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/ 15 January 2009
About 50 teenagers amble hollow-eyed on the lawn of Liberia’s sole psychiatric hospital, drug-laced casualties of a civil war fought using children.
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/ 14 October 2008
As governments pour trillions into shoring up banks, World Food Day will be marked on Thursday by calls to combat hunger and a price spiral.
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/ 11 October 2006
At an HIV/Aids treatment centre in Goma, doctor Nino Minani is still haunted by the despairing cry of a dying patient. ”’You’ll drink the ARV [antiretrovirals] yourselves, because I’ll already be dead by the time they arrive’,” Minani recalled of the woman’s remarks. ”She kept telling us,’you’re waiting for us to die to give us treatment’.”
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/ 27 September 2006
Even though she is just a child, 16-year-old Revoli has had to grow up fast, following her friends, neighbours and relatives into a life of prostitution. "I wanted to have money like they had," said Revoli. "Now I regret it, but I have no other choice." Selling her body, she says, is among the few options for making a living available for women in poorer neighbourhoods of Goma.
Seven people were killed and three seriously injured in a fire that swept through a building housing African immigrants in central Paris, fire services and police said on Tuesday. The blaze comes four days after 17 Africans were killed in similar circumstances in the French capital.