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Somalia home to latest 'world's worst humanitarian crisis'
Allentown Morning Call
The drought and resulting famine are punishing the country of Somalia, although other regions in the Horn of Africa are also affected — parts of Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea. The hunger and starvation require a massive humanitarian response ...
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Allentown Morning Call
President Obama's Unemployment Inaction Puts Approval Among Blacks At Risk (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
is the latest African-American politician or public figure to call out President Barack Obama on his lack of attention to the nightmarish unemployment rates in the black community, his most reliable supporters. "We don't know why on this trip that he's ...
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A review of real economic developments across SA, Africa and the world
Creamer Media's Engineering News
STRATEGIC MIGRATION NEEDED TO PLUG GLOBAL SKILLS GAP – MANPOWER – With one-third of employers worldwide reporting difficulty filling business-critical job vacancies, the ManpowerGroup suggests, in its latest survey, that moving people to where the work ...
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Red-listed cuckoos reach Africa
The Press Association
The BTO has tagged the cuckoos with tiny 5g tags and is following their progress as they head from breeding grounds in East Anglia to over-wintering areas in Africa. The red-listed species has seen numbers halve in recent years, but experts have very ...
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DuBuque was dentist by day, face of Pabst Theater at night
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
He retired from his day job - DuBuque worked as a dentist in Wauwatosa until recent years - but kept returning to the Pabst Theater season after season. He planned to be back this week, after a trip to South Africa. Instead, friends and colleagues ...
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In a Better World
Irish Times
Parallel storylines present Anton, a saintly physician working in an unnamed Africanrefugee camp far away from his estranged wife, Marianne, and delicate, lonely son, Elias. Happily, the boy, a much-maligned Swede in Denmark, finds a friend in ...
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Irish Times
Half-baked cakes
Moneyweb.co.za
Take the latest violent South African municipal workers' strike as an example. Now there's a mushy cake if ever there was one. The negotiation started in the earlier part of this year, was taken out of the oven just before the local elections, ...
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Awash with awards
The Standard
STEVENS MUENDO and DAVID ODONGO find out if it is a case of too many cooks swimming in the broth A week after the Mwafaka Music Awards were hosted in the city, the inaugural East Africa Music Awards (EMAs) are set for tomorrow at Bomas of Kenya. ...
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The Standard
Will CID Reshuffle Hurt Scams Probe?
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Aug 19, 2011 (Nairobi Star/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Fears abound that the recenttransfer of senior Criminal Investigation Department detectives will halt the investigation into various mega scams that have been under investigation by ...
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Full Story
Nigerian Observer
With the benefit of hindsight, the 2010 presidential election was conducted to reconcile the country's political forces, which had been at daggers-drawn since 2002. Gbagbo's refusal to hand over power after he lost, inevitably led to the latest ...
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Nigerian Observer
Josh Groban comes to Sacramento a star in music, philanthropy
Sacramento Bee
He was named official ambassador for Nelson Mandela's Project 46664, a campaign to help raise global awareness of HIV and AIDS in Africa. In 2007, his foundation gave $150000 to North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to fund music education, ...
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Another charity mess brews in China
China Media Project
Add these all together and you get Lu Xingyu (卢星宇), the latest hot person on the internet. On August 16, the “China-Africa Project Hope Primary School” (中非希望小学) became a hot word on microblogs, and this low-profile project and its ...
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With friends like Tom Coburn
Salon
Coburn didn't enumerate exactly what programs the president had relied on as anAfrican-American male. We know that Obama's white mother relied on food stamps briefly when he was a toddler. Is that what the senator is referring to? ...
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Salon
US child poverty rate soars to 20 percent
World Socialist Web Site
The latest “Kids Count” report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that child poverty grew in 38 of 50 US states over the past decade. Laura Speer of the Casey Foundation, a non-profit child advocacy group, commented on the report's publication: ...
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Botnets decentralise after Redmond's kingpin takedowns
CSO Magazine
“After the closure of Rustock in March 2010, the volume of spam sent to the US continued to grow and peaked in April,” number-crunchers at Kaspersky Labs reported in its latest spam report. Spam as a percentage of email in the past quarter grew from 78 ...
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Top hosting providers in SA: Does uncapped work?
MyBroadband
In recent weeks Web Africa and RSAWeb launched uncapped hosting products, ranging between R19 per month and R439 in price. Two of the largest hosting providers in South Africa, Hetzner and Afrihost, have upped their bandwidth limits and reduced their ...
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MyBroadband
Friday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories ...
FinFacts Ireland
If any good has come from the latest set of dreadful maths and science results, it is that the myth of the supposedly world class Irish education system has finally been exploded. The most recent OECD figures show that the maths proficiency of Irish ...
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FinFacts Ireland
Asia shows growing viability as IPO venue
Financial Times
Yet the recent challenges faced by initial public offerings in many developed markets has led to western companies increasingly considering listing in Asian markets, particularly Hong Kong. Manchester United is the latest western company to eschew a...
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Financial Times
How to perplex a moviegoer in the game of the name
The Independent
Two years ago, cinemas screened in turn South African sci-fi District 9, animated adventure 9, then inanimate musical Nine. Between November 2009 and May 2010, those awaiting the latest Coen Brothers effort, Colin Firth's Oscar-worthy star turn or a ...
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Water shortage database launched to tackle critical drought problems
ComputerworldUK
... such as recent droughts in the southwest of the US and flooding in China. Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more The launch comes at a time when east Africa is ...
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Hunger project rethinks award to Malawi President after deadly riots
Westside Gazette
... Hunger Project to cancel the prize is the latest blow to President Mutharika following the suspension of a $350 million US aid program last month over what Washington said was its ''deep concern'' over recent events in the southern African country. ...
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Drop in Darfur refugee numbers
Radio Dabanga
There has been a significant decrease in the number of displaced people in Darfur, according to a recent assessment carried out by the United Nations African Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and its partner agencies. The number of displaced people in Darfur...
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Radio Dabanga
Jay-Z and Kanye West: Hip-Hop Empowerment
Chicago Defender
At a time when the prevailing commentary about Black people in America, Africa, the Caribbean and throughout the Pan African world is too often focused almost solely on the pathology and the negative statistics and realities about our socioeconomic ...
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Chicago Defender
MLOs on the Move; Pricing Overages Pay Marketing Expenses; Refinancing...
Mortgage News Daily
In Africa alone, the population is expected to grow 1.1 billion, or 49% of the global projected growth, by 2050. But in some developed countries like Japan and Germany, the growth rate is expected to stay flat or even decline. In the coming decades, ...
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Total wins Lake Tanganyika oil and gas exploration rights
ESI Africa
Interest in East Africa as a new hydrocarbon region has been heating up in recent years after major discoveries of oil in Uganda and natural gas in Tanzania and Mozambique. Lake Tanganyika is shared between Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ...
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Japan aid at risk
Namibian
Following a recent article in this newspaper that NamPort had shortlisted only one company, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), for the N$2 billion project, the Japanese ambassador to South Africa, Akihiko Furuya flew into Windhoek and met with ...
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Google takes on Amazon as Street View cameras head down mighty river
Daily Mail
Last year, photos of penguins in Antarctica were snapped by the mapping network andrecent additions to the site include Pompeii, the Australian outback, Brazil's famous beaches, the Palace of Versailles and the plains of Africa.
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Daily Mail
Deadly Steve looks for adventure
BBC News
It has entailed years of operations, the most recent of which led to further infection and delayed some of his filming work. However, enforced periods of inactivity have allowed Backshall to concentrate on writing. His latest book Looking for Adventure ...
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BBC News
War museum looks for new space
Charlotte Observer
Rod MacFarquhar, 86, who fought in World War II and Korea, was the oldest of about a dozen vets already gathered at 9 am one recent weekday at the Welcome Home Veterans Living Military Museum at Richard's Coffee Shop. The youngest was Anne-Marie ...
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Le Hellraiser! How Gerard Depardieu makes Oliver Reed look like a nun
Daily Mail
He met his long-suffering wife Elisabeth in drama school in 1970 and they were together for 22 years until 1992, when Depardieu's then-mistress, the African model Karine Sylla, gave birth to his daughter, Roxanne. The incorrigible Gerard moved in with...
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Daily Mail
MIKE MULLER: Telecoms
Business Day
It has shown in west Africa and elsewhere that it cannot compete against cellphone competitors. The answer comes from the electricity sector, where across SA municipalities stopped investing in their infrastructure when the government proposed their ...
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Consumer confidence at record high in the region
gulfnews.com
"In fact, the latest consumer confidence score for the UAE is the highest that it has been since 2004 and is significantly higher than markets such as China (78.3), Hong Kong (69.9) and India (75.2)." The scale of the study is weighed with 100 being ...
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gulfnews.com
Iroko and the storm
Daily Sun
In the words of The Apostolic Nuncio in the Central Africa Republic and the Republic of Chad, Archbishop Jude Okolo, “God has used Governor Peter Obi to wipe away the tears of the people who have suffered the burden of incompetent and greedy rulers. ...
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Threat of Pirates Forces Re-Route of Sailing Race Around World
Bloomberg
The most recent victims were held for an average of 213 days, and an estimated $150 million was paid to pirates last year in ransoms for ships, cargoes and crews, according to the release. Boats were scheduled to sail through an East African corridor ...
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British TV Podcast Show #97 - Magic shows on British TV
Anglotopia.net
He started the British TV Podcast With Chrissy and Ryan in 2009. Check out the Really Cool British Traveler for Trip Planning Help! See the leading Mauritius Hotels for your dream island holiday. Experience a luxury african safari and see the Big 5 ...
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Duly Noted - Was This Time The Last Time?
Intellectual Conservative
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Free cotrimoxazole improves retention in care among adults not yet eligible ...
aidsmap
Between 2000 and 2007 mean retention rates in ART programmes in sub-Saharan Africa were estimated to be 75%, In contrast a recent meta-analysis of studies looking at retention of patients not yet eligible for treatment found that more two-thirds of ...
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School Beat: It's Time for New Strategies - Aug 18
Beyond Chron
While test data by definition can only provide a partial picture, that picture has been the same for years and clearlys show that achievement gap experienced by African-American and Latino students is as persistent as ever. The recent report on ...
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August 19, 2011 | Filed under: Latest News | Posted by: wararka. Muqdishi- (GMN) Wafti balaaran oo uu hogaam,inayao Raizal Wazaaraha dalka Turkiga Recep Tayyib Erdogan ayaa waxaa uu goor dhow ka soo dageen Garoon Dayuuradaha caalamiga ...
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AfriMoney.com | Kenya: New Cheques Hit By Slow Internet
By AllAfrica News: Banking and Insurance
August 19, 2011 By AllAfrica News: Banking and Insurance. The cheque truncation system which went live on Monday has been picking up but slow data transmission speeds have threatened to stall the initiative. Article by AllAfrica News: Banking and Insurance (c) ... Having bought shares in recentEast African IPO's (Uganda: Stanbic Bank and Rwanda: Bralirwa Brewers), there appears to be some progress in addressing one of long standing problems of buying … [Read More...] ...
AfriMoney.com
Breaking News Africa - Part 1467
"It has been a long time since the Africa Cup of Nations was hosted in the ... 6 2010 at the latest. This decision… Read More: AfricaNews.com – Sports ...
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