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9 hrs ago | The Hindu

IFAD chief says climate change threat is very real

NEW DELHI: "The threat of climate change and its impact on agriculture is real. We have evidence that by 2025 in some parts of the world including India, parts of Asia and parts of Africa, crop yields will drop from anything between 20 and 40 per cent from rise in temperatures.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, World News, India, Tribal

Fri Nov 27, 2009

San Francisco Bay View

Conflict minerals: A cover for U.S. allies and Western mining interests?

The caption for this photo, illustrating a story headlined "African advocates say Canada owes Congo" on the Vancouver, Canada-based Straight-com, reads, "Women are in constant danger in Eastern Congo, where most of the recent fighting has taken place and rape is widespread." The story, quoting two Congolese now in Canada, attributes the violence ...

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Related Topix: Tribal, World News, Rwanda, Africa

Los Angeles Times

Kenyans draw weapons over shrinking resources

Reporting from Isiolo, Kenya - Have the climate wars of Africa begun? Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in western Sudan.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa, Tribal, Zambia, US Politics, US News, Al Gore, Weather

Wed Nov 25, 2009

The West Australian

Canadian, Australian journalists in Somalia freed

Two freelance journalists, one from Canada and the other from Australia, were freed on Wednesday after 15 months in captivity in Somalia, with the Canadian alleging she was tortured.

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Related Topix: Somalia, World News, Africa, Tribal

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Pittsburgh Tribune

Djibouti: U.S. outpost in fighting terrorism

To understand the difficulties America faces in combating terrorism, look no farther than this Horn of Africa nation.

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Related Topix: Djibouti, World News, Africa, Terrorism, Tribal, Piracy News, Ismail Omar Guelleh

Thu Nov 19, 2009

People's Daily Online

Combating Somali pirates at the seas

By Li Hong, People's Daily Online Two pieces of news coming out of the Horn of Africa have caught people's attention.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, Tribal, Europe, Spain, World News, Prison

Sun Nov 15, 2009

The Dallas Morning News

OP-ED: Travis Kavulla: Africa needs more than condoms

Public health specialists working on AIDS in Africa are fond of invoking "ignorance." It is a term assigned to any local attitude that stands in their way - from the cool reception Africans have given condoms to the lingering doubt in many African societies that sexual activity is the essential cause of AIDS.

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Related Topix: Tribal, HIV/AIDS, Health, Opinion

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Des Moines Register

School district works to keep up with languages

For the first time in eight years, the number of students learning English in Urbandale schools has declined, but educators say they continue to struggle to find ways to meet the needs of a growing population of African refugees.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Urbandale, IA, Tribal, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Graphic Arts Online

Creative Ad Contest for New Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign

The Chief Marketing Officer Council today announced a creative advertising contest that invites consumers to produce attention-getting public service announcements for its Pause to Support a Cause corporate social responsibility initiative.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Graphic Design, Arts, Tribal, Non-Profit

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Sudan Tribune

The dismantled Sudan

November 8, 2009 - The situations in Sudan have become complicated where the entire country which is ten times size of Egypt, is on the brink of collapse.

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Related Topix: Tribal

Sun Nov 08, 2009

WUSA9.com Washington, DC

Obama To Native Americans: 'I Understand What It Means To Be An Outsider'

President Obama told American Indian leaders today he knows that Washington has broken many promises to the original settlers of this land, but "I get it." "I understand what it means to be an outsider," Obama said, son of a single mother and oft-absent father from Africa.

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Related Topix: Tribal

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Free Republic

Obama set to announce US target for cutting emissions at summit

President Obama is preparing to break the deadlock in negotiations on a global deal on climate change by announcing a target for cutting US greenhouse gas emissions.

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Related Topix: Tribal, US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Mail & Guardian

Africa 1989: Hopes are high for democracy

For Africa, 1989 was a watershed year. The promise of democracy heralded by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War was only comparable with the euphoria of the independence movements in Africa in the 1960s and Nelson Mandela's release from incarceration in 1990.

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Related Topix: Tribal, World News, South Africa, Africa

Inner Toob

as Seen on TV: Nelson Mandela

Rolihlahla "Nelson" Mandela was born to a tribal chief in Transkei, a former republic of Africa.

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Related Topix: Mandela, Drama Movies, Tribal

Thu Nov 05, 2009

China Daily

Harbingers of hope

Zhang Yong with Sudan boys. The 52-year-old was the only Chinese high-ranking commander to join overseas peacekeeping missions.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Sudan, Tribal,

Tue Nov 03, 2009

WBAY

African kings, queens, chiefs to honor Mandela

Dancers clad in animal skins opened a royal ceremony Tuesday, a nod to tradition for the forward-thinking kings, queens and chiefs who jetted in to Johannesburg from across Africa to launch an institute they hope will expand their roles on the continent The two dozen leaders from Morocco to Swaziland describe their new Institute of African Royalty ...

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Related Topix: Mandela, Drama Movies, World News, South Africa, Africa, Tribal, Swaziland,

AlertNet

Somali mobile phone firms thrive despite chaos

Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, Somalia, Africa, World News, Tribal

Time

The Congo: Lumumba Jumbo

I am the Congo, the Congo has made me. I am making the Congo. -Patrice Lumumba Four years after his death, a lot of people talk as if Patrice Emergy Lumumba were still the Congo.

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Related Topix: Tribal

Mon Nov 02, 2009

GroundReport.com

Face to Face VS Cell to Cell Talk

COMPARISON: FACE TO FACE TALK VS MOBILE PHONES, AND, THEIR EFFECTS Life without cell / mobile / satellite / I phones ! You will even hesitate to even ponder over this, avoid wasting time thinking such stupid matters.

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Related Topix: Tribal

Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Cumberland News

Helping the homeless

A man who travelled to Kenya on a mercy mission has returned home to Brampton with plans to build an orphanage for homeless children in Africa.

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Related Topix: Kenya, Africa, World News, Tribal

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