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Need for circumcision varies among nations

The information I want to share with you here is a little bit out of the ordinary, but may help to give you some idea about medical practice elsewhere in the world.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Africa, World News

Fri Feb 10, 2012

The Ghanaian Chronicle

Ghana, others lose billions in potential trade earnings

As African leaders now calling for a continental free trade area by 2017 to boost trade within the continent, a new World Bank report shows how African countries, including Ghana, are losing out on billions of dollars in potential trade earnings every year, because of high trade barriers with neighboring countries.

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Related Topix: Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, Opinion

Western News

Grant eyes Rwandan health care

Building on a decade-long relationship, Western University researchers and their partners in Rwanda are looking to construct a better health-care system for some of the most vulnerable in the central African nation.

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Related Topix: Africa, Rwanda Travel

Basketball in Africa

RWANDA : Owour Challenges Indomitable Lions

APR coach Cliff Owour has challenged his indomitable lions to go all the way in next month's basketball playoffs.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

AllAfrica.com

Rwanda: Opposition Leader Goes Back on Trial

The trial against Rwandan opposition politician, Victoire Ingabire , will start again this month in Kigali, Rwanda's capital.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Netherlands, Paul Kagame

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Salem-News.com

Paul Kagame: A General Without Generals

Salem-News.com is the premiere Independent Online Newsgroup in the United States.

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Related Topix: Paul Kagame, World News, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Gauntlet

Opinions - Rwandan genocide, Canadian complacency

Mugesera is the poster child for genocide suspects hiding in Western countries. Mugesera's trial is highly anticipated, as he will be the first genocidaire tried by Rwanda's judicial system, indicative of Rwanda's recovery.

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Related Topix: Africa

Wall Street Journal

Rwanda Can Be Proud of Its Economic Progress

A cover story in the Economist in May 2000 struck a dispiriting note. "Africa," the magazine declared with great authority , "the hopeless continent." As Rwandans, however, we know a thing or two about the resiliency of hope.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Opinion

AllAfrica.com

Uganda: Kigali-Kampala Road an Impediment to Commerce

Since December 2010, it has been extremely hard to get a bus seat from Kigali to Kampala or from Kampala to Kigali due to a surge in the number of passengers across the border.

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Related Topix: Uganda, Africa, World News, Burundi

Trend Hunter Magazine

Eric Reynolds, Founder and Executive Director of Inyenyeri...

Perhaps as international as interviews get, SocialBusiness.org Skyped the Founder and Executive Director of Inyenyeri , Eric Reynolds, who is, of course, based in Rwanda where his energy business operates.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Biofuel, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy)

Wed Feb 08, 2012

Sojourners

Afternoon Links of Awesomeness: Feb. 8, 2012

The Fray frontman Isaac Slade says he recently learned some important lessons while traveling the world working on the band's new album, Scars & Stories - which dropped Tuesday.

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Related Topix: The Fray, World News, Africa, Paul Kagame, Travel, Mali Travel, The Daily Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Ghanamma.com

Africa: Continent Loses Billions in Potential Trade Earnings, Says World Bank

With African leaders now calling for a continental free trade area by 2017 to boost trade within the continent, a new World Bank report shows how African countries are losing out on billions of dollars in potential trade earnings every year because of high trade barriers with neighboring countries, and that it is easier for Africa to trade with the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, Africa,

Tue Feb 07, 2012

Democracyarsenal.org

From Hama to Homs, by way of Sarajevo, Kigali

It's thirty years this month since the father and brother of the current Syrian President Assad cracked down on a Muslim Brotherhood rebellion in Hama, Syria, killing somewhere between 5,000 and 25,000, according to Amnesty International's best guess.

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IndieLondon

Blue Elephant Theatre - Spring 2012

Elephant Theatre has announced its Spring 2012 season and it includes three productions - The Fantasist, Machines for Living and The Fantastical Adventures of [Not] Being With You - that had work-in-progress incarnations at the Blue Elephant in 2011.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Mon Feb 06, 2012

Ricklibrarian

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza

Eighteen years have passed since the genocide in Rwanda, a tragedy that should be remembered for eighteen hundred years and never repeated.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Stock Market Review

Desert Gold Announces Encouraging Results at its Rubaya Project Located in Rwanda

Desert Gold Ventures Inc. is pleased to announce the successful renewal of the Rwandan gold permits for another four years and also that the anticipated mineralization over the target area Byumba continues to meet expectations.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Pershing County, NV

Sun Feb 05, 2012

News of Rwanda

Prime Minister Habumuremyitours ID Project and FARG

Pierre Damien Habumuremyivisited the National ID project offices located in Kimihurura, Kigali City.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Social Security, Africa, World News

Boston.com

Peter Canellos, on free expression in Rwanda

Just eighteen years after genocide, this tiny East African nation is an international success story.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Journalism

Sat Feb 04, 2012

Daily Monitor

I'm 900 today, but do I miss the good old days?

Mr Charles Onyango Obbo , a columnist in The East African newspaper has written 900 articles in the paper and recounts the journey made so far.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Tanzania, Burundi

SFGate

Rwandan teen to return home with new smile

After three months in the United States, Jean Claude Nshimyimana hasn't picked up much English, but he's got the most important words down.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Tiburon, CA, Travel, Rwanda Travel, San Francisco, CA, Medicine

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