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Mali neighbours threaten border closure

YoopyaMarch 30, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 30, 20120

By David Lewis and Loucoumane Coulibaly BAMAKO/ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Mali’s neighbours on Thursday gave the leaders of last week’s coup 72 hours to begin handing...

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Mali coup leader for outside help in north

YoopyaMarch 30, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 30, 20120

BAMAKO (Reuters) – The leader of Mali’s military junta on Friday called for external help to secure the country against a separatist Tuareg rebellion in...

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Mandela archives, letters and notes go online

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012November 30, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 29, 2012November 30, 20230

(Reuters) – Thousands of letters, photographs and documents relating to former South African President Nelson Mandela went online on Tuesday in a project aimed at...

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Special Report: Gaddafi’s secret missionaries

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 29, 20120

(Reuters) – On a tidy campus in his capital of Tripoli, dictator Muammar Gaddafi sponsored one of the world’s leading Muslim missionary networks. It was...

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Double bonus for Schwartzel at Houston Open

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 29, 20120

(Reuters) – South African Charl Schwartzel has two good reasons to be happy competing at this week’s Houston Open in Humble, Texas, as he prepares...

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Ocampo hopes to open World Bank leadership to all

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 29, 20120

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonion Ocampo knows he faces a tough battle to head the World Bank but...

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UN mulls reducing peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 29, 20120

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The United Nations is considering cutting back its peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region as violence dwindles...

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South Sudan troops withdraw from oil area after clashes

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 29, 20120

By Ulf Laessing HEGLIG OIL FIELD, Sudan (Reuters) – South Sudan’s troops have pulled out of Sudan’s oil-producing Heglig area, both sides said on Wednesday,...

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Zimbabwe court says no foul play in general’s death

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 29, 20120

By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – A Zimbabwean magistrate has ruled out foul play in the death last August of retired army general Solomon Mujuru,...

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IMF approves final Angola loan tranche

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 29, 20120

By Shrikesh Laxmidas LUANDA (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday approved the release of a final loan disbursement to Angola under the country’s...