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Shoe on the other foot as Africa chides Wolfowitz
Topix - Monday, May 14, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"This scandal is demoralising for developing countries which were making superhuman efforts to fight against corruption in Africa" The scandal hanging over World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has damaged his ability to preach against corruption in Africa , but Africans say the bank's anti-graft message... more
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Gabon reports outbreak of Chikungunya virus
Topix - Sunday, May 13, 2007
p> An outbreak of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus has hit the central African country of Gabon, and 5,000 suspected cases had been reported so far, the government said on Sunday. via AlertNet ... more
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Gabon: Services for marginalized Pygmy families
Topix - Friday, May 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Invisible', isolated and vulnerable Pygmies - sometimes know as 'people of the forest" On a beautiful recent morning in this remote village in northern Gabon, men sat in the 'corps de garde' in the town square and women stood nearby with apprehensive but happy children running... more
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Hunt on for crashed Kenyan jet
Topix - Sunday, May 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"A French Super Puma helicopter attached to the Libreville marine battalion has been sent to Cameroon to help locate the crash site. It is currently in action" "Some of the area is inaccessible by road and there are no telecommunications signals." State radio earlier reported the... more
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Cerebral malaria: Approaching a diagnostic test
Topix - Thursday, May 03, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Our hope today is that this discovery will allow for the development of a diagnostic test for cerebral malaria" Scientists at CNRS and the Pasteur Institute, collaborating with physicians in Gabon, have just undertaken a study on cerebral malaria in children living in an... more
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Economy
Topix - Tuesday, May 01, 2007
p> Australian uranium mining group, Paladin Resources Ltd, whose prime uranium projects are in Namibia and Malawi said Monday it has contracts to supply to US utilities more than 7.5 million pounds of uranium ... via Panapress ... more
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English
Topix - Sunday, April 29, 2007
p> CEMAC passport to be in use by July Libreville, Gabon - The heads of state and government from the Central African Economic and Monetary Community meeting in N'djamena, Chad, Thursday have agreed to bring into ... via Panapress ... more
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Buruli Ulcer, Nigeria
Topix - Tuesday, April 24, 2007
p> Without proper treatment, BU results in severe and permanent disability in more than a quarter of patients. via Cdc.gov ... more
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Politics
Topix - Friday, April 20, 2007
p> Libya says that the US pro ject to set up a US military command in Africa does not serve the cause of peace in Africa, a Libyan diplomatic source quotes the secretary of the Libyan general people's committee ... via Panapress ... more
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Chad ex-president offers to talk peace with rebels
Topix - Wednesday, April 18, 2007
p> Chad 's former head of state, Goukouni Weddeye, has offered to meet eastern rebels fighting President Idriss Deby to try to persuade them to begin peace talks, the Chadian presidency said on Wednesday. via Alertnet.org ... more
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Malian president takes election campaigns in Gabon
Topix - Monday, April 16, 2007
p> Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure has asked Malian nationals living in Gabon to support his re-election bid for a second mandate in the forthcoming presidential elections scheduled to take place on April ... via China View ... more
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Ritual murder suspects lynched
Topix - Friday, April 13, 2007
p> GABON's government today appealed to the public not to take justice in their own hands following the lynching of two men suspected of sodomising a 3-year-old boy and draining his blood in a ritual murder case. via News.com.au ... more
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Murder carries 'marks of ritual'
Topix - Thursday, April 12, 2007
p> A three-year-old in Gabon was killed after having been kidnapped, raped and burnt with an iron as part of what may have been a ritualistic ceremony, family members and others said on Wednesday. via News24.com ... more
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Gabon, Guadeloupe: Circumcision and HIV
Global Voices Online - Wednesday, April 11, 2007
p> Guadeloupe Attitude posts [Fr] an article by Maité Mapangou, Executive Secretary of OPDAS-Gabon [Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS in Gabon] concluding that “c ircumcised or not, any man who does not protect himself is a potential agent of the spread of the virus “. The... more
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Angola's Dos Santos set for retirement?
Topix - Wednesday, April 04, 2007
p> Jose Eduardo dos Santos, a former footballer who is one of Africa 's longest serving leaders, shows little sign of seeking an early retirement five years after leading Angola out of its vicious civil war. via Independent Online ... more
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Read On
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p>Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet died this week. He was 91. Gen Pinochet came to power in 1973, after a coup against the democratically elected radical government of Salvador Allende. ( via Daily Monitor [www.monitor.co.ug] ... more
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Don't bribe for votes, says Gabon's president
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p>Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba has told candidates in a parliamentary election to be held Sunday to stop bribing potential voters with gifts and promises. [via Independent Online [www.int.iol.co.za] ... more
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Republic of Congo Reports Massive Gorilla Die-Off
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p>Ebola virus outbreak in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study says, AFP wrote. [via Iran Daily [www.iran-daily.com] ... more
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Republic of Congo Reports Massive Gorilla Die-Off
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p>Ebola virus outbreak in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study says, AFP wrote. ( via Iran Daily [www.iran-daily.com] ... more
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Bongo hopes polls will tighten his grip
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p>By Antoine Lawson Libreville - Gabon's President Omar Bongo, now in his seventies, came to power in 1967 as major oil finds were being made off Gabon's shores. [via Independent Online [www.int.iol.co.za] ... more
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