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A top UN official on Wednesday praised "great progress" in easing Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis, but urged donors to continue supporting the country's recovery from a decade of economic freefall.
Maputo - Mozambique's tourism revenue more than doubled in the past five years, hitting 200 million dollars in 2009 for the first time ever, the country's tourism minister announced Wednesday. Some 1.5 million people visited the southern African coun...
JOHANNESBURG, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community in Zimbabwe, taking a cautiously optimistic approach, has appealed for US$378 million dollars to buy food and medicines, and bolster health, education, sanitation and access to safe water in 2010 - half the amount requested in 2009.
Oslo - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was Wednesday selected as winner of dictator of the year prize, students at Oslo University said. The Iranian leader was chosen from 11 candidates - selected by human rights experts - including No...
When Chad Stokes graduated from high school in Sherborn, he decided to postpone college and go to Africa instead. After six months in Zimbabwe, he returned to the United...
( WMR ) -- Noted Belgian expert on the history and politics of central Africa’s Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Dr. Filip Reyntjens of the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB) in Antwerp, spoke at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington on December 3 and leveled a broadside on the policies of Rwanda’s ...
UN appeals for $378 million for food and medicine for Zimbabwe emergency recovery program
The Spamtown Belle will be open for business again next spring, but this time in a different location.
Mehadi Khan, a senior at Gaithersburg High School, listens to a county resident with immigrant roots speak at a Liberty's Promise program Thursday afternoon.
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Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith, creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, owns way too many books.
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