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The One Who Makes Death Tremble

By Francis B. Nyamnjoh The chronicle of Celui-Qui-Fait-Trembler-La-Mort was not a biography of a man,…

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Oil Shock Hits Tanzania: Global Oil Crisis Meets Tax Debate as Prices Soar Sharply

By Adonis Byemelwa Fuel prices in Tanzania have surged into record territory, turning a global…

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The Open Gate: Why Nigeria Can’t Stop the Surge of Small Arms from the Sahel

By Aminu Adamu* There is a village in Zamfara State where the people no longer…

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Agbor Balla: Anglophone VP Now Essential in Cameroon’s Constitutional Reform

By Boris Esono Nwenfor BUEA, PAV – Cameroon is once again facing a defining constitutional…

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Rwanda cut off from US military aid over conflict in DRC

By Reuters in Abidjan ,guardian.co.uk, Rwanda denies UN reports that it is backing rebels in Democratic Republic of the Congo…

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S.Africa’s Dlamini-Zuma elected to AU top job

By AFP Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who has served in the cabinet of every South African…

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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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