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Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana's first president, says he is confused at the recent ministerial reshuffle by President John Mahama.
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Best known for playing the fifth incarnation of the Time Lord and more recently for his role in 'Law and Order: UK', Peter Davison spoke to Neela Debnath at this year's Sci-Fi Weekender about his time on the show, discussing the Doctor with his son-in-law David Tennant and watching the new series.
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By Christopher Sabatini, Special to CNN Editor's note: Christopher Sabatini is editor-in-chief of the policy journal Americas Quarterly. The views expressed are his own. It's difficult to remember a time when Hugo Chávez didn't the dominate headlines, just as it is difficult to believe that, with his death, there will come a time when he [...]
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Reactions from Venezuelans and people around the world after the death of President Hugo Chávez.
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US companies active in Africa complain that they can't get support from the US government's official export credit agency, US Exim Bank, the way Chinese exporters and firms appear to get support from China Eximbank. Well, now I see why. While China Eximbank has been lining up billions for Chinese firms to get business in some of Africa's oil rich countries (Angola, Sudan), the US Exim Bank was apparently arranging a $5 billion loan for a joint venture between US firm Dow Chemicals and Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company. (We know the Chinese provide finance with no strings attached. I wonder what kind of governance conditions we put on our mega-loans to this authoritarian dictatorship? I also suppose this wasn't viewed as "giving 'aid' to get access to oil" on our part?) With Saudi ...
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Ever since Nigeria's first oil find at Olobiri in 1956, the question of who should benefit and pay for the costs and consequences of oil production has been a contentious issue; often with little consensus amongst the key players -
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Hugo Chávez's death appeared to be welcomed directly and indirectly by some top figures in American politics in Washington, but some statements celebrated aspects of his leadership in whole or in part.
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Memo to Nocera: You really need to issue a retraction and multiple apologies, rather than writing yet another error-riddled smear job on Hansen. The good news is that I'm home from Johns Hopkins, sans pancreatic neuro-endocrine tumor, with a very good prognosis. The bad news is NY Times business columnist Joe Nocera took this moment to [...]
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Did Israeli Doctors Try to Forcibly Sterilize Ethiopian Immigrants? By Sorcha Pollak Source: TIME The Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has called for an investigation into the reported administering of Depo-Provera contraceptive sho...
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Aid Worker Diaries - Resilience in Ethiopia - treating the root causes of hunger and poverty By Pankaj Kumar Source: AlertNet Selecting beneficiaries for any resilience project is always difficult. But one of the basic principles is that women,...
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With a newly confirmed U.S. secretary of state in place, the anticipation that the Obama administration will name a new Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan in the coming weeks, and an international campaign underway to highlight the 10th anniversary of the start of the Darfur conflict, activist voices will play an increasingly important role in the coming months to set the priorities of the U.S. government and international actors related to Sudan.
In early February, Enough hosted an advocacy, media, and development training in Washington, D.C., in coordination with Voices for Sudan, a network of U.S. diaspora representing marginalized regions of Sudan and South Sudan. The workshop sessions focused on providing the participants with the skills and tools to become more effective advocates ...
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Jewelers' Circular Keystone magazine's Cutting Remarks blog, which covers news and trends in the diamond industry, recently highlighted the increasing attention to conflict gold in the lucrative minerals trade that finances warlords and thus perpetuates insecurity in eastern Congo. Writer Rob Bates spoke to Enough Project Senior Policy Analyst Sasha Lezhnev about why the boost in attention to the gold trade is important and what the recent signing of a framework agreement aimed at ending the current fighting means for advocacy efforts. Here's an excerpt:
Last weekend, a possibly momentous event occurred that could affect our industry: A peace deal was brokered in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Allan Savory at TED:
"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes -- and his work so far shows -- that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert.
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