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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2010.
Obama   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia: Resignation of Shirley Sherrod  
 The Star 
Obama seeks to mend rift with U.S. black community
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to repair damage to his relationship with the black community caused by his administration's firing of an African-American gover... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, people wait to board trains at the West Railway Station in Beijing, China.
Economy   Infrastructure   Photos   Population   Wikipedia: Population growth  
 The New York Times 
Population Research Presents a Sobering Prognosis
| With 267 people being born every minute and 108 dying, the world's population will top 7 billion next year, a research group projects. Lower birthrates and longer life spans will also lead to a a pr... (photo: AP)
President-elect John Atta Mills holds a bible as he is sworn in as the country's new president during a ceremony in Accra, Ghana Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. The election of Mills, in the closest vote in Ghana's history, makes the West African nation one of the few African countries to successfully transfer power twice from one legitimately elected leader to another.  Joy Online 
President Mills returns from Kampala
President John Evans Atta Mills, returned home this afternoon from Kampala,Uganda, where he attended the 15th Summit of Heads of State and government of the African Union(AU). | He was accompanied by ... (photo: AP / Olivier Asselin)
Government   Home   Kampala   Mills   Photos  
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, talks during an interview at the United Nations Friday, Sept. 16, 200  Irish Times 
Mugabe a front for military dictatorship, says PM aide
| BILL CORCORAN in Cape Town | SENIOR MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) politician, Roy Bennett has claimed Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is just a front man for a military dictatorship that r... (photo: AP / Ed Betz)
Military   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe  
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Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, and senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar talk after their Ramadan prayers in al-Garbi mosque at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City Sunday Sept. 16, 2007. Since Hamas' takeover in Gaza, violence has largely been contained to the roiling coastal strip _ where Israeli troops regularly battle Palestinian militants firing rockets into Israel _ while Israel has sought to bolster Abbas by reducing operations in the West Bank. Gulf News
Hamas wants dialogue with Europe
| Gaza: Hamas is open to negotiating directly with European countries and has welcomed a recent call by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to enter into talks with ... (photo: AP / Hatem Moussa)
Europe   Gaza   Hamas   Photos   Wikipedia: Hamas  
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia attends the closing session of the Arab Summit in Doha, Qatar, Monday, March 30, 2009. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi stormed out of an Arab summit on Monday after denouncing the Saudi king and declaring himself "the dean of Arab rulers." Gadhafi disrupted the opening Arab League summit in Qatar by taking a microphone and criticizing Saudi's King Abdullah, calling him a "British product and American a Gulf News
Abdullah's tour expected to ease regional tensions
| Riyadh: Saudi politicians and experts have concurred that King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz's regional tour will close Arab ranks and clear the atmosphere following a pledge... (photo: AP / Hassan Ammar)
Mideast   Photos   Politics   Saudi Arabia   Wikipedia: Saudi Arabia  
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabwe is seen at the opening ceremony of the 28th summit of SADC heads of state and government in Sandton, South Africa, Saturday Aug. 16, 2008. When Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe attends a weekend summit he will face protests and pressure to surrender at least some of his power. Botswana said its president will not attend the southern African summit because Mugabe will be there, and once-supportive South Africans are to hold an anti-Mugabe march when the leaders me BBC News
'Military junta' rules Zimbabwe, says MDC's Bennett
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is little more than the front man for a military junta, a leading white politician has told the BBC. | Roy Bennett said Mr Mugabe remaine... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)
Military   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Roy Bennett   Zimbabwe  
Children receive nutritional drinks at a WFP (World Food Pragram) food distribution point in Harare in this Feb. 2003 file photo. Human Rights Watch said Thursday Oct. 23, 2003 that Zimbabwe's government is using food as a political weapon, denying it to opponents at a time when about half its people face starva Independent online
 Food security improving in Zimbabwe, says UN
| By Nelson Banya | Harare - Zimbabwe's troubled farm sector has started to recover from depths plumbed two years ago when it faced a food crisis, but funding problems co... (photo: AP)
Agriculture   Economy   Photos   Wikipedia: Zimbabwe   Zimbabwe  
Exhibition court . Egypt , Cairo , 16 th November , 2008 The New York Times
2 Egyptian Policemen Go on Trial for Brutality
| Filed at 10:12 a.m. ET | ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) -- The victim's lawyers in a trial of two Egyptian policemen involved in the death of a young man demanded Tuesday that ... (photo: WN / azza)
Alexandria   Egypt   Lawyers   Photos   Wikipedia: Trial  
Cervical Cancer Joy Online
Africa needs strategies to effectively prevent cervical cancer - Naadu Mills
First Lady Ernestina Naadu Mills on Monday called for increased cervical cancer awareness and strategies to ensure early detection and combat the spread of the devastatin... (photo: Creative Commons / euthman)
Africa   Cancer   Disease   Photos   Wikipedia: Cervical cancer  
Hard-line Islamist Al Shabab fighters conduct military exercise as they march in town in northern Mogadishu's Suqaholaha neighborhood, Somalia, Friday Jan. 1, 2010. The Times Of India
African Union to reinforce Somalia force: Ethiopian minister
KAMPALA: Leaders of the African Union agreed at a summit on Monday to reinforce the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia to counter Shebab insurgents, Ethiopian foreign min... (photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh)
AU   Extremism   Photos   Somalia   Wikipedia: Al-Shabaab  
A Lebanese boy watches army soldiers standing guard as he holds up a picture of Lebanon's slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in front of a giant poster of Hariri in the Martyrs' Square, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005. Lebanese backers of Hariri gathered at his graveside to pray, chant support for his son and to denounce Syria and its allied Lebanese president after a U.N. report implicated Syrian and Lebanese officials in the assassina Gulf News
Hezbollah expects many to be indicted in Hariri case
| Beirut : The leader of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group said on Sunday he expected many members of his group would be indicted by a UN investigation into the killing ... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)
Hezbollah   Lebanon   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Rafic Hariri  
Politics / Politicians / Elections Refugees
- This is not time for NPP to crack the whip - Ayikoi Otoo
- Central African Republic election delayed to Jan.
- Central African Republic election delayed to Jan.
- Central African Republic election delayed to Jan.
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2010.
Obama seeks to mend rift with U.S. black community
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- Dozens killed in Somali violence; many more forced to flee
- SOMALIA: IRIN Radio - Friday 30 July 2010
- Population Research Presents a Sobering Prognosis
- SOMALIA: IRIN Radio - Thursday 29 July 2010
In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, people wait to board trains at the West Railway Station in Beijing, China.
Population Research Presents a Sobering Prognosis
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International Relations Education
- Unholy trinity sets up bank failures
- July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US forces as 3 ne
- Lord Prescott admits intelligence doubts prior to Iraq war
- Poll: Florida Gov. Crist leading in 3-way race for US Senate
In this May 27, 2010 file photo banner reading: "Billions for the banks - the debts for us - we say Thanks!" is attached during a small protest against the financial markets staged by a few demonstrators outside the Frankfurt Fair Tower building prior to the start of the general shareholders meeting of the Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main. How stressed are Europe's banks? The question has long preoccupied markets, and European Union leaders hope to make a big step toward restoring confidence with the publication later this month of "stress tests" on the health of 91 banks across the continent, representing 65 percent of the EU's banking system.
Unholy trinity sets up bank failures
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- CEMAC - Experts Brainstorm on Veterinary Education
- South Africa ex-students fined over 'racist video'
- Government Warns Defiant Schools
- S.Africa court fines ex-students for racial abuse
Tuberculosis Patients
Information officers tasked to educate the public on TB
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Human Rights Policies Society & Culture
- Trying to Spread Africa's Wealth
- How to counter rape as a weapon of war
- FeatureThe NPP the Koreans and the coops for
- KENYA: Land issues that just won't go away
An unidentified man stands near a gas flare belonging to the Agip Oil company in Idu Ogba, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. OPEC and the European Union agreed in Vienna Wednesday to maintain a close "energy dialogue," stressing the importance of working together to help stabilize and secure the world's oil markets. Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria's oil minister and president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, met with Martin Bartenstein, the energy minister of Austria, which holds the EU's rotating presidency. In a statement, the EU presidency said both reaffirmed the need to stay in close touch on energy issues.
Trying to Spread Africa's Wealth
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- Country to Host Third Session of the AU Ministers of Culture
- Nupes Celebrate Yet Another Festival
- South African Theatre Group Performs On Climate Change
- Filmmaking Competition Hopes to Spur Help for World's Po
Former South African president Nelson Mandela's seen at Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. South African lawmakers sang Nelson Mandela's praises Thursday as the anti-apartheid icon settled into parliament's public gallery for a State of the Nation address scheduled in tribute to his 20 years of freedom.
Mandela Meets Renowned Author in South Africa
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Aids Terrorism
- Jacob Zuma to abolish six South African monarchies
- Economic Vision Renewal
- 400,000 Infected With HIV/Aids in Rivers
- New Eden Church Youths Sensitised On HIV/Aids, Others
Studies recommend repeat HIV testing during pregnancy to prevent mother-to-child transmission
Newnan, Georgia man discovers natural treatment for HIV-positive children.
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- Uganda court charges 3 men on terrorism, murder, attempted m
- Innovation Needed After Losses From Terror Attacks
- Minister Warns of 'Terror' Threat for Joining AU For
- Al-Shabab threatens AU peacekeepers
Islamist insurgent fighters in a street in Mogadishu, Somalia, during clashes with Somali government soldiers in southern Mogadishu's Wardhigley neighborhood on Thursday, June 24, 2010.
Al-Shabab threatens AU peacekeepers
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