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Breaking News Mon, 15 Mar 2010
 Wide view of today´s unanimous vote of the Security Council to extend the authorization given to ECOWAS and France
Chambas   Commission   Development   Ecowas   Photos  
West Africa will not meet MDGs - Dr Chambas
Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, immediate-past President of the ECOWAS Commission says the sub-region would not meet the Millennium Development Goals by the 2015 deadline. | He said despite progress in some ... (photo: UN) Joy Online
Simple interventions could reduce maternal deaths by 46 percent
Campaign   Ethiopia   Health   Photos   Women  
ETHIOPIA: "No woman should die while giving life" campaign makes headway
web | ADDIS ABABA, 15 March 2010 (IRIN) - Ethiopia has made some headway towards improving maternal and child health, but more needs to be done to reduce the high number of preventable deaths, says an... (photo: IRIN / Tiggy Ridley) IRINnews
A family fleeing the fighting in Mogadishu (file photo) SOMALIA: Without food and unable to bury the dead in Mogadishu
web | NAIROBI, 15 March 2010 (IRIN) - Five days of fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have left residents without food, cut off from their homes and unable to bury their dead, civil society le... (photo: IRIN News / Hassan Mahamud Ahmed) IRINnews
Africa   Food   Humanitarian   Mogadishu   Photos  
 raj kapoor, nutam - indian film actor, actress - bollywood - hires - am1 - hires Bollywood, Raj Kapoor famous in Africa, says music troupe
New Delhi: This is their first trip to India but members of BBC Sound System, a band from Senegal, have seen many Bollywood films, love the sound of tabla and say Raj Kapoor is famous back home. | &qu... (photo: WN / aruna1) Samachaar
Actors   Arts   Mumbai   Music   Photos  
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At least 200,000 children are at risk of malnutrition in Niger this year, based on early UN estimates NIGER: Experts explain why malnutrition is recurrent
web | DAKAR, 15 March 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN has asked a range of experts over the past year why malnutrition is recurrent in Niger even after decades of donor support and go... (photo: IRIN News / Anne Isabelle Leclercq) IRINnews
Africa   Chad   Health   Niger   Photos  
Standard Chartered Bank, located along Lightfoot Boston Street-Freetown. How Standard Chartered is growing China-Africa business relations
Standard Chartered Bank, Nigeria (SCB) is fostering business relationship between African and Chinese business persons, as it recently launched its premium SME China Afri... (photo: WN / John Sahid) Business Day Online
Africa   Bank   Business   China   Photos  
Palestinians take part in a demonstration calling the Egyptian government to stop its construction of an underground steel wall along its border with Gaza on January 18, 2010 at the border town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN Egypt's wall along Gaza border in "final stage": report
| Cairo - The reinforced underground steel wall which Egypt is building along its border with Gaza is nearly completed, Egyptian daily al-Shorouq reported Monday. | 'Work... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) m&c
Egypt   Gaza   Israel   Palestinians   Photos  
File - A family has constructed a makeshift shelter in the area of Shangel Tubaya, Sudan, after migrating from their village in Darfur where fighting is ongoing, 26 January, 2010. Darfur rebel row jeopardises Sudan peace deal
| A row between Darfur rebel groups has thrown into doubt a peace deal between the rebels and Sudan's government. | One rebel group signed a preliminary deal last month, ... (photo: UN / Albert Gonzalez Farran) BBC News
Africa   Peace   Photos   Refugee   Sudan   UN  
Sex and the City People: "Sex and The City 2" gal pals head to Morocco
| A scene from "Sex and the City 2" movie. (AP) | With only 11 weeks to go before the "Sex And The City 2" movie sequel, fans have been given a sneak peek of what to expe... (photo: AP / ) Denver Post
Actors   Arts   Broadcast   Entertainment   Photos  
Grand Sheik Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi of al-Azhar Cleric argued for secular politics, women's rights
 The Daily TelegraphMarch 15, 2010 3:04 AM      Tantawi was known for his violent rages against journalists asking difficult questions. | Photograph by: Khaled Desou... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil) National Post
Journalists   Photos   Politics   Rights   Women  
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak participate in a bilateral meeting at the Qubba Palace in Cairo, Thursday, June 4, 2009.  Mubarak is improving after surgery
| Berlin - The health of Egypt's president is improving following gallbladder surgery last week, a spokesperson for the German hospital where he is receiving treatment sa... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert) Independent online
Berlin   Egypt   Health   Photos   President  
ANC leader Jacob Zuma S. African President condoles Fatima Meer's death
| Pretoria, March 15: South African President Jacob Zuma has expressed codolence over the death of anti-apartheid stalwart Fatima Meer. | Meer, a friend and biographer of... (photo: Creative Commons / albert bredenhann) The Siasat Daily
Africa   Death   Photos   President   Zuma  
South African President Thabo Mbeki addresses a newsconference at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, April, 28. 2004. Mbeki's rising star will take time to cool off
  | By Donwald Pressly | Submit your comment | The announcement by Brian Molefe at the weekend that he will not be seeking another term as Public Investment Corporat... (photo: AP / Obed Zilwa) Business Report
Election   Mbeki   Photos   Politics   SAfrica  
Politics Business & Economy
Activists sceptical of goals
Egypt opposition groups call for reforms
Nigeria militants set off bombs, step up threats
Police investigate Sudan links in rights lawyer's killin
 Wide view of today´s unanimous vote of the Security Council to extend the authorization given to ECOWAS and France
West Africa will not meet MDGs - Dr Chambas
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PM challenges African engineers
IRA commissions survey of Kenyan market
Rains Hurt Economy
The Economic Tune in Music
At least 200,000 children are at risk of malnutrition in Niger this year, based on early UN estimates
NIGER: Experts explain why malnutrition is recurrent
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Society Terrorism
Police investigate Sudan links in rights lawyer's killin
Zimbabwe parliament hears public objections to indigenizatio
New UN Group of Social Media Envoys to Post and Tweet for Ma
Less than half of Katine women give birth in health centre
 Former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss (dn1)
Domestic violence focus of women’s day conference
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MotoAdventureGal update: To the Darien Gap, then the hop to
Venezuela tests its new Chinese jets
James Cooper: Intellectual-property theft in Latin America
Chavez says Internet should be regulated, urges legal crackd
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh being received by the Danish officials, on his arrival, at Copenhagen, to attend the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference, on December 17, 2009.
Iran shadow hangs over Singh’s visit to US
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Health & Science Energy & Industry
 KZN on high alert
Sudan to Continue Peace Talks With Darfur Rebels
South Africa obesity levels on par with US
 Drug dealers get jail for 'despicable' crimes
Simple interventions could reduce maternal deaths by 46 percent
ETHIOPIA: "No woman should die while giving life" campaign makes headway
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Lula takes on regional peace with Israel visit
China invests $100 million in Mauritania fishing
Nigeria militants set off bombs, step up threats
Nigeria militants set off bombs, step up threats
Grand Sheik Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi of al-Azhar
Cleric argued for secular politics, women's rights
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Sport Internet & Education
Gayle helps Windies sweep aside Zimbabwe
Stade Renne and Toulouse take centre stage on Joy Sports on
Arusha Girl Wins Dar Es Salaam Tennis Meet
New Zealand postpones Zimbabwe tour
Manchester City's Nedum Onuoha, right, vies for the ball with Hamburg's Jose Paolo Guerrero
Manchester City's Nedum Onuoha Tops List Of Nigeria Probables
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Njombe Members to Discuss University Developments
Residents, School Clash Over Road
 Students injured in clash with police
Junior School Being Constructed in Bet-Gebriel Administrativ
Pregnancy - Woman
Pregnant Teens Forced Out of School
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