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(Photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)Chickens and pigs increase food security in Congo
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20 Children Among Hundreds Raped in Eastern DRC
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 10:05 am | Press Release: United Nations | More than 20 Children Among Hundreds Raped in Eastern DR Congo – UN | New York, Sep 3 2010 5:10PM More than two dozen children were among the hundreds of civilians recently raped by members of...Full Story
European Trade Chief Accused of Anti-Semitism
| BRUSSELS — The European Union’s chief trade negotiator was accused on Friday of “outrageous anti-Semitism” after comments made in an interview about Israel’s role in Middle East peace talks. | Karel De Gucht, the European commissioner for...Full Story
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| The devastating floods in Pakistan have affected more than 20 million people, untold numbers of whom have had their homes and livelihoods obliterated in this unfolding tragedy. | In the first 20 days of the charity appeal to help the victims of the floods, 300,000 peo...Full Story
Rwanda Condemns U.N. Report On Congo 'Genocide'
| The United Nations has delayed the release of a report detailing a decade of gruesome attacks against civilians in the Congo after Rwanda protested the findings. Drafts of the report leaked to the media last week and accused Rwandan troops of slaughtering Hutus in Con...Full Story
Aid Worker: Congo Rapes A Strategy To Force Exodus
| Melissa Block speaks with Miel Hendrickson, regional coordinator for International Medical Corps in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hendrickson's team has treated more than 200 women who were raped in rebel attacks a month ago. The area is known for its gold and min...Full Story
More than 20 children among hundreds raped in eastern DR Congo - UN
| Poster in Goma, eastern DRC, warning of the penalties for rape3 September 2010 – More than two dozen children were among the hundreds of civilians recently raped by members of armed groups active in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Unite...Full Story
Over two dozen minors raped in eastern Congo: U.N.
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – More than two dozen children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the hundreds of victims of a recent wave of rapes in the nation's conflict-torn east, the United Nations said on Friday. | All but one of the 28 confirm...Full Story
Goodbye smallpox, hello...monkeypox?
| At least as far as the Democratic Republic of the Congo is concerned. This according to researchers led by Anne Rimoin of the UCLA School of Public Health in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. | Since the last doses of smallpox v...Full Story
Chickens and pigs increase food security in Congo
| Eat Local initiatives in the Greater Kansas City area are surprisingly similar to this surge in local food production in the African nation of Congo.  Picture Credit from Ending Extreme Poverty -ALR  | For some seven million Congolese living in Kinshasa the only mea...Full Story
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FTSE hit three-month high on bid talk and US jobs relief
The Guardian | A rare positive surprise from the US jobs market and more bid talk helped the FTSE 100 end the week on a high note as worries about a dip back into global recession receded. | M&A chatter around various London-listed firms and news that the US ...
2012 AFCON Qualifying Preview: Nigeria - Madagascar
Goal The Super Eagles of Nigeria hope to put their 2010 World Cup woes behind them by clinching a victory against Madagascar in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier this weekend. | By Jennifer Okoye | Share Share | Kick Off: Sunday September 5, UJ Esuen...
FTSE hit three-month high on bid talk and US jobs relief
Insurance Newsnet | A rare positive surprise from the US jobs market and more bid talk helped the FTSE 100 end the week on a high note as worries about a dip back into global recession receded. | M&A chatter around various London-listed firms and news that the US ...
Top EU official battles 'anti-Semitism' charge
Yahoo Daily News | BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union's trade chief battled on Friday to fend off accusations of anti-Semitism after referring to the power of a "Jewish lobby" in US policy. | European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht also sugges...
AFCON 2012 Qualifiers: Cameroon’s Benoit Assou-Ekotto Likely To Feature Against Mauritius Despite Illness
Goal The defender hopes to shake off his illness before the Indomitable Lions’ showdown in Mauritius… | By Kingsley Kobo | Share Share | Cameroon defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto, who has been reported ill after the arrival of the Indomitable Lions in Por...
Beware Niger, warns South Africa star Pienaar
The Himalayan | Added At: 2010-09-03 8:28 PM | Last Updated At: 2010-09-03 8:30 PM | The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) | The headlines has been added to your saved article(s) | To View your saved article(s)please | Close --> | AFP | South African midfielder ...
Zakuani Doubt For Posh
Sporting Life | Peterborough could be without defender Gabriel Zakuani for the trip to Tranmere. | Zakuani was back on the bench for the 3-0 win at Plymouth last weekend after recovering from a groin injury but could still be called up to travel to Cameroon with t...
SPARKcon Fashion Show Sept 17 in Downtown Raleigh!
The Examiner | The annual fashionSPARK Fashion Show, now in it's 5th year, is the Triangle's largest and most popular style event of the year.  A part of SPARKcon, a week full of art, music, film and fashion, the show will showcase the city's rising, most talent...
Rape Cases Rise to 242, Says NGO
All Africa Suspected rebels have raped at least 242 women within a few days in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Nord-Kivu province, according to an American medical charity. Rapes and beatings took place at the end of July and the beginning of August....
Resource Centre Up for Change
All Africa Different key stakeholders, with the noticeable absence of both the local and regional councils, recently consulted during the final stakeholders' workshop on the restructuring of the Keetmanshoop Disability Resource Centre (DRC). | ...
EU says trade chief's remarks on Jews "personal"
Khaleej Times BRUSSELS - The European Union's executive distanced itself on Friday from comments by its trade chief Karel De Gucht that a European Jewish group called an incitement to anti-Semitism. | De Gucht, 56, said in a Belgian radio interview on Thursday tha...
Kenya could be punished for welcoming Sudan's leader
The Christian Science Monitor Washington, D.C. | The fallout from Sudan's al-Bashir's trip to Kenya to celebrate the constitution may be more serious than the Kenyans themselves probably anticipated. A Kenyan Capital FM report says that the ICC has reported Kenya to the UN Securi...
EU trade chief criticised over remarks
Irish Times | The European Union's executive distanced itself today from comments by its trade chief Karel De Gucht that a European Jewish group called an incitement to anti-Semitism. | Mr De Gucht (56) said in a Belgian radio interview yesterday that a "Jewish ...
Beware Niger, warns South Africa star Pienaar
Yahoo Daily News | JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – English Premiership star Steven Pienaar has warned his South Africa team-mates not to underestimate little Niger when they clash Saturday in a 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier. | Bafana Bafana (The Boys) footballes and ...
UN: Congolese rape toll rises to more than 240
m&c | Nairobi/Goma, Congo - The number of women and children raped during a four-day ordeal in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to more than 240, the United Nations said Friday. | Madnoje Mounoubai, spokesman for the UN peaceke...
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