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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-08 07:04:26
Working in Central African Republic is challenging and expensive. Learn about the every-day struggles that our partner Jim Hocking of ICDI faces while drilling wells. The people of Moale had been...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-08 06:51:12
Category: Egypt
Since the 1930s, leprosy patients in Egypt have been rounded up and placed in the town of Abu Zaabal. The Egyptian government has now offered the inhabitants the right to return to their villages and...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-08 06:47:19
Category: South Africa
President Jacob Zuma was delivering a keynote address at the National Women''s Day celebrations in East London, Eastern Cape.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-07 07:25:32
Category: Rwanda
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda was today sworn in for a second seven-year term in a colourful ceremony at the Amahoro stadium in Kigali. In his speech Kagame took a swipe at western governments...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-07 07:18:10
Category: Ivory Coast
Cote d'Ivoire was once a bastion of peace in a turbulent region, but political instability now prevails.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-07 07:16:38
Category: South Africa
South Africa's public workers have suspended their strike, which has crippled schools and hospitals for three weeks. They are now considering the government's new offer of a 7.5 per cent pay rise. Al...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-07 07:11:32
Category: Somalia
Somali pirates sentenced to 5 years
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-06 07:27:48
Category: Kenya
Last week the country was treated to the shocking news of two men who hacked members of their families to death in two bizarre incidents in Migori and Kisumu. Well, it appears that cases of kin...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-06 07:21:51
Category: Ghana
There is growing concern over food global shortages as droughts and fires ravaged Russia. The Russian government extended a grain export ban, which has put pressure on food importing economies like...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-05 11:57:15
Category: Mali
The Malian government is attempting to expand women's rights. But its efforts are meeting with public resistance.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-05 11:17:01
Category: Kenya
In Nairobi, there was some interesting occurrence on the social scene and perhaps a question would suffice; are you single woman and looking for a life partner? Well a pastor from Nigeria was in town...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-05 11:13:49
Category: Mozambique
Mozambique was quiet on Sunday after days of riots over food and fuel price hikes that left ten people dead. On Wednesday, riots erupted in the capital Maputo and surrounding areas as people blocked...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-04 06:44:30
Category: Nigeria
China and Nigeria are building one of Africa's largest free trade zones in the commercial capital Lagos. VOA's Scott Stearns reports.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-04 06:42:04
Category: Gabon
The Gabonese American Community and Cultural Center based in Washington, DC promotes peace. VOA's Ndimyake Mwakalyelye reports.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-03 07:45:23
Category: South Africa
Picketers and strikers in Pietermaritzburg tried to disrupt schools in the city, while pupils tried to prepare for looming exams.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-03 07:44:06
Category: Guinea
Professor Lansiné Kaba is a distinguished scholar and writer, born and educated in Guinea, Senegal and France during French colonial rule. He shares his memories of growing up under French colonial...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-03 07:41:39
Category: Mozambique
Southern Sudan is warning that the planned January 2011 Referendum may be a flop if Kenya fails to take charge and navigate Sudan out of the current stalemate. The Chief coordinator of the referendum...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-03 07:37:32
Category: Somalia
A top United Nations official, Lynn Pascoe, the U.N. under-secretary-general for political affairs, says he is "hopeful" for Somalia, where the government is trying to fight off an offensive by...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-03 07:33:56
Category: Uganda
Michael Ezra took an unusual step to prove to Uganda Revenue Authority that he has the cash to pay the 1.1 billion shillings that he owes in income tax arrears. The maverick business man who rose to...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-03 07:26:08
Category: Kenya
Sixteen children and two adults from the Democratic Republic of Congo were rescued from alleged traffickers after they were found stranded at the Railways Station bus terminus. The sixteen say they...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-02 10:49:52
Category: Dem. Rep. Congo
Nearly 200 Women Gang Raped By Armed Thugs During Four Day Seige In Congo
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-02 08:58:45
Category: Mozambique
At least six people have been killed in Mozambique during street protests over rising prices. Two children have been shot dead and at least four more have been killed during riots in...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-02 08:47:00
Category: Rwanda
Rwanda hopes to become a tourist destination after the genocide in 1994. VOA's Khalil Gueye reports from Kigali.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-02 08:39:55
Category: Mozambique
Police fired rubber bullets and tear-gas as they clashed with demonstrators, angry at hikes in the cost of basic necessities such as bread and fuel.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-02 08:37:51
Category: Ghana
As more than one dozen nations mark 50 years of independence from European colonial rule, some are struggling with poverty, corruption and civil unrest while others are relatively prosperous. Could a...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-02 08:34:41
Category: Somalia
Violence continues in the Somali capital Mogadishu where Islamic insurgents continue to battle pro-government forces, killing civilians caught in the crossfire. VOA's Africa correspondent Scott...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-01 10:05:43
Category: South Africa
In this video clip, former Intelligence Minister and struggle stalwart Ronnie Kasrils speaks with Polity's Amy Witherden about his new book entitled 'The Unlikely Secret Agent'.
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-01 08:05:22
Category: Libya
Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi made a three-day visit to Italy this week to mark the second anniversary of the signing of a Friendship Treaty between Tripoli and Rome. Mr. Gaddafi was given a lavish...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-01 07:25:51
Category: Zambia
Dambisa Moyo appears on Norway's Grosvold show and discusses Dead Aid, government to government aid, corruption and how poverty in Africa can be resolved with host Anne Grosvold and politician...
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Date Uploaded: 2010-09-01 07:21:57
Category: Tanzania
Biofuel demand driving foreign investors to grab land in Africa
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