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Two more migrant boats issue distress calls in Mediterranean

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome, Ian Traynor in Brussels and Patrick Kingsley in Zuwara, The Guardian (UK) Italian and Maltese vessels respond to calls from inflatable liferaft with up to 150 people on board and a boat with 300 as EU ministers discuss recent tragedies Italian and Maltese ships were responding to distress calls from two migrant boats in the … [Read more...] about Two more migrant boats issue distress calls in Mediterranean

Why I declined assent to constitution review bill, by Jonathan

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By Azimazi Momoh Jimoh and Onochie Bridget Chiedu (Abuja) on April 16, 2015, The Guardian (Nigeria) PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday on the floor of the Senate, gave reasons he has not assented to the Constitution Amendment Bill passed by the National Assembly and forwarded to him for approval. Essentially, the President, in his letter read to the lawmakers, pointed … [Read more...] about Why I declined assent to constitution review bill, by Jonathan

‘Mugabe is a scared man’

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By Fungi Kwaramba, 14 APRIL 2015, Daily News (Zimbabwe)  HARARE - Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa says President Robert Mugabe is running scared despite maintaining a facade of bravado and resoluteness in public, in the face of the open revolt to his misrule by his former trusted senior lieutenants as well as the deteriorating economic climate in the … [Read more...] about ‘Mugabe is a scared man’