Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people...
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In London this week for Prince Charles' climate change meeting with 20 Nobel laureates, Maathai, now nearly 70, cut a lone, if flamboyant, figure: she was the...
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"No African writer has as many major, lasting creative achievements in such a wide range of genre as Ngugi wa Thiong'o. His books include novels, plays,...
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Sahara Reporters interviews Wole Soyinka at the Nigerian Liberty Forum in London. Soyinka speaks about the state of Nigeria and its government. Credits: Filmed...
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One billion people on the planet don't have access to clean, safe drinking water. 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation, specifically a toilet....
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Hope was 14 years old when her uncle raped her. "He trapped me to the ground and covered my mouth with his hand," said the 18-year-old from Zimbabwe....
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Farmers in Africa have managed to save their crops from elephants by using tiny bees to frighten some of the biggest animals on earth away. Elephants regularly...
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The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world’s largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in...
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, no Russian leader has spent time or effort on the African continent. Russian president Dmitri Medvedev just concluded his...
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Please watch Howard Buffett's Crusade Against African Famine, a Wall Street Journal Digital Network special based on the book "Enough: How the world's...
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The rhetoric Monsanto uses in misleading us all that GM foods can "feed the world" always refers to Africa as if those in Africa do not have the ability to...
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President Obama is giving a speech to Ghana's Parliament on July 11...and in an interesting new media twist, the White house is asking Ghanans to text in...
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ACCRA, Ghana – The last stop on President Barack Obama’s week-long trip may prove to be his most historic and newsworthy. Just one day before Obama...
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This article reminded me that it's not always about the actual act of killing but also about attacking the "family unit" which can prevent a society...
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PHOTO: A mountain gorilla is having a snare removed. Illegal logging/deforestation has created access for illegal hunting and illegal wildlife-trade. The snares are...
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One in four men in South Africa admitted to raping someone and many confessed to attacking multiple victims, according to a new study conducted by the Medical...
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Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five...
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The international community has condemned the killing of Somalia's National Security Minister, Omar Hashi Aden, in a suicide car bomb in Beletweyne, north of the...
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Somali journalist Ahmed-Tajir Omar Hashi was walking in Mogadishu's Bakara market with his boss, the head of one of the country's leading broadcasters,...
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FAO, the UN organization against world hunger, based in Rome, has launched an alarm: for the first time in history one billion human beings suffer from hunger, a...
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