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In League One Bournemouth are on a remarkable unbeaten run of 14 league and cup games and if anything confidence in Eddie Howe's squad is growing.
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AFCON 2013: Ethiopia drops five players from provisional teamBy Samuel YeshiwasCoach Sewnet Bishaw has dropped five players from the provisional team. 31 players had been included in the team and had been training together for the last two weeks...
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Ethiopian footballer Saladin Said Ethiopian Striker Saladin Seid to join Ethiopia on deadline day Source: Star Africa Ethiopia striker Saladin Seid is set to join the team 10 days before the 2013 Africa Cup in South Africa. The striker is pre...
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Ethiopian footballers receiving awards Ethiopia Footballers finally receive prize money By Samuel Yeshiwas The Ethiopian football federation has finally given out the prize money it had promised to the players for qualifying to AFCON 2013. It wa...
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"Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET. By Jason Miks In the latest GPS special, Tough Decisions, Fareed spoke with four leading figures in policy making and business about difficult calls they have had to make. GPS is also interested in hearing readers' views about what they consider to be some [...]
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By Bruce Stokes, Special to CNN Editor's note: Bruce Stokes is director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research Center. The views expressed are his own. As Americans make their New Year's resolutions, gazing into their crystal balls in anticipation of 2013, they are pessimistic about the economy, doubtful about Washington avoiding the fiscal [...]
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This week in Bahrain, an officer who slapped a man with a baby in his arms was detained after video of the incident attracted wide attention.
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By Mehmet Yuksel, Special to CNN Editor's note: Mehmet Yuksel is the BDP representative in Washington, DC. The views expressed are the author's own. Many U.S. officials still consider Turkey a model for the Middle East, crediting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan with ushering in reforms that have excised the presence of the Turkish military [...]
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Readers of my article in The Independent yesterday, which pointed out that the Coalition Government has neither increased inequality nor seems likely to do so significantly, continue to demand further particulars. The main objection, apart from my leaving "the cuts" out of the picture, about which I wrote this morning, is that, to take the IFS [...]
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This photo was taken in Cairo in 1939, celebrating an engagement that also marked an alliance of two royal dynasties.
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A lot has been said about the liberating role technology has played in the Middle East uprising, yet there is more to be said about the mutual role the uprising is yet to play in liberating the technology in the region. Angered by an announcement that the Egyptian government agreed to spending $43.8 million to acquire licenses and software products from Microsoft, members of the Open Source community in Egypt are planning a silent protest outside the Cabinet on December 30.
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From the Franz Fanon blog.Tafadzwa Choto on repression in Zimbabwe:
Tafadzwa was one of six Zimbabwe activists who were convicted for watching a video of the Arab Spring. The six were convicted of "conspiracy to commit public violence". Each has been given a suspended sentence of two years. The suspension is on condition that no similar offence is committed in the next five years. The six were arrested when police raided a meeting in February last year which showed news footage of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia. The state claims they had planned and were about to launch a similar uprising in Zimbabwe-African Caribbean Network
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Remember that little video campaign called #Kony2012? Yeah, we wish we could forget too. Few videos have reached the magnitude of pestilence that the non-profit Invisible Children's video achieved this year. By transforming a complex regional crisis involving the Lord's Resistance Army into a simple, manufactured (and in some ways factually false) narrative about the [...]
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This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The...
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Every few years my mode of music discovery changes. I went from browsing the racks of my local corporate music chain as a teenager, to digging for hours in the back rooms of second hand record shops, to scouring obscure blogs and doing random YouTube searches. This year marked another change in my listening habits [...]
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In 2012, France 24 brought you dozens of great reports: Caught in the crossfire in Colombia; a story of hope for democracy in Burma; the fading American dream in Vegas; the revival of 'made in France'... Wherever news was breaking, France 24 was there.
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Next year we hope Nigerian super-pastor T.B. Joshua will let us know what 2013′s top 10 sporting moments will be well ahead of time (we'll be starting our dedicated sports page "Football is a Country" in the new year and if Joshua wants to join in he's more than welcome). While professional TV pundits cautiously [...]
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"Everybody knows" that corruption is a huge problem in Africa. Like so many other (non-evidence-based) assessments, Africa knows this, too. So, fighting corruption is a high priority. Especially fighting corruption of former regimes. To be fair, this is quite often necessary. But all those rights-based groups advocating anti-corruption activities can sometimes be a little over-zealous or at least
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