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World News tagged with Africa

KENYA---Samburu People 'Under Attack' Over Land Rights
World  (tags: conflict, africa, china, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', world, politics, violence, humans )

Cal
- 3 days ago - peopleandplanet.net
Cultural Survival says the government there has been carrying out "massive and well-organized attacks on Samburu villages by combined police and military forces and the use of government-funded mercenaries from Somalia." The aim, it seems, is to support o
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Gambia: Country's Witch Hunt Activity Brought to African Commission
World  (tags: children, corruption, crime, death, ethics, freedoms, government, HumanRights, Refugees&Relief, terrorism, violence, africa )

Kelli
- 6 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has on Thursday 12th November, brought to the attention of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Right the gross human rights violations that are committed in The Gambia and some African countries
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Send More Books to Africa! _Please Take Action!! VIDEO
World  (tags: interesting, humans, goodnews, government, africa )

Tierney
- 7 days ago - change.org
For many children in Africa, the gift of books truly is a gift of hope. Access to an education is one of the only opportunities young people have to end the cycle of poverty and attain a better quality of life than previous generations.
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Act By November 18th - President Obama, Please Discuss Darfur While in China
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, conflict, freedoms, government, HumanRights, humanrights, Refugees&Relief, Refugees&Relief, violence, war, Darfur, Sudan )

Gillian
- 9 days ago - thehungersite.com
We have an opportunity to make sure the genocide that continues in Darfur (a western province of Sudan) is top-of-mind during President Obama's upcoming trip to China. China is Sudan's largest trading partner and most important international backer.
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Child Rape Epidemic in Zimbabwe
World  (tags: africa, children, conflict, corruption, crime, ethics, government, HumanRights, society, violence, rape as a weapon of war, rape virgin, rape children )

Kelli
- 11 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists.
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Call Your Representative Today
World  (tags: world, africa, government, freedoms, death, violence )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - action.savedarfur.org
A letter being circulated by members of Congress urges the President to raise Sudan during his visit to China as the first step in building a coalition of countries to exert public pressure on Sudan to bring peace and justice to the war-torn country.
2 comments
West Africa's Giraffes Make a Big Comeback
World  (tags: Animal, news, world, Giraffes, Africa )

Katie
- 15 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
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BAN ZIMBABWE BLOOD DIAMONDS- Please Take Action !!
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, death, corruption, violence )

Tierney
- 20 days ago - avaaz.org
Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has sent his brutal army to seize control of his country's diamond fields. 200 civilians have been murdered and profits from our wedding rings are used to fuel violent political conflict
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Tell the U.N.: The Rapes Must Stop Now! -Take Action
World  (tags: petition, world, UnitedNations, violence, humanrights, government, freedoms, africa, ethics, humans, politics, society )

Daphna
- 25 days ago - change.org
Just weeks ago in the West African country of Guinea, countless women were brutally raped in a public stadium when soldiers stormed a peaceful protest. The world reacted with outrage, but Guinea is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Djibouti Says Eritrea Arming, Training Militias
World  (tags: africa, conflict, violence, world, politics )

Cal
- 29 days ago - reuters.com
Djibouti's foreign minister accused neighbouring Eritrea on Sunday of arming and training militias to carry out sabotage in the tiny Horn of Africa country, and of fomenting chaos in the reg
2 comments
TUNISIA: Government Cracks Down on Press Freedoms, Opposition Before Elections
World  (tags: africa, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', government, world, politics, news )

Cal
- 29 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Ben Ali, who has ruled the North African country since wresting power from previous lifetime President Habib Bourguiba in 1987, is expected to extend his mandate Sunday through an election his critics have described as a "masquerade."
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A New Hope for Africa: Young Liberian Activist, Kimmie Weeks
World  (tags: war, africa, conflict, death, HumanRights, humans, interesting, children, Refugees&Relief, society, UnitedNations, world )

Daphna
- 31 days ago - gimundo.com
At ten years old, you were probably spending most of your time playing with Barbies or Matchbox cars. Not Kimmie Weeks: He was busy trying to save his country instead. Weeks, now 26, was born in the turbulent African nation of Li
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Sudan: Face of a Nation on the Brink
World  (tags: africa, world, interesting, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', violence, society, politics )

Cal
- 33 days ago - allafrica.com
Today, Sudan stands on a precipice - of partition, and perhaps a return to all-out war. The next 18 months will determine not only the future of Sudan, but also what the coming decade will look like across the Horn of Africa.
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Robert Mugabe News
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, conflict, corruption, crime, death, ethics, freedoms, government, HumanRights, humanrights, humans, politics, news, society, world, war, violence, unitednations )

Gorilly
- 47 days ago - robert-mugabe-news.newslib.com
It is horrid the things this freak does to the beautiful country of Zimbabwe its people its ecology and its dear creatures...Many links here if you have missed any... I throughly despise this thing that calls hisself a man his wife is just as bad. G
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Top Rwandan Genocide Suspect Arrested
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', asia, africa, death, ethics, crime, humanrights, humans, violence, war, world, society, corruption, conflict, children )

Gorilly
- 47 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
I so hope he gets what he deserves!!!!! Gorilly
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