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(SomaliNet) A school in Liberia has demoted 162 students in a bid to ensure academic Excellency. According to the Vice Principal of Student Affairs of St. Peters Lutheran High School, Mr. Moses Tokpa, this will help improve Liberia’s education standards after the war.
To
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(SomaliNet) New York based Human rights activists have expressed disappointment in an anti homosexuality bill in Nigeria. The bill, passed in January suggested a five year imprisonment period for anyone caught engaging in homosexuality in Nigeria.
The activists referred to the
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(SomaliNet) A West African boat heading to Gabon from Nigeria sank off the coast of Cameroon, leaving at least 127 West African people feared drowned. State-run television said Thursday, IRIN reports. This is the third boat to capsize in the Gulf of Guinea in the past eight months.
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(SomaliNet) Ghana`s Black Stars received aid worth $150,000 from the Continental Commodities Trading Company(CCTC). Ghana’s representatives at the forthcoming World Cup games also received 250 bags of! rice from the same company.
This follows the Ashanti Goldfieldsâ€â
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(SomaliNet) Chris Toe, the former president of Strayer College, USA will return to Liberia to sere as the minister of Agriculture. Toe fled Liberia fifteen years ago to escape the political turmoil the country suffered then.
Toe, who has a master’s Degree in Agriculture
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(SomaliNet) A statement from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has revealed that three soldiers were killed in Soku, Nigeria. "We confirm that three soldiers were killed in this encounter. The military patrol boat and a sizeable quantity of weapons and am
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(SomaliNet) Burundi's main opposition Hutu party FRODEBU, vowed on Saturday to withdraw from a national unity government, accusing President Pierre Nkurunziza's coalition of failing to abide by a constitutional agreement on power-sharing and failing to promote democracy. Reuters re
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(SomaliNet) Rwandan government is working hard to avert a possible arrival of the deadly Avian Flu in Rwanda following reports that the pandemic could have been detected in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture, Anastase Mure
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<|charles_tylor.jpg|Charles Tylor|left|> (SomaliNet) Ex-Liberian President, Charles Taylor has disappeared from his home in Nigeria. This follows the acceptance of Nigeria's government to hand over Taylor to answer charges for the war crimes he committed in Liberia and Sierra
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(SomaliNet) Emmanuel Bombande,a Security expert from Ghana says that Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is acting under influence from the west in her bid to hand over ex Liberia's president, Charles Taylor to the UN tribunal.
Bombande further says that in doing so
