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Breaking News Wed, 16 Apr 2008
 As Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan looks on, President George W. Bush makes remarks (js1)
Africa   Food   Japan   Photos   Poverty  
 Daily Yomiuri 
Japan to double ODA for Africa
| The government will double its official development assistance to African countries over the next five years, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. | Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda likely will announce the ... (photo: White House / Chris Greenberg)
 Spain says it will immediately deport immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa who crash through the frontier into Spanish enclaves in Morocco, after yet another nocturnal assault by Africans massed on Morocco´s border with Melilla. na0
Children   Europe   Greece   Immigration   Mediterranean   Photos   Protest  
 Time Magazine 
Child Migrants on Hunger Strike
| Europe's increasingly dire struggle with illegal immigration reached a new extreme this month as child migrants held on a Greek island launched a to protest the lack of proper shelter. | Dozens of c... (photo: WN / nilufer)
electricity - energy - power - india - am1  News24 
Power price: Find a compromise
| Johannesburg - The ruling party and its labour allies called on Friday for electricity prices to rise only gradually, rejecting the state power firm's appeal for a sharp hike to solve a dire power c... (photo: WN / aruna1)
Electricity   Johannesburg   Photos   Power   Price  
 An Ethiopian soldier holding his AK 47 walks towards the compound of the former American Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, Dec. 29, 2006. The leader of Somalia´s Islamic political movement vowed Friday to continue the fight against Ethiopia, w  News24 
Somali peace talks postponed
| Nairobi - UN-sponsored peace talks on Somalia were postponed on Friday without a deal on face-to-face discussions between the government and an opposition alliance backing an Islamist insurgency, of... (photo: AP/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
Africa   Peace   Photos   Somalia   Talks  
Top Stories
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai addresses a rally in Harare, Sunday, March 23, 2008. Tsvangirai drew the biggest crowd so far in Zimbabwe's election campaign Sunday as longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe vowed that his rival would never rule the country. In a carnival atmosphere that contrasted with Mugabe's austere meetings, Tsvangirai said Mugabe was "really mad" over recent opposition gains ahead of the March 29 election Reuters
Zimbabwe sets run-off date, Tsvangirai to return
Fri May 16, 2008 11:04am ET | | By Nelson Banya | HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe said on Friday it would hold a delayed presidential election run-off on June 27, when the op... (photo: AP / )
Election   Photos   Politics   Tsvangirai   Zimbabwe  
 People try to save oil from a charred petrol tanker in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday Oct. 14, 2001. Soldiers were restoring calm to northern Nigeria´s largest city Sunday after a day of Muslim-Christian rioting killed at least a dozen people and left shops Turkish Press
Nigerian firefighters douse oil pipeline blaze: official
| Nigerian firefighters try to extinguish a blaze in a northern suburb of Lagos. Nigerian firefighters have managed to douse the flames from a burst oil pipeline a day af... (photo: AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
Africa   Blaze   Crime   Fire   Lagos   Nigeria   Oil   Photos  
 AIDS- Remember me? - Night of the HIV/AIDS TV commercials, Markos Kyprianou. ula1 Independent online
MISSING: our HIV and Aids prevention campaign
| Over the past year, there has been a number of scientific disappointments in the HIV/Aids field, including two failed vaccine trials. | With the failed trials comes the... (photo: European Community, 2006 )
Africa   Aids   Campaign   Health   Photos   South Africa   Trials   Vaccine  
Great white shark Independent online
'Sharks dont want to attack us'
| Great white sharks swimming in water as shallow as 1,5m off popular beaches such as Fish Hoek and Muizenberg in high summer appear to go out of their way to avoid bathe... (photo: Public Domain / )
Africa   Photos   Poaching   Research   Shark   South Africa   Water   Wildlife  
Grass Snake (sl1) Independent online
Rescue crisis at Snake Park
| By Rivonia Naidu | Where is Noah? The Fitzsimons Snake Park might just need him. | They have the task of moving the more than 250 snakes and 3 000 other animals in the ... (photo: GNU)
Africa   Durban   Park   Photos   Rescue   Snake   South Africa   Wildlife  
 Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, right, prays during the Solemn Eucharist, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 at the Anglican cathedral in Zanzibar. Leaders of the world´s 77 million Anglicans, in Tanzania for a closed, six-day conference, trav Independent online
Priests invited to undergo HIV test
| Eighty Anglican clergymen from across the province have been invited to a gathering where they will be tested to find out their HIV and Aids status. | "The response to ... (photo: AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
Africa   Aids   Anglican   Health   Photos   Priests   South Africa  
Business & Economy Politics
- Summit seeks smooth road to electricity price hikes
- Power price: Find a compromise
- Investec Bounces Back On Decent Results
- ADs That Resonate With the Youth
electricity - energy - power - india - am1
Power price: Find a compromise
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- Few Urban Congolese Have Confidence in Institutions
- Paving the Way to Prosperity in Africa
- Bush seeks 70 billion dollars for Iraq, Afghan war
- Be afraid. Be very afraid
 Electoral campaing in Kinshasa, DRC, 9 July 2006.  (js1)
Few Urban Congolese Have Confidence in Institutions
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Education Sport
- ISRAEL: Dozens of refugee children outside school system
- Teenage gang members jailed for killing A-level student
- Police open fire on students
- Cops open fire on student demonstrators
Palestinian children attend classes at a United Nations school in the Shati refugee camp
ISRAEL: Dozens of refugee children outside school system
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- Yaoundé Hosts CAF Meetings for the First Time
- Pfister Calls 7 New Players Into Lions Den
- Kenyan running community hoping to regain its stride
- AFC Leopards set for a re-launch
Nwankwo Christian Kanu
Nwankwo Kanu: 'For years African players have been exploited...'
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Health Human Rights
- GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours
- YEMEN: Eradicating onchocerciasis could take 10 years - loca
- LEBANON: Aid agencies hampered by threat of further violence
- IRAQ: Local aid groups support UNHCR appeal for more funds
 Displaced children wait for World Food Programme (WFP), trucks carrying food aid to arrive at Elasha camp on the out skirts of the capital Mogadishu, Thursday, April 26, 2007. More than 300,000 people have fled Mogadishu since the fighting started in Mog
GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours
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- LEBANON: Palestinian refugees stage demo near Israeli border
- UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Recognizing Women’s Vit
- US detainees drugged for deportation
- Uzbek Human Rights Activist Honored
Palestinian refugees registered with the United Nations in the Gaza Strip
LEBANON: Palestinian refugees stage demo near Israeli border
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