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- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:00:10 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Anything but a Routine Win, Says Zambian Coach - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[allAfrica.com]
Bata -
Zambia might have eased their way to what looked a routine win over Sudan in their African Nations Cup quarter-final on Saturday but the winners are insisting it was anything but. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:52:08 +0000: Sudan/Equatorial Guinea: CAN - Will Equatorial Guinea and Sudan Follow Through On Surprise Success? - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[RFI]
Five things we learned from the first two quarter-finals: - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:15:47 +0000: South Sudan: Beshir Oil War Threats - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Citizen]
Now President Beshir of Allah Sudan is back with war tune and this time he is demanding oil money as a compensation for allowing independence of the Sudan. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:56:23 +0000: Kenya: Food Crisis Looms, Warns UN Report - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Nation]
Kenya's arid and semi-arid areas could be facing yet another food shortage even as the government and relief agencies fight to provide lasting solutions to residents. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:49:15 +0000: Somalia: Armed Group Attack Ethiopian Troops - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Shabelle]
Beledweyn -
Heavily armed Somali gunmen have attacked overnight on Ethiopian military bases in the town of Beledweyn, the capital city of Hiran region in central Somalia, residents said. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:38:12 +0000: South Sudan: Nearly Five Million Face Food Shortages - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Sudan Tribune]
Juba -
At least 4.7 million people in South Sudan are likely to be food insecure this year, a joint crop and food security assessment report released by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) says. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:07:04 +0000: Africa: Zambia Through to Semifinals At African Cup - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[GFA]
Zambia was the first team through to the African Cup of Nations semifinals after a clinical 3-0 win over struggling 10-man Sudan on Saturday. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:01:53 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Copper Bullets Humble 10-Man Sudan to Reach Last Four - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[CAF]
The Chipolopolos of Zambia sealed a historic place at the last four of the Africa Cup of Nations after beating Sudan 3-0 in their quarter final clash on Saturday in Bata. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:54:56 +0000: Africa: Can 2012 - the Home Stretch - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Nation]
The first cull is done. It's goodbye to eight teams and the battle continues for the remaining eight. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:23:10 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Chipolopolo Stride Into Afcon Semi-Finals - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[allAfrica.com]
Bata -
Zambia strode into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with a one-sided 3-0 win over Sudan to book a last four place for the first time in 16 years. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:32:15 +0000: Kenya: 26 Die in Road Accident - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Capital FM]
Kisumu -
At least 26 people are dead following a grisly road accident that occurred on Friday night on the busy Kisumu-Kakamega highway at the Mamboleo black spot. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:09:11 +0000: Sudan: U.S. Condemns Govt Military Bombing in South Kordofan - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Sudan Tribune]
Khartoum -
The US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, has strongly condemned the bombing of a school in Sudan's southern region of South Kordofan by the country's military forces. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:08:05 +0000: Sudan: Bashir Warns of War Over Oil Dispute - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Sudan Tribune]
Khartoum -
The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir highlighted the unprecedented level of tensions with the newly established state of South Sudan by saying that war is now a possibility. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:05:05 +0000: South Sudan: New Clashes Blight Peace Talks - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Sudan Tribune]
Juba/Bentui -
On Thursday the Unity state minster for information and communication, Gideon Gatpan, said 15 people were killed in Mayiandit in a coordinated attack by Unity state forces who came on machine-gun mounted vehicles. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:03:30 +0000: Somalia: Kenyan Jets Attack Al-Shabaab Villages - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Shabelle]
Badhahde -
Kenyan jets have shelled a town once again in less than a week a rebel-held towns in Lower Jubba region of southwestern Somalia, causing heavy loss of Al-shabab fighters, residents said on Saturday. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:57:47 +0000: South Sudan: Cattle Raid Led to 78 Deaths - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[UN News]
The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern over a cattle raid in a northern state of South Sudan earlier this week, which led to 78 deaths and numerous injuries among civilians, most of whom were women and children. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:54:49 +0000: Sudan: Juba Has Khartoum Over a Barrel - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Af Conf]
Few outside the Juba government had expected it to start shutting down oil production on 22 January. Warnings from the Government of South Sudan had been widely seen as brinkmanship. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:54:36 +0000: Somalia: Famine Over, Says UN - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[UN News]
The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help people resume normal lives. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:24:25 +0000: Uganda: The LRA - Not Yet a Spent Force - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[IRIN]
Johannesburg -
The belief that the end is nigh for Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) - a small but ruthless transnational armed group operating in four African states - underestimates its resilience and overestimates the unity and capability of the forces ranged against it, say analysts. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:10:22 +0000: Somalia: Famine Ends, but Situation Still Dire - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[FAO]
Nairobi -
The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that with recurrent droughts in the Horn of Africa hunger remains a threat unless long-term measures are taken to restore food security. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:08:35 +0000: Djibouti: Radio Journalist Threatened and Tortured for 24 Hours - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[RSF]
Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns radio journalist Farah Abadid Hildid's abduction by the police yesterday and the threats and torture to which he was subjected during the 24 hours he was held. Hildid works for La Voix de Djibouti, a radio station that broadcasts on the shortwave from Europe and is now also available on the Internet. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:14 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Chipolopolo Seek to Banish Ghosts of Past - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[allAfrica.com]
Zambia are seeking to banish the ghosts of the last 16 years by reaching the African Nations Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1996. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:48:06 +0000: Somalia: Country World's Most Failed State, Says UK Foreign Secretary Hague in Mogadishu - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[RFI]
Somalia is the "world's most failed state", said William Hague on the first visit by a British Foreign Secretary to Mogadishu for 20 years Thursday. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:10:14 +0000: Ethiopia: Future of Last Remaining Human Rights Monitoring NGO in the Balance - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[HRW]
On February 3, 2012, the Cassation Bench of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia will hear a petition by the Human Rights Council (HRCO), Ethiopia's oldest human rights organization, to admit an appeal against the freezing of its bank accounts. Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, CIVICUS, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and Human Rights Watch express deep concern at the obstacles and restrictions to which HRCO and other human rights organizations in Ethiopia are now subjected, as ill - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:40:17 +0000: Sudan: A Diplomat, a Dictator, a Wedding, a Hug - Ibrahim Gambari's Faux-Pas That Wasn't - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[iMaverick]
Advice to aspiring diplomats: Don't hug war criminals, and especially don't be photographed hugging them. That's what happened to Ibrahim Gambari, the UN's man in Darfur, when he ran into Sudan's President Bashir at a glitzy wedding in Khartoum. But here's the thing: hugs and socialising are part of diplomacy, and might be what's needed to keep the faltering peace process going. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:40:25 +0000: Egypt: Young Africans Need Protection in Cairo - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Daily News]
AFRICA is mourning after at least 74 people were killed when supporters clashed at an Egyptian football match on Wednesday night. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:41:43 +0000: East Africa: Sudanese Oil Stalemate Persists - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[ISS]
Negotiations between Juba and Khartoum on the oil issue, under the auspices of the African Union's High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP), continued on the sidelines of the recently ended African Union meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:37:26 +0000: Rwanda: China's Donation of HQ Reflects Africa's Problems, Says Kagame - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[East African]
Rwanda president Paul Kagame has said China's donation to Africa - the new headquarters worth $200 million unveiled last week is a reflection of Africa's bigger problems. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:09:06 +0000: Sudan: White House Condemns Bombings in Kordofan & Blue Nile States - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[White House]
Washington, DC -
The United States strongly condemns the bombing by the Sudanese Armed Forces of civilian populations in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States in Sudan. Aerial attacks on civilian targets are unjustified and unacceptable. Such attacks are a violation of international law and compound the ongoing crisis in these areas. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:32:30 +0000: Kenya: US Intelligence Praises Raid on Al-Shabaab - AllAfrica News: East Africa
[Nation]
Kenya's military operation has helped erode Al-Shabaab's control of southern Somalia, the chief US intelligence officer said on Tuesday.