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DRC: Didace Namujimbo Radio Okapi Journalist Murdered
Global Voices Online - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
p>Cedric Kalonji writes about the tragic shooting death of Didace Namujimbo [Fr], the second Radio Okapi journalist to be murdered in Bukavu: “After learning this news, I was torn between pain, sadness and anger. I asked myself how a democracy can last in a country so visibly allergic... more
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Burkina Faso: Fertility and Underdevelopment
Global Voices Online - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
p>According to new official statistics, Burkina Faso's population is growing [Fr] at an annual rate of 3.1%. Quophybloguer writes [Fr]: “So we are on our way to an exponential growth in population in a country whose economy is barely growing…Will the government have the courage to officially limit births... more
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Congo-Kinshasa: Dialogue Between Warring Parties Crucial to Peace, Says UN Envoy
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
ncouraging dialogue between the Congolese Government and rebels is critical to securing peace in the war-torn far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the crisis and former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo said ... more
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Nigeria: Police Ask Ribadu to Resume in Edo
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
he embattled former Chairman of the Econo-mic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has been posted to Zone 5, Benin, Edo State as the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of ... more
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Rwanda: Regional Body Condemns Kabuye's Arrest
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
he Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, has once again strongly condemned the November 9 arrest in Germany of the Chief of State Protocol, Rose ... more
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Somalia: Uganda Sends Fresh Troops to Country
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
GANDA has replaced its 1,700 troops in Somalia with a new contingent, the third to deploy since the first Ugandan peacekeepers landed there about two years ... more
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South Africa: ANC Election Campaign to Highlight 'Accelerated Change'
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
HE African National Congress (ANC) hammered out its election strategy yesterday, ahead of its election manifesto conference to be held this ... more
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Africa: New Malaria Drug Technologies Unveiled
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
oaring demand for the antimalarial drug artemisinin could be satisfied with some promising new technologies unveiled by researchers last week (19 ... more
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Liberia: Govt Has 'Political Will' to Fix Education, Says Minister
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
n a recent interview with AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana, Liberia's education minister, Joseph Kortu, discussed the successes and challenges of rebuilding the country's educational system after a devastating civil ... more
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South Africa: Expert Warns of Water Crisis Leading to Instability
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
HE controversial suspension of researcher Anthony Turton from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) over his damning report on the quality of our drinking water has brought the subject of water safety to the fore of public debate ... more
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Zambia: Economic Slack Unavoidable
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
conomic experts have said the on going economic slow down in Zambia, which has seen the local currency depreciating against major convertible currencies, is a phenomenon induced by global market forces and will need economic strategising to ... more
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Africa: Some $750 Million Sought in UN Appeals for East and West Africa
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
he United Nations today set in motion further elements of the African regional component of its $7-billion annual humanitarian appeal, seeking help for millions of people suffering from drought, floods, high food prices and displacement in the eastern and western regions of the ... more
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South Africa: Families of Apartheid Victims Fight Prosecution Policy
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
HEMBI Nkadimeng, whose sister was tortured and murdered by apartheid special forces, said yesterday she had forgiven the murderer but "looked forward to his ... more
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Africa: Doha Round of Trade Talks Ready to Resume
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
HE Doha round is on again. World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Pascal Lamy has set a date for trade ministers to meet between December 10 and 19 to try to thrash out a multilateral trade ... more
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Zimbabwe: Talks Resume as Nation Faces 'Collapse'
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
IMBABWEAN negotiators are due to meet in SA today in another bid to salvage their power-sharing deal, amid a warning by President Kgalema Motlanthe that the deteriorating humanitarian situation "will get worse and implode or collapse ... more
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Liberia: Amid Challenges, Children Are Eager to Learn
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
rom the sky, the huts dotted along unpaved roads leading to the port city of Harper resemble those in rural areas in Liberia. But while life in Harper resembles village life in many ways, several features set the city ... more
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Crisis - Now What's to Be Done?
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
HE reaction of most Zimbabweans in the aftermath of the Sadc Summit held in Sandton, South Africa last Sunday, is that of great ... more
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Munali Pupil to Hang for Killing Aunt
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
PUPIL at Munali High School, who killed his aunt when he was 17 years old, was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging by the Lusaka High ... more
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Instant Justice Mob Beats Thieving Resident to Death
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
N instant justice mob on Sunday night killed a suspected thief who broke into a house in Bauleni Township in Lusaka and stole goods worth ... more
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Media Bodies Say No to Regulation
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
EDIA bodies have rejected recent calls by the Government and members of Parliament for the regulation of the media saying the decision was misplaced and was made out of ... more
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