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UN report condemns Botswana’s treatment of Bushmen
Report demands ‘urgent’ action by government over water The UN’s top official on indigenous rights has condemned Botswana’s continued persecution of the Bushmen in a new report. Prof. James Anaya, UN ... |

By Survival International USA in WORLD NEWS on March 3rd, 2010
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Southern Sudan Faces Severe Food Shortages
MALOUALKON, SOUTHERN SUDAN—Food stocks are running out in areas of Southern Sudan that experienced unusually poor harvests this year, Action Against Hunger | ACF International announced today. To fill ... |

By James Phelan in WORLD NEWS on February 10th, 2010
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I predict fire. I predict that my little Ghanaian village will bring in the new year with torches of fire, as they do every year. They will throw the torches into trees and bushes, burning away ... |

By Maria Karlya in WORLD NEWS, TRAVEL on February 3rd, 2010
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Pirates Seize Ship Carrying 2,300 Hyundai's
A ship carrying 2,300 Hyundai's and Kia's was captured by Somali pirates about 600 miles off the coast of Somalia late Friday, The Car Connection reports. Not to make light of something as serious ... |

By kidmercury in WORLD NEWS on January 7th, 2010
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Genocide and War Crimes in Uganda
Durham, North Carolina. Friday, September 18, 2009. Uganda and Chile may seem thousands of miles apart; different in cultures and climate, but they share something in common – a history ... |

By Peter Otika in WORLD NEWS on September 18th, 2009
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Africa gets connected
Africa.  It's a place where you can get a vision of the mobile future, where millions of people use their phones to run their finances and as their main point of access to the web. But it's also an area ... |

By Rory Cellan-Jones in WORLD NEWS on September 11th, 2009
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In South Africa, Homing Pigeons Are Much Faster than the Internet
Bird-band has outpaced Broadband when a South African technology outfit named Unlimited IT has proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country’s ... |

in WORLD NEWS on September 11th, 2009
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How Global is The War On Terror? Part 1: Africa
It should come to me as little surprise that I was questioned about the pertinence to the War On Terror News of an article about Somalia. It has been some time since we mentioned the pertinence of Somalia ... |

By SSG Hope in WORLD NEWS on September 10th, 2009
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Obama’s Africa Policy Should Emphasize Accountable Leadership
By Peter Otika North Carolina, August 31, 2009. In recent months, Africa has been in the news everywhere and for once, for a good reason. This time, it’s about one of its grandsons in ... |

By Peter Otika in WORLD NEWS on August 31st, 2009
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South Africa's world champion Caster Semenya produced the fifth fastest 800 metres time in history to win in grand sytle this evening - in a new world leading time of 1:55.45. But that's not the only ... |

By Yommie in WORLD NEWS, SPORTS on August 29th, 2009
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