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• £8 Billion Foreign Aid Budget Untouched, But £350 Million Cut off British Youth Training

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  The Government’s austerity measures include a £5 billion reduction in spending in Britain. This includes a £350 million cutback in job training for young British people — while the £8 billion foreign aid budget remains untouched. According to newspaper reports, official Government documents show that the ...
  3 days ago

• Mazembe ´hide´ ahead of African final

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 155
  Democratic Republic of Congo club Tout Puissant Mazembe have gone into hiding ahead of the African Champions League final in Lubumbashi Saturday. And there was no sign of Nigerian opponents Heartland either in the southern Congolese mining city ahead of the second leg that will decide who scoops a record ...
  4 days ago

• Massacres of civilians by DR Congo army call UNs role into question

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  UN military support for the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been called into question because of atrocities against civilians blamed on regular troops.
  5 days ago

• Government of South Sudan Threatens to Boycott 2010 Presidential Elections

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Local media has reported that the government of South Sudan has threatened to boycott next year’s presidential elections over rigging claims by the North. The Head of Mission at the GoSS liaison office in Nairobi John Duku also sent a warning to the North that any attempt to interfere with the referendum in 2011 ...
  6 days ago

• Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  The Walt Disney Company will invest $7 million in forest conservation projects in the U.S., the Congo Basin, and the Amazon in an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
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• Hillary Clinton’s Tech Guru on 21st Century Statecraft

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This is a relief. Alec Ross, one of the key architects of Barack Obamas technology policy during last years campaign, isnt pushing ultra-high-tech solutions as a cure-all for the worlds diplomatic and social problems now that hes senior adviser on innovation for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Hes practicing the ...
  1 week ago

• Eastern DR Congo: Surge in Army Atrocities

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 684
  (New York) - Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have brutally killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• Ineffective monotherapies dominating high-burden malarious countries

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 2(ANI): A new study has shown that owing to high price of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT), the most effective medicines for treating malaria, ineffective monotherapies are dominating high-burden malarious countries.Dr. Kathryn O’Connell said that majority of malaria endemic countries changed ...
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• Ineffective monotherapies common in high-burden malarious countries

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  (November 2, 2009; Nairobi) ACTwatch, a research project led by PSI, in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, released evidence today that indicates that artemisini
  1 week ago

• Global Feminism in the News: Women & Progress

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 161
  Global Feminism in the News is a monthly column discussing recurring themes in international news stories concerning women. This month we will focus on women’s progress and victories.This week’s post is inspired by Phyllis Schlafly. Yep, you read correctly. Many of you probably read/heard/talked about this study ...
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• Foreign ministers of India, Congo to meet Thursday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) India and Congo will discuss ways to improve economic ties when the foreign ministers of the two countries meet Thursday.Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba of the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in India Tuesday on a four-day official visit.He will be meeting with representatives of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Southern African Development Community Team Expected to Visit Zimbabwe This Week

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  A ministerial team from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is expected to visit Zimbabwe this week to discuss a political crisis that has rocked the country’s fragile coalition government. The visit follows last week’s diplomatic offensive by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai whose party, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lightning Strikes Cause Disaster on African Soccer Fields

  
  The Slanch Report — Authority: 488
  During a recent soccer match in the Democratic Republic of Congo the game ended in an unsatisfying 1-1 tie due to an extremely unfortunate situation, the visiting team was killed! A bolt of lightning struck the entire visiting team, killing all 11 members and burning 30 other people. L’Avenir, a  nearby paper ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nigeria okays new site for 9,000 African refugees – The Guardian

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 150
  All is now set for the resettlement of over 9,000 refugees from some war-torn African countries in Taraba State.The refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Chad and others will be settled in Zing Local Council of the state.The Guardian learnt that the refugees would soon be flown into the state ...
  3 weeks ago

• Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika Signs the Southern African Development Community Gender Protocol

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika has signed the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Gender Protocol which seeks to promote and empower women. He said in the commercial city of Blantyre during the signing ceremony that his government will continue to promote women by increasing their role in various ...
  3 weeks ago

• India joins forces to fight climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 21 (IANS) India and five other developing countries will join five contributor countries on the governing body of the Forest Investment Programme (FIP) in a unique partnership to combat climate change through forest management.India, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Morocco, Nepal, and Romania ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why So Many African Entreprenuers Start Of With Social Networks As Their First Startup. I Shut Mine Down!

  
  TechMasai — Authority: 129
  I recently started wondering about the fuss with social networks. They are the number one type of internet service most African entrepreneurs start of with, think about it. In Nigeria they are so many we actually only reviewed the biggest and  most fun, which are Onlinenigeria , Naijapals and Naijaborn , in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nelson Mandela Foundation accuses Congo president over fake foreword

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  The Nelson Mandela Foundation has threatened legal action against the president of CongoBrazzaville after he claimed the foreword of his new book had been penned by the antiapartheid leader.
  3 weeks ago

• Modern-day land grab: rich foreign countries owning vast farmlands in poor countries

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  New colonialism in a globalized world is a curious thing. Countries buying vast parcels of farmlands in poor countries poses new emerging problems. In such cases, only the countries’ respective heads of state know the full details. It gets complicated when provincial governors have auctioned off their land to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Congo offensive sparks more killings, sexual violence: UN

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Kinshasa/Geneva, Oct 16 (DPA) A UN-backed operation to flush out Rwandan and Ugandan rebels from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has sparked a sharp rise in killings and sexual violence since February, a UN special investigator said Thursday.“(Operation) Kimia II has spawned a human rights disaster while its ...
  3 weeks ago

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