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Counts in the gun-fair death of an eight-year-old child:3 persons ...

Durban :: South Africa | about 2 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by aarana

Bizilj, of Connecticut, lost control of the 9mm micro submachine gun as it recoiled while he was firing at a pumpkin on October 26 at a Firearms Expo in Massachusetts. Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted on...

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Eskom cans costly nuclear plans

Cape Town :: South Africa | about 3 hours ago | No category

Source: News 24

South African power utility Eskom has decided not to build a new nuclear power station because of the cost associated with such a plan. Eskom has stopped the commercial procurement process to select a preferred bidder to build South Africa's...

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Three found guily of Bali drug run

Bali :: Cameroon | about 6 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: The Courier-Mail

Shaode Cao, 21, Francis Vui Jun Lee, 25, and Alice Yun Hsuan Yang, 22, each pleaded not guilty to conspiring to import prohibited goods into Australia. The Brisbane Supreme Court was told each travelled to Bali twice in 2004 after...

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Environmental News Network: ENN Blog From The Congo: Saving The Bonobo ...

Brazzaville :: Congo | about 7 hours ago | No category

Source: Uinta County News

ENN contributor Vanessa Wood reports from the Congo on her trip to study and protect the Bonobo monkey. ENN: Why Bonobos? Vanessa Wood: Our main reason for studying Bonobos is incredibly narcissistic...Chimpanzees, Bonobos and humans share a common evolutionary ancestor....

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Address: First Annual Int. Conference on Africa

Nairobi :: Kenya | about 13 hours ago | No category

Source: Scoop

Address to the First Annual International Conference on Africa Phillip Carter III, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs The Africa Initiative Project Arizona State University, Tempe AZ November 21, 2008 Good afternoon and thank you all for...

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Sudan?s Kiir vows not to accept ?unreasonable? census results

Khartoum :: Sudan | about 8 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Sudan Tribune

The Sudanese First Vice-President and the head of southern Sudan government Salva Kiir warned that he will not accept census results that appear unreasonable. The fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census, a milestone in the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive...

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New American Media: Instability Continues in the Congo

Kigali :: Rwanda | about 15 hours ago | No category

Source: Androscoggin News

Dec 04, 2008 At least five million people have died as a result of wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1997. The wars, which are sometimes described as civil conflicts, are more accurately described as Africa's first...

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In Ghana, a political neophyte, with a household name, campaigns

Accra :: Ghana | about 17 hours ago | No category

Source: Christian Science Monitor

Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, had been leading "an ordinary life" in Rome as a consultant and freelance journalist. But after spending 24 years away, she's moved back to Ghana with her husband and 11-year-old...

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Darfur: six aid workers assaulted near government checkpoint

Khartoum :: Sudan | about 9 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Sudan Tribune

After passing two government checkpoints on the short drive between Nyala town and Kalma camp for displaced persons, a convoy of six aid workers in three vehicles was stopped, robbed and beaten by two gunmen on Thursday morning. Three out...

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British missionaries jailed in Gambia

Banjul :: Gambia | about 11 hours ago | No category

Source: The independent

A British couple who have spent the past 12 years working as Christian missionaries in the West African state of the Gambia have been jailed after being charged with sedition. David Fulton, 60, and his wife Fiona, 46, were arrested...

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