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• Fighting African Poverty, Village by Village

  Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:36:00 GMT
  Innovative Millennium Villages Project in Bonsaaso, a cluster of poor and remote settlements in Ghana's Ashanti Region, focuses on achieving Millennium goals.

• Rejected Somali Asylum Seekers in Britain Sent to Mogadishu

  Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:04:00 GMT
  Between April and December 2007, the Home Office sent 1, 999 asylum seekers back to their original countries. Some of the Somali nationals were sent to Mogadishu, the most dangerous city in the world.

• South Africa: Rethinking Asylum

  Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:35:00 GMT
  The backlog of applications for refugee status dates back to the late 1990's, when people from troubled African countries became attracted to South Africa after its transition to democracy.

• Africa Struggles With Soaring Food Prices

  Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:44:00 GMT
  Addressing an emergency summit on the global food crisis in Rome in June, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon underscored the threat to political stability and development.

• Harvest of Shame: Former Sierra Leonean Ruler Valentine Strasser

  Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:08:00 GMT
  The emergence of a power vacuum motivated Strasser and his men to seize power. His ascension to power inspired the youth, who believed that someone had finally emerged to champion their cause.

• An Abhorrent Form of Censorship

  Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:12:00 GMT
  Two Zimbabwean journalists from the state-owned Sunday Mail and Herald newspapers—Munyaradzi Huni and Caesar Zvayi—have been placed on the European Union's sanctions list.

• Public in Zimbabwe Downbeat About Political Agreement

  Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:30:00 GMT
  An agreement between Zimbabwe's political parties to pursue negotiations to establish a new constitution and bring an end to political violence has been met with skepticism by ordinary Zimbabweans.

• Sierra Leone's Cocaine Plane Saga: Transport Minister Speaks Out

  Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:13:00 GMT
  The July 13 impounding of a plane loaded with cocaine, and the subsequent arrest of alleged drug traffickers, overshadowed all government business in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for several days last week.

• Thousands Still Live in Slavery in Northern Mali

  Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:11:00 GMT
  People continue to be enslaved in northern Mali, according to Malian human rights organization Temedt, despite a widespread belief that slavery no longer exists in the country.

• Solar Powered Computer Center Opens in Sierra Leone: An Interview With Samuel Atere-Roberts

  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:19:00 GMT
  On June 10, Samuel Atere-Roberts participated as project manager in the commissioning of the solar powered computer center at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

• Second Wave of Reforms in Mozambique Aims to Share Wealth

  Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:59:00 GMT
  Many have missed out on the economic boom of the past decade that has seen robust growth rates but which has been largely driven by huge capital investments that have created few employment opportunities.

• Spate of Arrests Ahead of Elections in Zimbabwe

  Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:24:00 GMT
  The detention of presidential contender Tsvangirai by police for nearly 12 hours on Wednesday is another instance of the orchestrated harassment of opposition supporters and other organizations.

• The Bonfire of the Townships: Purging South Africa

  Wed, 28 May 2008 23:51:00 GMT
  Many left-leaning ideologues have responded to the spectacles of mass arson ongoing in the "townships" of Gauteng and elsewhere in South Africa with characteristic ambiguity.

• In the Belly of the Presidential Convoy

  Sun, 18 May 2008 23:15:00 GMT
  I saw a willing president who, according to his presidential and public affairs minister, wants to "bring the State House closer to the people and the people closer to State House."

• Congo: After Two Key Deals, What Progress Toward Peace in North Kivu?

  Thu, 15 May 2008 23:48:00 GMT
  Since the Congo government and various armed groups in the chronically unstable North Kivu province signed a ceasefire in January, the truce has been repeatedly violated.

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