Facebook generation gears up to monitor Nigeria poll (Reuters)
Reuters – Tech-savvy young Nigerians are gearing up to use BlackBerries, mobile phones and social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook to monitor polls in January, in an effort to stamp out electoral fraud.
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Mozambique government reverses bread price hike (AP)
AP – Mozambique’s government is reversing bread and water price increases that had touched off deadly riots, the planning minister said Tuesday.
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Delta launches direct-to-US flight from Liberia (AP)
AP – Delta Air Lines Inc. has launched a direct flight from the U.S. to Liberia, becoming the first U.S. carrier to serve the West African nation since the end of more than a decade of civil war.
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Death toll rises to 13 in Mozambique protests (AFP)
AFP – The death toll has risen to 13 from rioting that broke out last week in Maputo in protest at rising food prices, Mozambique’s health minister Ivo Garrido told a news conference Monday.
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Unions suspend South African strike (AP)
AP – A key labor leader says South African civil servants are suspending a nationwide strike for higher wages to give union members time to consider the government’s offer.
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Mozambique police on alert amid calls for new riots (AFP)
AFP – Mozambique police were on alert on Sunday after days of riots over food prices, as calls for renewed protests were circulated via mobile phone text messages.
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Uneasy calm returns in Mozambique after food riots (AFP)
AFP – Mozambique police kept a close watch over the capital Maputo on Saturday after three days of riots over food and fuel price hikes that left ten people dead.
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African peacekeepers open 9 more bases in Somalia (AP)
AP – African Union peacekeepers say they have established nine new bases in Somalia’s capital over the last several months.
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Mozambique says price hikes ‘irreversible’ (AFP)
AFP – Mozambique’s government Thursday called price rises in the impoverished southern African country “irreversible” despite violent protests that it said left seven dead and 288 wounded.
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Ponzi scheme with ties to presidency shakes Benin (AP)
AP – More than a hundred thousand people in the tiny West African nation of Benin have lost their savings in a Ponzi scheme run by a now-defunct company that appeared to be publicly endorsed by the country’s president.
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