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File - Journalists take notes and record as they listen to the verdict of the trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor, seen on the screen standing in the court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday April 26, 2012.
Africa   Liberia   Photos   War Crime   Wikipedia: Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)  
Sierra Leone trial: Charles Taylor set to address court
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is expected to address the international court that found him guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone. | It is his last chance to speak at the tribunal in The Hag... (photo: AP / Peter Dejong) BBC News
Soldiers stand guard outside the presidential palace after a military coup in Bamako, Mali, Friday, March 23, 2012.
Human Rights   Mali   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: 2012 Malian coup d'état  
Amnesty cites rights abuses in northern Mali
| Amnesty International has accused armed Tuaregs and groups fighting to impose Sharia law in northern Mali of carrying out grave rights abuses such as rape, murder and using child soldiers. | A repor... (photo: AP / Harouna Traore) Al Jazeera
File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012. Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN
More than half the population of South Sudan are facing food shortages due to the continuing conflict with Sudan, the UN is warning. | It says fighting on the border between the two countries and the ... (photo: UN / /Isaac Billy) BBC News
Food   Photos   South Sudan   War   Wikipedia: South Sudan  
Cargo Ships India ranked 46th in trade logistics performance
| Washington, May 16 (IANS) Global trade logistics performance slowed down over the last two years amid the global recession, but India and others that pursued aggressive reforms continued to improve,... (photo: WN / prajkta) Newstrack India
India   Photos   Trade   Washington   Wikipedia: Trade  
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Libya former rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj, second left, speaks with Libya fighters prior to the arrival of Libyan Transitional National Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at Metiga airport in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. 'Rendition' Libyan commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj to form his own party
Abdel Hakim Belhadj, a prominent Islamist commander suing MI6 over his alleged rendition by the CIA in 2004, is poised to emerge as a powerful political force in Libya af... (photo: AP / Francois Mori) The Daily Telegraph
Islamist   Libya   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Libyan civil war  
Helen Zille, Cape Town city mayor and leader of the main opposition party, center, outside the court in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. Zille appeared briefly in court in connection with a demonstration outside the houses of alleged drug dealers. Police say that Zille is encouraging self-style vigilantes to take the law into their own hands, whilst her supporters say the demonstrations reflect growing fury that drug lords are targeting children and ravaging entire communities with impunity. Zille speech interrupted
DA leader Helen Zille was interrupted while speaking at a protest against Cosatu over the youth wage subsidy when violence erupted in Johannesburg on Tuesday. | Tension w... (photo: AP) Independent online
Johannesburg   Photos   Politics   Protest   Wikipedia: Helen Zille  
A lady selling food.   Une dame en train de vendre la nouriture . Togo and Africa Africa must end hunger to sustain growth - U.N
| NAIROBI, May 15 (AlertNet) - Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and address the debilitating hunger that affects 27 percent of its population if it is to s... (photo: WN / Eteh) The Star
Africa   Development   Food   Photos   Wikipedia: Africa  
Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines ignores turbulence to focus on growth
| IGNORING the furious winds buffeting the global aviation industry, 66-year-old Ethiopian Airlines is investing more than $2,6bn to ensure it capitalises on its location... (photo: GFDL / Northside) Business Day
Airlines   Business   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia: Ethiopian Airlines  
11 Peacekeepers Wounded in Democratic Republic of Congo: UN 11 Peacekeepers Wounded in Democratic Republic of Congo: UN
Angry villagers surrounded a UN peacekeeping base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday and opened fire and hurled stones injuring at least 11 Pakistani peace... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras) Jakarta Globe
Congo   Democratic   Peacekeepers   Photos   UN  
In this photo taken on a government organized tour, soldiers and civilians gather in front of a burning official building following an airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Nato defends its role over civilian deaths in Libya
| Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published evidence that scores of ordinary civilians, many of them women and children, were wrongly targeted in a series of missile attacks... (photo: AP / Darko Bandic) The Independent
Human Rights   Libya   Nato   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 military intervention in Libya  
U.S. Army Africa commander Major Gen. David Hogg, left, with Uganda Peoples Defence Force Gen. Andrew Guti, right, at the closing ceremony for operation ATLAS DROP 11 in Soroti, about 400 kilometers east of Uganda capital city Kampala Wednesday April 20, 2011. Americans Train Ugandans For Somalia Mission
| KAKOLA, Uganda (AP) — American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Soma... (photo: AP / Stephen Wandera) National Public Radio
Military   Photos   Somalia   Uganda   United States   Wikipedia: 2012 timeline of the War in Somalia  
Politics Business & Economy
MyCiTi bus service to Cape Flats ‘not feasible’
Mubarak's last premier polarises Egypt's voters
Unrest Grows in the Run-Up to Egypt's Presidential Elect
Mali faces its worst human rights crisis in years, Amnesty s
Soldiers stand guard outside the presidential palace after a military coup in Bamako, Mali, Friday, March 23, 2012.
Amnesty cites rights abuses in northern Mali
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Vodafone Ghana takes over Yahoo Mail Login page
Standard Bank Reports 24 Per Cent Growth in Profit
CBN Gives Deadline On Clearing Instruments
Professionals Here to Stay, Shows Survey
File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012.
Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN
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Education Health
50 workers head home from Angola
Poor families need incentives to school their children ̵
Minister Worried Over Educational Standards
Congratulations to Seychelles Partners in Learning forum win
Indian-origin educator named UNESCO goodwill ambassador
Indian-origin educator named UNESCO goodwill ambassador
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NIGERIA: Communities’ resistance hampers lead cleanup
3 Health institutions collaborate to train personnel to prov
Insecticide Resistance Threatens Malaria Fight
Woman in labour ‘barred by hospital’
In this photo taken on a government organized tour, soldiers and civilians gather in front of a burning official building following an airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early Tuesday, May 17, 2011.
Nato defends its role over civilian deaths in Libya
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Environment Human Rights
AEPB to Introduce New Billing System for Abuja Waste
Africa May Struggle to Extract Groundwater, Experts Say
Migration, Militias, Coups and Climate Change
Climate Change: Its Effects On Migration, Conflict In Northe
A glass of clean drinking  water.
More drinking water meets global standard — report
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Mali faces its worst human rights crisis in years, Amnesty s
NIGERIA: Calls for more action on child lead poisoning
A shadow we must now shake off
Worst Human Rights Situation in 50 Years
Soldiers stand guard outside the presidential palace after a military coup in Bamako, Mali, Friday, March 23, 2012.
Amnesty cites rights abuses in northern Mali
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Sport Agriculture
Fifa Names Sudanese Refs for Eagles, Namibia
Brighton & Hove Albion's Adam El-Abd called up by E
Treat sports as business in Ghana – Stakeholders
The indefatigable Ethiopian: Introducing the Czech Republic&
In this image made from the video provided by TPA via APTN, showing Togo national soccer team captain Emmanuel Adebayor, front, being helped by unidentified Togo team member, Friday Jan. 8, 2010, following a deadly attack by gunmen in Cabinda, Angola
Emmanuel Adebayor abandons Togo once more
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Ghana to receive $95m worth of agricultural inputs from Braz
Agricultural Sector Gets More Boost
Tag opens door for death row prisoner
Couple attacked on farm
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare speaks at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008.
Michael Somare, Papua New Guinea's 'father of independence' to retire
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