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  • GUINEA: Political crisis only sharpens daily hardship 7 Nov 2009 02:50 GMT
    ... 1990s Guinea housed some 800,000 refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia; today some 25,000 refugees remain in Guinea, ... -Known as "the water tower of West Africa", Guinea is the source of the 4,180-kilometre Niger ...

  • Playbook: House health debate begins 7 Nov 2009 16:51 GMT
    ... WON IN VIETNAM -- FOR OBAMA & AFGHANISTAN, THE SURPRISING LESSONS OF A LONG-AGO WAR,” by ... Classmate Says,” by Justin Blum: “Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of a ... lives. Since 2000, deaths from measles in Africa have dropped by 89%, and malaria cases ...

  • SHOWDOWN SATURDAY: Dems plan historic health vote around dinnertime but sweat scramble for votes -- Newsweek cover: Saigon evacuation 7 Nov 2009 17:32 GMT
    ... WON IN VIETNAM -- FOR OBAMA & AFGHANISTAN, THE SURPRISING LESSONS OF A LONG-AGO WAR,” by ... Classmate Says,” by Justin Blum: “Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of a ... lives. Since 2000, deaths from measles in Africa have dropped by 89%, and malaria cases ...

  • West African Health Ministers call for enactment of abortion laws 6 Nov 2009 16:30 GMT
    ... West African Health Ministers call for enactment of abortion laws ... ECOWAS Health Ministers, held in South East Nigeria’s Cross Rivers State. The Ministers said in ...

  • | West African health ministers call for legalization of abortion 2 Nov 2009 09:04 GMT
    ... West African health ministers call for legalization of abortion Ministers of health from West African countries are calling for the legalization of abortion, ...

  • Fertility and Living Standards: Go Forth and Multiply a Lot Less 5 Nov 2009 00:18 GMT
    ... such countries, and in every continent, including Africa. Between 1950 and 2000 the average fertility ... torn apart by war, such as Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where living standards have ... was 1.9, the actual one, 2.7. In Ghana the figures for 2003 were 3.7 and 4.4. The ...

  • Ghana last in Science and Maths? HOW COME? 5 Nov 2009 13:45 GMT
    ... Korea with England placing fifth. Among our African peers, Ghana was still the weakest among ... I spoke with an official of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). My take out was ... Ghana is also the overall best in West Africa. Definitely, the Ghana Education Service has a ...

  • Abortion Law: Mixed feelings greet call by ECOWAS Ministers of Health 2 Nov 2009 23:50 GMT
    ... of Health of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the passage of abortion laws ... abortion laws all its member States includingĀ Nigeria, has been received with mixed feelings. The ...

  • 'Peace cotton' smoothes its way into Benin 2 Nov 2009 02:54 GMT
    ... Pendjari -- It has not rained much recently in the northern regions of Benin in West Africa; the soil is hard and cracking. But from it sprout small and precious white ...

  • Opinions: Obstetric fistula; malaria and climate change 3 Nov 2009 06:15 GMT
    ... injury, often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully ... campaigning to build a fistula hospital in West Africa. Kristof writes that "Niger recently approved Dr. Wall's plan for a ...

  • U.S. Should Support Foreign Aid To Reduce Obstetric Fistulas, New York Times' Kristof Writes 4 Nov 2009 10:53 GMT
    ... injury "often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully ... year to build a fistula hospital in West Africa." Now the hospital " is a reality," as Niger recently approved his plans for a facility ...

  • Nicholas D. Kristof: Hope for pariahs (Today) 4 Nov 2009 09:17 GMT
    ... injury, often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully ... started out as an anthropologist working in West Africa, and he speaks Hausa, an African language. ... has been his life, his dream. The West African country of Niger recently approved Dr. Wall's ...

  • Global aid for fistula sufferers long overdue 3 Nov 2009 07:52 GMT
    ... injury, often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully ... started out as an anthropologist working in West Africa. But he concluded that the world needed ... has been his life, his dream. The West African country of Niger recently approved Wall's plan ...

  • Opinion: Can Ghana ever develop its intellectual capital? 6 Nov 2009 06:41 GMT
    ... ISREAL is about half the size of Togo; with total land mass of 21,000 sq ... demand in the United States of America. Ghana is of the size of 238,537sq km. ... one of the strongest economic giants of Africa. Hello! Is anyone listening or am I ...

  • GSK's malaria vaccine into Phase III in Africa 5 Nov 2009 09:26 GMT
    ... GSK’s malaria vaccine into Phase III in Africa GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and its partner the PATH ... up to 16,000 children in total in Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, researchers announced ...


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