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African Children Denounced As "Witches" By Christian Pastors

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 18 (Special Report) - EKET, Nigeria — The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It

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Mapping out refugees and asylum seekers worldwide

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - Oct. 14 (News Report) - In our show tonight, we take a look at Indonesia, where hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who fled the violence back home are now threatening to blow themselves up. We also explore how police have mounted operations to wipe out makeshift camps around Calais in northern France. Hamish MacDonald reports on the predominantly Afghan [...]

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Kenya: Waiting for El Nino

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Samuel Maina - Oct. 09 (Special Report) - Kenyans are waiting for the El Nino rains anticipated between now and December 2009 with mixed feelings. Inasmuch as the El Nino is itself a natural disaster that in it's ‘moderate' form is expected to displace at least 100,000 people and leave 750,000 in need of humanitarian aid according to IRIN, most Kenyans actually want [...]

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What Really Happened in Rwanda?

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Christian Davenport/Allan C. Stam - Oct. 06 (Special Report) - Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to come out.

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US NGOs concerned by Obama's Darfur envoy, policy

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - By Christophe Schmidt - Oct. 03 (News Report) - US non-governmental organizations are pressing President Barack Obama to launch a new peace initiative for Darfur, as they express concern about the approach being taken by US envoy Scott Gration.

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Sudan's simmering struggle

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Times - By Austin Bay - Oct. 03 (Special Report) - The "third civil war" would be as vicious as the last, but given current political conditions, it could rapidly expand beyond Sudan and become a regional war involving several other impoverished, fragile states in East Africa - a war of the poor creating greater poverty and anarchy.

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Life dries up in Kenya's Mau forest

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By James Morgan - Sep. 29 (News Report) - High in the hills of Kenya's Mau forest, some 20,000 families are facing eviction from their farms - accused of contributing to an ecological disaster which has crippled the country.

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Darfur rebels accuse Sudan army of attacks

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Sep. 18 (News Report) - Darfur rebels accused Sudanese government forces of attacking their positions on Thursday and Friday, weeks after a senior peacekeeper said the region was no longer in a state of war. The reports came after a period of relative calm in the region, where more than six years of fighting has driven an estimated 2.7 million from their homes. Commanders from an arm of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) told Reuters Sudan's army, backed up by allied militias, launched ground and air attacks on their positions in territory around the North Darfur area of Korma.

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Thousands of Sudanese flood victims need urgent help

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

reliefweb.int - Sep. 18 (News Report) - Entire communities in Khartoum were left without shelter when 20,000 homes from informal settlements were unable to hold out to the force of rushing waters after it rained incessantly for six hours on the 26th of August. The heavy showers that have pounded the region for the last three weeks have also left a death toll of 20 people and injured 30 others due to collapsed buildings, electric shocks and drowning. Extensive damage was also caused to infrastructure.

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New report on future scenarios in Sudan

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

reliefweb.int - Sep. 18 (Special Report) - Sudan is planning to hold elections in April 2010 and a referendum on southern autonomy the following year, but beyond this the future is uncertain, says a report entitled "Sudan 2012 - Scenarios for the Future".

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Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands'

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jack Shenker - Aug. 21 (News Report) - "Egypt is a graveyard for occupiers," observes Ramadan el-Atr, a fruit farmer near the antiquated town of Rosetta, where authorities have contracted a Chinese company to build a huge wall of concrete blocks in the ocean to try to save any more land from melting away. "Just like the others, the sea will come and go – but we will always survive." Scientists aren't so sure.

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Cap-and-trade & Health Care & Insurance Reform I see these two issues as one and the same thing. The first one is to heal our planet, and the second is to heal our human bodies. Also, both issues have to deal with how the 'healing' is delievered and wh

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Foreign policy, EU news, climate, green technology, health. - Aug. 21 (Investigative Report) - Experts and politicians on whether health care reform will trump climate change.

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The Women’s Crusade

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, SHERYL WuDUNN - Aug. 19 (Special Report) - The liberation of women could help solve many of the world’s problems, from poverty to child mortality to terrorism.

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U.S. reshaping Darfur policy

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Peter Wallsten, Edmund Sanders - Aug. 04 (News Report) - The Obama administration is working on a new approach that may soften some sanctions against the Sudan government, which is implicated in the killing and displacement of tens of thousands.

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185 die in attack on refugee camp in southern Sudan

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 04 (News) - Armed tribesmen attacked a fishing village in southeastern Sudan where hundreds of displaced people were camped near a river, killing at least 185, most of them women and children, in the worst violence in three months, a southern Sudanese official said Monday. A flare-up of tribal clashes in southern Sudan over cattle and territory has left more than 1,000 people dead this year. The violence is separate from the conflict between rebels and government forces in Darfur, in Sudan's west.

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African dream turns sour for orphan army

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Dan McDougall - Aug. 02 (News) - Nothing grows here in the shadows. There is only desolation in the tired soil at Paballo Marumo’s cracked and filthy feet. Her shoes, the thin plastic sandals worn by children across the townships of southern Africa, are gone. “Stolen!” she tells me in her language, Sesotho. At eight years old she sits hopelessly at the bottom of the rubbish dump hierarchy. “Gap! Gap! Gap!” comes the sudden cry from the 12-year-old leader of a destitute army of rag pickers patrolling the vast waste dump before us.

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Europe Eyes Africa for Solar Power

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Paul Voosen - Jul. 24 (Special Report) - European government and industry have been eyeing tracts of sun-drenched, vacant land in North Africa and the Middle East for some time. And now, officials and business executives are beginning to sweat out the details that could see renewable power sprouting in the desert.

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BBC NEWS | Africa | Nigeria authorities welcome truce

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 15 (News Report) - Officials in Nigeria welcome a 60-day truce declared by the main oil-rebel group, days after they carried out a deadly attack.

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Nigerian rebels threaten to end cease-fire - CNN.com

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jul. 15 (News Report) - Nigerian militants threatened to end their cease-fire not long after it began Wednesday because they claimed the government was threatening one of their camps. The militant group MEND said seven military joint task force gun boats with heavily armed troops were headed toward a camp near the border of the coastal states of Delta and Ondo.

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Obama praises democratic successes in Africa

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Christi Parsons, Edmund Sanders - Jul. 12 (News Report) - In a speech in Ghana, he calls on leaders across the continent to clean up their governments and protect women and children from violence. In an address broadcast widely across Africa, President Obama today praised the democratic successes of African nations and pledged to support democracy and fight corruption on the continent.

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Africans reflect on Obama's 'tough love' message

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Drew Hinshaw - Jul. 12 (News Report) - President Obama's international tour, which ended Sunday, raised a question that will rattle in the minds of Africans for some time: Do African leaders have more to fear from America's first black president than they have to gain? Mr. Obama, a popular hero to the continent, enjoys at least surface adoration of its leaders, too. Politicians in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, and elsewhere have positioned themselves as allies, friends, and kindred spirits to the US president. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, a vehemently anti-Western autocrat, even offered to meet with Obama.

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Straight Talk: Revealing the Real US-Africa Policy

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Gerald LeMelle - Jul. 06 (News Report) - Like the Cold War, the Global War on Terror establishes a rationale for bolstering U.S. military presence and support in Africa. Yet official pronouncement of U.S. policy is routinely presented as if neither of these two developments occurred. Unfortunately, the more evasive we are about our intentions on the continent, the more we invite not only skepticism, but even resistance.

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To Fix Health Care, Some Study Developing World

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Amy Dockser Marcus - Jul. 02 (News Report) - When doctors running the AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham wanted to increase the number of patients who showed up for treatment, they turned to an unusual place for help: southern Africa.

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Africa | Nigaz name sparks racism debate

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 02 (News Report) - A marketing blunder in Nigeria has got online communities all of a twitter, after a joint oil and gas venture with Russia was named Nigaz.

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From bush to bike - a bamboo revolution

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Kieron Humphrey - Jul. 01 (News Report) - On the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, next year's crop of bicycles is being watered by Benjamin Banda. "We planted this bamboo last year," he says, "and now the stems are taller than me. When it's ready we'll cut it, cure it and then turn it into frames."

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