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Pre-poll pilot ID scheme starts in Ivory Coast

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:05:18 +0000

Pre-poll pilot ID scheme starts in Ivory Coast
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Less than six months remain to organise the elections in the former French colony, once a haven of peace and stability in conflict-prone West Africa. ...

Rangasamy takes oath as Pondicherry chief minister
Telugu Portal - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
... the PMK. The Congress won 10 seats in the 30-member assembly in the May elections in this former French colony. Three Independent ...
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Chants of 'rascist' as French leader visits Mali
CNN - USA
... The bill, which aims to attract skilled workers while keeping less skilled ones out, has stirred angry protests in both France and former French colony Mali. ...
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BBC News, Norfolk Island
BBC News - UK
... Its steep cliffs and treacherous reefs mean it has no port. Its nearest neighbour is the French colony of New Caledonia, 500 miles away. ...

Khaleej Times Online - Indian ex-French colony Pondicherry to be ...

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:05:02 +0000

Khaleej Times Online - Indian ex-French colony Pondicherry to be ...
Khaleej Times, the No.1 English language daily newspaper published from Dubai,
United Arab Emirates.

Indian ex-French colony Pondicherry to be renamed Puducherry ...
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Indian ex-French colony Pondicherry to be renamed Puducherry ...
India's government plans to seek parliamentary approval to change the name of
the picturesque former French colony Pondicherry to Puducherry, ...

Volcano Spews Smoke, Lava in the Comoros
Houston Chronicle - United States
... The Comoros, a former French colony with a population of 770,000, lies about 185 miles east of Mozambique and 250 miles west of Madagascar.

Comoros: A new dawn
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
The former French colony of Comoros has become the seventh Muslim nation in a row, since the beginning of the last year, to have opted for Islamists in the ...

GAIL begins talks with Algerian firm for LNG
Times of India - India
... Indian gas utility is trying to build upon its recent purchase of a spot cargo of gas from the Algerian flagship firm and the former French colony's efforts to ...

Vanity Fair: Nigeria Yellowcake Forgery May Have White House Ties

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:04:49 +0000

Vanity Fair: Nigeria Yellowcake Forgery May Have White House Ties
Truthdig - United States
... is home to scores of middle-class families, and to the embassy for the Republic of Niger, the impoverished West African nation that was once a French colony. ...

Hi-tech image for Fine City
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK
... Around 100 people are expected to attend, mainly from Europe but also some from the Republic of Guinea in Africa, a former French colony. ...

Rangasamy at Pondicherry helm again

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:04:29 +0000

Rangasamy at Pondicherry helm again
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
... secretary Mr CS Khairwal read out the Presidential notification appointing Mr Rangasamy as the chief minister of the Union Territory, a former French colony. ...
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Local missionary takes long view on West Africa efforts
St.Louis Review - St.Louis,Missouri,USA
... Fluent in French, Boedeker was sent to the Ivory Coast, a former French colony, where French is the common language among its 64 ethnic groups. ...

Chad: Pope calls for peace, reconciliation
Catholic World News - USA
... Chad, a former French colony, is now caught up in a civil war that pits the authoritarian regime of Idriss D�by against rebels based in Sudan. ...

France's Sarkozy, in Mali, rejects charges of racism
Boston Globe - United States
... to attract skilled workers while keeping less skilled ones out, has stirred angry protests from critics in France and Mali, a former French colony, who say the ...
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Doing Business With Gisele, a Vietnamese Dream: Amity Shlaes
Bloomberg - USA
... Consider the Vietnamese past. As a French colony, Vietnam traded with its overlord. But lies and exploitation were a big part of the relationship. ...

Elephants hope to do well in first World Cup apperance

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:04:10 +0000

Elephants hope to do well in first World Cup apperance
TheFireAlarm.com - Chicago,IL,USA
... well. He now leads the former French colony into a most difficult group against Argentina, Holland, and Serbia and Montenegro. In ...

The Gauls at Home in Erin

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:03:54 +0000

The Gauls at Home in Erin
New York Times - United States
... continues to rise. The only larger modern French "colony" is in Britain, where an estimated 86,000 have found work. In London restaurants ...

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Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:03:36 +0000

It�ll be Puducherry now
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
NEW DELHI: The federal government plans to seek parliamentary approval to change the name of the picturesque former French colony Pondicherry to Puducherry, a ...

Khaleej Times Online - Indian ex-French colony Pondicherry to be ...

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:03:21 +0000

Khaleej Times Online - Indian ex-French colony Pondicherry to be ...
Khaleej Times, the No.1 English language daily newspaper published from Dubai,
United Arab Emirates.

Argent Secures Intercell In Guinea Conakry
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... Guinea Conakry, a former French colony has a rapidly developing telecommunications infrastructure with five mobile phones for every land line. ...

The US role in Darfur, Sudan
Workers World - USA
... Chad is a former French colony, and both French and US forces are heavily involved in funding, training and equipping the army of its military ruler, Idriss ...

Eternal favourites
Financial Express - Bombay,India
... Center, for many years is a renowned Malayalam novelist whose best- known work On the Banks of the Mayyazhi, about life in the once French colony of Mahe, has ...

Geared for the kick-off
Hindu - Chennai,India
... of man, I owe to football," wrote Nobel Laureate Albert Camus, who was the goalkeeper of the Algerian national team, then a French colony, during the 1920s. ...

Rangasamy sworn-in as Pondicherry CM

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:03:03 +0000

Rangasamy sworn-in as Pondicherry CM
Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India
... chief secretary CS Khairwal read out the Presidential notification appointing Rangasamy as the chief minister of the Union Territory, a former French colony. ...

Moderate Islamic party says it's `open to openness'
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... one wife. Morocco, a French colony for more than 50 years until it became independent in 1956, has a fairly relaxed culture. In ...

Guinea unions call general strike from Thursday

Hobo Research — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:02:50 +0000

Guinea unions call general strike from Thursday
Reuters - USA
... with inflation of around 30 percent a year, trade unions gained broad support for a five-day stoppage in late February which paralysed the former French colony ...

Former CM remembered
Hindu - Chennai,India
... Reddiar was the Chief Minister from 1964 to 1968, which was the first ministry after the former French colony became a part of the Indian Union. ...

FestivalBlog: Inspiration from Senegal

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:04:31 +0000

FestivalBlog: Inspiration from Senegal
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
... Senegal, like Louisiana, is a former French colony. There�s another connection that, like many of our historical connections, evokes a sense of sadness. ...

Ivory Coast seeks coir technology
Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India
... addition. This is the story of small but beautiful Ivory Coast, a former French colony in West Africa, with a population of 16 million. ...

May 03 in History

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:04:15 +0000

May 03 in History
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
... This event opens a period of legal activities for the progressive forces when South Viet Nam (Cochinchina) was a French colony. ...

France,Tunisia sign trade agreement
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... the sensitive topics of a stiff new French immigration law and continued French concerns about media freedom and human rights in Tunisia, a former French colony ...

Voters stay home as Chad's Deby seeks 3rd term
Reuters.uk - UK
... Deby's supporters say he is a guarantor of stability in the ethnically-divided former French colony, riven by three decades of civil war after independence in ...
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Ivory Coast rebels accept offer of military talks

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:03:59 +0000

Ivory Coast rebels accept offer of military talks
Reuters.uk - UK
... The UN-backed roadmap, hammered out in October, called for disarmament and elections within 12 months to bring peace to the former French colony.

Chad pledges to talk with rebels

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:03:41 +0000

Chad pledges to talk with rebels
CNN - USA
... Deby, a former army chief who took power in a 1990 revolt, presents himself as a guarantor of unity and stability in the former French colony, twice the size ...
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African nation has big influence on NCAA Final Four

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:03:24 +0000

African nation has big influence on NCAA Final Four
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
... Noah was raised in France � Cameroon is a former French colony � and New York, where he developed his considerable game on the playgrounds. ...

Burkina becomes 5th African state with bird flu
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... The results, communicated to the former French colony's government on Monday, confirmed the H5N1 bird flu strain only at the Ouagadougou motel.

A celebration of Haitian culture

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:01:37 +0000

A celebration of Haitian culture
Daily Pennsylvanian - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Isaac said. According to Esteve, problems began for Haiti at the violent end to the island's French-colony status in 1804. France ...

35 die in boat tragedy
News24 - South Africa
... military. "Our troops have brought back several dozen bodies, at least 35," said a French military official in the former French colony. ...

Ivorian Women Call for UK Support
Indymedia UK - UK
... us. The Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) was a French colony until independence in 1960, and France still likes to pull the strings. ...

Benin swears in new president, goodbye to Kerekou
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
... limit on seeking a third term as well as by a presidential age limit, has long dominated the political landscape of the former French colony of Dahomey, ruling ...

Charity worker returns from mission to Africa
Swindon Evening Advertiser - Swindon,England,UK
... Burundi was previously a French colony and Mr Ramsay said his schoolboy French had to improve in leaps and bounds so that he could do his work. ...

'69 dead 'in Djibouti boat accident
Times Online - UK
... toll remained unclear but added that the rescue operation was being assisted by soldiers from the French military base in the state, a former French colony. ...

Bissau holds ex-minister, army fights Senegal rebels

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:01:17 +0000

Bissau holds ex-minister, army fights Senegal rebels
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... 1982, complaining of neglect and demanding independence for the southern Casamance province, which is divided from the rest of the former French colony by the ...

An NCAA title game with a Cameroon accent
CBS SportsLine.com - USA
... Noah was raised in France - Cameroon is a former French colony - and New York, where he developed his considerable game on the playgrounds. ...
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New Orleans will cost $10 billion?
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
THREE centuries ago, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was looking to relocate the capital of the French colony along the Gulf of Mexico. ...

The French Colony
The French Colony*. By: William Lyon Mackenzie King From: Polyphony Summer 1984 pp.
24-26 � 1984 Multicultural History Society of Ontario ...

New regimes, a historic win and some uncertainty too

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:00:58 +0000

New regimes, a historic win and some uncertainty too
Telugu Portal - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
... by a Congressman.". The Congress was also holding on in the former French colony of Pondicherry, nestled in Tamil Nadu. While the ...
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Djibouti confirms human case of bird flu
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... other nations, he said. On the streets of the former French colony's capital, Djibouti, people were worried. "Chicken is my preferred ...
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Soccer: The Beautiful Game
Sports Central - Vienna,VA,USA
... field. Take the 2002 game between defending champion France and former French colony Senegal, for example, held in Seoul Korea. ...

Status quo in Pondicherry
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
... This former French colony had Assembly poll in two phases on 3 May and 8 May where 6.5 million voters exercised their franchise. ...
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Ivory Coast to allow France's RFI radio back on air
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... matters now," said Diegou Jerome Bailly, President of the National Council for Audiovisual Communication, the broadcasting regulator in the former French colony ...
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Costs holding industry back
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... Woodside's partners in the former French colony include Australian companies Hardman Resources and Roc Oil, as well as British firms BG Group, Premier Oil ...

Donors should back Guinea groups, says ICG

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:00:40 +0000

Donors should back Guinea groups, says ICG
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... in a military takeover," said the report, which called for a national conference led by a Catholic clergyman to chart the former French colony's course through ...
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Political and economic problems in Zim: Contributory factors to ...
Zimbabwejournalists.com - Surrey,UK
... of September in 2002. The fierce uprising engulfed the former French colony into a state of chaos and panic. It was xenophobia that ...

Reshuffle fiasco raises fears for Guinea post-Conte

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:00:21 +0000

Reshuffle fiasco raises fears for Guinea post-Conte
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Guinea, a former French colony that is the world's top bauxite exporter, was seen as a bastion of stability in the 1990s as wars raged in neighbouring Sierra ...
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Niger begins cull weeks after finding bird flu
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
The semi-desert former French colony ordered the culling of all poultry in affected areas on Feb. 28, the day after an outbreak of H5N1 was confirmed. ...

Lagniappe - A little bit more in New Orleans
Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
... it seems slightly odd that they should use French patois words anywhere in America, but Louisiana and New Orleans were once part of a vast French colony in the ...

A Tale of Three Cities
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
... trip in between. Then I went to Tunis. Even though a French colony for centuries, they progressed much earlier. Still, they haven ...

Chad vote goes ahead despite rebel threat, boycott

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:00:02 +0000

Chad vote goes ahead despite rebel threat, boycott
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Deby, an ex-army chief who seized control of the former French colony in 1990 and won elections in 1996 and 2001, is seen easily winning a third five-year term ...
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Thai military chief visits Cambodia for boundary talks
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... been made due to the legal complexities of the boundary agreement signed by Thailand - then Siam - and France, a century ago, when Cambodia was a French colony ...

Pondicherry readies for elections
Hindustan Times - India
... constituencies will be held on May 8. The total number of voters in the former French colony is 659,062. This is the only territory where ...

Chad vote goes ahead despite rebel threat, boycott

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:59:45 +0000

Heavy polling in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:59:27 +0000

Heavy polling in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
... Over 2,000 police personnel are overseeing elections in the former French colony and in the Karaikal regions in 660 polling stations, of which 98 have been ...

Algeria Seeks Apology for Massacre, France Occupied with Armenian ...
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
... started in 1954 brought independence to Algeria. Algeria was a French colony for 130 years before gaining independence in 1962.
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Polling ends peacefully in hot Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry(EVENING ...
DailyIndia.com - Niskayuna,NY,USA
... Voting here was reported to be 62 percent at about 4 pm Over 2,000 police personnel are overseeing elections in the former French colony and in the Karaikal ...

Soca Warriors planning upset
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
... Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper Kelvin Jack noted the upset by Senegal, a former French colony, over France in the opening match at the 2002 World Cup. ...

Europe gets choosier about its newcomers
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... at an outdoor table with half a dozen other Africans, Coulibali described his life as a small farmer raising animals and crops in Mali, a former French colony. ...

Sonia Gandhi runs for re-election
BBC News - UK
... Voting is also taking place in neighbouring Pondicherry, which was once a French colony, and West Bengal - where voting has been spread over five phases to ...

Bird flu pushes up food prices in hungry Niger

Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:59:09 +0000

Bird flu pushes up food prices in hungry Niger
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Drought and a locust plague devastated harvests in the semi-desert former French colony in late 2004, but despite warnings from the government and aid agencies ...

Algerian president leaves hospital after "satisfactory routine ...
Xinhua - China
... The visit came amid diplomatic strain between France and the former French colony in north Africa after Bouteflika accused France of committing "genocide" over ...

Proselytizers face prison
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... �Numerous youths have repented, returning to Islam.�. There are some 5,000 declared Christians in Algeria, a French colony until 1962. ST. FRANCIS, Minn. ...

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Hobo Research — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:58:50 +0000

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On the trail of man wanted for bomb blast
Daily Nation (subscription) - Nairobi,Kenya
... According to him, Fazul always maintained that the Comoros was still a French colony despite having proclaimed its independence in 1975. ...

Congress party legislators to hold meeting in Pondicherry
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
... This former French colony had Assembly polls in two phases on May 3 and May 8 where 6.5 million voters exercised their franchise.

FRANCE REMEMBERS SLAVERY VICTIMS
Democrat Newspaper - Basseterre,St. Kitts and Nevis
... Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. African slaves were shipped to the Caribbean from Senegal , a former French colony. "Coming to Goree ...

Haiti prepares to inaugurate new president amid heavy security
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... Experts said Preval's skills at governing and healing Haiti's deep social rifts will largely determine if the former French colony can move toward stability or ...

Journey to land of Jedis
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... It was a French colony for more than 70 years, and you can see the French influence everywhere, from the tall white buildings to the many smart boutiques. ...