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Breaking News Wed, 10 Mar 2010
A mother comforts her crying child in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010.
Nigeria   Photos   Religion   Society   Violence  
 The Times 
Religious leaders must unite to beat Nigeria's extremists
| Sir, The article by Ruth Gledhill and Jonathan Clayton ("500 butchered in Nigeria killing fields", Mar 9) portrays vividly the horror suffered by innocent civilians in the most recent outbreak of vi... (photo: AP / Jon Gambrell)
Governor Umaru Yar'Adua, who is a leading presidential candidate, is seen after casting his vote at the venue of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) primary elections in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. Nigeria's ruling party was voting Saturday to choose its presidential candidate for April elections, with the governor of a northern state emerging a front-runner in a dozen-strong fie
Africa   Nigeria   Photos   President   Saudi  
 Zeenews 
Hundreds protest to demand Nigeria leader appears
Abuja: Hundreds of Nigerians gathered in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for a march to the Presidency to demand the appearance of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua, two weeks after he returned from a Saudi... (photo: AP / George Osodi)
 Chen Feng, chairman of Hainan Group, left, shows an airplane model of Grand China Air to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, center, and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, during a news conference at Logan International Airport in Boston, Thursday, March, 8, 2007  The Guardian 
Deval Patrick is not Barack Obama
| Think Scott Brown's victory in liberal Massachusetts – for Ted Kennedy's seat, no less – has become an overworked metaphor to describe Barack Obama's political plight? You haven't seen anything ... (photo: AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
Brown   Deval   Liberal   Photos   Political  
President of the republic of Kenya Mwai Kibaki  Kenya Broadcasting Corp 
Kibaki urges IGAD to assess Sudan accord
Written By:PPS   , Posted: Tue, Mar 09, 2010 | President Mwai Kibaki Tuesday called on IGAD member states to candidly and honestly assess the challenges facing the implementation o... (photo: Creative Commons / DEMOSH)
Kenya   Photos   Political   President   Sudan  
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (podium) opens the UN's World Summit on Food Security in Rome, Italy. Mr. Ban discussed various measures to combat the hunger which afflicts one billion people worldwide, from providing food aid to investing in agricultural development. The Daily Telegraph Australia
UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls for calm as 500 Christians slaughtered in Nigeria
| UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint today after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped ... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe)
Christians   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   UN  
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (waving), President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is shown with his delegation in the General Assembly Hall during the general debate of the Assembly's sixty- fourth session, 23 September, 2009. China Daily
Ongoing Iran diplomacy needed
| Hardline tactics will only push Teheran into corner, says envoy | Beijing: China's special envoy to the Middle East denied on Friday that interest in oil is the key rea... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Beijing   Diplomacy   Mideast   Photos   Tehran  
Togo riot police face off supporters of opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre protested in Lome, Togo. Tuesday March 9, 2010. The New York Times
Togo Police Seal Off Opposition Headquarters
| LOMÉ, Togo (AP) — Anti-riot police officers on Monday sealed off the alleyways leading to the headquarters of Togo’s largest opposition party, strand... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Election   Fraud   Photos   Police   Togo  
Condoms The Guardian
Britain sends South Africa 42m condoms in HIV fight before World Cup
| • Host nation has one-in-five rate of HIV/Aids among adults | • Plea for an extra billion condoms before football fans descend | A teenage prostitute holds on to he... (photo: Creative Commons / peachy92)
Africa   Britain   Condoms   Disease   Photos  
Two displaced Sudanese women carry water supplies at the al Salam refugee camp, background, near the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Sudan, Thursday, March 26, 2009. Daily Star Lebanon
Sudan Army says it controls strategic Darfur plateau
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | - Powered by | KHARTOUM: Sudan said Monday its army had taken control of the strategic Jebel Marra plateau in ... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Darfur   Military   Peace   Photos   Sudan  
In this image taken from TV showing the bodies of victims of inter-faith violence as a crowd gathers around, in the town of Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, about three miles (five kilometers) south of the city of Jos, Sunday March 7, 2010. The New York Times
Ethnic Violence in Nigeria Kills 500, Officials Say
| DAKAR, Senegal — Officials and human rights groups in Nigeria said Monday that about 500 people had died in weekend ethnic violence near the central city of Jos, ... (photo: AP / NTA TV)
Nigeria   Photos   Police   Religion   Violence  
 Nelson Mandela The Daily Mail
Nelson Mandela's ex-wife accuses former President of 'betraying' the blacks of South Africa
| Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie has turned on her ex-husband and accused him of 'betraying' the blacks of South Africa in a scathing attack. | Mrs Mandela, 73, said... (photo: WN)
Africa   Leader   Photos   President   Woman  
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, Mexico's Secretary of Finance Agustin Carstens, center, who serves as chairman of the Development Committee, and World Bank President Robert Zoellick, left, talk with reporters during a closing news conference after several days of meetings focused on healing the global financial crisis, at IMF headquarters in Washington, Sunday, April 26, 2009. Syracuse
IMF suggests how to raise climate change funds
| (AP) - NAIROBI, Kenya - The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world's governments to pool together to raise money needed to adap... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
Climate   Funds   IMF   Photos   Proposed  
Politics / Politicians / Elections Refugees
- Politicians argue over votes cast for 55 barred candidates
- Religious leaders must unite to beat Nigeria's extremist
- South African politician fires back at World Cup critics - S
-  Rwanda presses SA for general's return
A mother comforts her crying child in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010.
Religious leaders must unite to beat Nigeria's extremists
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- East Sudan, a first step for Eritrea’s Europe-bound migrants
- Aid Workers Battle to Help "Forgotten" Refugees
- DRC-UGANDA: Aid workers battle to help "forgotten"
- UGANDA: Health fears follow deadly mudslides
An african immigrant rests inside a red cross tent after arriving in a small wooden fishing boat
East Sudan, a first step for Eritrea’s Europe-bound migrants
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International Relations Education
- Iraq PM said to be ahead on eve of vote results
- Partial Iraq Vote Results Expected by Thursday
- Statement by the Exiled Tibetan Prime Minister on the 51st A
- Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 51st Anniversary
In this photo released by the Iraqi Government, the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gestures as he speaks at a meeting with several Arab ambassadors to the United Arab Emirates in that country's capital, Abu Dhabi, Monday, July 7, 2008.
Iraq PM said to be ahead on eve of vote results
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- New Decisions on Education Emerge at NCE Summit
- Ministry of Education Wins in Belt-Tightening
- Okebukola Seeks Accountability, Transparency for Nigerian Va
- There Are No 'On the Spot' Admissions Here - UB
Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, grand sheik of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's pre-eminent theological institute, waves to Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas, not in picture, at the Azhar headquarters, in Cairo, Egypt
 Head of al-Azhar dies
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Human Rights Policies Society & Culture
- Remanded Human Rights Defender to Appear in Court
- Nigeria charges 49 over Jos killings
- U.S. Reaffirms Commitment To Ghana
-  Malema under fire for 'kill the boer' song
Residents walk past a burnt car in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. More than 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday in central Nigeria, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it.
Nigeria Urged to Investigate Religious Violence
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- Chihupi Follows Dembo's Footsteps
- 37 years of solitary confinement: the Angola three
- Tunisia's 'feminist' Muslim scholar commemorated
- 'Smoko' Lives On
The remains of a burnt pharmacy smolder following days of clashes in Jos, Nigeria Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008. Troop reinforcements on foot and in armored personnel carriers appeared Sunday to have quelled two days of ethno-religious violence that left more than 300 people dead in Jos, apparently ending the worst violence in the West African nation since 200
Hundreds slaughtered in Nigeria religious violence
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Aids Terrorism
- SOMALIA: Too many patients, one mental health facility
- Circumcision may not cut HIV spread among gay men
- KENYA: Hungry and HIV-positive in Nairobi's slums
- Donor HIV/Aids Funding Declines
HIV patients wait to receive their anti-retroviral medicine at the Deborah Retief hospital in Moshundi, Botswana
Circumcision may not cut HIV spread among gay men
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- My rape terror at hands of Somali pirates: New ordeal for Br
- Rebels Now Terrorize Central African Republic
- Prosecutors say Eritrean confessed to terror links
- Sleeper agent terrorism threat overblown: expert
An unidentified man stands in front of a burned home in the village of Ku-got, Nigeria, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Gunshots heard in violence-wracked Nigerian town
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