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Politics | Society Gabon's Ali Bongo now also party chief afrol News - President Ali Bongo of Gabon, who "inherited" the presidency from his father in 2009, now also followed late Omar Bongo's footsteps as freshly elected leader of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG). The PDG has been in power since its establishment. |
Agriculture - Nutrition | Science - Education Guinea pigs to help ease DRC food crisis - scientists afrol News - Scientists are examining how to increase guinea pig production to boost food security in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where inhabitants keep the rodents as "micro-livestock". The researchers were originally puzzled to find guinea pigs in the DRC at all. |
Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development West Africa enters intl organic food market afrol News - Consumers in Europe and America are willing to pay extra for trusted quality organic food products. Now, a new project helps thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone to enter this lucrative market. |
| Congo Kinshasa Politics Fears of UN withdrawal from DR Congo afrol News - As a result of DR Congo's request for a withdrawal of the UN peacekeeping forces from the country by June 2011, plans are already being made for a downscaling of troops June this year. Human rights groups express outrage at the plans. |
| Cameroon Politics | Society | Human rights | Media Cameroonian journos tortured afrol News - Cameroon's secret service has tortured two independent news journalists when they were detained in February, the country's press union, said in the statement. |
| Congo Kinshasa Politics | Society | Human rights Rights groups call for suspension of Lieutenant afrol News - Human Rights Watch has backed 50 other Congolese groups requesting the suspension of Lieutenant Colonel Innocent Zimurinda for allegedly ordering the mass killing of people in east of the central African country. |
| Congo Kinshasa Politics | Economy - Development | Society Paris Club cuts DRC’s debt by half afrol News - The Democratic Republic of Congo could see half of its debt to the Paris Club of creditors written off, according to an agreement announced today by the members. |
| Congo Kinshasa Society | Human rights | Politics Children still recruited into DRC’s war ranks afrol News - Youngsters are still being recruited within the ranks of both the rebels and the national army, despite efforts to end the use of child soldiers in the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with girls at particular risk of becoming sex slaves and less likely to be released, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. |
| Cameroon Health | Agriculture - Nutrition | Science - Education "Overweight girls, undernourished boys" in Cameroon afrol News - A new study, the first of its kind in Cameroon, reveals how new nutritional trends in Central Africa are causing problems of both over- and undernourished school children. |
| West Africa | Central African Republic Agriculture - Nutrition New maize varieties to boost output afrol News - Improved maize varieties, developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and partners, that will help enhance food security and incomes of maize farmers in the West and Central Africa have been released by the Nigerian National Variety Release Committee. |
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