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• Be My (Fair-Trade) Valentine

  
  Carrie and Danielle — Authority: 436
  Today, many of us will be celebrating Valentine’s Day. It’s estimated that about 50% of us will do it with candy –and that probably means chocolate. The Love Drug On this day of love, nothing quite says “I love you” like chocolate, and lots of it. Its texture seduces. Its taste comforts all ills. ...
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• “Not Real Men…”

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 479
  Me and the other Africa-based Kiva Fellows (photo provided by John Briggs) By Taylor Akin, KF9, Togo In the months of preparation leading up to my Kiva Fellowship in Lomé, Togo I have had plenty of opportunity to practice my take on the taxicab test – a concise explanation of Kiva’s mission and the work of a ...
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• Kinos

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 135
  Botanical  Name: Pterocarpus marsupium, Pterocarpus erinaceus , Butea frondosa Family: N.O. Leguminosae/Fabaceae Subfamily: Faboideae Pterocarpus marsupium:- ____________________ __ Other Names: Malabar Kino, Benga, Bijiayasal (in western Nepal), Piasal (Oriya), Venkai, and many others. Common Names: ...
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• JANEK LEJA, Grodzisko, Poland, 1918 — Victoria, Canada, 2009: In Memoriam

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 127
  The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork Psalm 19   Janek Leja was born in Grodzisko, Poland, in 1918. He was raised by his uncle and was at university when WW2 began. After his release from imprisonment in Siberia, he served in the Polish Forces in the Middle East and in ...
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• ECOWAS Pledges to Encourage Farming in Nigeria, West Africa

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission said on Thursday in Abuja that it would work closely with Nigeria and other member states to realize a robust farming industry in West Africa to reduce hunger and poverty. Jean Dieu Somda, the Vice President of the commission, said at end of the ...
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• Illegal ivory trafficking on rise

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 449
  West and Central Africa appear to the be source of a sharp increase since 2008 in illegal trade in ivory, with China as the main destination, according to Traffic, a group that monitors ivory trade. Trafficking has doubled, the group reports. The suspected increase is based on quantities of ivory seized, which are ...
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• Alto Group Holdings Inc. Amends Letter of Intent on Ashanti Gold Project

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 434
  Alto Group Holdings, Inc., has announced that the Company has amended the previously announced Letter of Intent (L.O.I.) in regards to certain mining rights in Ghana, West Africa. Alto plans to form a joint venture with the mineral rights owners, Castle Peak Mining Ltd. and will formulate a definitive Joint Venture ...
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• Money laundering: Nigeria tops GIABA’s evaluation report list – Vanguard

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 150
  Director-General of the Inter-governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in West Africa (GIABA), Dr Abdullahi Shehu, yesterday in Abuja disclosed that Nigeria came top on the list of countries that has failed to comply with anti-money laundering standards as set out by the Economic ...
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• UAE to fund dam in Burkina Faso

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Abu Dhabi, Nov 10 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) would finance the construction of a dam in Burkina Faso in west Africa, WAM news agency reported Tuesday.The loan agreement was signed at the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) headquarters in Abu Dhabi by Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, acting director general of ...
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• UAE to support dam project in Burkina Faso

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Abu Dhabi, Nov 9 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will give about $9 million loan for a dam project in Burkina Faso in West Africa, WAM news agency reported Monday.Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, director general of Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), and Omar Diawara, Burkina Faso’s envoy to Saudi Arabia, have ...
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• Free-to-air Ghanaian TV Stations on Satellite

  
  Oluniyi David Ajao — Authority: 117
  Ghanaians abroad are keen to stay in touch with social and political affairs back home. Some relatively comfortable Ghanaians within Ghana live outside the urban areas, deep in the rural parts....
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• Energy economists help Ghana with coming oil boom

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 566
  UT Austin’s Center for Energy Economics is conducting a “needs assessment” for the oil and gas sector in the west African country of Ghana. The goal is to provide a roadmap for developing the infrastructure and expertise to most effectively manage Ghana’s emerging oil and gas industry.
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• the poor widow and prosperity gospel

  
  saint george — Authority: 114
  And in contrast to the lectionary reading (see below), here’s a new video from the Global Conversation on prosperity gospel in West Africa. The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation on Vimeo .
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• Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  Download audio file (11042009.mp3) Download MP3 Even though the music business continues to suffer economically, record labels are still releasing lots of old music that’s been re-mastered and tweaked so it sounds fresher than ever. Columbia is about to re-issue everything Miles Davis recorded for them. 70 ...
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• Riverstone Announces New Gold Zone at Karma

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 434
  Riverstone Resources Inc. announce results from the first twenty three Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drill holes completed on the Company’s Karma gold project in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The holes were drilled in the immediate area of the GG1 deposit, one of four deposits that comprise the Karma project, to test several ...
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• Adidas Hidden African Inspiration: The "Kenta" Shoe

  
  Rain in Africa — Authority: 460
  Yesterday, Kwabena , a fellow blogger alerted us Ghanablogging members of that Adidas is using Ghanaian Kente cloth on a shoe calling it Kenta and acting as they invented it. Kente is Ghanas (and Togos) pride, being delicately woven in narrow strips by skilled craftsmen - almost always men. Kente is then sewn and ...
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• Presidency probes mass failure in SSSCE, NECO exams – The Nation

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 150
  The Presidency has ordered an investigation into the mass failure of students in this year’s School Certificate Examinations.Some school heads may be punished to avert a re-occurrence of the “woeful” performance, it was gathered yesterday.Most secondary school leavers failed the May-June examinations conducted ...
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• West Africa: Stopping cholera emergencies

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 132
  Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say. Researchers with the London School of Hygiene and ...
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• Real Hip Hop In Africa: Senegal Rocks To The Breaka Dawn!

  
  Old School Scholar Hip Hop Culture and Music — Authority: 125
  If there is a wake up call to what Hip Hop music really is and what it means to people around the world, then this is one documentary that will plainly spell it for you in Senegal, West Africa. This is an excellent video to serve as a reminder to America what Hip Hop truly is at the core to these emcees.
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• Tuning Out and Coming To…in a Chicken Coop

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 479
  By Jessica Chervin, KF9 Togo Yesterday evening, West Africa made me giddy. I have been in Togo for almost five months, and in West Africa for almost nine.  Here, my senses are never neutral.  The most lovely moments are tempered by inconvenience.  My daily moto rides to and from Microfund are at once thrilling ...
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