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Breaking News Thu, 17 May 2012
File - Journalists take notes and record as they listen to the verdict of the trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor, seen on the screen standing in the court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday April 26, 2012.
Africa   Liberia   Photos   War Crime   Wikipedia: Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)  
 BBC News 
Sierra Leone trial: Charles Taylor set to address court
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is expected to address the international court that found him guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone. | It is his last chance to speak at the tribunal in The Hag... (photo: AP / Peter Dejong)
Soldiers stand guard outside the presidential palace after a military coup in Bamako, Mali, Friday, March 23, 2012.
Human Rights   Mali   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: 2012 Malian coup d'état  
 Al Jazeera 
Amnesty cites rights abuses in northern Mali
| Amnesty International has accused armed Tuaregs and groups fighting to impose Sharia law in northern Mali of carrying out grave rights abuses such as rape, murder and using child soldiers. | A repor... (photo: AP / Harouna Traore)
Helen Zille, Cape Town city mayor and leader of the main opposition party, center, outside the court in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. Zille appeared briefly in court in connection with a demonstration outside the houses of alleged drug dealers. Police say that Zille is encouraging self-style vigilantes to take the law into their own hands, whilst her supporters say the demonstrations reflect growing fury that drug lords are targeting children and ravaging entire communities with impunity.  Independent online 
Zille speech interrupted
DA leader Helen Zille was interrupted while speaking at a protest against Cosatu over the youth wage subsidy when violence erupted in Johannesburg on Tuesday. | Tension was in the air as she took the ... (photo: AP)
Johannesburg   Photos   Politics   Protest   Wikipedia: Helen Zille  
A lady selling food.   Une dame en train de vendre la nouriture . Togo and Africa  The Star 
Africa must end hunger to sustain growth - U.N
| NAIROBI, May 15 (AlertNet) - Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and address the debilitating hunger that affects 27 percent of its population if it is to sustain its economic boom, the ... (photo: WN / Eteh)
Africa   Development   Food   Photos   Wikipedia: Africa  
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AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012 IRINnews
AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012
Photo: Trevor Samson/World BankThe IMF predicts average growth of 5.5 percent for Africa in 2012WASHINGTON, 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) has unveiled a... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe)
Africa   Peace   Photos   Security   Sudan   Wikipedia: African Union  
Senior members of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) during the signing of ceasefire agreement with southern rebel leader representative of Lt. General George Athor in Juba, southern Sudan  on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. The SPLA has been engaged in an armed conflict with General Athor since the latter rebelled following Sudan's presidential, parliamentary and gubernatorial elections in April 2010. The Independent
Sudan accused of using Kony's army
| Ugandan military commanders said they had new evidence to support previous allegations that Khartoum has been supplying the rebel army accused of repeated atrocities ag... (photo: AP / Pete Muller)
Military   Photos   Sudan   Uganda   Wikipedia: Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement  
The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony left, and his deputy Vincent Otti, center, discuss with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland Sunday Nov 12 , 2006 at Ri-Kwamba in Southern Sudan. Egeland met with Kony, the elusive leader of Uganda's notorious rebel Lord's Resistance Army and one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, seeking to secure the release of women and children enslaved by the group during their 20-year conflict with the Ugandan government. But Kony denied that his forces are holding prisoners. Canberra Times
US troops join jungle hunt for brutal rebel commander
| ''Advise and assist'' ... US forces are in the Central African Republic to look for the notorious Joseph Kony, below. Photo: AP | Joseph Kony's power may have waned, bu... (photo: AP)
Africa   Conflict   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Joseph Kony  
A man spreads the mosquito repellant medicine in the residential area The Guardian
Timely malaria treatment a matter of life and death for Congolese children
| Malaria claims thousands of young lives in the DRC each year, but a successful project in remote Kimbi shows it needn't be so A Congolese child suffering from severe ma... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Children   Life   Malaria   Photos   Wikipedia: Malaria  
Haiti - A cholera infected girl rests on a hospital cot in Raboto, a slum area of Gonaives located in the Artibonite Region, where the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is working to contain the cholera outbreak, 9 November, 2011. Independent online
Malaria infections surge in Congo
Dakar - Malaria cases treated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) more than tripled to 155 000 last year from two years previous, ... (photo: UN / Marco Dormino)
Congo   Disease   Health   Photos  
Politics Business & Economy
- Illegal mining: Court may hear Yeddyurappa’s bail plea
- IVAN TUROK: Urban growth can drive Africa’s resurgence
- Minister calls for support for tough new arms trade treaty
- Tory ministers slam UN food envoy
Local health workers remove earth contaminated by lead from a family compound in the village of Dareta in Gusau, Nigeria Thursday, June 10, 2010. Foreign health workers and local volunteers are working to clean up villages affected by lead poisoning, after 160 people died and hundreds more fell sick.
Aid group slams Nigeria for lead poisoning
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- Minister calls for support for tough new arms trade treaty
- A Greek tragedy and a European crisis?
- A developing world of debt
- Efforts Underway to Rehabilitate Agriculture Sector
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Education Sport
- AIIMS bias against SC /ST students
- 2013 school admissions to start in May
- Foreign Student Numbers Increase
- Vocational Education Needed to Make NGP a Reality
Study: Most myopic school-leavers in Asia
Study: Most myopic school-leavers in Asia
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- Traicos - Greek born in Egypt who played for SA & Zimbabwe a
- Champs Prisons Lock Up Rwandese Rivals
- Baraza's Double Skins Leopards
- Burger faces nine month layoff
In this image made from the video provided by TPA via APTN, showing Togo national soccer team captain Emmanuel Adebayor, front, being helped by unidentified Togo team member, Friday Jan. 8, 2010, following a deadly attack by gunmen in Cabinda, Angola
Emmanuel Adebayor abandons Togo once more
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Health Human Rights
- Swazi queen’s R17k a night hotel splurge
- Backlog in miners’ claims sparks MPs’ ire
- Court tells Discovery to pay for use of database
- Deadly clashes in Libyan border town
Local health workers remove earth contaminated by lead from a family compound in the village of Dareta in Gusau, Nigeria Thursday, June 10, 2010. Foreign health workers and local volunteers are working to clean up villages affected by lead poisoning, after 160 people died and hundreds more fell sick.
Aid group slams Nigeria for lead poisoning
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- RONAK GOPALDAS: Deal with the threat before it spreads throu
- IVAN TUROK: Urban growth can drive Africa’s resurgence
- Minister calls for support for tough new arms trade treaty
- NOM's Racial Wedge Strategy in Action
Soldiers stand guard outside the presidential palace after a military coup in Bamako, Mali, Friday, March 23, 2012.
Amnesty cites rights abuses in northern Mali
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Society & Culture Science & Technology
- SAA needs state cash to renew its fleet — Gigaba
- THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A bold step against piracy
- RONAK GOPALDAS: Deal with the threat before it spreads throu
- IVAN TUROK: Urban growth can drive Africa’s resurgence
South African Airways
SAA needs state cash to renew its fleet — Gigaba
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- Maternal Deaths Plunged Over 2 Decades, to About 287,000 in
- MTN launches WACS in Cape Town
- Boffins track alien invasion
- Talks resume on new climate treaty
Climate change - sun and clouds in the sky - environment
Steps from historic Durban Climate Change Conference
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