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Golf-European Tour World Match Play Championship group stage scores
ReutersMay 17 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the European Tour World Match Play Championship Group stage on Friday in Kavarna Chris Wood (Britain) beat Stephen Gallacher (Britain) 2 and 1 Thongchai Jaidee (Thailand) beat Thomas Aiken (South Africa) by 1...Tags: Australia, United Kingdom, Thailand, South Africa
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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: Ethiopia, Salt, Customs and Tradition, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Arts and Culture
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Change looms for Ethiopia's ancient salt trade
ReutersHAMAD-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: Ethiopia, Salt, Customs and Tradition, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Arts and Culture
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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: Johannesburg (South Africa), Mining, U.S. Congress, Metal and Mineral, Labor Disputes
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Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to 'standstill'
ReutersRUSTENBURG, 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: Johannesburg (South Africa), Anglo American Platinum Limited, U.S. Congress, Mining, Metal and Mineral
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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. Vinh Chuong "Jimmy" Kha and Felix Kha may never have journeyed to the savannas of Africa,...
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Chad seeks arrest of exiled president's allies
ReutersN'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, National Government, France, International Law, Justice and Rights
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SAfrican police: 23 youths die in initiation ceremonies involving circumcision, survival
Associated PressJOHANNESBURG (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: Nelson Mandela, Death and Dying Customs, South Africa, Arts and Culture, Abdominal Pain
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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, Metal and Mineral, Mining, South Africa
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U.N. chief appoints former Dutch minister to head Mali mission
ReutersUNITED 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: Côte d'Ivoire, Western Africa, United Nations, Ban Ki-moon
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Algeria's aging regime, restive youth makes for a volatile political mix in North Africa
Associated PressALGIERS, 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: Government, Unemployment, Political Dissent, Elections, North Africa
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IMF sees sub-Saharan Africa growth at 5.7 percent in 2014
ReutersACCRA (Reuters) - The IMF on Tuesday forecast economic growth of 5.4 percent in 2013 and 5.7 percent in 2014 for the economies of sub-Saharan Africa on the back of rising investment and booming extractive industries. "Sub-Saharan Africa will be among the...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, International Monetary Fund, Politics, Labor Markets, Weather Reports
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