The telecommunications giant should pay twice the penalty fees for unregistered phone lines, says Nigeria’s House of Representatives.
Niger is better known for its poverty, not fashion. But out of this dusty and arid nation has emerged a man as colourful as his creations, Alphadi.
The UN has ordered more troops to Côte d’Ivoire as African leaders admitted they had failed to get Laurent Gbagbo to hand over power.
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/ 5 December 2007
Fans of legendary Swedish disco group ABBA can dance down memory lane when the world’s first ABBA museum opens in Stockholm in 2009, featuring the quartet’s costumes, instruments and rare memorabilia. ”It will be an international museum with a lot of technological and multimedia aspects,” the project mastermind said.
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/ 21 December 2006
The fatigue shows in his eyes and his jittery legs betray his nerves: Mohamed sits in a Swedish cafe six weeks after fleeing the bombs and death threats that have become a part of everyday life in Iraq, hoping for a chance to start his life again. Mohamed, a former shopkeeper in a town south of Baghdad, paid $40 000 to a smuggler to help him flee Iraq with his wife and two children, aged four and nine.
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/ 21 December 2005
As the wounds of Swedes, traumatised by the Asian tsunami that cost them more lives than any other Western nation, slowly heal, many feel they will have special links with Thailand for the rest of their lives. About 20 000 Swedes were holidaying in Thailand, a favourite destination for the citizens of the Scandinavian country.
Rigged like American youth with caps glued to their heads and baggy trousers like rappers, the young Eritreans from the diaspora returning to Eritrea in their thousands each summer do not go unnoticed in the streets of Asmara.