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President Hosni Mubarak attends a joint press cEgyptian onference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (tmg1)
Egypt   Mubarak   Photos   President   World  
 Khaleej Times 
What will it Take for Change to Come to Egypt?
Not so long ago, when an American president wanted help in the Arab world, he would call Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, who was routinely known as America's closest ally in the Middle East. | ... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
A man speaks on his cell phone in front of a giant globe in the main venue hall of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009.
Climate Change   Deforestation   Environment   Photos   UN  
 The Star 
INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect forests
| OSLO (Reuters) - Governments will seek a new climate partnership in 2010 to protect tropical forests with funds going through the United Nations, the World Bank or bilateral channels, Norway said on... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
Farouk Hosny - Egyptian minister of culture. ula1  Ohio 
Egypt to pay for restoration of all synagogues
| CAIRO: Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country's Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister today, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo's ancient Jewish quarter was re... (photo: WN)
Cairo   Country   Egypt   Photos   Restoration  
Astana Cycling Team member Lance Armstrong talks to fans prior to the start of the third stage of the Tour of California cycling race, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 in San Jose, Calif.  The Miami Herald 
Lance Armstrong arrives in South Africa
| CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has arrived in South Africa ahead of his appearance in the Cape Argus cycling race. | Armstrong flew into Cape Town late... (photo: AP / Michael A. Mariant)
Africa   Armstrong   Cycling   Photos   Sport  
Top Stories
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 challeng... (photo: Creative Commons / DEMOSH)
Kenya   Photos   Political   President   Sudan  
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. ABC News
Nigeria Urged to Investigate Religious Violence
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Writer | JOS, Nigeria March 9, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press | A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo Nahawa village, ab... (photo: AP / Jon Gambrell)
Nigeria   Photos   Religious   Violence   Woman  
This is an image taken from TV showing a mass grave for victims in the town of Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, about three miles (five kilometers) south of the city of Jos, Monday, March 8, 2010 Al Jazeera
Nigerians bury massacre victims
| Nigerians are burying victims of a massacre of predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, blamed on a Muslim group. | The burials in mass grav... (photo: AP / APTN)
Dealth   Muslims   Nigeria   Photos   Violence  
Women sell food stuff at a local market in Bossangoa, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2007. BBC News
Central Africa's beguiling republic
| Poverty stricken, difficult to get around and considered too dangerous to visit by many Western governments, Central African Republic is not a tourism hot-spot. But our... (photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam)
Africa   Economy   Photos   Poverty   Tourism  
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton BBC News
Hillary Clinton seeks Nigeria trial for Jos massacres
| Mark Lipdo of the Stefanos Foundation said he witnessed the massacre | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Nigeria to arrest and try those responsible for k... (photo: Creative Commons / U.S. Department of State)
Africa   Nigeria   Photos   President   US  
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  
Unidentified women react to the sight of dead bodies in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. Al Jazeera
Nigeria cracks down after attacks
| Nigerian authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection with attacks near the central city of Jos that killed more than 500 people. | Police and soldie... (photo: AP / Jon Gambrell)
Crime   Human Rights   Nigeria   Photos   Violence  
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  
Cellphones - Mobile Phones Taipei Times
Cellphones Africaˇ¦s latest tool against HIV-AIDS infections
| Cellphones may be a key weapon in the war against HIV and AIDS in Africa, the head of the UNAIDS agency said. | The relatively new technology has a role to play in a co... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Aids   Cellphones   Nigeria   Photos   Technology  
BUSINESS & ECONOMY TERRORISM
- West African gold production to rise 30 pct -GFMS
- Israeli Faith in Iran's Opposition Gains Favor
- Plans on for Region's U.S.$900 Billion Railway
- Foodstuff Prices Skyrocket in Lagos
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.
IMF suggests how to raise climate change funds
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- Gunshots heard in violence-wracked Nigerian town
- African man accused of aiding terror group pleads
- Man Arrested in Country Charged in U.S With Assisting Terror
- African man accused of helping Somali terror group
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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RELIGION ENVIRONMENT & NATURE
- Nigerian Muslims Condemn Jos Massacres
- UN report: Much of Somalia's food aid diverted from need
- Land disputes, not religion at root of Nigerian violence
- Egypt to pay for restoration of all synangogues
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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- INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect fores
-  Fire destroys Durban stores
-  Koeberg slick scare
- Why FG Embarked On N19 Billion Shoreline Project
A man speaks on his cell phone in front of a giant globe in the main venue hall of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009.
INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect forests
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HEALTH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Half of Food Aid to Somalia Is Diverted, Report Says
- Half of Food Aid to Somalia Is Diverted, Report Says
- Funding Shortfalls Foil New Treatment Guidelines
- Countries Not Keeping HIV Promises - Aids Activists
 Birdflu- poultry production- h5n1- chicken- Avian influenza is an infection caused by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. These influenza viruses occur naturally among birds. (gm1) wnhires
In Brief: New plan to fight bird flu in Egypt
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- DR Congo ring may be giant 'impact crater'
- Tropical Cyclone Formation Likely Near Madagascar
- Porn domain name plan resurrected
- World Bank to support rice farming in Ghana
Cellphones - Mobile Phones
Cellphones Africaˇ¦s latest tool against HIV-AIDS infections
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REFUGEES HUMAN RIGHTS
- Chile students built refugee camp after earthquake
- UN and Aid Partners Call for U.S.$60 Million to Help 110,000
- NIGERIA: Violence delays polio vaccinations
- Sanitary Pad Project 'Changes Refugees' Lives'
-A World Health Organization (WTO) official gives a dose of Polio Vaccine to Somali children in Tosweyn village, in the Baidoa region, Somalia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2000. The U.N. health agency will vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this month against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the region's volatile borders. The campaign will target children under 5 in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. "Nomadic people move between these countries all the time, so the idea is to try to get to these children and protect them," said Dr. Mohamed Dahir Duale, a Kenya-based doctor with the World Health Organi
'Parents must immunise all under- six children'
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-  Nigeria urged to end impunity after massacre
- Nigerian Christian villagers flee threats of fresh attacks b
- Rights Officials Call for Justice in Nigeria Massacre
- Nigerian army 'ignored warning of massacres' in Jos
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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