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  • When Pastor Sempa halted the Amakula film festival 17 May 2008 00:30 GMT
    ... on. Another gay-themed film, Rag Tag by Nigerian born filmmaker Adaora Nwandu had already shown ... but Sempa insists that Smits is offending African culture, the Christian faith and breaking our ... have good content but are embedded with viruses. As civil society, we need stronger anti-viruses ...

  • Boy, three, suffering from sickle cell disease to be deported 17 May 2008 00:27 GMT
    ... a medical crisis caused by sickle cell disease is to be deported by the Home ... in Britain after his family fled from west Africa. His father Claude, a teacher, said he ...

  • Fake Malaria Drugs on sale 16 May 2008 22:37 GMT
    ... the new drugs, the researchers warn, sub-Saharan Africa could suffer another surge of the disease, ... than required. Similar tests were done in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tanzania. Kenya appeared to have ...

  • India Plays Catch-Up in Africa 16 May 2008 22:30 GMT
    ... Uganda: MTN, Africa's top mobile carrier, may soon have an Indian ... State-owned oil giant ONGC has fields in Nigeria, Angola, and Sudan. Privately run Vedanta Resources ... extending diplomatic support and loans to Senegal, Mali, and other African nations, companies are making ...

  • ISODEC Gingers Teachers On 16 May 2008 21:35 GMT
    ... Scholarship Programme (AGSP) is part of the Africa Education Initiative of US President Bush and ... Africa. World Education Incorporated (WEI) manages the West Africa region of the program with about 40 ... of which ISODEC is one in 12 West African countries. Mr. Akolgo disclosed that this year ...

  • VOA News Publishes Several HIV/AIDS-Related Articles 16 May 2008 21:14 GMT
    ... Tuesday published several articles about HIV/AIDS in Africa. Summaries appear below. ": Leaders of several ... on the continent are living with the disease. The common policy would increase HIV/AIDS advocacy ... a $250 million Skills Development Center in Ghana's capital, Accra, to provide HIV/AIDS education and ...

  • Nigeria: Women's Leadership in HIV/AIDS Workshop 16 May 2008 19:52 GMT
    ... fahamu [dot] org. We are willing to waive the charges for not-for-profit organisations in Africa with limited income. This site has been established by Fahamu to provide regular feedback ...

  • Child soldiers 16 May 2008 19:50 GMT
    ... irrevocably. Child soldiers can be found across Africa. Sometimes they are responsible for appalling atrocities; sometimes ... discover, like the former child soldiers of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda, that it is not easy ...

  • Covering a lot of ground: GC delegates take action on range of issues 16 May 2008 18:31 GMT
    ... shrunk in the U.S. while growing in Africa and the Philippines and parts of Europe. This gathering ... As a result, United Methodists in the West African country, which has only two delegates at ... spending plan for the 2005-2008 period. Presentations Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a United Methodist ...

  • 'We have to kill Tutsis' 16 May 2008 17:47 GMT
    ... irrevocably. Child soldiers can be found across Africa. Sometimes they are responsible for appalling atrocities; sometimes ... discover, like the former child soldiers of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda, that it is not easy ...

  • Hutu child soldiers 16 May 2008 16:14 GMT
    ... irrevocably. Child soldiers can be found across Africa. Sometimes they are responsible for appalling atrocities; sometimes ... discover, like the former child soldiers of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda, that it is not easy ...

  • Wolfensohn rechoes Nkrumah's call for African unity 16 May 2008 13:32 GMT
    ... World Bank, Sir. James Wolfensohn has asked African countries to unite, because it is the ... Partnerships for Success,” at the University of Ghana, Legon Thursday May 15, 2008, he said ...

  • The athletes who made money for charities 16 May 2008 12:49 GMT
    ... Given this backdrop, Craig Bellamy's involvement in Sierra Leone, announced yesterday, is truly remarkable. The striker, ... an entire football structure in the benighted west African nation. There would be less surprise if the ...

  • Israel Laryea nominated for Africa Journalists Award 2008 16 May 2008 12:31 GMT
    ... Two Ghanaian Journalists, Messrs Daniel Nkrumah from the Daily ... as finalists in the 13th CNN Multichoice African Journalists Award 2008. The two are among ... 1; Mozambique, 1; Tanzania, 2; Kenya, 2; Burkina Faso, 1; Cameroun, 1; Algeria, 1; Zimbabwe, ...

  • Retreat to the Future? 16 May 2008 12:29 GMT
    ... trade and financial organisations, multiple educational, gender, HIV-AIDS and OVC setups, military, parliamentary, transport and ... from their own. (Indeed very recently a West African leader "bit the hand that is meant to ...

  • Zimbabwe In Africa: When Enough Is Not Enough 16 May 2008 10:29 GMT
    ... be Uazuva Kaumbi. Writing in the New African magazine of July 2007, Kaumbi lapsed into ... presidential terms. Countries such as Botswana, Tanzania, Ghana, Zambia, South Africa and Namibia fall in ... politics will undoubtedly continue to be a disease in the body politic of the 'other ...

  • Congo 16 May 2008 09:34 GMT
    ... irrevocably. Child soldiers can be found across Africa. Sometimes they are responsible for appalling atrocities; sometimes ... discover, like the former child soldiers of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda, that it is not easy ...

  • MUSIC/RADIO BITS: Left Eye event; T.O. on Doug&Dede; Winehouse escapes charges; Joyner's new cookbook. 16 May 2008 07:59 GMT
    ... 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Malibu Grand Prix (5400 Brook Hollow Pkwy). Activities ... Soul Food Recipes," designed to educate the African American community about stroke prevention by highlighting healthy ... with information to help fight against cardiovascular disease and stroke. ...

  • 05-16-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE... 16 May 2008 07:59 GMT
    ... panel consists of eight whites and four African Americans, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The ... the selection process. Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan also approved the state's attorneys request to remove a ... 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Malibu Grand Prix (5400 Brook Hollow Pkwy). Activities ...

  • MUSIC/RADIO BITS: Left Eye event; T.O. o... 16 May 2008 07:59 GMT
    ... 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Malibu Grand Prix (5400 Brook Hollow Pkwy). Activities ... Soul Food Recipes," designed to educate the African American community about stroke prevention by highlighting healthy ... with information to help fight against cardiovascular disease and stroke. ...

  • Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Benin cleric 16 May 2008 07:56 GMT
    ... Cardinal Bernardin Gantin of Benin, whose influence in the Catholic Church was ... was felt in Europe as well as West Africa, has died. He was 86.Gantin died Tuesday ...

  • 'Sunshining Storyteller' enthrals STPRI students 16 May 2008 06:59 GMT
    ... 'Medicine of Souls' - a marvellous mixture of stories and drama. The storyteller from West Africa's Ivory Coast entertained over 50 French language students at STPRI for about two hours. The audience ...

  • AFRICA: African Countries Seek Common Approach Against HIV/AIDS 16 May 2008 04:56 GMT
    ... AFRICA: African Countries Seek Common Approach Against HIV/AIDS ... a common African approach to fighting the disease on the continent. In 2007, 24.4 million ... said Vitus Nanbigne, a coordinator for a Ghana AIDS charity. In addition, "African governments must ...

  • "Building peace ' and a belief in the future" 16 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... examples of failed and failing states are Afghanistan, Liberia and Somalia. In addition to the ... right across the arc of instability from west Africa to east Asia. These are countries where ...

  • Sierra Leone: Action Aid Condemns Marginalizing of Women 16 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... International (AAI) Tuesday condemned the marginalizing of African Women. Giving an overview of a four ... by AAI and African Women Development Fund West Africa (AWDF) Mary Wandia said African women have ... live with integrity and peace. Action Aid Sierra Leone Country Director Tennyson Williams said women's right ...

  • 'We have to kill Tutsis wherever they are' 16 May 2008 00:15 GMT
    ... irrevocably. Child soldiers can be found across Africa. Sometimes they are responsible for appalling atrocities; sometimes ... discover, like the former child soldiers of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda, that it is not easy ...

  • Wildlife heads for tipping point 15 May 2008 23:36 GMT
    ... ranging from polar bears in Russia to African elephants in Tanzania continue to fall and ... been tracking a community of chimpanzees in Ivory Coast. Numbers have fallen from 74 to 33 ... for timber and converted into farmland. In West Africa, bushmeat hunters pursue chimpanzees relentlessly. Even ...

  • Da Gama, Ertugral look forward Red Devils' clash 15 May 2008 21:30 GMT
    ... step in, coz they are cocerned with AFRICA develpoment, not Uerope. Soccer Critic ( Tivani) : ... they are they were born with that virus of not knowing History while they have ... SA first in the world peace cup MALIKHAYA u were replaced because of your standard.and ...

  • Trend Micro InterScan Trial: It requires no hardware or software to install. It maintains & helps you reclaim IT staff time, end-user productivity, bandwidth, mail server storage & CPU capacity. 15 May 2008 20:30 GMT
    ... proprietary technology to identify and then screen malicious or potentially unwanted content based on user-proscribed ... NETWORK OR COMPUTER SYSTEMS FREE FROM ALL VIRUSES OR OTHER MALICIOUS OR UNWANTED CONTENT OR ... Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, South Africa, or Turkey, this Agreement will be governed by the ...

  • Another 10m Jobs 15 May 2008 18:37 GMT
    ... government that fine speeches and figures satisfy Nigerians. Each problem is treated with a massive ... to all spheres of our existence. South African energy firm, Eskom, has just borrowed $500 ... their stinging impact in the hunger, poverty, diseases and illiteracy that buffet a society that ...

  • Manufacturing a Food Crisis 15 May 2008 18:11 GMT
    ... food self-sufficiency or food security but what Africanist Deborah Bryceson of Oxford calls "de-peasantization"--the phasing out ... markets. For instance, the very success of Ghana's expansion of cocoa production triggered a 48 ... allowed subsidized EU beef to drive many West African and South African cattle raisers to ruin. ...

  • World Bank shifts HIV/AIDS focus in Africa 15 May 2008 16:19 GMT
    ... Also in this Edition; Briefly colspan='3' class='pagetitleLineBlue'> Military helicopters ... World Bank (WB) funded projects in The Gambia are "successfully progressing," as planned. Mousa Gibril ... is close to agreeing a deal with Nigeria that would see the company provide loans ...

  • Action Aid Condemns Marginalizing of Women 15 May 2008 16:16 GMT
    ... International (AAI) Tuesday condemned the marginalizing of African Women. Giving an overview of a four ... by AAI and African Women Development Fund West Africa (AWDF) Mary Wandia said African women have ... live with integrity and peace. Action Aid Sierra Leone Country Director Tennyson Williams said women's right ...

  • Global Challenges - VOA News Publishes Several HIV/AIDS-Related Article 15 May 2008 14:53 GMT
    ... Tuesday published several articles about HIV/AIDS in Africa. Summaries appear below. ": Leaders of several ... on the continent are living with the disease. The common policy would increase HIV/AIDS advocacy ... a $250 million Skills Development Center in Ghana's capital, Accra, to provide HIV/AIDS education and ...

  • Da Gama praises strikers 15 May 2008 14:50 GMT
    ... Jimmy Tau. NDIVHUWO is got mad cow disease. please do not comment to his eleborations.On ... Sometimes last month he went to The Nigerian Kickoff and insulted them to a point ... to a point they started calling us(South Africans) names. There is something wrong with this ...


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