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Breaking News Fri, 16 May 2008
 Electoral campaing in Kinshasa, DRC, 9 July 2006.  (js1)
Africa   Congo   Democratic   Kinshasa   Photos   Politics   Poll   Washington  
 Gallup 
Few Urban Congolese Have Confidence in Institutions
| WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Gallup Poll conducted one year after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo - Kinshasa) conducted its first democratic national elections shows that, except for religious ... (photo: MONUC Photo/ Myriam Asmani)
People attempt to put out flames in their burning village on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, May 15, 2008.
Africa   Lagos   Nigeria   Oil   Photos  
 Independent online 
Nigeria pipeline burns for second day
| Lagos - Nigerian firefighters battled on Friday to put out flames pouring from a burst oil pipeline a day after a huge explosion that Red Cross officials said killed 100 people. | An excavator accid... (photo: AP Photo)
Fire men attempt to put water on flames at a burning village on the distant outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, May. 15, 2008.  BBC News 
Lagos pipeline blast 'kills 100'
| At least 100 people have been killed in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, the local Red Cross says. | The explosion tore through the Ijegun suburb, engulfing schools a... (photo: AP / )
Explosion   Lagos   Nigeria   Photos   Slideshow   Victims  
Japanese whaling vessels, Yushin Maru, right, and No. 3 Yushin Maru, depart a port on a hunt that will include humpbacks - a favorite among whale-watchers - for the first time in decades in Shimonoseki, southwestern Japan, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007. Four ships, including the 8,044-ton mother ship Nisshin Maru, will head to waters off Antarctica despite a potential high-seas showdown with environmental groups and a deadly fire in February that crippled the mother ship and triggered strong protests over a potential oil spill.  CNN 
Greenpeace: Japanese ship's crew stole whale meat
| TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Greenpeace filed a criminal complaint with Japanese prosecutors Thursday, accusing whaling-ship crew members of stealing whale meat from a hunting trip. | The environmental gro... (photo: AP Photo / Shizuo Kambayashi)
Asia   Crime   Greenpeace   Japan   Photos   Whale  
Top Stories
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi arrives at the opening session of the Arab Summit in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 29, 2008. USA Today
Witness: Gadhafi helped Taylor seize Liberia
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan government ran a training camp in the 1980s that prep... (photo: AP /Adel Hana / )
Hague   Liberia   Libya   Photos   Witness  
Pope Benedict XVI meets with Benin Cardinal Bernardin Gantin , jsa1 The Times
Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Africa's leading cardinal, has died
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, the son of a railway worker from Benin became at one sta... (photo: AP / L'Osservatore Romano)
Africa   Benin   Catholic   Christianity   People   Photos   Vatican   World  
Landscape All Africa
Environment - As Senate Considers Climate Bill
The Committee on Environment and Ecology of the Senate will tomorrow open a debate on a bill for an act to establish a National Climate Commission; in a public hearing sc... (photo: GFDL / Ardo Beltz )
Climate   Ecology   Environment   Photos   Science  
 Charles Taylor  International Herald Tribune
Charles Taylor's former deputy testifies in trial
| : Charles Taylor's deputy testified in the war crimes trial of the former Liberian president on Wednesday, describing how a Sierra Leonean rebel leader answered to his ... (photo: AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam)
Africa   Crimes   Hague   Photos   President   Sierra Leone   Trial  
 Displaced children wait for World Food Programme (WFP), trucks carrying food aid to arrive at Elasha camp on the out skirts of the capital Mogadishu, Thursday, April 26, 2007. More than 300,000 people have fled Mogadishu since the fighting started in Mog IRINnews
GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours
web | Photo: Abdullah Shaheen/IRIN JOHANNESBURG, - Government attempts to control food supplies to ensure that their people have enough to eat are hampering efforts by th... (photo: AP/Farah Abdi)
Aid   Export   Food   Ghana   Humanitarian   Photo   Photos   WFP   World  
Wheat farm - Agriculture - Food - Crop - Farming Asia Times
Food bill comes in for liberalization
| By Aileen Kwa GENEVA - The high food prices that have sparked riots in parts of the developing world from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh to Cameroon, Ivory Coast and H... (photo: Creative Commons / Victor Szalvay)
Agriculture   Food   Photos   Society   UN  
Rice Dawn
Rice to stay costlier
| By Amin Ahmed | RAWALPINDI, May 12: Rice prices have skyrocketed by around 76 per cent between December 2007 and April 2008, according to the ‘Rice Price Index’, releas... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Agriculture   Food   Photos   Prices   Rice  
Australia's Michael Beauchamp, right, collides with China's Zhu Ting during their World Cup soccer qualifying match in Kunming, in China's southwest Yunnan province Wednesday March 26, 2008. The Australian
Verbeek facing slim pickings for Ghana
| INJURIES, club and international commitments, and fears of a player burnout will force Australia to go in to the friendly against Ghana in 10 days' time with a depleted... (photo: (AP Photo / Greg Baker))
Africa   Australia   Ghana   Photos   Soccer   Sport  
Society Business
- Class gaps must narrow - Zuma
- Civil Society Says Price Increase is Global
- Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Techno
- Zimbabwean police unleashed on Anglicans
 Electoral campaing in Kinshasa, DRC, 9 July 2006.  (js1)
Few Urban Congolese Have Confidence in Institutions
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- Poor Security for Container Exportations
- Johnson-Sirleaf Recommends Rice Production
- "We're Here to Make a Difference"
- U.S. Gov't Advisor Targets Businesses
 Displaced children wait for World Food Programme (WFP), trucks carrying food aid to arrive at Elasha camp on the out skirts of the capital Mogadishu, Thursday, April 26, 2007. More than 300,000 people have fled Mogadishu since the fighting started in Mog
GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours
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Health - AIDS News & Media
- Soweto gets blood donor centre
- MISSING: our HIV and Aids prevention campaign
- New wave of sex-addiction hits SA
- Nigeria Specialists to Boost Health Sector
 Displaced children wait for World Food Programme (WFP), trucks carrying food aid to arrive at Elasha camp on the out skirts of the capital Mogadishu, Thursday, April 26, 2007. More than 300,000 people have fled Mogadishu since the fighting started in Mog
GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours
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- Senegal extend Ndiaye's contract
- Poor Security for Container Exportations
- Children Banditry on the Rise
- Johnson-Sirleaf Recommends Rice Production
 Electoral campaing in Kinshasa, DRC, 9 July 2006.  (js1)
Few Urban Congolese Have Confidence in Institutions
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Entertainment Sport
- Search for Miss Biggy-Matofotofo Begins
- Political Leaders to View Aids Play
- Windhoek Pulsates to Marley Music
- Amélia Da Lomba's CD to Be Presented Today
india kashmir tight security
Rattled Jaipur hires security expert from SA
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- Senegal extend Ndiaye's contract
- Liberia tour collapses
- Who Wins LBS Championship?
- Senegal league to restart
Australia's Michael Beauchamp, right, collides with China's Zhu Ting during their World Cup soccer qualifying match in Kunming, in China's southwest Yunnan province Wednesday March 26, 2008.
Verbeek facing slim pickings for Ghana
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