in S.Africa
| JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's governing party says a report that the country's polygamist president fathered a child out of wedlock makes "a mountain out of nothing." ... (photo: AP / Aman Sharma)
Africa   Life   Photos   Polygamist   Zuma  
CAPE TOWN/SOUTH AFRICA, 12JUN2009 - Jacob Zuma, Presdent of South Africa, at the Closing Plenary : Africa's Roadmap: From Crisis to Opportunity held during the World Economic Forum on Africa 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa, June 12, 2009 KDVR
South African president's party says reports about love child make 'mountain out of nothing'
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's governing party says a report that the country's polygamist president fathered a child out of wedlock makes "a mountain out of no... (photo: Creative Commons / worldeconomicforum)
Africa   Photos   Politics   President   South Africa  
Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, Monday, Sept. 19, 2005. The News & Observer
Malawi's president elected African Union leader
| ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Malawi's president has been elected as leader of the African Union, a position held by the eccentric dictator Moammar Gadhafi of Libya for the ... (photo: AP / John Marshall Mantel)
African   Leader   Malawi   Photos   President  
Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, announces his candidacy for the post of presidency during the opening session of the Somali parliament in neighboring Djibouti. Sheik Sharif Ahmed, the newly elected president of Somalia, has won in landslide victory in the next round of the election after he contested with the son of the former Somali president Siyad Bare General Maslah Siyad Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. The News & Observer
Somali president vows to defeat insurgents
| MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's president says government troops are ready to launch major military operations this year to expel insurgent groups from the war torn cou... (photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
Attack   Photos   Politics   Somalia   War  
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, newly-elected President of Somalia Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed waves to the crowd after his arrival in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009. Syracuse
Somali president vows to defeat insurgents
| (AP) - MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's president says government troops are ready to launch major military operations this year to expel insurgent groups from the war to... (photo: AP / Abdurrahman Warsameh)
News   Photos   Political   President   Somalia  
Business & Trade Ecomony
- Ghana Blocks Exxon Oil-Field Deal
-  Zimbabwe has no money for strikers - minister
- Ally for the Poor in an Unlikely Corner
- Power suppliers join forces for upward tariff review
Malarone anti-malaria tablets purchased
Bad malaria pills in Africa raise resistance fears
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- Industry Projects EAC-Powered Export Boom
- Addressing the food versus fuel debate in Ghana
- All sectors need to support economy
- Tourism for Economic Development
Street in Kumasi, Ghana
Addressing the food versus fuel debate in Ghana
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Stock Market Offshore
- Douala III on Cultural Exchange ProgrammeExchange
- Exchange Program Gives Exposure to EAC Integration
- Bickering in GNU Dampens ZSE Trade
- No Plan to Fix Tenure of Quoted Company Directors - Oteh
50 Rand Banknote
Rand slips on stronger dollar, stocks seen down
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- Ghana Blocks Exxon Oil-Field Deal
- IMB Piracy Reports and Implications for Nigerian Shipping
- Tullow looks to China and Total after Heritage Ugandan deal
- The Lost Port
Lebanese marine commando units are seen as they prepare to dive to search for victims bodies and parts of the wreckage of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on January 25 into the sea, in Naameh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010.
Ethiopia jet flight recorder 'retrieved' in Lebanon
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Tourism Agriculture
- Ethiopian Airliner's flight recorders sent to France
- Airline Launch Commercial Partnership
- Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
- Chad's leader travels to Sudan to smooth relations
Lebanese marine commando units are seen as they prepare to dive to search for victims bodies and parts of the wreckage of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on January 25 into the sea, in Naameh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010.
Ethiopia jet flight recorder 'retrieved' in Lebanon
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- Chad's leader travels to Sudan to smooth relations
- Debate on nationalising the mines in South Africa
- Nation Under-Invests in Agriculture
-  Four Gambian ministers go in cabinet changes
 Incumbent Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, right, leaves the polling station after voting in Banjul, capital of Gambia in West Africa, Thursday Oct. 18, 2001. Voters in Gambia lined up across the country on Thursday to elect the nation´s next presid
 Four Gambian ministers go in cabinet changes
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