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My parents always presented education to us as the only way out of poverty. They even sold their valuables such as goats, sheep and cattle for us to go to school. At times my mother would brew beer and sell it just so I could get an education. They hoped that one day I would [...]
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Colin Fitzgerald works for RESPECT, the National Association for Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes and Associated Support Services. To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women which is on Sunday, Fitzgerald talks about whether a perpetrator of domestic violence can change.
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This way of life and the worldview from the field sustained itself after Eritrea's independence. The old guerrilla and liberation movement-turned- government remains unfazed by the continuing breakdown of the built environment in Asmara and other places in Eritrea. It finds today's damage in environment immaterial in comparison to the scale of destruction it witnessed in the field. Its taste of aesthetics and preservation seems robbed by the years of war and attendant destruction. Instead of by the appeal of cityscape, the government of former liberation fighters is enamored by war-ravaged field life with its mountains and valleys. Even years after having taken control of cities and towns, it looks at city life as if it is looking at parched earth and rocks in the Sahel. The ...
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The Lede is checking out the mood of Black Friday shoppers on Thursday and Friday as the economically critical holiday shopping season kicks off.
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The Guardian International Development Achievement Award is given to an individual judged to have made a major contribution to the lives of some of the world's poorest people. Sue George profiles this year's winner
Many people wonder if they are making the most of their lives, if there is a true vocation they should be seeking. Dr Kshama Metre found hers in 1985 when she went to work in a mother and child health programme in the Himalayas. That was the beginning of Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development (Cord), an organisation that has transformed the lives of many thousands of poor people across rural India.
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M23 insurgents and their Rwandan masterminds didn't see this coming: a
fierce defense by the FARDC for every single inch of the Congolese
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Kofi Adams, spokesperson to former president Jerry Rawlings has predicted a one touch victory for President John Mahama in the upcoming general elections on December 7.
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The leadership and entire membership of New Patriotic Party would like to ask all Christians and Moslems across the length and breadth of the country to pray for the party in the run up to the December 2012 elections.
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The opposition New Patriotic Party is heading to the police with a document it claims emanates from the ruling NDC outlining a grand plot to rig the December elections.
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Member of Parliament for the Adentan Constituency, Kojo Adu-Asare has admonished the opposition NPP not to see the December polls as a do and die affair.
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Government recently suspended all timber licences "to protect the depleting forests around the country". Ministerial statement is embedded below. During the suspension period, no indigenous logs, cants or poles will be felled or transported to any destination. Any found will be confiscated and forfeited to the State. Natural Resources Minister Wylbur Simuusa says the move would NOT apply to exotic timber plantations or timber that is legally extracted, processed and was in timber yards, factories or markets.
Mr Simuusa says he has received many complaints : not all timber license orders are abiding by their terms; a lot of debris and branch wood is left on stumps affecting natural regeneration; many forest licenses have not demarcated their boundaries; poor or lack of fire management ...
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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has won high praise for brokering the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. But can he implement the truce? And on the domestic front, is Egypt's new president turning into its next pharaoh?
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Here's another list of 10 films in the making or already finished. Two long fiction features to start with. Dakar Trottoirs (directed by Hubert Laba Ndao; left) has "surrealist characters of a paradoxical theatre intermingling in the heart of the city." Sounds real. There's a write-up on the shooting of the film and a short [...]
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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued a constitutional decree on Thursday granting himself sweeping "final" powers that will not be subject to appeal. Morsi also replaced the country's prosecutor general, who he tried to oust last month.
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When legal apartheid finally ended in 1994, South Africa's new democracy faced one overwhelming challenge: to improve the lives of the country's poor, or at least to maintain the hope that the future would be better. Yet with an enduring global economic recession, it can no longer be denied, not even by the eternal optimists [...]
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The richest literary prize in the world, the Nobel Prize, carries a US$1.1 million purse. The richest lit prize in Africa, the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, doesn't quite match up, but it does guarantee the winner a whopping US$100,000. It's been around since 2004, with the purse increasing from $20,000 to $40,000 in 2006 [...]
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