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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  
 Joy Online 
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)
Simple interventions could reduce maternal deaths by 46 percent
Campaign   Ethiopia   Health   Photos   Women  
 IRINnews 
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)
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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)
Actors   Arts   Mumbai   Music   Photos  
At least 200,000 children are at risk of malnutrition in Niger this year, based on early UN estimates  IRINnews 
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 government programmes. Two of th... (photo: IRIN News / Anne Isabelle Leclercq)
Africa   Chad   Health   Niger   Photos  
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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. BBC News
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)
Africa   Peace   Photos   Refugee   Sudan   UN  
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. Independent online
 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)
Berlin   Egypt   Health   Photos   President  
Soldiers loyal to the ruling military junta cheer in response to comments by second in command Sekouba Konate, not pictured, at Camp Alpha Yaya Diallo, one week after junta leader Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara was shot by an aide-de-camp, in Conakry, Guinea Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. The New York Times
Guinea Interim Leader Rules Out Presidential Bid
| Filed at 6:20 a.m. ET | CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- Guinea's interim leader says he will not run in presidential elections planned for June in the small West African countr... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell)
Election   Guinea   Photos   Politics   Vote  
A Nigerian soldier stands in a building that was destroyed in resent violence at Jos, Nigeria, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Al Jazeera
Nigeria vows to tackle violence
| Nigeria's police chief has said that police officials in Nigeria's central Plateau State will be held responsible for future violent incidents. | Ogbonna Onov... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Africa   Crime   Nigeria   Peace   Photos  
 Die Kanzlerin mit Prsident Mubarak(ss2) Independent online
 Mubarak recovering steadily, doctor says
| Cairo - Egypt's president, who had surgery a week ago, is returning steadily to health, the head of the medical team treating him in Germany said in a media statement o... (photo: REGIERUNGonline/Steins)
Egypt   Germany   Health   Photos   Politics  
Business & Economy Politics
- Mobile Calling Fees Under Pressure With Rollout of New Netwo
- Eskom to Shut Down Two Koeberg Units
- South Africa retail sales seen on recovery path
- Eskom wasting millions on coal contracts: DA
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
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- The Pulse: Obama Comes Under Fire From the City Council
- Karzai Reverses on Vote Auditors
- Catholic Hospitals Support Health Care Bill
- US embassy slams 'horrific' Nigerian massacre
In this Oct. 9, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama speaks about being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. In the portfolio presidential phrases none is used more often than Obama's four-word favorite, "Let me be clear", which he used to describe his surprise at receiving the prize. "Let me be clear. I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations, " he said.
The Pulse: Obama Comes Under Fire From the City Council
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Education Sport
- Making Music With Plastic
- UK cash for education in developing countries targets confli
- £1bn to boost world education
- YEMEN: Saada schools reopen
Egyptian students leave their school exam, as they wear surgical masks outside their school in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 13, 2009. A student dorm at the American University in Cairo was placed under quarantine after seven Americans, six students and one faculty member, were diagnosed with swine flu.
EGYPT: H1N1 flu down but not out
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- Gayle helps Windies sweep aside Zimbabwe
- Stade Renne and Toulouse take centre stage on Joy Sports on
- New Zealand postpones Zimbabwe tour
- World Cup 2010: Ghana Coach Milovan Rajevac Prefers Experien
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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Health Human Rights
- Rays of Hope in Battling an Agonizing Disease
- Catholic Hospitals Support Health Care Bill
- UN agency begins airlifting food aid for refugees uprooted f
- ZIMBABWE: Typhoid kills five people
Woman carry plastic sheeting on their heads that they received from the World Food Programme, during the distribution of aid at a camp for displaced people, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 in Bulengo near Goma in eastern Congo. Congolese soldiers fought pro-government militiamen Tuesday deep in rebel-held territory, exposing the deepening breakdown of the country's army as it flees a steady rebel advance, witnesses said
UN agency begins airlifting food aid for refugees uprooted from DR Congo
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- Mines' harsh human toll is no deep, dark secret
- Reporting on Nigerian massacre deaths seems to have hit a re
- Reporting on Nigerian massacre deaths seems to have hit a re
- US embassy slams 'horrific' Nigerian massacre
Uighur women grab a police officer as they protest in front of journalists visiting the area in Urumqi, China, Tuesday, July 7, 2009.
US slams rights abuses in China, NKorea and Iran
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