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Senegalese Students Call for President to Step Down
By Jedi Ramalapa
DAKAR - The friends of slain Senegalese student protester, Mamadou Diop, say that the 32-year-old master’s student was against injustice and that is why he was protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade’s bid for a third term of office.
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RUSSIA
Putin Remains Leading Candidate in Presidential Elections
By Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW - Election season in Russia promises to be stormy, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin emerges as the leading candidate in the presidential race scheduled for March 4 and unresolved issues of voting fraud and voter manipulation spark massive protests amongst opposition groups.
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CUBA
Party Aims for Efficient, Inclusive Socialism
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Cuba's communist leaders have mapped out a strategy to modernise their country's one-party socialist model and make it more efficient, which implies making it more inclusive and representative of a society that is increasingly diverse.
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SIERRA LEONE
Government Online Mining Database to Increase Transparency
By Mustapha Dumbuya and Damon Van der Linde
FREETOWN - The launch of Sierra Leone’s first online mining database in West Africa comes with a promise to increase transparency and accountability in the country’s rich natural resource sector.
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HONDURAS
Support for President Lobo Hits All-Time Low
By Thelma Mejía
TEGUCIGALPA - Last Friday marked two years since the inauguration of Porfirio Lobo as president of Honduras, amidst accusations of corruption, an unprecedented crime wave, and his lowest approval rating yet.
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SPAIN
Trials of Judge Garzón Called Scandalous by Rights Groups
By Tito Drago
MADRID - Another trial opened Tuesday with Spain's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzón, in the dock for attempting to investigate crimes against humanity committed during the 36-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Informal Economy Ensures Equitable Development
By Catherine Wilson
PORT MORESBY - Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living.
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KAZAKHSTAN
Dissent Stifled Amid Indifference
Analysis by Christopher Pala
ALMATY - President Nursultan Nazarbayev, re-elected last April with an improbable yet typical 93 percent, presided last weekend over parliamentary elections that maintained his iron grip on his oil-rich country’s parliament, and further stifled dissent.
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NIGERIA
Corruption Fuels Public Anger
By Mustapha Muhammad
KANO, Nigeria - As a nationwide strike and protests against the lifting of the fuel subsidy paralysed Nigeria for the third day in a row Wednesday, analysts say the billions of dollars a year lost to corruption in the oil industry could have been used to leave the subsidy in place.
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KENYA
Inflation Deflates New Year Joy
By Miriam Gathigah
NAIROBI - Kenyans entered the New Year with less pomp and colour that has characterised previous new year celebrations. Due to the harsh economic situation and the fact that it is time for most students to go back to school, many families shied away from entertainment places to save that elusive shilling for their school-going children.
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INDIA
Fighting for a Less Corrupt New Year
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - After failing to muster support in parliament for the passage of a watered- down anti-corruption bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must find ways to satisfy opposition parties, allies and civil society that his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is serious about curbing graft in the New Year.
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ARGENTINA
Anti-Terrorism Law Upsets Harmony Between Government and Activists
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Human rights groups and legal experts are concerned that a law passed by the Argentine Congress in the early hours of Thursday morning to crack down on terrorism could be used to criminalise social protest.
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Conflict Minerals Law Hold-up Threatens Lives in DR Congo
By Amanda Wilson
WASHINGTON - Electronics are at the top of many holiday gift lists in the U.S. this season, but some of those products could be made using minerals from areas of the world where conflicts have led to widespread human rights abuses.
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U.S.
Hundreds Rally in Support of Accused WikiLeaks Source
By Charles Davis
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of people gathered today outside a U.S. military base where evidence against Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking classified information to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, is being presented before a military judge for the first time since Manning's arrest.
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ELECTIONS-DR CONGO
Will the Candidates Accept the Results?
By Badylon Kawanda Bakiman
KIKWIT - While the Congolese are awaiting the official results of the late November presidential elections, three of the eleven candidates have already called for them to be annulled.
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Corruption depletes national wealth and undercuts legitimacy. Transparency International says corruption is often to blame for already limited public resources being diverted to uneconomic high-profile projects, at the expense of less spectacular but more necessary development initiatives. Civil society is finding its voice to demand that those behind corrupt acts are held accountable.