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/ 14 October 2011
Liberia’s Nobel winner and incumbent president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took a strong lead over rival Winston Tubman on Friday.
Liberians are voting in the country’s second election since it emerged from a 14-year civil war in 2003, a litmus test of its fragile democracy.
Liberia buzzed with election fever as Nobel laureates, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s activist Leymah Gbowee took to the streets.
Liberians are weighing the impact of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s Nobel Peace Prize victory which has been slammed as an unfair boost ahead of elections.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called on African countries to work harder to get life-saving vaccines to children.
Forces backing Alassane Ouattara captured key cities on Wednesday and warned rival Laurent Gbagbo they would march on his stronghold.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire was criticised by rival camps on Tuesday.
Heavy fighting broke out in Côte d’Ivoire on Wednesday hours after Alassane Ouattara offered rival Laurent Gbagbo a chance to quit power.
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/ 16 November 2010
Senegal’s most beautiful sheep is crowned in a competition that shows the bond between Senegalese men and their pets.
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/ 25 October 2009
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan faces a massive shortfall in tax revenues as he presents the mid-term budget on Tuesday.