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African News: With 1,500 infected each day, S.Africa gets AIDS plan
JOHANNESBURG, March 14 (Reuters) - South Africa launched a revamped national AIDS plan on Wednesday as new research showed the high cost of government inaction on the epidemic -- 1,500 South Africans infected with HIV every day.
Note: Source: Reuters
By Andrew Quinn
Posted by jcohen on Wednesday, March 14 @ 09:39:27 UTC (1979 reads)
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African News: Racist ringtone sets off alarms
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A cell phone ring tone describing violence against black people is spreading from phone to phone in South Africa via wireless technology, raising concerns in the post-apartheid country.
Posted by jcohen on Wednesday, July 19 @ 08:36:28 UTC (2096 reads)
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African News: AIDS toll may reach 100 million in Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- It began quietly, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California.
Posted by jcohen on Wednesday, June 07 @ 00:00:00 UTC (1767 reads)
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African News: Rwandan president scoffs at ''Hotel Rwanda''
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rwandan president Paul Kagame on Wednesday dismissed the Oscar-nominated drama "Hotel Rwanda" as an attempt to rewrite the history of the central African country's 1994 genocide
Posted by jcohen on Saturday, June 03 @ 00:00:00 UTC (1634 reads)
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African News: Gold mining firms enjoy surging prices
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - With oil soaring to new highs and the U.S. dollar back down, investors are looking to the usual haven: gold.
Note: HEIDI VOGT
Posted by jcohen on Friday, May 19 @ 16:17:24 UTC (1710 reads)
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African News: Kenyans rule in Beantown
Africans win in both genders at marathon
Posted by jcohen on Friday, April 21 @ 00:00:00 UTC (1728 reads)
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African News: Wanted Liberian warlord vanishes
Former Liberian
president Charles
Taylor, wanted
for war crimes by
a court in Sierra
Leone, has disappeared
from his
residence in
southeastern Nigeria,
the Nigerian
presidency
said yesterday.
Posted by jcohen on Saturday, April 01 @ 00:00:00 UTC (1602 reads)
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African News: Egypt’s Sphinx to get a facelift
CAIRO (AFP) - The Great Sphinx of Giza, one of the most famous monuments of Pharaonic Egypt, is to get a facelift, the Egyptian ministry of culture said.
Posted by jcohen on Saturday, March 18 @ 00:00:00 UTC (1718 reads)
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African News: Women are Africa's political hope
Liberia is not the only female success story on this war-scarred continent - women's power there is growing
Note: BY EMIRA WOODS AND LISA VENEKLASEN
Emira Woods, left, originally from Liberia, is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, based in Washington, D.C. Lisa VeneKlasen is director of Just
Posted by jcohen on Wednesday, March 15 @ 12:32:20 UTC (1641 reads)
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African News: Race day fashion in South Africa
High society gathered Saturday
for the J&B Met
horse race, the highlight of
the racing season and an
annual fashion extravaganza
highlighting the self-confidence
of the new black
middle class.
Posted by jcohen on Wednesday, February 01 @ 00:00:00 UTC (1599 reads)
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