 Christian Science Monitor The latest West African investment was announced last week, when Vedanta, India's largest exporter of iron ore, revealed that it was buying a majority stake in Western Cluster Ltd., a network of iron ore deposits in the West African nation of Liberia. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| U.N. seeks probe into possible war crimes in Sudan's Southern Kordofan CNN International A recent report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, based on human rights reports by the winding-down UN peacekeeping mission, describes arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings, alleged house-to-house searches and possible ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sharp rise in deaths, U.N. visit to Djibouti: E. Africa drought latest Reuters AlertNet An estimated 100000 people have fled from south and central Somalia to the capital in recentweeks, settling in camps in and around Mogadishu. MSF said it had vaccinated almost 3000 children as part of measles vaccination campaigns in dozens of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| More Angola tourists use Visa cards for shopping gulfnews.com By Aya Lowe, Staff Reporter Dubai: Angolan tourists using electronic payment methods in the UAE have increased by 239.4 per cent from 2009 to 2010, overtaking Australia in tenth place among biggest spenders in the UAE, according to Visa's latest ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New anti-abortion billboard targeting African-American leaders unveiled Florida Independent By Virginia Chamlee | 08.16.11 | 11:13 am Today, a group of African-American anti-abortion groups gathered to unveil their latest ad, which is titled “Betrayed” and displays a link to abortioninthehood.com, a site that shows photos of African-American ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Africa: Competition Spurs Access to Banking And Innovation AllAfrica.com Shah notes that one of the latest boosts for financial access in Kenya is the partnership between mobile operators and commercial banks which, over and above doing away with account-opening fees and monthly charges, pays interest and offers account ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Childbearing May Increase Risk of Hormone Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer in ... HealthCanal.com Palmer based her report, published in a recent issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, on the Black Women's Health Study, which has followed 59000 African-American women since ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Aid from democracies stifles Ethiopian democracy By Ethiopian America Council Abugidainfo Nations in the Horn of Africa – Eritrea, Somalia, and to a lesser degree, Kenya – are all experiencing another severe drought this year, along with Ethiopia. The repressive regime of Meles Zenawi has been diverting all aid to the country only to those ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nigerian Internet Entrepreneur Takes Nollywood To The World Forbes Nollywood as a phenomenon has been one of most underappreciated social, cultural and economic movements coming out of Africa. I believe that Nollywood is Nigeria's national treasure-an amazing way to crystallize our culture, aspirations and attitudes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Yield spread on S.Africa 2015/2026 bonds hits record 141 bps Reuters Africa Latest South African manufacturing data shows output growth slowed to 0.9 percent year-on-year in June and retail sales showed no growth at all in May as consumers tightened their belts. Retail sales data for June, due out on Wednesday, is expected to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| From Franco to Trespass: 10 Points Worth Knowing About TIFF's Latest Invitees Movieline As presumed, Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard are throwing their hats in the awards-season ring with Winnie, the biopic exploring the controversial life and work of South African icon Winnie Mandela. The film will no doubt be one of the big market ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Romance, Religion and the Occult: The Revival Published by Outskirts Press PR.com (press release) The Revival is the second novel of a trilogy which continues Virginia Wilson's adventures in theAfrican country of Totoba. The Return, the first novel, published in 2010, features strange, mysterious and unexplainable happenings. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Okene-Lokoja Highway Robbery [analysis] Middle East North Africa Financial Network Aug 16, 2011 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The recent Okene-Lokoja highway robbery in which about 50 people lost their lives in a most horrific manner is a sad reminder of the high level of insecurity in the country. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Predictive Discovery potential for delineating a large gold discovery in ... Proactive Investors Australia Exploration in the West African country will kick off again after the rainy season ends in October-November 2011. Predictive already has 14 target areas where diamond, reverse circulation or power auger drilling is planned. Around half of the recent ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Train Crash Heightens Safety Concerns over China Exports The Epoch Times While China became the world's largest exporter in 2010, global consumers have grown more wary about risks of consuming China's products and services. An April Economist report said Chinese businesses and products quickly lost their halo in Africa due ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Try high-taste, low-tech Muskogee Daily Phoenix His latest series centers on cooler-than-cool brand recognition and over-the-top pop culture. “Pattern Recognition” (2005), “Spook Country” (2007), and his most recent novel, “Zero History” (2010), question who is running the show and how far we will ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Warriors scale new heights The Zimbabwean The team has been on a steady rise since the beginning of this year and put their African Nations Cup 2012 campaign back on track. The latest ranking, which the team shares with West Africanoutfit Benin, is nonetheless a far cry from the 40th spot the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Green Issue: five of the world's greenest destinations Travel Weekly The latest findings compiled by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research published in a 2009review found the ozone hole has caused wind speed to increase around the Antarctic, resulting in distinct warming of average summer and autumn ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sage of London closes in on Archer's MYOB The Australian Indeed, its Africa, Australia, Middle East and Asia region delivered the group's strongest growth in itslatest half. The division generated a 13 per cent increase in revenue, compared with its largest region, Europe, where sales rose 5 per cent. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Muslims Smash Right-Wing Stereotypes Antiwar.com Experts suggested at the time that the poll had been weighted by African American Muslims (20 percent of all US Muslims, according to the poll, and more recent converts) who tended to express less desire to integrate, and felt more discrimination than ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| On Stage 8/16: August rolls on with new theater, dance and festivals ThirdCoast Digest All the works in the exhibit are from 2008 and 2009 fellowship winners and been part of exhibitions in Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere in the United States. The show will be on display in MIAD's Layton Gallery from Aug. 20 to Oct. 8, with an opening ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Bloomberg/Soros Millions for Futile Social Engineering American Thinker This $130 million program does not target recent arrivals from the Caribbean (and Africa) for good reason -- many will on their own take advantage of the opportunities available to everyone, including these "under-served" youngsters (for example, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Largest global childhood pneumonia etiology study launched EurekAlert (press release) The study is being conducted in Bangladesh, The Gambia, Kenya, Mali, South Africa, Thailand, and Zambia, and in collaboration with local and international research stations and universities, including laboratory support from the University of Otago and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Edinburgh International Book Festival: William McIlvanney | Justin Cartwright Edinburgh Festivals When he explained that his latest project, a "dictionary of personal experience" called Personal Dispatches, had been roundly refused by publishers, there was a tangible sense of outrage. By the time he had read from the manuscript, there were murmurs ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Health communicator spreads knowledge, improves lives through HIV/AIDS research NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) The East African nation borders the Indian Ocean and is well known for its struggles with the HIV/AIDS virus. Muturi still has family in Kenya, so she tries to visit the country every two years. She focuses her research on rural Kenya because of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Interview with Stranger Band NUG Magazine With their latest CD release of “World Underground,” and a recent CD Release Party, NUG Magazine caught a glimpse of just how thoughtful the band gets. The band's CD Release party took place on Friday, July 15th at the House of Blues in downtown San ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| LLRC and the future of Sri Lanka Lankaweb In 1648, the Westphalian system implemented the idea of nation states. In the 1884, the Berlin Conference divided Africa among fighting Europeans. In more recent times Europe preached Multiculturalism and the dissolution of the sovereign state. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS INTRODUCES ADVENTURES FROM THE SAVANNA OF DISNEY'S ... Gamasutra In the “The Lion King” world, players will journey to the African savanna by suiting up as iconic characters from the award-winning movie, where they'll explore Pride Rock and the Elephant Graveyard. “'The Lion King' was an animated masterpiece, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| In Zimbabwe, renegade bishop's backers evict priest Anglican Journal "Kunonga was given custodianship of [Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA)] properties when he is no longer a member of our church and province and he is now evicting CPCA priests and we don't know who he is going to put in these houses ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Shapiro: A six-step plan for Tiger CSNBaltimore.com Make a few more personal appearances at inner city golf courses, like Langston in Washington, DC If that place, a haven for African American golfers for more than 70 years, was good enough for Joe Louis, Lee Elder and Charlie Sifford, it's worth a day ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Photograph: Evie Deavall Cherwell Online (blog) An integral member of the Ghana team that reached the quarter finals of last year's World Cup in South Africa, Ayew has, in recent years, come to the attention of the footballing world. Having starred for the Ghana U-20 team at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| DVDs, CDs and Books - Aug. 16, 2011 Las Vegas Review-Journal Turning to movies that never made it to local theaters, Kim Cattrall stars as a past-her-prime porn star in "Meet Monica Velour" (R), while photojournalists focus on violent post-apartheid South Africain the fact-based "The Bang Bang Club" (R), ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| National Newsmakers Youngstown Vindicator Did Kathryn Stockett use her brother's African- American maid as the basis for a character in the bestselling novel-turned-movie “The Help?” For now, that question may go unanswered, by a court anyway. A Mississippi judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday in ... See all stories on this topic » |
| AfriMoney.com | Zambia: Community Schools – Narrowing Illiteracy By AllAfrica News: Latest August 17, 2011 By AllAfrica News: Latest. "Enrolment in the education sector at grades one to seven increased by 108 per cent from 1.6 million pupils in 2000 to the current 3.3 million in 2011," President Rupiah Banda observed this during the eve of Africa Freedom Day this ... African Union Kwame Nkrumah Scientific awards. D/L 15 September.Arthur B. Schultz Foundation grants aimed at non-profit groups involved in women's empowerment and disabled mobility … [Read More...] ... AfriMoney.com |
| AMISOM “Al shabaab warkooda waa been, Taagina nalagama gubin ... By wararka August 17, 2011 | Filed under: Latest News | Posted by: wararka. Muqdisho-(GMN) Padyy Ankunda ayaa waxaa intaasi ku daray in waxa lagu bay uusan ahayn Taangi balse uu ahaa Baabuurta Kolanyada ee ay isticlaamaan ciidamada AMISOM ee ... Gedoonline |
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| Big Brother Africa 3 latest news and videos Majang was speaking in Kampala during the launch of the 2011 "Yoola Omudidi", which he said is amplified just like the recently concluded Big Brother Africa ... interceder.net/topic/Big-Brother-Africa-3 |
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