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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) ]

Zambian editor says 'porn' ruling a coup for media freedom - Summary
Lusaka - A leading Zambian journalist who was acquitted Monday of distributing obscene material over photographs she circulated of a woman giving birth during a medical strike claimed the ruling as a victory for media freedom. Chansa Kabwela, 29, a...

[Posted on : 2009-11-16 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Zambian editor cleared of 'porn' charges over strike birth snaps
Lusaka - A leading Zambian journalist, who was put on trial for distributing obscene material in the form of photographs of a woman giving birth outside a hospital, was found not guilty on Monday. Chansa Kabwela, 29, a news editor at Zambia's priva...

[Posted on : 2009-11-16 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Rights group blasts closure of Algerian newspaper
Cairo - A regional press freedom group on Monday blasted the closure of an Algerian newspaper following the publication's reporting on alleged corruption in the country. The Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) called the s...

[Posted on : 2009-11-16 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

 

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