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Authors behind report on Chhattisgarh bag UN Award
Topix - Tuesday, June 19, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The Chhattisgarh Human Development Report is path- breaking, as it expresses the people's aspirations in their own voice from 19,000 villages" New York, June 19: A team of authors who investigated the quality of life in one of India's youngest states have been awarded the prestigious... more
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Conflict-hit Africa gets IMF priority
Topix - Saturday, June 16, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We have seen clearly some progress" DAKAR * The International Monetary Fund is prioritising financial aid and technical assistance for African countries emerging from conflict, in the hope it will help re-energise the economy of the world's ... via The Peninsula ... more
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Topix - Thursday, June 14, 2007
p> Waves of mainly West African youths were witnessed flinging themselves against the steel barricades and heavily guarded gates surrounding the British and United States consulates in most West African countries ... via Nigerian Bloggers ... more
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The Way-Station for Europe's Cocaine
Topix - Tuesday, June 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We need help to do something. We are even asking the United States to help us." Packages of cocaine are displayed 18 March 2006 after some 800 kilos of the drug were seized and 15 others arrested during an operation targetting an international drug-trafficking ring .... more
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U.N. Report
Topix - Monday, June 11, 2007
p> Millennium scorecard There are locusts devouring their way through Yemen, conflicts raging through pockets of eastern Congo, food shortages afflicting one-third of Zimbabweans, refugees unable to return to ... via Washington Times ... more
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Donors have 'last chance' to save Bissau
Topix - Thursday, June 07, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Wage arrears not only demoralise public sector workers but are slowing the economy and have the potential to ignite civil unrest." By Daniel Flynn Dakar - Donors have one last opportunity to save Guinea-Bissau from sliding into chaos by providing funds to pay its employees and... more
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Two ex-ministers questioned in Bissau drugs probe
Topix - Wednesday, June 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"This commission is only to clarify the facts, and we will then pass our findings to the courts and to Interpol" A government anti-drugs commission in Guinea-Bissau questioned two former ministers on Tuesday as the impoverished West African state probed official involvement in narcotics trafficking. ... more
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Delek Group Announces Consolidated Results for the First Quarter of 2007
Topix - Monday, June 04, 2007
p> Delek Group Announces Consolidated Results for the First Quarter of 2007 - Auto News from May 30, 2007 TEL AVIV, Israel, May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delek Group Ltd. via Automotive ... more
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Montenegro Admitted as 208th FIFA member
Topix - Saturday, June 02, 2007
p> The FIFA Congress convened at the Zurich Hallenstadion today, Thursday, 31 May. Incumbent President Joseph S. Blatter has been confirmed, by acclamation, in his position for a third term of office and ... via Paddock Talk ... more
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Drug haul in Guinea BissauA
Topix - Friday, June 01, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We have arrested 15 foreigners" Police in the tiny west African state of Guinea Bissau have smashed a drug trafficking network and arrested 15 foreigners, officials said. via Sunday Times ... more
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Latin drug cartels expanding into Africa: UN
Topix - Sunday, May 27, 2007
p> A senior United Nations official has warned that Latin American drugs cartels are expanding into West Africa. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation ... more
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Carter's Red Carpet
Topix - Saturday, May 26, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"I can't believe he lied to me." Leadership: On President Jimmy Carter's watch, more territory was lost to tyranny than at any other time since Yalta. And he'd have us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Profile In Incompetence: Fifth In A... more
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Chemical Warfare: Commemorating the Past and Moving Ahead
Topix - Thursday, May 24, 2007
p> Richard Weitz On May 9, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands officially unveiled a Memorial in The Hague for all those who have perished from chemical weapons. via World Politics Watch ... more
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Spain repatriations a message to traffickers
Topix - Tuesday, May 22, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"This is a clear message to the mafias: if you come to Spain illegally, the most likely result is that you're going to be sent back to the country you left in the first place." Spain 's move to repatriate 1000 Africans in May is... more
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Exiled African artists try to make a way elsewhere
Topix - Monday, May 21, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Culture makes the country move" It's a story of frail human hopes pitted against harrowing dangers. When West African composer Ze Manel collaborated on an opera about the young and the desperate of Africa seeking better lives in the West,... more
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Obasanjo's legacy from a realist perspective William Etim-Bassey ,...
Topix - Monday, May 14, 2007
p> To Bobby Ikhazobor: "Thank God you are alive! he ending may not have been what President Olusegun Obasanjo would have written, but a modest reform of the Nigerian economy and the empowering of a new political ... via Nigeriaworld ... more
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Guinea's leader purges top brass amid army strike
Topix - Sunday, May 13, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"As soon as we heard that on the radio, there was a burst of joy here" Conte, himself a soldier, who has ruled the west African country for 23 years after a military coup, on Friday had agreed to meet the soldiers who have been striking... more
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Suspected attacker on Guinea-Bissau citizen arrested in Tomsk
Topix - Saturday, May 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The foreigner sustained light bodily injuries, which did not cause damage to health" A local resident, who was suspected of an attack on a Guinea-Bissau citizen and a professor of the local university, was arrested in Tomsk on Friday, the press service of the regional police... more
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The Afrobeat goes on tonight in city
Topix - Friday, May 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Sometimes they ask if we have a guitar playing backstage" When Ba Cissoko was last in London, the Guinean kora master and his band impressed a lot of fans. via London Free Press ... more
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DEA Chief Warns Africa Becoming Drug Hub
Topix - Tuesday, May 08, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"It is the path of least resistance." Colombian drug barons and criminal gangs are trying to turn Africa into a hub for shipping cocaine to Europe, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told The Associated Press on Tuesday.... more
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