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Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett Deepens Africa Outreach in UN Secretary-General Bid

Guyana’s Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is stepping up engagement with African leaders as she campaigns to become the next United Nations Secretary-General, taking her message of UN reform, stronger multilateralism and greater…

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Can Alliance of Sahel States Normalise Relations with ECOWAS?

By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and Ghana's Foreign Minister, Samuel O.…

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Botswana’s Agricultural Game-Changer: Safflower Production Scales Up to Boost Food Security and Smallholder Farmers

By Nevison Mpofu GABORONE, Botswana — Once overlooked by many farmers, safflower is emerging as…

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France vs. West Africa: Will Paris Allow Regional Economic Autonomy?

By Abiodun Ramon Oseni * Throughout West Africa's history, two persistent dynamics have repeatedly shaped…

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Africa Does Not Need More Agricultural Pilots. Social Franchising Offers One Promising Way to Scale What Works.

By  Fentahun Mengistu, Country Director, Sasakawa Africa Association,Ethiopia Across Africa, promising agricultural innovations are proving their value. Climate-smart and…

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Incensed by Fallacies and Fabrications, Jean Ping will fight for African Union Office till The End

Africa: Press Statement By Dr. Jean Ping, Chairperson of the African Union Commission press release Addis Ababa — Press Statement…

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Special Report: The wonks who sold Washington on South Sudan

Rebecca Hamilton Reuters * WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the mid-1980s, a small band of policy wonks began convening for lunch…

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Mali: How the West Cleared the Way for al-Qaeda’s African March

With the world’s attention elsewhere, Islamists and al-Qaeda have seized a vast area of northern Mali David Blair* A few…

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Dr Ramphele’s remedy for South Africa

By  Andrew Harding* Another sullen debate about the president's penis. Another cheerless ANC policy conference. More shrill contradictions from the…

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Mysterious fatal crash offers rare look at U.S. commando presence in Mali

By Craig Whitlock*, In pre-dawn darkness, a ­Toyota Land Cruiser skidded off a bridge in North Africa in the spring,…

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How 1 Man Derailed 20 Years of Democracy in Mali

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI* Associated Press SEGOU, Mali July 7, 2012 (AP) On the morning three months ago when the fate…

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One year on, South Sudan struggles to survive

Feuds over boundaries and oil-pumping fees deprive South Sudan of revenue and bring it close to war with Sudan one…

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Sudan, S. Sudan adopt ’strategic’ approach to resolve disputed issues

July 7, 2012 (KHARTOUM/JUBA) – Sudan and South Sudan’s delegations in Addis Ababa endorsed with some optimism a new strategic…

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