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Ghana votes in close-call test of stable democracy

YoopyaDec 8, 20120

(Reuters) – Voters in Ghana waited for hours in long lines to vote on Friday in elections troubled by delays and logistical problems, but which

Ghana election to test credentials of “model democracy”

YoopyaDec 7, 2012May 3, 20230

(Reuters) – Ghanaians choose on Friday who will run one of Africa’s most stable democracies as a surge in oil revenues promises to boost development

Egypt demonstrators reject Mursi call for dialogue

YoopyaDec 7, 20120

(Reuters) – Demonstrators rejected a call from Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Mursi for a national dialogue after deadly clashes around his palace, demanding the “downfall

Tanks outside Mursi’s palace, streets calm

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – At least four tanks deployed outside the Egyptian presidential palace on Thursday in a street where supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Mursi

Ghana poll tests Africa’s “model democracy”

YoopyaDec 6, 2012June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – Ghana’s cliff-hanger presidential election on Friday will test the country’s reputation as a bulwark for democracy and economic growth in Africa’s so-called coup-belt.

No military intervention in Mali before September: U.N. peacekeeping chief

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – International military intervention to oust Islamist militants from northern Mali is almost inevitable, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Wednesday, but he said

Egypt’s Mursi leaves palace as police battle protesters

YoopyaDec 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building,

Libya rebel flees to UK as revolution sours for women

YoopyaDec 4, 20120

Sunderland, on England’s north-east coast, is an unlikely refuge for a Libyan activist forced to flee the very revolution she helped bring about. Twenty-five-year-old Magdulien

Congo back in charge of Goma, U.N. fingers Rwanda again

YoopyaDec 4, 20120

(Reuters) – Congo’s government re-established control over the eastern city of Goma on Monday after rebels withdrew, and U.N. experts made new allegations that Rwandan

Fight against al Shabaab instructive model for future: U.S. general

YoopyaDec 4, 2012June 19, 20230

(Reuters) – The African Union war against al Shabaab in Somalia this past year has left the Islamist group “largely in a survival mode” and