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African kangas: Colourful wraps with something to say
Stone City, Zanzibar - They shimmer in bright colours, have patterns in multiple hues and they are adorned with messages written in Swahili. They are called kangas and are part of every day life for the women of east Africa, particularly Kenya and Ta...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Thousands displaced by anti-foreigner attacks in Western Cape
Johannesburg - In scenes reminiscent of last year's deadly campaign of xenophobic violence, residents of a South African informal settlement this week attacked migrants living in their midst, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Around 3,...

[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Germany condemns alleged attack by Zimbabwe soldiers on priest
Harare - The German government has sent a written protest to the Zimbabwean over an alleged attack by Zimbabwean soldiers on a German priest last weekend, it was disclosed Wednesday. In a letter to the ministry dated Tuesday, the German embassy expre...

[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Hostage drama ship Alabama escapes second capture by Somali pirates
Nairobi/London - The Maersk Alabama, a container ship at the centre of a dramatic hostage drama earlier this year, Wednesday narrowly avoided being captured by Somali pirates for a second time, the European Union's anti-piracy mission off Somalia sai...

[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Somali insurgents stone woman to death for adultery
Mogadishu - Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a 29-year-old married woman to death for adultery, the second such execution this month, officials said. Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman, an al-Shabaab judge, also ordered the woman's sexual p...

[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Draft Kenyan constitution foresees slashing president's powers
Nairobi - A draft of Kenya's long-awaited new constitution unveiled Tuesday foresees dramatically cutting the powers of the president. A new constitution is considered vital to attempts to prevent a repeat of the bloodshed that followed 2007's disput...

[Posted on : 2009-11-17 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Somali pirates seize tanker with 28 North Korean crew
London/Nairobi - Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying 28 North Koreans - but failed in an attack to seize a Ukrainian vessel following a firefight, the European Union's anti- piracy mission off Somalia NAVFOR said Tuesday. NAVFOR said that ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-17 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Somali pirates free Spaniards on 4 million dollar ransom - Summary
Madrid/Mogadishu - Somali pirates who held the 36 crew of a Spanish fishing vessel for 46 days released them Tuesday, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said. The pirates received a ransom of about 4 million dollars (2.3 million euro...

[Posted on : 2009-11-17 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

1STLEAD:Somali pirates expected to release Spanish ship crew
Madrid - Spain's government Tuesday was expecting the imminent release of the crew of a Spanish fishing vessel held by Somali pirates for 46 days after the shipowner agreed to pay a ransom of 2.3 million euros (4 million dollars), Spanish media repor...

[Posted on : 2009-11-17 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

'Situation escalating' after Egyptian factory in Algeria burned
Cairo - Naguib Sawiris, the chairman of Egypt's giant Orascom Telecom, on Tuesday said the situation was escalating, after Algerian football fans attacked his company's compound there. Thousands of fans burned down Orascom's compound in Algiers and...

[Posted on : 2009-11-17 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

 

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