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• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Aid in War-torn Congo: Video Report

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  This video is a report from Doctors without Borders (MSF) on their ongoing efforts to deliver much-needed medical aid to civilian populations across the war-torn Democratic Republican of Congo. MSF got into delivering aid to the DR Congo after the ethnic clashes in Rwanda that turned into the brutal Rwandan genocide. ...
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• MSF Says DR Congo Military Killed Civilians at Vaccination Clinics

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF/Doctors without Borders) is accusing the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo of firing on civilians at vaccination clinics it was running. MSF goes as far as to allege it was “used” as a means of luring large numbers of civilians to 7 different locations where Congolese ...
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• South Africa: Sesame Streets HIV-Positive Muppet Raises Awareness

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  As the childrens show Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, premiering its new season today, one cute and cuddly Muppet on its South African edition continues to help combat and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. While Sesame Street is seen in over 140 countries , each version addresses local ...
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• Experts fear Africa "pandemic" from rise in smoking

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 719
  Source: Reuters * Smoking rates seen doubling in half of Africa * Experts say anti-smoking policies could prevent "pandemic" * Smoking expected to kill 6 million worldwide in 2010 By Kate Kelland ...
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• Ministers to unveil DNA data plan

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 461
  Details of how long profiles of innocent people can be kept on the DNA database for England and Wales are to be unveiled. See the original post here:  Ministers to unveil DNA data plan
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• VIDEO: The view from the Hill, Oman Airs Peter Hill

  
  Airline Business — Authority: 417
  Some wise words from Oman Air chief executive and industry veteran Peter Hill, who is in London for the travel exhibition extravaganza that is World Travel Market . I asked him if there was too much capacity in the Middle East airline sector right now.   "The problem is there is too much capacity ...
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• International Real Estate: House Hunting in ... South Africa

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A 530-square meter (5,700-square-foot) farmhouse in Pettenberg Bay is on the market for 6.5 million rand ($856,000).
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• Churches in Nigeria denounce children as witches – Boston Globe

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 455
  Boston GlobeChurches in Nigeria denounce children as witchesBoston GlobeNwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. …read the full article
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• Eco-tourism project team visits Tanji Bird Reserve

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 541
  The Tanji Bird Reserve got a visit from the project coordinating committee members and stakeholders of the eco-tourism project last Thursday. read more
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• That awful hum will return

  
  Dirty Tackle — Authority: 611
  Well, it’s official — the maddening buzz of the vuvuzela will be heard at the World Cup (assuming you don’t gouge out your eardrums for fear of suffering through a month of aural torture before then). Says SABC News : During the Confederations Cup earlier this year, players and the international media ...
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• IBM figures rail transit is going to get faster and cleaner

  
  GreenTech Pastures — Authority: 554
  High speed rail transit is happening in many lands. IBM is part of the action.
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• Distant Relatives First Looks…

  
  Jamhuri Wear Gazette — Authority: 106
  This is a video of a live performance I came across from the much anticipated Distant Relatives album with Nas and Damian Marley, release date is set for end of this year, early next year. This particular track is called “Africa Must Wake Up.” I believe K’naan is also supposed to be on this track we’ll see ...
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• Gucci: Snowman in Africa

  
  Excess Baggage — Authority: 119
  now in its fifth year running, the Gucci Campaign to Benefit UNICEF has commissioned artist, photographer, author, film maker and illustrator Michael Roberts to create a follow-up to his hugely successful Snowman in Paradise childrens book. the result is Snowman in Africa : starting ...
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• A place in the sun

  
  The Toynbee convector — Authority: 127
  As well as “Yellow Peril”, Kaiser Wilhelm II coined the phrase “place in the sun”, Platz an der Sonne, which Toynbee quoted.It came into a speech on June 18 1901 to the Bürgermeister of Hamburg and others on board the passenger steamship Prinzessin Victoria Luise of the Hamburg-Amerika line during the Lower ...
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• Zimbabwe’s Cycle of Crisis

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  The outcome of regional intervention in Zimbabwe has been a thirty day ultimatum to implement the agreement and a return to the government by opposition party. However a major sticking point is the trial of one of the opposition government ministers…
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• England suffer first defeat of South Africa tour as batsmen misfire

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  It was not the local vicars XI beating them but England still managed to make an unholy mess of their first serious challenge of the South Africa tour without the captain, Andrew Strauss, to hold their hand. Before this 20-over warm-up match against South Africa A, Graeme Swann had said that Englands one-day team had ...
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• Bacary Sagna expects crazy mustwin match against Republic of Ireland

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Arsenal fullback Bacary Sagna expecting France v Republic of Ireland World Cup match to be like the Premier League.
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• Run Outs Cost England Against South Africa A

  
  The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News — Authority: 441
  Matt Prior, Luke Wright and Tim Bresnan were all run out as England slumped to a four-wicket defeat against South Africa A in the Twenty20 warm-up in Bloemfontein on Tuesday. Rilee Rossouw and Vaughan van Jaarsveld joint top-scored with 23 as South Africa’s second string made light work of England’s 89 all out. ...
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• South Africa: South African national anthem for English speakers

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  South African national anthem for English speakers : What a great way to visually explain the South African national anthem for those of us who firstly don’t know it by now, secondly know it but might not know how we are pronouncing it and thirdly don’t speak the languages in the anthem.
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• Cape Towns new Departure Terminal

  
  The idiot's mind — Authority: 91
  Went through the recently opened departure terminal on Sunday - and it was a great change from the old terminal. Very spacious, and really well designed. There are still some things to be sorted out - like lounges and access notices to the lounges, but overall a really good job! One complaint about SA airports in ...
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