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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
• Fifa to withdraw from global transfer market supervisory role • FA and French federation oppose move Fifa is preparing to abandon all rules relating to player agents, in a move that could turn the global transfer market into a free for all. A circular that football's world governing body has distributed to all of its 208 national associations is canvassing opinion on a proposal that will...
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turenchi (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
CAPE TOWN, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Sao Tome and Principe, a tiny African island nation, will establish a national oil company before the end of the year to develop the island's offshore crude oil fields, a government official said on Wednesday. Luis Prazeres, executive director of the island's regulatory body National Petroleum Agency, said the planned oil company would partner with Angola's Sonangol to...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Houston-based ERHC has declared intention to enter its concession to drill five oil wells in the Nigeria-Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone (JDZ) over the coming months after a lengthy delay caused by a shortage of deepwater rigs.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Police chiefs of central African countries are meeting in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, on a joint strategy to fight crimes in the region. The gathering, which was opened on Monday, will culminate on Wednesday and Thursday in a ministerial council meeting of Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad and Sao Tome and Principe,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Ambassador Saidu Pindar recently chaired the PDP committee that conducted successful state congresses of the party in Kano. In this interview in Abuja, Pindar, former Nigerian envoy to Sao Tome and Principe reflects on PDP's controversial primary election in Anambra and issues in the front burner in Borno State politics. Excerpts:
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
THE long awaited Fifa World Cup trophy has reached Sao Tome and Principle.
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Europe 1700-1914 (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
This was a Liverpool slave ship: master Luke Collingwood, owner William Gregson and George Case, Liverpool merchants. In September 1781 it sailed with 442 slaves from São Tomé. Collingwood mistook Jamaica for San Domingue. Once they had lost the way, water became short, and many slaves died or became ill. Collingwood called together his officers and said that if the slaves on board were...
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Jackfruity (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Economists estimate the impact of climate change at 5 to 20 percent of global GDP. Five percent. Doesn't sound too bad, right? This map, courtesy of FiveThirtyEight via Strange Maps , shows what the world would look like without the countries that make up the bottom 5% of global GDP. For the record, that's sixty-four countries: Afghanistan Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Bolivia Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia...
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Africa,
Arabian Peninsula,
Asia,
Bangladesh,
Benin,
Bhutan,
Bolivia,
Burkina Faso,
Burundi,
Cambodia,
Cameroon,
Caribbean,
Central African Rep,
Central America,
Central Asia,
Climate Change,
Djibouti,
Djibouti,
Egypt,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Gambia,
Georgetown,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Guinea Bissau,
Guyana,
Haiti,
Honduras,
Kenya,
Kyrgyzstan,
Laos,
Lesotho,
Liberia,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Moldova,
Mongolia,
Mozambique,
Myanmar,
Nepal,
Nicaragua,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Pakistan,
Philippines,
Rwanda,
Science,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
South America,
Sudan,
Tajikistan,
Tanzania,
Togo,
Uganda,
Uzbekistan,
Vietnam,
Yemen,
Zambia
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Maybe compensation should have been capped a long time ago! From First Read: Can You Spare Some Change? Here's a fun number… Since 2000, Jon Corzine and New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg have remarkably spent a combined $338.8 million on their campaigns. Bloomberg’s total: $216.8 million ($74 million in 2001, $77.8 million in 2005, and $65 million SO FAR in 2009 -- and he’s on pace...
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
# 3874 It’s Friday, and so we get the weekly WHO (World Health Organization) update, along with the weekly FluView report from the CDC later in the day. As always, the caveat that most nations are not testing for the H1N1 virus, nor are they tracking and reporting fatalities. The numbers provided by the WHO represent a serious undercount of the true impact of the pandemic. Pandemic (H1N1) 2009...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
At the beginning of his book about "pipelines and paramilitaries at Nigeria's oil frontier", Michael Peel travels to a place believed to be the source of oil in the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, off the coast. He manages to get to the spot where some day an oil company will begin drilling. Once that happens, Sao Tome's bucolic charms will vanish – but the people there don't...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Darren sez, "350.org, one of the coolest bottom-up, grassroots activist orgs around, is running a huge International Day of Climate Action this Saturday, Oct. 24. They have, at last count, over 4000 actions (parades, protests, flash mobs and so forth) in 170 countries. They're trying to cover off every country on the globe, but they're missing 22 (North Korea may prove particularly tricky). From...
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Angola,
Bahamas,
Central Asia,
Djibouti,
Djibouti,
Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea,
Guinea,
Guinea Bissau,
Lesotho,
Luxembourg,
Luxembourg,
Mauritania,
Namibia,
North America,
North Korea,
San Marino,
San Marino,
Seychelles,
Turkmenistan,
Turkmenistan,
Victoria
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) at the weekend rescued a Sao Tome ship which was on its way to Cotonou, Benin Republic.
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The Muniment Room (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
. VATICAN CITY, OCT. 15, 2009 ( Zenit.org ).- Africa's Catholic leaders are facing the challenge of inculturation by discerning which cultural values are compatible with Christianity, said the president of the Kenyan bishops' conference. Cardinal John Njue, archbishop of Nairobi, stated this Wednesday in a press conference at the conclusion of the first phase of the Second Special Assembly for Africa...
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