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The European Union (EU) recently signed a €44 million agreement with the Zambian Government to support mother and child health issues, as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) push. The project, which would run for four years, would be funded through a contribution fund with UNICEF and would be implemented in 10 districts in Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces.
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Electromagnetic pulse is the conservative fetish that just won't die.
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It might seem like a far fetched idea to people in Africa and all over the world. Some prominent members of the Jewish community say the link between the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel and today's Igbos is a myth. What would propel thousands of Igbo people in Nigeria (and growing) to believe they are really Jews, who descended from "Eri", the 5th son of GAD; the latter who was the 7th son of Jacob, whose sons fathered the 12 Tribes of Israel? Jeff Lieberman's new documentary, RE-EMERGING: The Jews of Nigeria, follows the quest for knowledge of Igbo roots in Judaism through Schmuel (Schmuel Tkvah ben Yaacov), a charismatic and eloquent young leader in the Nigerian Jewish community....
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How the Pentagon is wriggling its way through sequestration.
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Owen Howells is a DJ/producer who grew up in Australia but was born in the UK. He came back to the UK, namely London, a few years ago and quickly found himself integrated into the party scene. I caught up with Owen recently to talk about his story so far and his plans for the future.
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The Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, in cooperation with the UN Development Program recently published an 83 page study titled "Invest in Ethiopia: Focus Mekelle." This study covers one of the eleven cities in eight African countries in an effort to attract more foreign direct investment. The other cities in the project are Accra and Kumasi, Ghana; Kisumu, Kenya; Blantyre, Malawi; Bamako and Segou, Mali; Akure and Kaduna, Nigeria; Louga, Senegal; and Tabora, Tanzania.
The detailed study looks at:
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Oceanic and atmospheric conditions are expected to create stronger and more hurricanes in 2013, setting the stage for an "above normal and extremely active" season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
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Monaco is a street circuit where driver ability is more important than anywhere else and if we take the view that the best drivers should be up there then Lewis Hamilton looks a stand out price at 7/2.
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Speaking before the Ethiopian parliament on 18 May 2013, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said "We will spare no expense to defend and protect Somaliland." The Prime Minister's unusually strong assurances seem to have been covered in most detail in a 19 May report in the Ethiopian Review titled "Breaking News: 'We Will Defend Somaliland,' Ethiopian PM Hailemariam Desalegn." Tigraionline ran a briefer account of the prime minister's remarks titled "Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Says We Will Defend Somaliland."
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Elizabeth Taylor and Anwar Sadat.
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The European Union (EU) recently signed a €44 million agreement with the Zambian Government to support mother and child health issues, as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) push. The project, which would run for four years, would be funded through a contribution fund with UNICEF and would be implemented in 10 districts in Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces.
Copyright © Zambian Economist 2013
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More than 70 Heads of State will gather this week to attend the 21st Africa Union summit which coincides with a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the continental institution. The summit's theme "Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance" will unfold with a call for Africans to "realize the dream of the founding fathers for a peaceful, prosperous, and united Africa". Despite the backdrop of this celebratory atmosphere, discussions of the many challenges and conflicts taking place in several regions throughout the continent will also be on the agenda.
A coalition of over 120 civil society organizations from African and the Middle East issued a joint statement calling on the A.U. to "use this anniversary not just to mark but to make history by supporting a new, bolder and comprehensive ...
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Editor's Note: This op-ed, written by Retired Army Col. Rick Orth originally appeared on Stars and Stripes. Col. Rick Orth is a senior fellow with the Enough Project. He served as the U.S. defense attache to Rwanda (1996-1998), Uganda (2001-2005), and Ethiopia and Djibouti (2005-2006), as well as the military adviser to the assistant secretary of state for African affairs (2006-2008).
The Congolese military has again been accused of significant human-rights abuses, including mass rape. Recently, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office released a report concerning abuses by the Congolese Army (FARDC) as it retreated from advancing M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo between Nov. 15 and Dec. 2.
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This is a guest post by Brooke Bocast, a PhD candidate in anthropology at Temple University and a visiting predoctoral fellow...
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Yes, the BBC sent the snooty John Simpson to South Africa to do a bit of parachute journalism and be led around by the white "rights" group Afriforum (since when are they are a credible source?) to come up with this insulting question: "Do white people have a future in South Africa?" Read it here. The [...]
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Editor's Note: Madison Brenchak is a student at Seymour Middle School in Seymour, CT. She is a member of Seymour's Small Steps club, a participant and supporter of the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program. Learn more about the Darfur Dream Team and the Pazocalo social network that connects students at Seymour and 25 other U.S. schools with their Darfuri peers.
Right now, in 2013, it has been ten years since the tragedy occurring in Darfur started. In 2003, the Sudanese government began supporting militia groups called the Janjaweed ("Devil on Horseback" in Arabic) to terrorize villages in Darfur because of their ethnicity and with goals of acquiring land and resources. These actions have been widely recognized as genocide.
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Given South Africa's stated commitment to multilingualism, you might not think that a requirement from one of the country's universities that its students learn an indigenous African language would raise much alarm. Yet alarm has nonetheless been the reaction from a few unexpected quarters to the University of KwaZulu-Natal's announcement that all first-year students enrolled [...]
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A fascinating piece from Mothusi Turner (Think Africa Press) on how the Chinese (from China's Fujian province) succeeded in Lesotho may hold for our own entrepreneurs:
Rather than being in some way tied to Chinese state assistance to Lesotho then, migrants come to Lesotho under their own steam, lured by rumours of easy profits. But they do not arrive as hostages to fortune, without a plan and alone. Rather, given that kinship networks are the main pull factor behind Fujianese migration to Lesotho, new arrivals usually have links to one of the local Fujianese business associations before they even land.
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"Prejudice," warned former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo in the judgment of Hoffmann v South African Airways, "can never justify unfair discrimination". This means that a church can never justify discrimination against a gay or lesbian minister, pastor or priest, because it wanted to protect itself against the homophobic prejudices of its congregants. But this seems [...]
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