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Rwanda
Affairs | Affairs | HIV-AIDS | Medicine | People

Canada sells combined AIDS drugs to Rwanda

afrol News, 8 May - Canada's largest generic pharmaceutical company, Apotex, has won a tender to supply life saving triple combination AIDS drug "Apo Triavir" to the government of Rwanda.

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South Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Economy | Elections | HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Socio-economic

'South Africa faces threat'

afrol News, 29 April - The Democratic Alliance leader has told hundreds of people at the KwaZulu-Natal Freedom Day celebrations in Molweni, outside Durban that South Africa faced a new threat 14 years after the first democratic election.

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Burkina Faso
Affairs | Children | Outbreaks | People

Burkina: Meningitis kills 800

afrol News, 25 April - A total of 811 people had succumbed to meningitis epidemic in Burkina Faso during the first quarter of this year.

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Congo Kinshasa
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Diseases | Ethnic | Law | Oppression | People | Refugees - Displaced | Sexuality | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes

UN Congo mission lauded

afrol News, 17 April - The United Nations peacekeeping missin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been lauded for registering solid progress in trying to bring stability to the vast country's volatile eastern region.

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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Law | People | Violence

Fire kills 19 Ugandan girls

afrol News, 16 April - 19 Ugandan girl students of Buddo Primary School, 12km from the capital, Kampala, were killed by an overnight fire that gutted their dormitory.

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Nigeria
Affairs | Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Law | People

Corrupt officials in the dock

afrol News, 9 April - Nigerian government has filed charges against a dozen state officials, including the controversial daughter of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and two ministers after they were accused of corruption.

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Nigeria
Affairs | Outbreaks | People

Cholera kills 50 Nigerians

afrol News, 31 March - Nigeria's eastern Benue State has been struck by the worst cholera epidemic, which claimed at least 50 lives.

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Somalia
Affairs | Diseases | Finance | People

Somalia declared polio-free

afrol News, 27 March - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a major victory against polio in Somalia.

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Egypt
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Economy | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Violence

Egypt's vocal editor jailed

afrol News, 26 March - A court in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Wednesday sent the country's most erudite and vocal editor to six months in prison for writing a story on the health of President Hosni Mubarak.

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Liberia
Affairs | Crime | Economic rights | Elections | Law | Oppression | People | Political rights | Refugees - Displaced | Violence

'Ghana mistreats refugees'

afrol News, 20 March - The international community has been urged to pile pressures on the Ghanaian government and the UNHCR to protect the human rights of refugees in Ghana.

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Africa | Egypt
Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Infrastructure | People | Socio-economic

Habitat celebrates success

afrol News, 20 March - Habitat for Humanity Africa and the Middle East will be marking its record achievement: help provide decent and affordable housing to 50,000 families in the region.

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Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Diseases | Economy | People | Poverty

sub-Sahara tops urban growth

afrol News, 19 March - With 4.6% annual growth rate, sub-Saharan Africa has undoubtedly topped urban growth rate in the world, a report by Habitat for Humanity Africa and the Middle East revealed.

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Nigeria
Actionism | Affairs | Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Higher Education | HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Violence

No-work-no-pay rule damned

afrol News, 7 March - Nigerian government has been damned for issuing a directive to all heads of universities that it would apply no-work-no-pay rule. In this piece, an education rights campaigner of Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, Kola Ibrahim, wondered why the rule should be applied to all lecturers who participated in the last warning strike, describing the rule as "condemnable" and "provocative."

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Egypt
Affairs | Disasters | Diseases | Outbreaks | People

Egypt reports new avian flu

afrol News, 5 March - Health authorities in Egypt have confirmed the emergence of a new human case of the deadly avian influenza A [H5N1] virus infection.

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Africa
Affairs | Children | Development | Diseases | People

US boosts Africa's malaria war

afrol News, 19 February - US President George Bush has said in line with a broader campaign to combat malaria in sub-Saharan African, the American government will provide over five million mosquito nets to the region.

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Gambia
Affairs | Crime | Expression | Oppression | People | Violence

Tortured journalist flees Gambia

afrol News, 19 February - A Sierra Leonean journalist, Mohamed Oury Bah, was forced to flee The Gambia after he has had his share of persecution in the hands of the country's notoriously feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA).

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Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Diseases | Law | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence

First ladies fight for peace

afrol News / IRIN, 18 February - In a bid to support initiatives to restore and strengthen peace on the unrest-prone continent, wives of African heads of state or their representatives have formed a conflict-resolution group.

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Niger
Affairs | Children | Development | Outbreaks | People | Policy

Niger measles fluctuates

afrol News, 14 February - A team of international researchers has discovered that measles epidemics in Niger fluctuate wildly from one season to another, but the timing of the outbreaks always coincides with the end of the annual rainy season.

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Central African Republic
Affairs | Outbreaks | People | Violence

Meningitis threatens CAR

afrol News, 12 February - Meningitis epidemic has threatened the lives of about one million people in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) disclosed.

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Uganda
Actionism | Affairs

Uganda strike causes deaths

afrol News, 11 February - A strike by medical staff has left 23 dead bodies and patients unattended at hospitals in Uganda's war-ravaged northern region at the weekend.

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South Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Energy | HIV-AIDS | Mining | People | Poverty | Trade

Mbeki assures 2010 World Cup

afrol News, 8 February - South African President Thabo on Friday delivered the much anticipated state of nation address, apologising the nation for the troubles caused by the power crisis. He allayed fears that the power crisis would hamper his country's hosting of the World Cup in 2010.

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Egypt
Affairs | Crime | HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Persecution | Rights | Violence

'Stop criminalizing HIV'

afrol News, 7 February - Criminalisation of HIV/AIDs in Egyptian has been criticised by rights groups, fearing it would endanger public health, justice and human rights.

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Rwanda
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Ethnic | History | Law | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace

Gacaca jails genocide doctor

afrol News, 6 February - A traditional "gacaca" court on Tuesday sentenced a doctor to 15 years in prison for his role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, right groups confirmed.

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Uganda
Affairs | Children | Disasters | Diseases | History | Outbreaks | People | Primary Education | Religion

Uganda combats demons

afrol News, 5 February - School authorities in Sir Tito Winyi Primary School in Western Uganda held special prayers to combat a rampant "demonic attack" among pupils.

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Africa
Affairs | Children | Children | Crime | Harmful practices | Law | People | Sexuality

Renewed fight against FGM

afrol News, 5 February - A round table conference, aimed at addressing the age-old culture of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM), will be held in Geneva on Tuesday.

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