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SENEGAL: Stiffer penalties for drug traffickers
Topix - Friday, December 21, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Narco-traffickers think they can corrupt the powers-that-be here [and get away with their crimes]." DAKAR, 20 December 2007 - In Senegal drug traffickers stand to face 10 to 20 years of hard labour, double the current punishment, under a new law adopted in parliament. via... more
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UN-Backed Project Aims to Jump Start Economic Development in Guinea-Bissau
Topix - Thursday, December 20, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"There are encouraging signs that the new multi-party system can resolve political crises within a framework of democratic institutions." A new project backed by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development will boost the incomes and living conditions of some 100,000 rural poor in Guinea-Bissau.... more
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UN-Backed Project Aims to Jump Start Economic Development
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 20, 2007
new project backed by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will boost the incomes and living conditions of some 100,000 rural poor in ... more
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GBissau calls for help
Topix - Thursday, December 20, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Portugal will contribute up to one million dollars a year, a sixth of the total cost" A top United Nations official has called on the international community to help Guinea-Bissau which is "under siege" by drugs traffickers, at the start of a conference in Portugal on... more
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University parking lot and hostels symbolise realities of party's power battle
Topix - Thursday, December 20, 2007
p> By Donwald Pressly Polokwane The University of Limpopo campus provides a fitting backdrop to the power struggle that is going on in the ruling ANC. via Business Report ... more
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Subsidies and the Africa problem
Topix - Tuesday, December 18, 2007
p> Billions of taxpayer dollars are helping destroy African waters Posted by Andrew Sharpless at 1:03 PM on 16 Dec 2007 After exhausting commercial seafood stocks off their own shores decades ago, wealthy nations ... via Gristmill ... more
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Nominations and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate
Topix - Sunday, December 16, 2007
p> NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, of New Jersey, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of ... via The White House ... more
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GLOBAL: Not enough money to keep small islands afloat
Topix - Saturday, December 15, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Sea-level rise will exacerbate inundation, erosion and other coastal hazards, threaten vital infrastructure, settlements and facilities, and thus compromise the socio-economic well-being of island communities and states" BALI, 14 December 2007 - The new Adaptation Fund for vulnerable countries to cope with global warming, announced at... more
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UN Peacebuilding Commission to begin assisting Guinea-Bissau
Topix - Friday, December 14, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Drug money is perverting the economy and rotting society" Por VNN Staff / UN news service Publicado Thursday, December 13, 2007 Guinea-Bissau will become the third country on the agenda of the Peacebuilding Commission , the United Nations advisory body set up to help ... ... more
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Cuba!, Africa!, Revolution!: New Documentary on Cuba and the African Revolution
Topix - Thursday, December 13, 2007
p> CUBA! AFRICA! REVOLUTION! SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15TH, 2007 AT 7:00 PM 5274 W. Pico Blvd. via Pan-African News Wire ... more
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Peacebuilding Commission to Begin Assisting Country
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 13, 2007
uinea-Bissau will become the third country on the agenda of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), the United Nations advisory body set up to help countries emerging from conflict avoid sliding back into war or chaos, after the Security Council backed a request from the Government of the West African ... more
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Is the U.S. Corporate Tax in the Laffer Zone?
Topix - Wednesday, December 12, 2007
p> This article appeared in Tax Notes , December 10, 2007. Amid growing concerns about U.S. competitiveness, policymakers are awakening to the fact that America has one of the world's most inefficient corporate ... via The Cato Institute ... more
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Migiro holds talks with leaders of three troubled African countries
Topix - Tuesday, December 11, 2007
p> During her meeting with Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, Ms. Migiro stressed how important it was that the West African nation's electoral process takes place as planned so that its democratic institutions - ... via United Nations ... more
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Zimbabwe Vigil Diary in Lisbon and London - " 7-9 December 2007
Topix - Monday, December 10, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"You have left my children fatherless" Zimbabwe Vigil Diary in Lisbon and London - ' 7-9 December 2007 See photograph album of the trip A Vigil team of about 30 grabbed the attention of the media during the EU/AU summit in Lisbon. via SW Radio... more
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Portugal Gets Harsh Blast From the Past
Topix - Sunday, December 09, 2007
p> HIDDEN HISTORY: The brutality of Portugal's wars against independence fighters in its African colonies in the 1960s and 1970s was kept secret from Portuguese citizens by dictator Antonio Salazar, who depicted colonial subjects as Portuguese who were treated as equals and were eager to remain under Lisbon's wing. ... more
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African EU Summit in Lisbon
Topix - Sunday, December 09, 2007
p> Lisbon, Dec 7 Presidents from Africa began arriving in Lisbon Friday for the African-European Union Summit on peace and security, human rights, international trade and climatic change to take place Saturday and ... via Prensa Latina ... more
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UN Peacebuilding Office Should Be Extended - Ban Ki-Moon
allAfrica.com - Saturday, December 08, 2007
ecretary-General Ban Ki-moon has recommended that the mandate of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau be extended for one year, with the possibility of it transforming into an integrated mission following the 2008 legislative ... more
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GLOBAL: Imams wake up to HIV/AIDS
Topix - Friday, December 07, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We need to adapt. We don't start talking about condoms right from the beginning. We emphasise that the best thing is still abstinence before marriage and faithfulness during marriage" In her bright orange clothing, South African Riana Jacobs, 31, stands out from the crowd at the... more
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Drug nationHow Guinea Bissau has become paradise for cocaine barons
Topix - Friday, December 07, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Where is the evidence? Just please, bring the evidence. That's what we're asking for." Most Guinea Bissau residents live on less than $1 a day Guinea Bissau is one of the poorest countries in the world, but visit a local nightclub and you soon discover that... more
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Bissau's Oldest Mosque Under Renovation
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 06, 2007
illoun Mosque, one of the oldest mosques in the West African sub-region, is under renovation. Located in the heart of Bissau , the mosque has always been the epicentre of Islamic propagation in Guinea-Bissau. Sheriff Hatab Hydara, Kalif of Daru Kairu Cherif Kunda, Casamance (Senegal) graced the occasion marking the... more
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