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• Featured Author: Mac-Jordan Holdbrookes-Degadjor

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  In August 2009, Maker Faire Africa took place in Accra, Ghana and it attracted builders from all across the world who wanted to showcase their latest inventions. Members of the local internet community also took part by promoting and writing about the festivities, and some even volunteered their time to help out at ...
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• Madagacars forests decimated for $460,000 a day

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  As the worlds nations gather today in Copenhagen for the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, Madagascar, having already lost 90% of its original forest , faces continued threats from black market logging.  An illegal traffic of rosewood, a topic of conversation in the Malagasy mediasphere for a few months, ...
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• Namibia: One womans story

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Watch a video of a womans story related to forced sterilisation case going on in Namibia: “Have a look at this story, by Esther Sheehama. Esther’s story is an example of the kinds of stories we are hearing from many women, and highlights why we are fighting forced sterilisation.”
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• India could be Africa’s rail partner: World Bank

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Dec 7 (IANS) Indian Railways, one of the world’s largest rail networks, could be expanded to develop transport infrastructure in Africa and other developing regions under an ambitious World Bank plan, a newspaper reported.World Bank President Robert Zoellick said the Washington-based lender wants help the ...
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• Kenya: Bloggers discuss Kenyan explosive drama, Shuga

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Staying alive campaign being the world largest youth focused HIV prevention campaign content together with MTV bring an explosive drama for the world AIDS Day Shuga . Shuga slides  away from the  ordinary comfort zone and portrays life of six college students living the life on the first lane: alcohol, sex, love ...
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• HIV/AIDS: Commercial sex is often considered as the highest risk

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  HIV/AIDS: Commercial sex is often considered as the highest risk -Mohammad Khairul Alam- -Executive Director- -Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation- -24/3 M. C. Roy Lane- -Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh- rainbowngo@gmail.com www.newsletter.com.bd Tell: 880-2-8628908 Mobile: 01722344997
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• Women and Young Adults are Heavily Affected by HIV/AIDS

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  Women and Young Adults are Heavily Affected by HIV/AIDS -Mohammad Khairul Alam- -Executive Director- -Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation- -24/3 M. C. Roy Lane- -Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh- rainbowngo@gmail.com www.newsletter.com.bd Tell: 880-2-8628908 Mobile: 01722344997
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• Africa: Marking World AIDS Day Poetically

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  positive… the status of my H.I.V negative… your attitude towards me nonchalant… is how I choose to be pretenders… you allegedly sympathize with me true colors… you show them when I turn my back pity… I surely do not need it right now life… I am full of it and I am living understanding… I have a ...
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• ICT4D for Women: Opportunities and Risks

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  As digital technologies open up new spaces and possibilities, there is a lot of optimism about empowerment of women, and alleviation of gender disparity. According to the ITU, the UN agency for ICT issues: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used to close the gender gap by creating new jobs ...
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• Cameroon: Video Shows Harsh Conditions of Rural Medicine

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked Cameroons health care system 163rd in the world.  Thats somewhere below Mauritania and just above North Korea.   As in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, doctors in Cameroon work without adequate training or equipment–a fact that in itself is not surprising, but is made ...
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• Guinea: Attempt on Military Leader Dadis Camaras Life

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Dadis Camara, a Guinean military officer who seized power last December in a coup, was shot yesterday by one of his aides and has been evacuated to Morocco. According to several news sources , Captain Dadis Camara, leader of the military junta which seized power in Guinea in December 2008, was shot and wounded by ...
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• Congo: Doctors without Borders tell peoples stories through web video

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Condition Critical is a website showcasing the stories of victims of the violence in Eastern Congo coordinated and launched by Doctors without Borders/Medecins sans Frontiers (MSF). Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing asked Pete Masters of MSF for some more information on the project and then posted his reply: Condition: ...
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• Portuguese-speaking bloggers on World Aids Day ‘09

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  The coverage of the World Aids Day 2009 by Global Voices brought many stories of people struggling with HIV/Aids. Portuguese speaking countries in different parts of the world, from Brazil to Lusophone Africa, share the language and the suffering from the human immunodeficiency virus. Here is a round-up of ...
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• Can We Feed and Save the Planet?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 143
  Image by IronRodArt via Flickr Challenges of population control and food production need to be tackled in tandem We are eating ourselves out of house and home. Recently, in the September 24 issue of Nature , Johan Rockström and his colleagues proposed 10 “planetary boundaries” to define safe limits of ...
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• M-banking: Going where no bank has gone before

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Millions and millions of low-income, unbanked people stand to benefit (and maybe prosper?) from the development of mobile financial services in the next years. Many people already transfer payments and remittances through mobile phones, and even store and save money on them as a virtual bank. And the number of people ...
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• Disaster Management and the role of ICTs (Part 2)

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  In the first post of this series, we saw how various citizen-coordinated initiatives came into play during natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina or the Indian Ocean Tsunami , to help in the response and recovery and even function as disaster management systems. In this post, we will examine some more ICT ...
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• Namibia: The role of new media in 2009 elections

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Namibias presidential and national assembly elections took place on 27–28 November 2009. Fourteen political parties participated in the elections. The ruling party, the South West Africa Peoples Organisation (SWAPO) is expected to win. Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) is SWAPOs main challenger. Political ...
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• World Bank Says Africa Needs One Trillion Dollars for Infrastructure Development

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  The world Bank has said that Africa had the weakest infrastructure in the world and would need more than one trillion dollars in the next decade to resuscitate its poor state of infrastructure. A world bank report, entitled, “Africa’s Infrastructure : A Time for Transformation’’, made available in Abuja said ...
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• World AIDS Day: Fighting Discrimination Around the World

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Millions around the world came together on Tuesday to show support for those living with HIV/AIDS.  Online, in blogs and in forums, many assessed the progress made and the distance left to travel in the fight against discrimination and the spread of the disease.  Heres a collection of text, images and video from ...
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• Uganda: Discussing the “terrible” bill

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 708
  Gay Ugandan discusses Ugandas anti-gay bill : “So, if I get this terrible bill and present it to Rick Warren, and he then goes ahead to wash his hands of the bills author without any other action, I am disappointed. Of course, my disappointment is kind of a compliment. I realise that I do not have any ability to ...
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