[Fahamu] The company contracted to market Angola overseas is owned by the president's children. While two-thirds of the population survives on less than $2 a day, the president and his protégés plunder the country. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 7:37 PM

[UN News] The United Nations refugee agency said today it is alarmed by recent reports that displaced people have been tortured and killed in their camps by armed elements in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). allafrica.com | 2/3/12 7:06 PM

[Nation] After eight days of action-packed football, we are now left eight teams as the quarter-finals of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations beckon. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 7:03 PM

[UN News] The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:56 PM

[Nation] Libreville - Africa Cup of Nations co-hosts Equatorial Guinea will have their hands full on Saturday night (10pm Kenyan time) when they take on tournament favourites Cote d'Ivoire in the second quarter-final at Malabo. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:52 PM

[UNHCR] UNHCR is alarmed by recent reports that internally displaced people have been tortured and killed by armed elements in the IDP camps of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 3:38 PM

[RFI] Mobile morning calls and heavy traffic at 6.45am leave your correspondent feeling afflicted. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 2:36 PM

[CAF] Experience will be the key to Ivory Coast beating Africa Cup of Nations' co-hosts Equatorial Guinea in Saturday's quarter-final, coach Francois Zahoui believes. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:08 PM

[CAF] Equatorial Guinea admit they did not want to face Ivory Coast Saturday in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:08 PM

[ANGOP] Hague - The Angolan ambassador to the Netherlands, Luis de Almeida, on Wednesday visited the International Court of Justice, in the Hague, Holland, and the headquarters of the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), ANGOP has learnt. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Lubango - Kabuscorp do Palanca and Banca de Luanda will on Saturday play in Lubango city, southern Huíla province, the final of the national juvenile males handball championship. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Luanda - Petro de Luanda are facing Juventude de Viana this Friday in the final of the national senior males roller skate championship. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Luanda - Interclube won on Thursday for the third time the Super Cup title in ladies basketball, by defeating Desportivo do Maculusso by 74-34, ANGOP witnessed. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The Angolan writers, Joel Sérgio and Fernando Saluiza are releasing on Friday a book entitled "A vida é uma dança - o segredo está em seguir a música do seu coração" on the premises of Training Journalists Centre (CEFOJOR). allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Luena - A person died on Wednesday in Kamanongue Municipality, eastern Moxico Province, victim of an electric discharge, caused by a heavy rain, ANGOP has learnt. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Luanda - A play-off tournament, best of three games, in senior males national roller-skate hockey championship begins this Friday, at 08.30 pm, in Cidadela pavilion, with the game between Petro de Luanda and Juventude de Viana, after a two-day break. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Lubango - Iron and gold exploration in Cassinga areas, as well as in Jamba Municipality, southern Huila Province, might help boost the social and economic development of the region, says the administrator, Miguel Cassela. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The Ministry of Commerce has extended the deadline for the validity of business licences to March 31, ANGOP has learnt. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Lubango - The governor of Huíla Province, Isaac dos Anjos, nominated this Friday, through a despatch, a working commission that will elaborate a proposal for the economic and social development of the province for the 2013/2017 period. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The chairman of the Angola Football Federation, Pedro Neto, said this Friday that Angolan Lito Vidigal remains as the main coach of the national senior males football team. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:05 PM

[OSISA] Twelve years ago, Equatorial Guinea made world sports headlines in the Sydney Olympics when Eric Moussambani posted the slowest record for swimming the 100m freestyle at an Olympic competition. Eric had trained in the pool of a hotel in Malabo, the capital city, because there were no Olympic-size pools in the country. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 10:59 AM

[allAfrica.com] A one-sided quarter-final is in the offing when the all-powerful Cote d'Ivoire go up against co-hosts Equatorial Guinea in the African Nations Cup quarter-finals on Saturday. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 10:54 AM

[Cameroon Tribune] Thirty-five years Kemoue Justin is presently cooling his feet in Police cell in Logbaba. The population of Bedi, a neighbourhood of Douala, arrested 35-year-old Kemoue Justin, on Tuesday as he struggled to make away with stolen property. The latter putting on police uniforms was caught transferring the booties from a magazine in the neighbourhood. The incident followed that a gang of unidentified men had earlier broke into and cleared the packing store of hundreds of oil paints at about 8 am. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 10:37 AM

[Cameroon Tribune] March past and music rehearsals preoccupy most schools. The third session of the Organizing Committee of the 46th National Youth Day in the Littoral, placed under the auspices of the Governor Fai Yengo Francis, met in Douala yesterday, February 2. The official launch of the national event in the Littoral will take place in Douala V Subdivision on Saturday, February 4. Inventions by young people will be on exhibition during the official launch. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 10:37 AM

[allAfrica.com] Co-hosts Gabon take on Mali in their 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final at the Stade d'Angondjé in Libreville on Sunday. And the battle might be as much between the competing coaches as the players on the pitch. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 10:17 AM

[Times of Zambia] THE on-going 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) soccer finals in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea has surely catapulted Zambia forward Emmanuel Mayuka of Swiss side Young Boys to big boy status. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:39 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The new board of directors of the state-run diamond company Endiama was sworn-in on Thursday, in Luanda, in a ceremony chaired by the minister of the Economy, Abraão Gourgel, ANGOP witnessed the act. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:35 AM

[ANGOP] Washington - The Angolan Social Communication minister, Carolina Cerqueira, attended Thursday a session of the 60th edition of the National Prayer Breakfast, in Washington DC (USA), whose second day recorded the presence of the local president and the first lady, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, respectively. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:35 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The state-run Angolan Diamond Company (Endiama) will work in order to apply the government's strategy outlined for the sector, meant to improve production, ANGOP has learnt. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:35 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - An exhibition of photos by eight Angolan professionals is taking place from January 30 to February 17, in Sao Paulo, under an initiative of the "Banco Espirito Santo Angola" (Besa) bank, Angop learned. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:35 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - Angola Public Television (TPA) is to re-launch this Friday, in Luanda, its magazine called Tveja, ANGOP has learnt. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:35 AM

[UN News] With the provisional results of national legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) having now been announced, the United Nations today encouraged all actors to use legal channels for resolving any disputes and refrain from the use of force or violence. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:29 AM

[Bemba Trial Website] International Criminal Court (ICC) judges today heard that a former member of war crimes accused Jean-Pierre Bemba's group advised him to take his soldiers to trial when they were accused of brutalizing civilians. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 7:46 AM

[Daily News] SIMBA SC head coach, Milovan Cirkovic, is confident his side is now ready to confront SC Kiyovu of Rwanda in the preliminary round of the ninth CAF Confederation Cup, after maintaining an impressive run in the recent Mainland Premier League matches. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:40 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The nationalist and member of the ruling MPLA party's Central Committee, José Pedro Van-Dunem, said Thursday in Luanda that the struggle against the Portuguese colonialism in Angola was triggered, among other reasons, by the exploitation and oppression to which Angolans were submitted. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:07 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The Angolan national senior males basketball team will face Macedonia on 2 July in the first round of the Pre-Olympics Basketball Tournament in Venezuela. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:07 AM

[ANGOP] Ndalatando - The Provincial Department of the National Institute of Coffee (INCA) in northern Kwanza Norte province is committed to reviving palm oil production in Cazengo district. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:07 AM

[ANGOP] Caxito - The provincial governor of northern Bengo province, João Bernardo de Miranda, Thursday in Caxito city said that military justice has been ensuring stability, discipline and respect for the hierarchy in the Angolan Armed Forces ranks. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:07 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - A list comprising 77 political parties and six coalitions of parties recognised by the Constitutional Court (TC) started to be released Wednesday in Luanda on the State-owned "Jornal de Angola" newspaper, in view of the 2012 general elections in the country. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:07 AM

[ANGOP] Malanje - The director of the Kalandula Tourist Development Growth Point, in northern Malanje province, Katia Lopes, was presented Wednesday here by the local governor, Boaventura Cardoso. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:07 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The management of the Angola Football Federation (FAF) will be convening a press conference on Friday in Luanda to present an assessment of the national team's performance during the African Cup of Nations (CAN2012), taking place in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:07 AM

[East African] The ruling of the case against two Rwanda female journalists accused by the state of publishing information to ignite public disorder and creating ethnic divisions was on Tuesday deferred to February 17. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 5:01 AM

[East African] It will take two or more months before the trial of deported Rwandan genocide fugitive Léon Mugesera starts. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 5:01 AM

[East African] Rwanda president Paul Kagame has said China's donation to Africa - the new headquarters worth $200 million unveiled last week is a reflection of Africa's bigger problems. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 4:37 AM

[U.S. Congress] Washington, DC - Violence, potential humanitarian crisis and the post-2011 election aftermath in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were the topics at a congressional hearing Thursday held before the House panel that oversees international human rights and African issues that is chaired by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04). allafrica.com | 2/3/12 3:11 AM

[ANGOP] Luanda - The director of the National Institute to Fight against Aids (INLS), Dulcelina Serrano, urged on Thursday in Luanda every population to regularly do the HIV testing, so as to learn about their Hiv condition. allafrica.com | 2/2/12 5:01 PM

BuaNews (Tshwane)-South African Airways has strengthened its network into Central Africa by introducing flights to Pointe Noire in the DRC, it said on Monday. allafrica.com | 1/31/12 12:53 PM

Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts.

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Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts.

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IRIN (Nairobi)-Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts. allafrica.com | 1/25/12 2:54 PM