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If you fight for or sympathise with the SPLM-North and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), you might argue almost any place in South Kordofan is a legitimate military target, Kadugli included. You might say the SPLM-N's shelling of the United
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Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union, congratulated G8 countries for taking issues of tax and transparency seriously, particularly with reference to African countries. However, she questioned why such discussion "always take placed at the end of the G8"
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Ever since Zimbabwe's transitional inclusive government's (TIG) constitution was finally agreed in the middle of March, the country's political discourse had been in overdrive debating the date of the election that could end two eras - the first being the
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Egypt's threats towards Ethiopia and its Grand Renaissance dam project on the Blue Nile seem to be backfiring on all sides. On 3rd June, President Morsi, beset by growing internal problems, had a clever idea. His government would drum up
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On 15th the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) held an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe in Maputo. The main issue discussed was the 31st July election date set under the pretext of complying with the Constitutional Court's ruling that elections must
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When I first saw that Britain had put tax, transparency and trade on the agenda of this week's G8 meeting my reaction was surprise and celebration. At last the government had picked up on the scandal of huge multinational companies
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The fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) has just taken place in Japan hosting an array of African Heads of State, international development agencies, the Chairperson of UN and the AU. The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held
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When Agadez's army barracks was hit by a suicide explosion on May 23rd the Nigerien bad dream seemed like it had finally come true. For many Nigeriens it has been a case of when rather than if the crisis in
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By Magnus Taylor The arch miserableist returns, and he's "happy again, back in Africa, the kingdom of light". A lot of people will hate this book, and I can see why. But strangely, I didn't. Theroux is abrasive, opinionated, politically-incorrect
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Just over a fortnight ago, Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania, kicked off a firestorm of controversy with what many in Rwanda and outside of it saw as a terrible faux pas. It started with what would have struck followers of
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