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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Four international fibre projects are racing to complete ahead of each other on the west cost of Africa to give some much needed additional capacity and price competition to SAT3. The drop in bandwidth prices could be spectacular. Russell Southwood looks at the runners in the race and asks whether West Africa is ready for the potentially market-changing impact of cheap international bandwidth.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the arrest of Mohamed Ould Abdelatif and Mohamed Nema Oumar, respectively journalist and publisher on the privately-owned Arabic-language weekly al-Hurriya in connection with a "defamation" complaint from three judges at the criminal appeal court.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The incredible performance of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), over the past years, according to the 2008 Campaign Committee Chairman for Nana Akufo-Addo, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, will make it practically impossible for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), to match the NPP in the impending general elections.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the ingredients that makes democracy flourish is a vibrant press. A democracy that cannot boast of a vibrant press cannot be said to be a proper democracy. It is therefore not surprising that some people prefer to call the press the fourth estate of the realm.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
At one of the many busy roadside shops in the capital, Accra, John Nuagbe displays the used, rusty and mostly broken electrical gadgets he recently imported from the USA.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lagos, Nigeria - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is to organise a regional workshop aimed at developing and validating an action plan for improving West Africa's business environment.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gambia has captured eight medals in the just concluded West Africa Junior Athletic Championships in the Togolese capital Lome.
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Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | yesterday
...the vast majority of Nigeria's 140 million people live in no better conditions than their neighbors in West Africa, the least developed region of the world's poorest continent.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The N37billion contract awarded by the Obasanjo administration for the construction of healthcare centres in 774 local government areas of the federation was awarded in error, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Michael Kaase Aondoakaa told an Abuja Federal High Court yesterday.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to a document published by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) entitled The reviewed remuneration and package for the legislature at the Federal, states and local government levels the senate president will earn N16 million naira while his deputy takes home N15 million naira respectively per month. Each senator and House member is to earn around N10 million monthly....
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to Babafemi, only at the end of the investigation would the EFCC know the people to be arrested or invited for interrogation. He said the EFCC was not aware of Imoke's move to seek protection of the Presidency on the Former Cross River State Governor Chief Liyel Imoke, who was ousted from office by the Court of Appeal last week, yesterday visited President Umaru Musa Yar'adua at the State...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has identified corruption and faulty electoral system in Nigeria as cankerworms frustrating the nation's growth whereby 80 percent of public office holders hijack electoral mandate to squander public funds for self aggrandizement.
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IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mali's government and Tuareg nomads, fighting for greater autonomy, have agreed in talks to end their conflict.
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PRELUDIUM (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future Conference) now morphing into FOCA (Fellowship of Concerned Anglicans) by way of the Primates of Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, West Africa and the Southern Cone, is carrying on a tradition seen before in the Global South Primates doings. They issue statements over the signatures of persons who have not been asked. In this case they issued a
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hrishikesh | 05/31/2008
The research report “West Africa Oil & Gas Activity and Concession Map - 2007 Edition ” provides the….. If you have an interest in exploration and production offshore in this important and very busy region, then West Africa Oil & Gas Activity and Concession map, without question, represents the best data source available. We have been producing it for nearly 20 years, so this latest in the line also...
