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Monday, May 19, 2008
South Africa military’s ban on HIV positive people ruled unconstitutional
South Africa's High Court in Pretoria has ruled that the military's exclusion of HIV-positive people from recruitment, promotion and foreign deployment is unconstitutional.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
How a one night stand could change your life forever
Twenty-five year old Marie* comes from France but works for an international non-governmental organisation that often requires her to travel around Asia and Africa. While on one such trip she made a decision that could change her life forever.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Kenya’s political leaders preach peace but homeless remain cautious
Ndirangu Mwangi, 26, one of 14,000 people camping in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret’s showground, was less than encouraged after Kenya’s political leaders visited the town as part of a “national healing” initiative.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Rwandans seeking reconciliation 14 years after genocide
Brigitte Mukandoli was a schoolgirl when a group of militias manning a roadblock near her village of Bishenyi, close to the Rwandan capital, Kigali, seized her. She was taken to a nearby village and raped by 10 men.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
AFRICOM has no plans for humanitarian role in Africa
In a key briefing to Congress on 13 March, General William “Kip” Ward, head of the US Command for Africa, AFRICOM, devoted only 15 seconds of his four-and-a-half minute opening remarks to a possible humanitarian role.
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Monday, January 07, 2008
Sham Elections in Kenya: A tragic setback for democracy in Africa
Atlanta, GA---In the immediate aftermath of the recent elections in Kenya, the Bush Administration wasted no time in sending its glowing congratulations to incumbent President Mwai Kibaki and the Kenyan Election Commission, writes Dr Keith Jennings.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Gas flaring wrecking Delta communities in Nigeria
Civil society groups in the Niger Delta region have warned that the government is destroying communities’ health and Nigeria’s environment by flouting laws against gas flaring, a technique used in oil production.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Why Africans must tread carefully over US Africa project
In the past nearly five decades since the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), many Africans have consistently called for closer ties between the nation-states that make up the continent, writes Basil Okafor.
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Monday, May 15, 2006
Sexual exploitation adds to existing troubles in Liberia
Last week Save the Children launched a report into sexual exploitation in Liberia, but the UN and UNICEF acknowledge that it is part of much bigger issues in the war-torn country which they are taking very seriously.
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Monday, November 28, 2005
Terror in Sudan Update: Is rape still being used as a weapon of war and is tribal conflict the cause or ethnic cleansing?
Deborah Gabriel speaks exclusively to the Head of the AU Mission in Sudan about the current situation on the ground including the recent killing of AU troops, the use of rape as a weapon of war and the vast funding needed to keep the operation going.
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