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afrol News, 11 June - Egypt is facing a double population boom by 2050, a threat that could have President Hosni Mubarak's government enforce tough family planning policies to curb the looming crisis.

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Malawi
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afrol News / Gender Links, 22 May - The reigning Miss Malawi Perth Msiska is contemplating to ditch the beauty pageants arena for a place in politics, as a contestant for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for the Blantyre West constituency the country’s 2009 parliamentary elections.

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Somalia's celebrated woman presenter escapes murder

afrol News, 7 May - A celebrated woman TV presenter of Puntland's privately-owned Eastern Television Network (ETN) on 4 May escaped murder attempts on her life.

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Ghana
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Ghanaian wins Caribbean & Commonwealth pageantry

afrol News, 25 April - A 20-year-old Ghanaian law student at the Univesity of Kent (Medway Towns), Shirley De Lawrence, has kept the title in West Africa by winning the 19th Miss Caribbean & Commonwealth contest, in succession to Uchenna Obika of Nigeria, at the Polish Centre in Hammersmith, West London.

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Liberia
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Publisher escapes death trap

afrol News, 1 February - The publisher of Liberia's 'Independent Newspaper', Sam Dean, narrowly escaped a death trap on 30 January. Several attempts to lure Dean into an ambush had failed.

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