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Julio Godoy

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/ 28 November 2007

Development and security in exchange for small arms

Increasing international cooperation in exchange for guns and improving the sense of domestic security are promising strategies for reducing the number of small weapons in the hands of civilians in developing countries, a leading expert on the matter says. Keith Krause, programme director of the Small Arms Survey, says that taking weapons from civilians in developing countries is the toughest part of cutting down on the number of small arms around the world.

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/ 1 December 2006

Europe’s immigrant women face growing Aids threat

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Immigrant women are becoming some of the main victims of new HIV transmissions in several European countries, especially in France, according to official figures. A third of all new HIV infections detected in France in 2005 affect an immigrant from sub-Saharan Africa.

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/ 16 November 2006

China reaches into Europe’s African ‘backyard’

The new African-Chinese economic and diplomatic partnership, manifested in the pact signed by China and 48 African countries in Beijing this month, is unsettling European leaders and analysts, who continue to see Africa as Europe’s backyard. Analysts have been calling attention to China’s growing presence in Africa for many months.

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/ 30 May 2006

When children leave on a one-way holiday

Felix Moncada Suarez and his family had prepared themselves to board the flight from Roissy airport near Paris for the Ecuador capital Quito on the evening of May 19. It was not a flight they wanted to take. At the very last minute, the ministry of the interior reversed its ruling to expel the family from France.

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