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POLITICS-SUDAN: African Leaders Call for Peaceful Elections
By Amelia Lawrence
NAIROBI - With less than a month to the historic multi-party poll in Africa’s largest country, Sudan, eminent African leaders are calling for a peaceful and calm election process.
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NIGERIA: Acting President Consolidates Power Amid Unrest
By Charles Fromm
WASHINGTON - This week, acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet, further securing his tenuous hold on the country's top post amidst rising unrest in the Niger Delta and flaring religious tensions in the central region of the country.
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POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job
By Stanley Kwenda
KIGALI - On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. The situation is however different in Rwanda.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls
By Servaas van den Bosch
WINDHOEK - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members.
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POLITICS: Sahel Leaders Meet on al Qaeda Threat
By Charles Fromm
WASHINGTON - Representatives from seven North African and Sahelian states convened in Algiers on Tuesday to discuss the growing threat of al Qaeda's North African affiliate in the region.
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SWAZILAND: Budget Cuts Ahead but More Money for Education and Health
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - Her swollen feet are a constant reminder to Sanele Matsebula that she needs to take her medication.
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POLITICS-NIGERIA : In the Shadows of Men: Women’s Political Marginalisation
By Mustapha Muhammad
KANO - Ten years after Nigeria returned to civil rule women still play second fiddle in the male-dominated politics of Africa’s most populous nation, women politicians and activists say.
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DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON: Are Women the Magic Bullet for "Electoral Apathy"?
By Mohamadou Houmfa
YAOUNDE - A support network for women's political participation, is challenging head-on what it calls "electoral apathy", after noting a growing trend in electoral abstention.
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KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
By Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI - Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya’s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse.
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SOMALIA: U.S. Should Accept Islamist Authority, Report Says
By Charles Fromm and Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON - The United States should accept an "Islamist authority" in Somalia as part of a "constructive disengagement" strategy for the war-torn country, according to a new report released here by the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday.
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RIGHTS: Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
By Thalif Deen* - IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS - Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and wrongly so.
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