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Kenya health workers agree with government to end 2-week strike

YoopyaMarch 16, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 16, 20120

By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan public health workers have ended a near two-week strike over pay after reaching a deal with the government...

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S.Sudan to lobby for Sudan debt, sanctions relief

YoopyaMarch 15, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 15, 20120

By Hereward Holland JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan said on Wednesday it would help its former civil war foe Sudan lobby for debt relief and...

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Attacks on security forces in north Nigeria kill 7

YoopyaMarch 14, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 14, 20120

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed in separate attacks by suspected Islamist militants targeting security patrols in northern Nigeria on Tuesday,...

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Sudan rebels say they shot down drone, govt denies

YoopyaMarch 14, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 14, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Insurgents in one of Sudan’s conflict-torn border regions said they shot down a government drone doing reconnaissance in rebel-held territory on Tuesday,...

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Hague war crimes court to issue first ever verdict

YoopyaMarch 14, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 14, 20120

By Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The Hague international war crimes court hands down its first verdict, on a Congolese warlord, on Wednesday after...

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Kenya arrests four over weekend grenade blasts

YoopyaMarch 13, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 13, 20120

By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police have arrested four people over a grenade attack at a Nairobi bus station blamed on Somali Islamist...

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Tribal attacks wrench South Sudan as disarmament starts

YoopyaMarch 13, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 13, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Cattle raiders in South Sudan launched a major assault on a rival tribe, causing heavy loss of life, officials said on Monday,...

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Toll reaches six in Kenyan capital bus station blast

YoopyaMarch 12, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 12, 20120

By David Clarke NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya blamed Somali al Shabaab rebels on Sunday for grenade attacks that killed at least six people and wounded...

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Reprisals kill 10 after church bombed in Nigeria’s Jos

YoopyaMarch 12, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 12, 20120

By Buhari Bello JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Christian youths killed at least 10 people in reprisal attacks after a suspected suicide bomber hit a Catholic...

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S.Africa’s Malema pleads to stay in ANC ‘family’

YoopyaMarch 12, 2012June 24, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 12, 2012June 24, 20230

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s ANC youth rebel Julius Malema pleaded on Sunday for the ruling party not to expel him and made a rare...