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IN SPITE of the meager fortunes of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Volta region, the party's flag bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo has declared that the party's performance in the region will be a major decider of its victory in the 2012 general elections.

AllAfrica News: LatestAllAfrica News: LatestLibya: African Leaders Seek a Political Solution to ImpasseCote d’Ivoire: People’s Will Triumphs, Says OuattaraSouth Africa: Ruling Party Stays in Charge But Opposition GrowsAfrica: We Are Not Corrupt, Says Angry Fifa BossNigeria: Corruption Commission to Probe Former SpeakerSomalia: Market Shelling Kills Mogadishu CiviliansCote d’Ivoire: Ouattara Becomes New PresidentKenya: Marginal Profits Hamper Malaria Drug SubsidyCote d’Ivoire: Jonathan, Sarkozy to Hold Talks at Ouattara InaugurationSudan: Govt Reports 22 Soldiers Killed in Abyei AmbushZimbabwe: Regional Leaders Scrap Court Which Ruled Against Land ReformKenya: Controversial U.S. Ambassador’s ‘Handover Notes’Seychelles: William And Kate End Seychelles HoneymoonLibya: African Union Joins UN in Demanding CeasefireSouth Africa: Electoral Commission Declares Local Polls Free, FairKenya: Tragedy of Marathon Runner’s WidowSouthern Africa: Regional Leaders Debate Future of TribunalLibya: Rights Body Calls for Release of Journalist’s BodySudan: UN Chief Condemns Attack On Peacekeepers in AbyeiAfrica: UN Launches Partnership to Put Indigenous Rights Into ActionUganda: Four Journalists Beaten by Police, Camera ConfiscatedKenya: How Fame And Money Ruin Great MenCote d’Ivoire: Yamoussoukro – Ivorians Gear Up for Ouattara’s Swearing-inMozambique: Renamo Urged to Change Its Parliamentary BehaviourSomalia: The Transition Settles Into Drifting ConflictMozambique: China to Fund Agricultural Centre in BoaneMozambique: Renamo Claims Renewed ‘Negotiations’, Frelimo DeniesMozambique: Citizens in Namibia ‘Are Ambassadors’

All Africa, All the Time. http://allafrica.com/latest/ http://allafrica.com/tools/headlines/rss.html http://allafrica.com/img/static/aa-trans_200x116.gif http://allafrica.com/latest/ en-us http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210042.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210042.html The African Union has called an extraordinary summit to seek a political solution to the ongoing civil war in Libya. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:29:44 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210039.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210039.html President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday called for a return to civility in Cote d’Ivoire, promising to institute investigations into the five-month political crisis that rocked the country. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:25:09 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210035.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210035.html South Africa’s local government were officially declared over on Saturday night by the Independent Electoral Commission in Pretoria. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:18:59 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210034.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210034.html An enraged Fifa president Sepp Blatter has called on the football fraternity to stop labelling the world soccer body as a corrupt organisation. Sat, 21 May 2011 17:11:27 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210031.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210031.html The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is now set to quiz Speaker Dimeji Bankole of the House of Representatives, possibly next week, the eve of his departure from office over the controversial N10 billion loan allegedly taken by the leadership of the House. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:44:50 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210030.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210030.html The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Friday condemned Wednesday’s indiscriminate shelling of civilians in Somali capital Mogadishu’s Bakara market which killed about 14 people and wounded several others. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:37:47 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210029.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210029.html Foreign leaders are gathered in Yamoussoukro, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire, for the long-delayed inauguration of Alassane Ouattara as president. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:36:15 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210027.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210027.html On the streets of Nairobi, James Odhiambo goes from one pharmacy to the next in search of anti-malarial drugs marked with the Global Fund’s logo of a green leaf. He is looking for this specific brand because he understands that it is more than ten times cheaper than the same drug produced by different manufacturers. Sat, 21 May 2011 12:14:29 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210016.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210016.html President Goodluck Jonathan will Saturday as part of his visit to Cote d’Ivoire, meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Yamoussoukro, where the duo are expected to hold bilateral talks on issues of common interest especially the deepening of democracy in the West African sub region. Sat, 21 May 2011 10:11:59 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210014.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210014.html North Sudan army announced that 22 of its soldiers were killed in an attack carried against its troops in the contested area of Abyei and accused Southern Sudanese army of being behind it. Sat, 21 May 2011 09:51:01 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210013.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210013.html THE Sadc Tribunal was dissolved at the regional grouping’s extraordinary summit here yesterday with leaders tasking Justice Ministers to reconstitute the tribunal to give it a new mandate. Sat, 21 May 2011 09:44:01 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210043.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210043.html This is an informed guess of the handover notes Michael Ranneberger left for his successor, Jonathan Scott Gration, America’s new Ambassador to Kenya. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:33:21 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210041.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210041.html Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have returned to the UK from their 10-day honeymoon in the Seychelles, St James’s Palace has said. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:28:45 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210040.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210040.html The UN Security Council (UNSC) and the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) on Saturday demanded the immediate establishment of ceasefire in Libya. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:27:46 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210037.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210037.html With a record voter turnout of more than 50 percent, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Saturday declared the 2011 municipal elections free and fair. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:22:17 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210036.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210036.html Triza Njeri Wanjiru is lonely in a crowd. Dozens of mourners enter her upmarket Muthaiga estate home in Nyahururu every hour seeking to comfort her or catch a glimpse of the house of the young man that thrilled the world with his outstanding talent before shocking the nation with his sudden death. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:21:16 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210015.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210015.html THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) faces several awkward problems at the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State scheduled for May 20-21. Sat, 21 May 2011 10:05:26 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210033.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210033.html The Libyan government should immediately release the body of South African photographer Anton Hammerl and investigate the role of the armed forces in his death, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said today. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:51:14 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210012.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210012.html UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned on Friday the attack carried on UNMIS peacekeepers while they were escorting northern Sudanese troops in the flashpoint Abyei border area. Sat, 21 May 2011 09:37:25 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210005.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210005.html Four United Nations agencies today launched the first global initiative to put into action the rights enshrined in an international declaration to protect the more than 370 million indigenous peoples who live in some 90 countries around the world. Sat, 21 May 2011 08:09:30 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210003.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210003.html Barely a week after more than a dozen journalists were subjected to police and military brutality, police launched another attack against four journalists. Sat, 21 May 2011 08:07:39 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210038.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210038.html Money and power have been described as potent aphrodisiacs, and the events of the past week seem to entrench that notion. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:22:53 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210032.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210032.html After five months of bloodbath and tears, Ivorians, Friday thronged Yamoussoukro, the inner political capital of Cote d’Ivoire, to celebrate the impending inauguration of President Alassane Ouattara. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:45:15 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210026.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210026.html The leader of the parliamentary group of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party, Margarida Talapa, on Friday urged the main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo to review its political behaviour “to bring it into line with the most elementary and universal democratic principles”. Sat, 21 May 2011 12:12:02 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210017.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210017.html From the last week of April through mid-May, the “transition” of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Institutions (T.F.I.s) to a permanent constitutional order, which is supposed to take place by August, 2011 according to an international mandate, ground to a halt as the Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) and the Transitional Federal Parliament (T.F.P.) settled into a bitter power struggle over conflicting conceptions of how long and under what conditions their terms should be extended beyond August, and the Western “donor”-powers, which finance the T.F.I.s and attempt to exert influence on them through the United Nations, observed the fight from the sidelines after having failed in mid-April to control the “transition” and bring it to a conclusion. Sat, 21 May 2011 10:17:46 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210011.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210011.html China is to donate 185,000 US dollars to the Umbeluzi Centre for Research and Technology Transfer (CITAU), in Boane district, about 40 kilometres west of Maputo province. Sat, 21 May 2011 08:23:18 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210010.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210010.html Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique’s main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has claimed he is resuming what he called “negotiations” between Renamo and the ruling Frelimo Party. Sat, 21 May 2011 08:20:20 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210009.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210009.html Mozambicans resident in Namibia are ambassadors for their country, declared President Armando Guebuza on Thursday night, at

AllAfrica News: LatestAllAfrica News: LatestLibya: African Leaders Seek a Political Solution to ImpasseCote d’Ivoire: People’s Will Triumphs, Says OuattaraSouth Africa: Ruling Party Stays in Charge But Opposition GrowsAfrica: We Are Not Corrupt, Says Angry Fifa BossNigeria: Corruption Commission to Probe Former SpeakerSomalia: Market Shelling Kills Mogadishu CiviliansCote d’Ivoire: Ouattara Becomes New PresidentKenya: Marginal Profits Hamper Malaria Drug SubsidyCote d’Ivoire: Jonathan, Sarkozy to Hold Talks at Ouattara InaugurationSudan: Govt Reports 22 Soldiers Killed in Abyei AmbushZimbabwe: Regional Leaders Scrap Court Which Ruled Against Land ReformKenya: Controversial U.S. Ambassador’s ‘Handover Notes’Seychelles: William And Kate End Seychelles HoneymoonLibya: African Union Joins UN in Demanding CeasefireSouth Africa: Electoral Commission Declares Local Polls Free, FairKenya: Tragedy of Marathon Runner’s WidowSouthern Africa: Regional Leaders Debate Future of TribunalLibya: Rights Body Calls for Release of Journalist’s BodySudan: UN Chief Condemns Attack On Peacekeepers in AbyeiAfrica: UN Launches Partnership to Put Indigenous Rights Into ActionUganda: Four Journalists Beaten by Police, Camera ConfiscatedKenya: How Fame And Money Ruin Great MenCote d’Ivoire: Yamoussoukro – Ivorians Gear Up for Ouattara’s Swearing-inMozambique: Renamo Urged to Change Its Parliamentary BehaviourSomalia: The Transition Settles Into Drifting ConflictMozambique: China to Fund Agricultural Centre in BoaneMozambique: Renamo Claims Renewed ‘Negotiations’, Frelimo DeniesMozambique: Citizens in Namibia ‘Are Ambassadors’

All Africa, All the Time. http://allafrica.com/latest/ http://allafrica.com/tools/headlines/rss.html http://allafrica.com/img/static/aa-trans_200x116.gif http://allafrica.com/latest/ en-us http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210042.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210042.html The African Union has called an extraordinary summit to seek a political solution to the ongoing civil war in Libya. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:29:44 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210039.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210039.html President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday called for a return to civility in Cote d’Ivoire, promising to institute investigations into the five-month political crisis that rocked the country. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:25:09 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210035.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210035.html South Africa’s local government were officially declared over on Saturday night by the Independent Electoral Commission in Pretoria. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:18:59 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210034.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210034.html An enraged Fifa president Sepp Blatter has called on the football fraternity to stop labelling the world soccer body as a corrupt organisation. Sat, 21 May 2011 17:11:27 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210031.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210031.html The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is now set to quiz Speaker Dimeji Bankole of the House of Representatives, possibly next week, the eve of his departure from office over the controversial N10 billion loan allegedly taken by the leadership of the House. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:44:50 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210030.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210030.html The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Friday condemned Wednesday’s indiscriminate shelling of civilians in Somali capital Mogadishu’s Bakara market which killed about 14 people and wounded several others. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:37:47 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210029.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210029.html Foreign leaders are gathered in Yamoussoukro, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire, for the long-delayed inauguration of Alassane Ouattara as president. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:36:15 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210027.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210027.html On the streets of Nairobi, James Odhiambo goes from one pharmacy to the next in search of anti-malarial drugs marked with the Global Fund’s logo of a green leaf. He is looking for this specific brand because he understands that it is more than ten times cheaper than the same drug produced by different manufacturers. Sat, 21 May 2011 12:14:29 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210016.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210016.html President Goodluck Jonathan will Saturday as part of his visit to Cote d’Ivoire, meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Yamoussoukro, where the duo are expected to hold bilateral talks on issues of common interest especially the deepening of democracy in the West African sub region. Sat, 21 May 2011 10:11:59 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210014.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210014.html North Sudan army announced that 22 of its soldiers were killed in an attack carried against its troops in the contested area of Abyei and accused Southern Sudanese army of being behind it. Sat, 21 May 2011 09:51:01 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210013.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210013.html THE Sadc Tribunal was dissolved at the regional grouping’s extraordinary summit here yesterday with leaders tasking Justice Ministers to reconstitute the tribunal to give it a new mandate. Sat, 21 May 2011 09:44:01 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210043.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210043.html This is an informed guess of the handover notes Michael Ranneberger left for his successor, Jonathan Scott Gration, America’s new Ambassador to Kenya. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:33:21 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210041.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210041.html Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have returned to the UK from their 10-day honeymoon in the Seychelles, St James’s Palace has said. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:28:45 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210040.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210040.html The UN Security Council (UNSC) and the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) on Saturday demanded the immediate establishment of ceasefire in Libya. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:27:46 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210037.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210037.html With a record voter turnout of more than 50 percent, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Saturday declared the 2011 municipal elections free and fair. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:22:17 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210036.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210036.html Triza Njeri Wanjiru is lonely in a crowd. Dozens of mourners enter her upmarket Muthaiga estate home in Nyahururu every hour seeking to comfort her or catch a glimpse of the house of the young man that thrilled the world with his outstanding talent before shocking the nation with his sudden death. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:21:16 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210015.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210015.html THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) faces several awkward problems at the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State scheduled for May 20-21. Sat, 21 May 2011 10:05:26 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210033.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210033.html The Libyan government should immediately release the body of South African photographer Anton Hammerl and investigate the role of the armed forces in his death, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said today. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:51:14 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210012.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210012.html UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned on Friday the attack carried on UNMIS peacekeepers while they were escorting northern Sudanese troops in the flashpoint Abyei border area. Sat, 21 May 2011 09:37:25 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210005.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210005.html Four United Nations agencies today launched the first global initiative to put into action the rights enshrined in an international declaration to protect the more than 370 million indigenous peoples who live in some 90 countries around the world. Sat, 21 May 2011 08:09:30 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210003.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210003.html Barely a week after more than a dozen journalists were subjected to police and military brutality, police launched another attack against four journalists. Sat, 21 May 2011 08:07:39 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210038.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210038.html Money and power have been described as potent aphrodisiacs, and the events of the past week seem to entrench that notion. Sat, 21 May 2011 21:22:53 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210032.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210032.html After five months of bloodbath and tears, Ivorians, Friday thronged Yamoussoukro, the inner political capital of Cote d’Ivoire, to celebrate the impending inauguration of President Alassane Ouattara. Sat, 21 May 2011 15:45:15 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210026.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210026.html The leader of the parliamentary group of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party, Margarida Talapa, on Friday urged the main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo to review its political behaviour “to bring it into line with the most elementary and universal democratic principles”. Sat, 21 May 2011 12:12:02 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210017.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210017.html From the last week of April through mid-May, the “transition” of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Institutions (T.F.I.s) to a permanent constitutional order, which is supposed to take place by August, 2011 according to an international mandate, ground to a halt as the Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) and the Transitional Federal Parliament (T.F.P.) settled into a bitter power struggle over conflicting conceptions of how long and under what conditions their terms should be extended beyond August, and the Western “donor”-powers, which finance the T.F.I.s and attempt to exert influence on them through the United Nations, observed the fight from the sidelines after having failed in mid-April to control the “transition” and bring it to a conclusion. Sat, 21 May 2011 10:17:46 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210011.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210011.html China is to donate 185,000 US dollars to the Umbeluzi Centre for Research and Technology Transfer (CITAU), in Boane district, about 40 kilometres west of Maputo province. Sat, 21 May 2011 08:23:18 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210010.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210010.html Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique’s main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has claimed he is resuming what he called “negotiations” between Renamo and the ruling Frelimo Party. Sat, 21 May 2011 08:20:20 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210009.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201105210009.html Mozambicans resident in Namibia are ambassadors for their country, declared President Armando Guebuza on Thursday night, at

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