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Soaring food prices, supply fears among import-dependent countries and rising demand for biofuels have driven up investment in agricultural land, notably in Africa. The meltdown in financial markets has slowed some of these flows, but some analysts say...
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An Australian hospital has identified a spike in violent “werewolf” patients when there is a full moon.
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Africa’s lead negotiator at the Copenhagen climate summit says China has promised to support African demands for equitable financing to cope with global warming....
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The viability of an effort endorsed by the United Nations to halt the trading of the so-called blood diamonds that have fueled conflicts across Africa is on the line...
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I was going through my emails and came along a photo of a dying kid who has gone for days without food and is short of some energy to even cry, the only reachable...
made popular Oct 14 2009
South Africa’s winning bid to host the 2010 World Cup wasn’t much of a contest. The bid was confined to Africans nations since the continent is the only one...
made popular Oct 5 2009
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As the Ukraine and Thailand became more aware of Western opportunities, more distant places are still ready to send their poor and...
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Deputy PM, Israel Minister for Nuclear Energy and Intelligence Dan Meridor had confirmed PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow, taken place during ten hours on 7...
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Champion Caster Semenya, ‘is hermaphrodite’was factully stated in these pages by M. Kerjman:
made popular Sep 11 2009
Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that “significant” rainfall has lashed the...
made popular Sep 5 2009
A forty-old Muscovite begs doctors to back his little brother’s size to original 15 centimetres as a 25cm appendage distracted females.
“If we could, we would...
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Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia’s capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study.
Africans...
made popular Aug 31 2009
Italian coastal patrol vessels were searching the Mediterranean today for the bodies of 73 African migrants believed to have died on a dinghy that ran out of fuel...
made popular Aug 22 2009
Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty, often in shanties dwarfed by fire-belching...
made popular Aug 13 2009
Up two flights of stairs in a musty apartment in central Madrid is where an African man with a face as white as chalk has placed his hope for the future.
In early...
made popular Aug 8 2009
Anyone who has ever worked at the States Department will tell you that by just inviting them to the White House, some African leaders will hand over to you the key to...
made popular Jul 9 2009
The Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamonds” informed a whole generation of moviegoers how illicit trading in diamonds fuels oppression of native people in...
made popular Jun 26 2009
It was Brazil’s President Lulu da Silva who remarked that while it was the blue eyes and blond of the Western world, it was the brown people whom were paying the...
made popular Jun 22 2009
Engaging in selling and buying products and services while in africa is a nightmare! Most of the big E-commerce websites like paypal still do not allow users in these...
made popular Jun 19 2009
This recession might just make a visit to Timbuktu more attractive than usual. As the rate of the pound edges closer to Euro parity, demand for exotic holidays could...
made popular Jan 7 2009
Kampala — TRAGEDY struck Pader district yesterday when seven family members were burnt to death by a bush fire in Ojile village in Pajule, Aruu county.
The seven...
made popular Jan 7 2009
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