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    May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  1. FEATURE-Change looms for Ethiopia's ancient salt trade

    Reuters
    * Salt is the "white gold" of the Danakil Depression * New tarmac road offers faster access to wider market * Hacking out the salt slabs is hot, exhausting work * Miners, traders fear threat of industrial extraction By Siegfried Modola HAMAD-ILE,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Salt, Ethiopia, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Customs and Tradition

  2. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  3. Change looms for Ethiopia's ancient salt trade

    Reuters
    HAMAD-ILE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Abdu Ibrahim Mohammed was 15 years old when he began trekking with caravans of camels to collect salt in a sun-blasted desert basin of north Ethiopia that is one of the hottest places on earth. Now 51 and retired, he has...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Salt, Ethiopia, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Customs and Tradition

  4. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  5. UPDATE 3-Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to "standstill"

    Reuters
    * Mineworkers union leader demands meeting with Zuma * ANC deputy president says hard to tell what is going on * Rand slides to four-year low against dollar By Xola Potelwa RUSTENBURG, South Africa, May 17 (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's...

    Tags: Lonmin Plc, Entertainment, Career and Workplace, Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa

  6. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  7. Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to 'standstill'

    Reuters
    RUSTENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's biggest platinum mining union threatened on Friday to bring Africa's No. 1 economy "to a standstill" and demanded a meeting with President Jacob Zuma, ramping up the rhetoric in an 18-month...

    Tags: Lonmin Plc, Entertainment, Career and Workplace, Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa

  8. May 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. Father and son sentenced to prison for rhino horn trafficking

    Behind an unassuming storefront in Orange County's Little Saigon, prosecutors say, was the driving force behind an illicit international trade in rhinoceros horns.
    Behind an unassuming storefront in Orange County's Little Saigon, prosecutors say, was the driving force behind an illicit international trade in rhinoceros horns. Vinh Chuong "Jimmy" Kha and Felix Kha may never have journeyed to the savannas of Africa,...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Prosecution, Organized Crime, Trials

  10. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  11. Chad seeks arrest of exiled president's allies

    Reuters
    N'DJAMENA, May 17 (Reuters) - Chad has charged four allies of the country's former president with human rights abuses and issued warrants for their arrest, a senior government source said on Friday. The source, who asked not to be identified, said they...

    Tags: Government, Rebellions, Civil Rights, Senegal, Butterfly Ballots

  12. May 17, 2013 |Story| AP Broadcast
  13. SAfrican police: 23 youths die in initiation ceremonies involving circumcision, survival

    Associated Press
    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday. Police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in the northeastern...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Nelson Mandela, Abdominal Pain, Death and Dying Customs, South Africa

  14. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  15. PLATINUM WEEK-South African mines cannot afford pay rises -Impala

    Reuters
    * Tough talks to start in next couple of weeks * New AMCU union has poached members from established NUM * Anglo Platinum plans to cut 6,000 jobs By Clara Denina LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - South Africa's mining industry can ill afford to offer wage...

    Tags: Lonmin Plc, Strikes, Career and Workplace, Metal and Mineral, South Africa

  16. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  17. U.N. chief appoints former Dutch minister to head Mali mission

    Reuters
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former Dutch development minister Albert Gerard Koenders as U.N. special envoy for Mali and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the West African country. Ban said...

    Tags: Western Africa, Ban Ki-moon, United Nations, Côte d'Ivoire

  18. May 17, 2013 |Story| AP Broadcast
  19. Algeria's aging regime, restive youth makes for a volatile political mix in North Africa

    Associated Press
    ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria. With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Africa's largest country for a half-...

    Tags: Petroleum Industry, Government, Career and Workplace, Physical Conditions, Arab Spring

  20. May 16, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  21. Miners union threatens strike at South Africa's Amplats

    Reuters
    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum reported for work late Thursday, and a labor leader said the workers will strike on Friday in an escalation of unrest that sent the company's shares lower and the rand to a four-...

    Tags: Lonmin Plc, Career and Workplace, Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa, Culture

  22. May 16, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  23. Sudanese foreign minister to visit Juba on Friday

    Reuters
    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti will visit South Sudan on Friday, state media said, the first high-level meeting between the neighbors since Khartoum accused Juba of supporting rebels who launched a major attack three weeks...

    Tags: Petroleum Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Salva Kiir Mayardit, Sudan

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