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Jan 15 2007, Kanchan

Most people crossing a dumpster immediately cover their noses; the overwhelmingly disgusting smell nauseates them. The area is swarming with flies, dogs, vultures, crows, to scourer the picked over heaps for morsels of food. Welcome to the home of the...

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Sep 30 2008 by AP0 Comments

A new command takes over all U.S. military operations in Africa on Wednesday, a program that many Africans fear has a hidden agenda skewed by the war on terror and a self-interested scramble for resources.

 
 
Sep 13 2008 by AP0 Comments

A court in Senegal has sentenced a newspaper publisher to three years in prison for printing “false reports” in an article claiming the president and his son had stolen government funds.

 
 
Sep 3 2008 by AP0 Comments

More than 1,000 soldiers have left a national park that has been on the front lines of fighting in eastern Congo in a move the park director said was intended to preserve an environment that is home to endangered gorillas, hippos and active volcanoes.

 
 
Aug 5 2008 by AP0 Comments

Greenpeace called on the world’s electronics companies Tuesday to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their products, saying toxic waste from wealthy nations’ gadgets ends up being dumped in poor countries despite laws prohibiting it.

 
 
Jul 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

Unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle belonging to an international conservation group in an eastern Congo gorilla reserve, killing two people and wounding three others, officials and a U.N.-funded radio station said Wednesday.The vehicle belonged to...

 
 
Jun 24 2008 by AP0 Comments

A cottage industry that employed people, including many mothers, to extract poisonous lead from used car batteries has been blamed for the deaths of nearly 20 children in a Senegalese fishing town.The World Health Organization pressed Tuesday for quick...

 
 
May 2 2008 by AP0 Comments

Internal U.N. documents show investigators “ignored, minimized or shelved” numerous charges of gold smuggling and arms trading by its peacekeepers in Congo, an international rights organization said Friday.Allegations of such misconduct by peacekeepers...

 
 
May 1 2008 by AP0 Comments

South Africa lifted a 13-year ban on killing elephants Thursday, a move conservationists warn could encourage poachers to slaughter the animals for ivory and threaten dwindling populations elsewhere on the continent.Elephants _ once on the verge of...

 
 
May 1 2008 by AP0 Comments

South Africa has lifted a 13-year ban on elephant culling.Once on the verge of extinction in some parts of South Africa, elephant numbers in that country have recently grown at a rate of more than 5 percent a year.Conservationists warn the removal of the...

 
 
Apr 20 2008 by AP0 Comments

On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat.Like a pup, he lay curled against the cold, pressed between dozens of other children sleeping head-to-toe on the concrete floor. His T-shirt was damp with the dew that seeped...

 
 
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Nov 13 2006 by Pooja0 Comments

Huge number of Senegalese women all clad in white rallied in the wake of violence against women in the West African country.

Representative for the Alliance for a New Citizenship (ANC), a coalition of Senegalese associations defending women’s...

 
 
Nov 10 2006 by Bharat0 Comments

The former world number one Serena Williams may be struggling with her injuries to make it back to the court, but she is one player who believes in making a difference in the lives of the inopportune. She was on a humanitarian visit to Africa, a tour...

 
 
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, gestures to Philippe Douste-Blazy, left, special advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and UNITAID board chairman, during a Clinton Foundation event in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008. Senegal was the final...