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/ 14 December 2009
A UN-backed military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has caused more civilian casualties than damage to rebels, rights groups said.
Fewer Zimbabweans are getting infected with Aids, and researchers speculate it’s due in part to a battered economy that’s leaving men short of money.
SA is launching clinical trials of the first HIV/Aids vaccines created by a developing country, said Anthony Mbewu, head of the MRC.
A truce called by a Nigerian militant group may provide a brief respite in a conflict crippling the country, but it is unlikely to end the fighting.
The Obamas had a reservation for the night Democrats announced their candidate and the restaurant was looking for a wine that popped.
Even as Pope Benedict XVI said his heart cannot be at peace while people are homeless, critics said thousands have been evicted from church land.
Pope Benedict XVI begins a visit on Friday to Angola, where bishops have condemned the grinding poverty amid multibillion-dollar oil revenues.
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/ 7 February 2009
The decline of Zimbabwe’s education system, which was once the pride of the region, has matched the general unravelling of the country’s economy.
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/ 9 December 2008
Thousands of Zimbabweans are dying, uncounted and out of sight in a silent emergency as hospitals shut, health groups say.
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/ 10 December 2007
The boy was thrown into the fire and left to die by Janjaweed fighters in Sudan’s bedevilled Darfur province. But 12-year-old Rachid Dahiye Zakaria survived. Then, badly disfigured, he walked for days to a refugee camp across the border in Chad with his sole remaining relatives — a grandmother and a sister.