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Bodyguards carry an umbrella over presidential candidate Winston Tubman, center right, as he leaves a polling station with his wife Nancy, front left, after voting in presidential elections, in central Monrovia, Liberia Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011.
(photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell)
Monrovia Projected for Record Growth in Africa
Journal of Commerce
APM Terminals port privatization project ahead of schedule | Monrovia, Liberia – In a world where slow growth is the norm for many countries, the International Monetary Fund has forecast an economic growth rate of 5.5% for sub-Saharan Africa in 2012 as a region. More importantly, Liberia&rsquo...
ALTERNATE CROP OF PNG102 Three life rafts from the MV Rabaul Queen float above the sunken hull of the ferry in the open waters off Papua New Guinea's east coast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
(photo: AP / Post Courier, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT)
238 saved, 100-plus missing as PNG ferry sinks
Sydney Morning Herald
| AUSTRALIAN rescuers helped save more than 200 Papua New Guineans from drowning after their ferry sank at sea yesterday, but by nightfall fears remained for more than 100 still missing. | Officials believe about 350 people were on board the Rabaul Queen when it went down in the Solomon Sea about 8....
Violence against shippers new norm off West Africa
The Tribune San Luis Obispo
| The waters off West Africa's coast are now a constant danger for those shipping goods and crude oil in the region, analysts said Tuesday, a day after pirates killed two sailors near Nigeria's coast. | Despite pledges by nations to patrol the waters...
Violence against shippers new norm off West Africa
STL Today
| The waters off West Africa's coast are now a constant danger for those shipping goods and crude oil in the region, analysts said Tuesday, a day after pirates killed two sailors near Nigeria's coast. | Despite pledges by nations to patrol the waters...
Violence against shippers now a constant danger after 2 killed on bulk cargo ship near Nigeria
Star Tribune
| LAGOS, Nigeria - The waters off West Africa's coast are now a constant danger for those shipping goods and crude oil in the region, analysts said Tuesday, a day after pirates killed two sailors near Nigeria's coast. | Despite pledges by nations to ...
Violence against shippers new norm off West Africa
Breitbart
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The waters off West Africa's coast are now a constant danger for those shipping goods and crude oil in the region, analysts said Tuesday, a day after pirates killed two sailors near Nigeria's coast. | Despite pledges by nations ...
True Account Of Asem Dakey & Missing 77 Parcels Of Cocaine...NPP Govt's Complicity (1)
Peace FM Online
The mystery surrounding the Limping Man Asem Dakey, a.k.a Sheriff, has begun to unfold once again. This mystery gripped the conscience of our countrymen, when at the height of cocaine-flooded cases in 2006; the prime suspect in the biggest cocaine ha...
FAAN MD Inspects Remodeling Work At Port Harcourt Airport
All Africa
[This Day] The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) weekend inspected the level of work at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers state. | ...
Cargo Traffic to Ports Increases
All Africa
[This Day] The cargo throughput handled in the Nigerian ports has increased from 74,910,284 metric tonnes in 2010 to 82,763,384 metric tonnes in 2011; indicating a 10.5 per cent increase. | ...
Politics
Gap-year holidays that reveal the madness of overseas aid
(photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska)
Gap-year holidays that reveal the madness of overseas aid
The Daily Telegraph
Britain’s £7bn aid budget is paying for unqualified teenagers to travel the world. |   Image 1 of 2 India is now rich enough to afford a substantial aid programme of its own Photo: REUTERS/Amit Dave   Image 1 of 2 Pranab Mukherjee, the finance minister of India, has described British aid to h...
OPEC
Hugo Chavez in Guatemala
(photo: Creative Commons / Avala)
Venezuela primary to set up Capriles-Chavez showdown
The Star
| CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition supporters vote on Sunday in a primary likely to anoint youthful governor Henrique Capriles as the candidate to face socialist President Hugo Chavez in an October election that is already shaping up as a fierce fight. Opposition frontrunner presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski speaks to the f...



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