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Fans of singer Noura Mint Seymali are excited about her latest album, which fuses jazz and western music with traditional Mauritanian music. VOA\'s Kimberly Russell has more. |
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Date: 17 March 2010 Category: Mauritania |
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The government of Uganda is set to disarm security guards in the country after two students were shot dead by a guard at Makerere University. Ugandan security guards were allowed to arm themselves but a rise in misuse of the weapons has given way to criticism by groups. |
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Date: 17 March 2010 Category: Uganda |
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Jacob Zuma, South Africas president, is visiting neighbouring Zimbabwe, to help mediate talks aimed at ending the political deadlock between Robert Mugabe, the countrys president, and Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister. Mugabe and Tsvangira are still at loggerheads over many issues in the power-sharing government agreed on more than a year ago. Among the major issues the two clash on is a controversial empowerment bill that seeks to give black Zimbabweans a majority stake in all companies. Al Jazeeras Haru Mutasa reports from Harare, where many Zimbabweans are getting increasingly impatient for political stability. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 16 March 2010 Category: Zimbabwe |
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Coffee is a big business around the world, but many people in African countries that grow the beans, don\'t even drink it. Several countries in East Africa want their citizens to acquire a taste for the popular beverage, over tea, which still reigns supreme. VOAs Ndimyake Mwakalyelye has more. |
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Date: 16 March 2010 Category: Uganda |
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A day after his election as President of Uganda Peoples Congress, former diplomat Olara Otunnu is wasting no time and has put together a five member committee to revamp of the party. |
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Date: 16 March 2010 Category: Uganda |
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Military forces in Nigeria have denied that failures on their part compounded the damage done by sectarian violence, after massacres this week in a central state caused more than 100 deaths. Sunday\'s raid on three Berom villages near state capital Jos claimed 109 lives according to police, while the local information commissioner put the figure at 500. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 15 March 2010 Category: Nigeria |
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Interview with Ngozi Edozien, CEO, Actis West Africa |
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Date: 24 July 2009 Category: Nigeria |
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The official video of the FIFA World Cup 2010 Anthem...... In South Africa .... By somali artist Knaan |
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Date: 04 December 2009 Category: South Africa |
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The Monument to the African Renaissance is meant to draw tourists and pride to Senegals capital, Dakar. But the huge bronze statue is drawing criticism from some in Senegals mostly Muslim population. Ricci Shryock reports. |
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Date: 09 December 2009 Category: Senegal |
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Somalia\'s first freely-elected president talks about the war raging in his country, his views on the U.S.-led Global War on Terrorism, and how the Internet may help educate and unite his nation. |
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Date: 28 September 2008 Category: Somalia |
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Courtesy: UNICEF NIAMEY, Niger, 14 April 2009 Ten villages in western Niger have decided to put an end to female genital mutilation or cutting (also known as FGM/C), publicly calling all inhabitants in the Tillabery region to give up this practice, which threatens girls lives. More at http://www.unicef.org/ [More] [Less] |
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Date: 15 April 2009 Category: Niger |
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Eritrea - Asmara, the capital of the small east African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is referred by many expert travelers as the beautifulest city in Africa and is also home to one of the most important and exciting architectural \'discoveries\' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s and early 40\'s by Italian and Eritrean workers, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of modernist architecture anywhere in the world, and has evocatively been described as [More] [Less] |
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Date: 25 September 2008 Category: Eritrea |
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Somalia\'s first freely-elected president talks about the war raging in his country, his views on the U.S.-led Global War on Terrorism, and how the Internet may help educate and unite his nation. |
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Date: 28 September 2008 Category: Somalia |
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video about scateboarding in uganda....interesting |
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Date: 27 September 2008 Category: Uganda |
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Excerpts of a film on the heroic exploits of Kuva Likenye, the Bakweri chief who took up arms against German exploitation of the Bakweri people of Cameroon who live on the foot of mount Fako, in West Africa. An AFRICAphonie film. |
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Date: 23 September 2008 Category: Cameroon |
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Malawis agricultural growth since the signing of the Maputo Declaration in 2003 has been impressive, the New Partnership for Africas Development (Nepad) Business Foundation chairperson Dr Reuel Khoza said last week. |
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Date: 20 November 2009 Category: Malawi |
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The U-S-based One Laptop Per Child Initiative creates educational opportunities for poor children around the world by providing low-cost, durable portable computers. Seven countries in Africa are already participating in the initiative. One school in Kenya has set up a pilot program to test the computers. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 20 November 2009 Category: Kenya |
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VOAs co-host Vincent Makori talks to Sasha Lezhnev, Executive Director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group and co-author of the Enough Project paper on Congos minerals. Sasha explains how the minerals are fueling conflicts in the region. He also gives the web link to address the problem at: http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 20 November 2009 Category: Dem. Rep. Congo |
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Courtesy: UNICEF NIAMEY, Niger, 14 April 2009 Ten villages in western Niger have decided to put an end to female genital mutilation or cutting (also known as FGM/C), publicly calling all inhabitants in the Tillabery region to give up this practice, which threatens girls lives. More at http://www.unicef.org/ [More] [Less] |
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Date: 15 April 2009 Category: Niger |
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Animal abuse happens all over the world - But how much do you really know about it? |
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Date: 01 April 2009 Category: Ethiopia |
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Awed by their imagination and spirit, in 2005, Dennis Gaboury, an American sculptor spending the year in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, sponsored a competition among the city’s orphans to encourage and reward their creativity. More than 250 boys and girls built dolls and trucks, motorcycles, airplanes and helicopters. And in the Spring of 2006, at special awards show, they all received prizes – movie tickets and back packs, beans and pencils, courtesy of local and international donors. All their toys were displayed in an exhibition mounted at the National Gallery. And the top four toymakers garnered something even more spectacular – an airplane ride over their own home town. For more, go to www.zimkids.com [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 March 2009 Category: Zimbabwe |
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Animal behaviourist, Kevin Richardson, has struck up a remarkable friendship with an entire pride of lions in South Africa. Sky\'s Africa Correspondent Emma Hurd reports. |
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Date: 20 March 2009 Category: South Africa |
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Our bodies?their battleground?, a documentary film that highlights the sexual violence crisis facing women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia, received the award of ?Best Feature? for documentaries over 15 minutes. The film gives a voice to victims of rape, and seeks to challenge the culture of impunity that allows this violence to continue unchecked. ?Our bodies?their battleground? was produced by Nicky Chalk and Sylvia Spring, with support from the head of the IRIN film unit, David Gough. www.films4change.co.uk [More] [Less] |
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Date: 09 January 2009 Category: Dem. Rep. Congo |
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video about scateboarding in uganda....interesting |
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Date: 27 September 2008 Category: Uganda |
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