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WCup legacy to help Africa's fight against AIDS
AP via Yahoo! Sports - 21 minutes ago
The Football for Hope center is out to teach kids about more than just the "beautiful game." The first of 20 such centers across Africa opened Saturday, a day after the draw for next year's World Cup, and 12-year-old Lihle Bonkolo was among the children who learned about soccer and combating AIDS.
FIFA uses World Cup to tackle HIV/AIDS
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 8:18 am ET
On a brand-new soccer field in South Africa's second-largest township, teenage boys and girls kick balls and run round hurdles in games soccer authorities hope will help them avoid the scourge of AIDS.
Zimbabwe Gets $51 Million to Rehabilitate Zesa, Herald Reports
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 3:48 am ET
The loan will be paid to the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority in March 2010, the Harare-based newspaper reported. A further loan of $1.4 million will be granted by the European Union, it said.
Right-wing talkers go for the gold
Politico via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 6:42 am ET
For years a certain strain of conservative thought has held that there was one sure hedge against economic depression, civil disorder and liberal rule – gold. Now that belief has led to a kind of harmonic convergence between ideology and commerce.
Indian man held over diamonds in Zimbabwe
UPI - Wed Dec 2, 4:14 pm ET
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- A 35-year-old Indian man is facing allegations he failed to have a license or permit to carry seven diamonds in his possession, Zimbabwean authorities said.
World Cup party starts in Cape Town
Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Fri Dec 4, 6:12 pm ET
* Locals party into the night following World Cup draw
Rogues and villains — a meeting of soccer execs
Everett Herald - Sat Dec 5, 3:11 am ET
The knaves are preparing to gather. They will do so this week in Cape Town, South Africa, where the draw for the 2010 World Cup will be held Friday.
Top seeds safely through to Cup quarters in Dubai
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 1:18 pm ET
All the top seeds came through the first day to qualify for the Cup quarter finals at the end of the first day of the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens, the opening tournament of the 2009/10 IRB World Series.
WCup legacy to help Africa's fight against AIDS
Bay News 9 Tampa Bay - 17 minutes ago
World Cup to help SAfrica's fight against AIDS; FIFA's opens 1st Football for Hope center
Zimbabwe economy to grow 4.7% in 2009
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 11:39 am ET
Zimbabwe will see better-than-expected economic growth of 4.7 percent this year, ending a decade of financial ruin, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Wednesday in his first annual budget speech.