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- Golfer Wiesberger leads at Ballantine's - France24-Africa (Saturday, 28 April) - Bernd Wiesberger was within a round of claiming his maiden European Tour victory after running away with the lead at the Ballantine's Championship on Saturday.The 25-year-old Austrian fired a second successive seven-under 65 to take a stranglehold on the $2.9 million tournament at Blackstone Golf Club, Icheon, near Seoul.His three-round...
- Ukraine delays Tymoshenko trial - France24-Africa (Saturday, 28 April) - A Ukrainian judge ruled Saturday that jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko could not be tried in absentia and delayed her hearings in a new tax evasion case until May 21."The court has ruled that it is impossible to hear the case in the absence of Tymoshenko," Judge Kostiantyn Sadovsky told...
- GUINEA-BISSAU: Coup leaders release ousted PM, interim president - France24-Africa (Saturday, 28 April) - Guinea-Bissau's coup leaders released the country's ousted premier Carlos Gomes Junior and its interim president, Raimundo Pereira (pictured), on Friday after more than two weeks of detention and allowed the men to leave for Ivory Coast....
- Ghana leads Africa in new child vaccines - AfricaNews (Friday, 27 April) - Ghana has become the first country in Africa to start protecting children against two of the continent's deadliest infant diseases with simultaneous vaccinations. Rotavirus, which causes diarrhoea, and pneumococcal disease kill more than 2.7 million children worldwide each year.The project is backed by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.…...
- INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE: Taylor's Liberian victims still without justice - France24-Africa (Friday, 27 April) - A UN-backed international human rights court on Thursday convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of war crimes in Sierra Leone. But in his native Liberia, justice has not yet been served....
- WEST AFRICA: ECOWAS to send troops to coup-hit Mali, Guinea-Bissau - France24-Africa (Friday, 27 April) - Meeting at an extraordinary summit in Ivory Coast, the ECOWAS regional bloc vowed to send troops to Mali and Guinea-Bissau, both hit by recent military coups, to ensure a return to civilian rule....
- NIGERIA: Deadly blasts hit newspaper offices in Abuja, Kaduna - France24-Africa (Friday, 27 April) - At least eight people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing at the offices of "This Day" newspaper in the Nigerian capital Abuja and another blast at the paper's offices in Kaduna....
- SUDAN - SOUTH SUDAN: Government docks civil servant wages to fund army - France24-Africa (Thursday, 26 April) - Sudan on Thursday imposed fuel limits and slashed state salaries to aid its war efforts against South Sudan amid estimations its oil revenues had shrunk by 20 percent since the loss of the Heglig oil field to southern troops....
- THE HAGUE: Hague court finds Liberia's Charles Taylor guilty - France24-Africa (Thursday, 26 April) - The Special Court for Sierra Leone found Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity Thursday in the first-ever international judgment against a former head of state....
- Zimbabwe: Pensioners languish in poverty - AfricaNews (Thursday, 26 April) - A visit to some local savings banks where pensioners come to collect their monthly pension funds showed that many pensioners are languishing in poverty in Zimbabwe. Their lifetime savings were eroded by inflation. Most pensioners had sad stories to tell ranging from how they served their employers diligently yet they...
