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Anger at Ghana salary increases for politicians

YoopyaNov 3, 20120

A significant increase in salaries for Ghana’s president, ministers and other top officials has been criticised by anti-corruption campaigners. Parliament agreed to the pay rise

Jilted Africa cool to US vote after Obama fever fades

YoopyaNov 2, 20120

By Njuwa Maina and Tosin Sulaiman KOGELO, Kenya/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – In the tiny Kenyan village of Kogelo, U.S. President Barack Obama’s ancestral homeland, some people talk

Nigerian forces making Islamist insurgency worse: Amnesty

YoopyaNov 2, 20120

By Joe Brock ABUJA (Reuters) – Human rights abuses committed by Nigeria’s security forces in their fight against Islamist sect Boko Haram are fuelling the very

Guinea swears in new electoral commission

YoopyaNov 2, 20120

CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea has sworn in a new electoral commission after an initial boycott by the opposition, which claimed the government had tampered with its

South Africa gold workers to return after bonus spat

YoopyaNov 2, 20120

(Reuters) – Striking miners at AngloGold Ashanti will return to work on Sunday at two mines where operations were suspended this week in a dispute

Williams sisters urge African women to play tennis

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

By Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) – For many African-American celebrities, visiting Africa satisfies a yearning to return to their distant ancestral homeland. Not so for tennis

Sudan police fire teargas to disperse farm region protest

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese police fired teargas to disperse hundreds of protesters in a farming region south of the capital on Wednesday, witnesses said. The demonstrators,

S.Africa police fire rubber bullets at striking miners

YoopyaOct 30, 20120

By Sherilee Lakmidas RUSTENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) – South African police fired rubber bullets and teargas on Tuesday at striking Amplats miners who were protesting against

Clinton presses Algeria on Mali intervention plan

YoopyaOct 30, 20120

By Andrew Quinn ALGIERS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed regional power Algeria on Monday to support an Africa-led military intervention in northern

Senegal’s Sall replaces interior, foreign ministers in reshuffle

YoopyaOct 30, 20120

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired his interior and foreign ministers in his first cabinet reshuffle since taking office six months ago, the