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Foo Fighters, HIV Deniers | Mother Jones
Seeded on Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:48 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Some rock stars want to free Tibet. Others want to save Mumia. The Foo Fighters, on the other hand, want their fans to ignore accepted medical wisdom about AIDS.
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allAfrica.com: Africa: Global Crisis 'Hits Africa Twice,' Says Kofi Annan (Page 1 of 1)
Seeded on Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:00 PM EDT (AllAfrica News: Latest)
Africa is facing difficult times. The effects of the global economic recession and climate change have already begun to reverse the progress the continent has made over the last decade.
Mugabe Aides Said to Use Violence to Get Amnesty - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:41 PM EDT (The New York Times)
HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe's top lieutenants are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, according to senior members of Mr.
Africa: Continent Loses U.S. $90 Billion to Tax Evasion
Seeded on Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:19 PM EDT (AllAfrica News: Latest)
African countries are losing US$90 billion of revenue through tax evasion by international mining companies.
allAfrica.com: Malawi: Madonna Tries to Adopt Second Child (Page 1 of 1)
Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:50 PM EDT (AllAfrica News: Latest)
Madonna is back in Malawi, seeking to adopt another child from the country – despite controversy over her adoption of a child there three years ago.
Clowns bring smiles to DR Congo
Seeded on Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:41 PM EDT (BBC News)
A team of clowns has started a tour of refugee camps in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than half of those displaced are children. The four performers, from the Spanish organisation Payasos Sin Fronteras (Clowns Without Borders), are on a 25-day tour of seven ca …
Monitor Online | Charles Onyango Obbo | Who knows? Could Museveni make Olara Otunnu his VP?
Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:42 PM EDT (monitor.co.ug)
A sure win for him might be – and this sounds crazy - a political rapprochement with the one group in the North that could do him a lot of regional and national good---the Otunnu family.
Traumatized child soldiers return home in Congo
Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:33 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Some beat their heads against the wall until doctors inject them with tranquilizers. Others remain mute for days, their eyes darting around like frightened animals.
New Vision Online : Uganda to get sh750b from World Bank
Seeded on Sat Mar 7, 2009 2:45 AM EST (newvision.co.ug)
THE World Bank will invest sh750b in Uganda for the next five years to increase productivity of enterprises, access to secondary education and basic health services.
New Vision Online : UPDF captures Kony commander
Seeded on Sat Mar 7, 2009 2:41 AM EST (newvision.co.ug)
THE UPDF has captured a top commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, Col. Thomas Kwoyelo, following a battle with the joint forces in the ongoing military operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A Permanent Deterrent to Impunity | Enough
Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 1:35 AM EST (enoughproject.org)
With its decision regarding an arrest warrant a day away, the International Criminal Court, or ICC, has been in the news a great deal. The court was created in response to the need for international justice to end impunity, a point ICC President Phillipe Kirsch rightly emphasizes.
International Criminal Court Issues Warrant for Sudan�s President Over Darfur War Crimes - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 1:26 AM EST (The New York Times)
Judges at the International Criminal Court ordered the arrest Wednesday of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan for atrocities committed in Darfur, but Sudanese officials swiftly retaliated, ordering Western aid groups that provide for millions of people to shut down their op …
South Africa and the world | The see-no-evil foreign policy | The Economist
Seeded on Tue Mar 3, 2009 3:45 PM EST (The Economist)
But in recent years, Mr Mandela's promised beacon has begun to look decidedly dim.
New Vision Online : Britain should lead northern Uganda�s reconstruction
Seeded on Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:17 PM EST (newvision.co.ug)
The current predicament of northern Uganda was perhaps best captured by the outrage expressed by Jan Egeland, then UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency aid coordinator when he visited northern Uganda in October 2004.
Katine: Who are the Karamojong? | Katine | guardian.co.uk
Seeded on Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:56 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
In official and popular representations of the region, the Karamojong are presented as uncivilised, stubborn and trigger-happy, a sort of vestigial reminder of a past most Ugandans have left behind.
Africa Blog » Blog Archive » Time to stop aid for Africa? An argument against | Blogs |
Seeded on Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:33 AM EST (Reuters)
Earlier this month, Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo argued that Africa needs Western countries to cut long term aid that has brought dependency, distorted economies and fuelled bureaucracy and corruption. The comments on the blog posting suggested that many readers agreed.
Time to stop aid for Africa? | Blogs |
Seeded on Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:32 AM EST (Reuters)
Far from being all bad news for Africa, the global financial crisis is a chance to break a dependence on development aid that has kept it in poverty, argues Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, who has just published a new book "Dead Aid".
Is it time for Yoweri Museveni to go? | Katine | guardian.co.uk
Seeded on Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:38 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
In his inaugural address 23 years ago, the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, was cheered as he declared: "The problems of Africa, and Uganda in particular, are caused by leaders who overstay in power, which breeds impunity, corruption and promotes patronage."
No votes, no cabinet posts - Museveni | Monitor Online | News |
Seeded on Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:08 PM EST (monitor.co.ug)
President Museveni has hinted that he was looking towards the 2011 presidential election in naming his cabinet by rewarding areas that voted overwhelmingly for him in 2006 and sidelining those that didn't.
Faradje Journal - Armed With Little but Resolve, and Defending a Hollowed Village - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:22 AM EST (The New York Times)
Tanzi Bakonzi, 15 and about four feet tall, was on patrol. A terrible mismatch may be shaping up in this isolated patch of northeastern Congo. He stood in front of a burned-out vegetable market, wielding a rusty machete and wearing blue toenail polish.
Alison Des Forges, 66, Human Rights Advocate, Dies - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:43 PM EST (The New York Times)
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Africa Command: Think Tank: Online Only: The New Yorker
Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:42 PM EST (New Yorker)
In this fiscal year, the Defense Department's budget, once operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are accounted for, will reach about $700 billion. The State Department's budget is less than $40 billion.
BBC NEWS | Africa | UN in Congo 'gives LRA free rein'
Seeded on Fri Feb 6, 2009 1:25 PM EST (BBC News)
The UN force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been accused of doing too little to protect civilians from Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels.
Combat the terror of rape in Congo | csmonitor.com
Seeded on Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:56 PM EST (Christian Science Monitor)
Long overshadowed by conflicts in the Middle East, Darfur, Iraq, and Afghanistan, extensive, predatory terrorism – largely of a sexual nature – continues to attack the heart of Africa.
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Foo Fighters, HIV Deniers | Mother Jones
Finished Seeding... Maybe.
Mugabe Aides Said to Use Violence to Get Amnesty - NYTimes.com
allAfrica.com: Africa: Global Crisis 'Hits Africa Twice,' Says Kofi Annan (Page 1 of 1)
Mugabe Aides Said to Use Violence to Get Amnesty - NYTimes.com
Africa: Continent Loses U.S. $90 Billion to Tax Evasion
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Clowns bring smiles to DR Congo
Traumatized child soldiers return home in Congo
New Vision Online : Uganda to get sh750b from World Bank