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A displaced displaced man under observation drinks water while a child who has cholera sleeps at a Doctors without Borders clinic, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008 in Kibati just north of Goma in east
Cholera   Deaths   Disease   Maputo   Photos   		 Star Tribune 
Mozambique sees rising deaths in cholera outbreak, with 42 dead and more than 2,600 infected
Sat 13 Mar 2010
| MAPUTO, Mozambique - Mozambique's health ministry spokesman says the country's cholera outbreak has now killed 42 people in the northern and central parts of the southern African country. | Leonardo... (photo: AP / Karel Prinsloo)
Former South African President Nelson Mandela eats birthday cake
Africa   London   News   Photos   President   		 Joy Online 
Winnie denies maligning Mandela
Sat 13 Mar 2010
Winnie Mandela, the former wife of ex-President Nelson Mandela, has denied giving an interview accusing him of letting down black South Africans. | Ms Madikizela-Mandela said the article, published in... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)
Alexandria Sea Beach  Gulf News  Sat 13 Mar 2010
Alexandria the nearly great
| There are many words that could be used to describe Alexandria but one of them isn’t sedate. Fascinating, yes; exciting, sure; memorable, undoubtedly — but if you like the quiet life, it... (photo: WN / noha)
Alexandria   City   Life   Photos   Travel  
Emirates Airline  Gulf News  Sat 13 Mar 2010
Emirates, Etihad ahead of target
| Dubai: A scheme to limit the tonnes of CO2 emitted by airlines flying to the European Union will not affect the UAE's national carriers as they claim they are already meeting the targets ahead of th... (photo: Creative Commons / kiwi photo lover)
Aerospace   Business   Emirates   Photos   Transport  
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Pacquiao, Clottey will tangle for title belt Houston Chronicle Fri 12 Mar 2010
Pacquiao, Clottey will tangle for title belt
| ARLINGTON - His campaign for political office in the Philippines will begin soon. He has hinted that this could be his last fight. | And then there is the lingering han... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Boxing   Campaign   Philippines   Photos   Sports  
Chelsea's Didier Drogba reacts after a chance to score against Fenerbahce during their Champions League quarterfinal, second leg, soccer match at Stamford Bridge stadium, London, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. Goal Fri 12 Mar 2010
African Comment: Did Didier Drogba Deserve The Glo-CAF Player Of The Year Award?
Rami Ayari argues that although Didier Drogba had a great 2008-09 season, Samuel Eto’o was more deserving of the distinction. | By Rami Ayari | Share | To the surprise ... (photo: AP / Tom Hevezi)
Accra   Africa   Drogba   Ivory   Photos  
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 United Nations Fri 12 Mar 2010
UN agency begins airlifting food aid for refugees uprooted from DR Congo
| 12 March 2010 – The United Nations today started to airlift urgent food aid for tens of thousands of people who have fled ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of ... (photo: AP / Karel Prinsloo)
Africa   Congo   Food   Photos   UN  
Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba attends a training session ahead of their African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match against Algeria, in Cabinda, Angola, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 All Africa Fri 12 Mar 2010
Drogba Named African Footballer of the Year 2009
Chelsea striker Didier Drogba was on Thursday named African Footballer of the Year for 2009. This is the second time the Ivory Coast international his won the award. | ... (photo: AP / Darko Bandic)
Africa   Drogba   Ivory   Photos   Sportstar  
Cellphone - Phone - Mobile Phone - Nokia Phone The Star Fri 12 Mar 2010
FEATURE - Mobile phones bring insurance to Kenyan farmers
| ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan farmers can now insure some of the costs of growing crops against bad weather by using mobile phone technology that links solar-powere... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Crops   Farmers   Insurance   Mobilephones   Photos  
Chelsea's Didier Drogba reacts during their Champions League Group D soccer match against Apoel Nicosia at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground in London, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2009. Goal Fri 12 Mar 2010
Glo-CAF 2009 Awards: Cheers And Criticisms Greet Didier Drogba’s Award Back Home
Football fans in Ivory Coast welcome Didier Drogba’s CAF award with mixed feelings… | By Kingsley Kobo | Share | While the 2009 Glo-CAF Awards were taking place last ... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
Drogba   Football   Photos   Soccer   Sport  
Ghana's Dominic Adiyiah reacts after scoring the third goal for his team against South Korea during their U-20 World Cup quarter final soccer match at the Mubarak Stadium, in the city of Suez, eastern Egypt, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Goal Fri 12 Mar 2010
EXCLUSIVE: My Best Is Yet To Come – Milan’s Dominic Adiyiah
The youngster says the world has only seen a little of his prowess... | By K.N.S Mensah, Goal.com | Share Newly crowned African Young Player of the Year for 2009, Dominic... (photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis)
Milan   Photos   Soccer   Talent   U20  


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The al-Fakkah oil field in southern Maysan province south of Baghdad, Iraq is seen, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009. Fire officer asks government to protect oil fields Joy Online
Press Conference: The Secretary-General to hold a joint press conference with H.E. Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway; Mr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP); Administrator of UN Development Programme (UNDP); and Mr. Jacques Diouf, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to launch a new initiative to reduce emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation. UN: ‘Africa Spends $33bn on Food Imports Yearly This Day
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Naguib Mahfouz - Recent file shot of the 1988 Nobel Prize winner for Literature. (AP-Photo) 1993 hf1 Egypt's political storyteller Gulf News
A nurse attends to a patient in Harare's main government hospital, as Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, not seen, visits the ward, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. In his first public appearance since joining the unity government, the longtime opposition leader toured Harare's main hospital Friday. Tsvangirai said about US$ 1.5 million is needed to revamp the rundown hospital. The new coalition government is faced with the world's highest official inflation rate, a hunger crisis and a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 4,000 people since August. (AP Photo) ZIMBABWE: Typhoid kills five people IRINnews
A Nigerian police officer walk pass a poster of Governor Umaru Yar'Adua's who is a leading presidential candidate at the venue of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) primary elections in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. Nigeria's ruling party was voting Saturday to choose its presidential candidate for April elections, with the governor of a northern state emerging a front-runner in a dozen-strong field. Yar'Adua - Let's Have Some Peace All Africa
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-A World Health Organization (WTO) official gives a dose of Polio Vaccine to Somali children in Tosweyn village, in the Baidoa region, Somalia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2000. The U.N. health agency will vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this month against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the region's volatile borders. The campaign will target children under 5 in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. "Nomadic people move between these countries all the time, so the idea is to try to get to these children and protect them," said Dr. Mohamed Dahir Duale, a Kenya-based doctor with the World Health Organi 'Parents must immunise all under- six children' Joy Online
Children in Congo recruited as witch doctors for militants Children in Congo recruited as witch doctors for militants Chicago Sun-Times
Secretary-General Visits Niger, Meets Prime Minister .Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Hama Amadou, Prime Minister of Niger, at the Prime Minister´s office, today in Niamey. Mr. Annan´s visit to Niger is part of efforts to keep In Niger, opening once-taboo topic of hunger crucial to easing impending food crisis Star Tribune
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Naguib Mahfouz - Recent file shot of the 1988 Nobel Prize winner for Literature. (AP-Photo) 1993 hf1 Egypt's political storyteller Gulf News
Press Conference: H.E. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda; H.E. Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania; H.E. Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda; Sandra Torres de Colom, First Lady of Guatemala; Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP); Howard G. Buffett, Chairman of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation; and Bill Gates, Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to launch a joint initiative to empower small farmers N India has greatest needs and most difficult challenges: Bill Gates Zeenews
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