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Sudan's North-South Faultline Worries About War

2 Sep 2010 at 12:13pm
Filed at 9:53 a.m. ET AGOK, Sudan (AP) -- Four months before Southern Sudan is scheduled to hold an independence referendum, tensions are already rising in this oil-rich region that sits on the expected future border, with allegations the central government is using violence and ethnic cleansing to sway the vote. The central Sudan region of Abyei is the subject of a tug-of-war between leaders in Sudan's north and south. The border zone is home to some of Sudan's richest oil fields, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In July 2009, an international court in The Hague ruled that the Heglig oilfields are in what would be northern Sudan. The south is appealing the decision. In conjunction...

UN delays release of controversial report on Congo massacres

2 Sep 2010 at 12:05pm
Geneva - The release of a United Nations report detailing the massacre of thousands of civilians by Rwandan and Congolese forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been delayed by a month, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said Thursday. The draft report, leaked to the media last week, outraged Rwanda and led to the East African nation threatening to pull its...

 Vuvuzela can't be patented - lawyer

2 Sep 2010 at 11:59am
It would not be legally possible to patent the vuvuzela, a lawyer said on Thursday. "In the case of the vuvuzela, the concept of a device through which a noise is created by blowing into it would have been superseded by numerous prior horns. It would...

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Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case

1 Sep 2010 at 1:16pm
The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month's raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.

Funding Begins Flowing for African Agriculture

1 Sep 2010 at 11:38am
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has received a major boost as several countries have begun drawing on funds from a $22 billion pledge made by the G8.

BOTSWANA: HIV-positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed

1 Sep 2010 at 10:08am
"An HIV-positive woman must never be encouraged to breastfeed because regardless of what the doctors or researchers say - it is too dangerous for the baby," says Koziba Kelatlhe an HIV-positive mother who was advised by health workers not to breastfeed her child.

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Mozambique: Children Among Dead in Protests Over Price Hikes

2 Sep 2010 at 6:08am
Police opened fire on demonstrators in Maputo marching against rising prices in the capital of Maputo, killing at least six people including two children.

Nigeria: Election Commission to Call New State Elections

2 Sep 2010 at 4:45am
Governorship elections will hold in all but four states across the country in January, the electoral commission said yesterday, ruling out elongated tenure for six governors who went through rerun elections in 2008 and 2009.

Africa: Agriculture Excites Foreign Investors

2 Sep 2010 at 3:00am
THERE has been a large positive shift in global investment perceptions towards agriculture in Africa, driven by the global race for resources and food.

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Several dead in Somali violence

31 Aug 2010 at 4:42pm
Roadside bomb blast and mortar attack in capital Mogadishu, kills at least 14 people and injures several more.

UN links Rwanda to DRC massacre

29 Aug 2010 at 3:55am
Prosecutor says Tutsi troops butchered Hutus in central African nation in 1996-1997.

Kenya ratifies new constitution

27 Aug 2010 at 12:58pm
New charter will reduce presidential powers and address corruption and tribalism.