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  • TED Lecturer Exploits African Women & Children

    Sonia Shah, Znet, 16 March 2010

    Doesn’t Nathan Myhrvold get enough attention? The guy is the former chief technology officer of...

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  • Oil find sparks new hope for Uganda's people

    Xan Rice, The Guardian, 25 August 2009

    On the remote western edge of Uganda the land suddenly drops down into the western arm of the Great Rift Valley to reveal the vast expanse of Lake Albert and the blue mountains of Congo beyond...

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  • African women with HIV 'coerced into sterilisation'

    David Smith,The Guardian, 22 June 2009

    Women in Africa are being sterilised without their consent after being told the procedure...

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  • The bogey of two-thirds majority threat

    MS Prabhakara, The Hindu, 28 April, 2009

    To no one’s surprise, the African National Congress has won an emphatic victory in South Africa’s fourth general elections held on April 22, securing just under 66 per cent of the votes cast...

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