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Ethiopia: Debate Swirls Around Fate of Holy Sites
05.07.2008 00:07
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Carved into the rugged mountains of northern Ethiopia, the eleven churches of Lalibela have for centuries remained among the most stunning visions a traveler can encounter.
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Seychelles: Domestic Violence on The Rise
05.07.2008 00:07
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Annette* is a small, lively woman in her early sixties. Married to an abusive husband -- who once threw boiling water on her, landing her in hospital -- she was not repeating the story with her alcoholic and drug-addicted son. Just as her husband was growing older and calmer, her son was getting increasingly violent.
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Kenya: Protestors Demand Firing of Finance Minister
05.07.2008 00:07
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Embattled Finance minister Amos Kimunya Thursday said he was still in office as MPs and other Kenyans continued demanding his resignation.
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East Africa: Agencies Warn of Emergency Crises in the Horn
05.07.2008 00:06
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The Horn of Africa is rapidly sliding into a humanitarian emergency, with more than 14 million people requiring urgent food aid and other assistance over the coming months.
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Kenya: Court Stops Hotel Transactions Over Corruption Charges
05.07.2008 00:06
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The High Court has stopped a Libyan company, the new owners of the Grand Regency hotel, from carrying out dealings on it.
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Somalia: President Unharmed in Airport Mortar Attack
05.07.2008 00:06
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A delegation led by the president of Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad, arrived in the Somali capital, Mogadioshu friday while armed groups fired mortars to the convoys of Somali leader near the international Mogadishu airport officials.
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Kenya: Call for Seeds As Thousands Return to Sodden Fields
05.07.2008 00:06
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Farmers returning to flood-damaged fields and food stores in Kenya's coastal Tana Delta and Lamu district have appealed for seeds and other inputs so as revive their livelihoods.
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Tanzania: Soften Positions to End Zanzibar Now
05.07.2008 00:06
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The standoff between the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi and the Civic Front over the political crisis in Zanzibar is not helping the country at all. At a time when Tanzanians should be rallying together for development, there are divisions and tension in the Isles.
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Tanzania: Decisive Action Needed
05.07.2008 00:06
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The decision by the Defence and National Service and Home Affairs ministries to work together to stamp out rustling in Mara Region is welcome, though belated.
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Somalia: Visiting Leader Holds Talks With Western Diplomats in Nairobi
05.07.2008 00:06
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A delegation led by the president of Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad, arrived in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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Somalia: Civil Society Groups in Southwest Call for Talks With UN Envoy
05.07.2008 00:06
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Some Civil society groups in Baidoa town the provincial town of Bay Region, southwestern Somalia have issued a press release and asked the UN special representative for Somalia Ahmad Ould Abdullah to visit the town.
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Ethiopia: Country Unlikely to Meet Health Sector MDGs
05.07.2008 00:05
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U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals are meant to be reached 2015 when there is supposed to be enough doctors to meet overall global needs, but Ethiopia has been rated as one of the countries to still be far short in that regard, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said on Wednesday.
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Ethiopia: Independent Media Professionals Deplore New Press Law
05.07.2008 00:05
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Ethiopian media practitioners forwarded their disappointment on Wednesday after the House finally endorsed the county's media law seen by media fractionates and international press watch dogs as contravening freedom of expression and international human rights.
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Kenya: Hope for the Stricken
05.07.2008 00:05
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The development of a herbal HIV and Aids management product (anti-retroviral) based on hard scientific data is important for Kenya in several ways.
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Kenya: Hunger Looms in Rice District
05.07.2008 00:05
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Hundreds of people in the semi-arid Mwea Constituency may starve due to rain failure, Kirinyaga County Council chairman Cyprian Kang'eri said Thursday.
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