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04/26/2008 Kenyan marathon champion Paul Tergat is to take part in a 15km race - "Running Side by Side for Peace" - in Nairobi on Sunday 27 April.
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Related: [Kenya] [Conflict Resolution]
04/25/2008 A photoessay reveals the toll 17 years of conflict, political instability, droughts, floods, and an international community struggling to provide aid has taken on Somalia.
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From: Refugees International
Related: [Somalia] [Aid] [Refugees] [Governance] [Conflict] [Arms & Military]
04/25/2008 Zimbabwen kirkot alkavat vastaanottaa maan poliittista väkivaltaa paenneita, Zimbabwen kirkkojen kattojärjestö päätti kuluvalla viikolla. Lähes kuukauden takaisten vaalien jälkeen hallitsevan puolueen masinoiman väkivallan kohteeksi ovat joutuneet opposition kannattajat. Kirkkojen kattojärjestön mukaan tilanne muistuttaa sotaa.
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Related: [Zimbabwe] [Aid] [Refugees] [Conflict]
04/25/2008 Freelance journalist Frank Chikowore was on April 21, 2008 finally charged with public violence, appearing in court almost a week after his arrest together with six other accused persons among them the opposition MDC's director of information and publicity, Luke Tamborinyoka.
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Related: [Zimbabwe] [Freedom of Expression]
04/25/2008 Churches in Zimbabwe are opening their doors to give refuge to people fleeing violence following the elections held almost a month ago.
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From: Christian Aid
Related: [Zimbabwe] [Politics]
04/24/2008 Kenian vastanimetty valtapuolueiden yhteinen jättihallitus kiinnittää erityishuomiota lapsiin. Lasten ja naisten asioita varten on luotu uusi ministeriö, ja kiireellisenä tavoitteena pidetään lasten saamista pakolaisleireiltä takaisin normaaliin arkeen.
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From: Suomen World Vision
Related: [Kenya] [Children] [Politics] [Conflict]
04/24/2008 Whatever happens to the Chinese arms shipment destined for Zimbabwe, the case highlights the urgent need for the UN to work towards an Arms Trade Treaty at a meeting in New York later this month, says a leading development group.
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From: Oxfam International
Related: [China] [Zimbabwe] [Trade] [Arms & Military]
04/23/2008 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks.
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From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat
Related: [Central African Republic] [Democratic Republic of the Congo] [Sudan] [Uganda] [Conflict]
04/22/2008 Mugabe's ZANU-PF party is "using a network of informal detention centers to beat, torture, and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans," reports a human rights monitor.
From: Human Rights Watch
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Related: [Zimbabwe] [Human Rights] [Corruption & Transparency] [Governance] [Justice and Crime] [Arms & Military]
04/22/2008 After forming a solidarity group and taking out microcredit loans, Anna Leone Mushi was able to expand her small business in Mango, Tanzania and must no longer beg to support her family.
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From: ACCION International
Related: [Tanzania ] [Poverty] [Capacity Building] [Microcredit] [Business] [Gender]
04/22/2008 Journalist Maxwell Ngambi has been arrested by the Police on suspicion that he wanted to interview a former Speaker of parliament and cabinet minister, Sam Mpasu from a prison without authority.
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Related: [Malawi] [Freedom of Expression]
04/21/2008 HODI a non profit NGO has trained 12 village reporters in Choma and Kalomo Districts in Southern Zambia with a view of eliminating child labour in tobacco growing.
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Related: [Zambia] [Development]
04/21/2008 A senior reporter, Kaiko Namusa from the state owned Newspaper, Times of Zambia, was assaulted and detained for over an hour at Chipata Central Police for taking pictures of police officers who were manhandling a cyclist for allegedly breaking traffic rules.Asenior reporter, Kaiko Namusa from the state owned Newspaper, Times of Zambia, was assaulted and detained for over an hour at Chipata Central Police for taking pictures of police officers who were manhandling a cyclist for allegedly breaking traffic rules.Asenior reporter, Kaiko Namusa from the state owned Newspaper, Times of Zambia, was assaulted and detained for over an hour at Chipata Central Police for taking pictures of police officers who were manhandling a cyclist for allegedly breaking traffic rules.
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Related: [Zambia] [Freedom of Expression]
04/21/2008 Uganda Telecom has started work on a fiber-optic link from the western town of Mbarara in Uganda to the Rwanda border-crossing point at Katuna - essentially giving a major boost to the long-awaited regional fibre project, RNA has learnt.
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Related: [Rwanda] [Internet]
04/18/2008 An urgent application has been made to suspend a transport permit allowing arms from China -- currently anchored in a South African harbor -- to be conveyed to the government of Zimbabwe.
From: Business Day
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  	  Yemen's geo-strategic position makes it a leading destination for regional asylum seekers.
04/16/2008 The international community and UN should do more to assist the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis who seek refuge in Yemen, one of the "least developed countries in the world," urges an international refugee agency.
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From: Refugees International
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Image: Yemen's geo-strategic position makes it a leading destination for regional asylum seekers. © New Internationalist
04/16/2008 As the baton of violence heads over to Zimabwe, Bronwen Manby looks at the African Peer Review Mechanism in relation to Kenya, its shortcomings such as lack of follow-up and political teeth and the urgent lessons from its engagement with Kenya.
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Related: [Africa] [Kenya] [Zimbabwe]
04/16/2008 Maailmanlaajuinen ruoan kallistuminen kurjistaa erityisesti jo ennestään köyhien, kuten Somalian sisäisten pakolaisten, elämää. Kuivuuden, pitkittyneen konfliktin ja maailmanmarkkinahintojen nousun takia viljan hinta on Somaliassa jopa kolminkertaistunut viime vuoden aikana.
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From: Punainen Risti
Related: [Somalia] [Food] [Poverty] [Refugees]
04/16/2008 Friday 18 April is Zimbabwean independence day - and the deadline for signing the Britain Zimbabwe Society petition to No 10 Downing Street against the deportation of Zimbabwean asylum-seekers.
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Related: [United Kingdom] [Zimbabwe]
04/15/2008 Addis Ababa is the site of a unique new marketplace where buyers and sellers can come together to trade and be assured of quality, delivery, and payment in goods like coffee, wheat, and maize.
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From: International Food Policy Research Institute
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