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October 10, 2012 News
October 10, 2012
Ivory Coast exiles set up strategic command in Ghana: UN panel
"Exiles supporting Ivory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo have established a base in neighboring Ghana from which they are working to destabilize the current Ivorian government, according to excerpts from a new report by a U.N. expert panel..."
To read the full article, visit the Kenyan Standard site here
Dlamini-Zuma's leadership of the AU Commission: critical challenges and prospects
Dlamini-Zuma's "historic election as chairperson of the African Union (AU) followed a fierce contestation among the 54 AU member states. Many reasons were punted for this contestation, among them the presumed linguistic war between the so-called Anglophone and Francophone African countries — in other words, Africa is divided along neocolonial paradigms. This characterisation ignored African countries that have Portuguese as the official national language (Lusophone) and the others with Swahili, Spanish and Arabic..."
To read the full article, visit the South African Business Day site here
West Africa: Former Italian Prime Minister to Lead UN Response to Crisis in Africa's Sahel Region
"Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi as his new Special Envoy for the Sahel region in West Africa..."
To read the full article, visit the AllAfrica site here
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