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Burkina Faso
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Burkina Faso petition enjoys success

afrol News - A petition to keep searching for the real killers of Burkina Faso editor Norbert Zongo is gathering strong support, well in time to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his assassination on 13 December.

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Rwanda
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Rwanda's attainment of MDGs still bleak

afrol News - Rwanda has shown sluggish progress in attainment of Millennium Development Goals, with poverty, hunger and malnutrition remaining major challenges, finance minister James Musoni told local officials.

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» Guinea is Africa's worst union oppressor
» Rebels will not go unpunished - ICC
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In the news - 2004
Africa
Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development | Human rights | Politics | Society

Africa highlights 2004 by afrol News

afrol News - Negative news often dominate the international coverage of Africa. 2004 however has seen much more than the crises in Darfur and Côte d'Ivoire. Peace has returned to many more countries, democracy and human rights are strengthening in Africa and the economy is booming in many countries. The link between democracy and development has been demonstrated and the outlook for 2005 is mostly positive.

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The Cross and the genocide in Rwanda
Rwanda
Society | Human rights

The Cross and the Genocide

afrol News - The 1994 Rwandan genocide, killing an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, is made even more incomprehensible by the documented participation of many representatives of Rwandan church societies. How could God fearing nuns, and even a bishop, take part in the most cruel crimes against humanity committed on African soil? Even worse, several church societies allegedly were co-responsible for the growing hatred that led to the genocide. It remains an enormous contradiction to the Christian Message of Love.

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Homosexuality and Islam
Algeria
Human rights | Gay - Lesbian | Society

Holy hatred: Homosexuality in Muslim countries

afrol News - Anissa Helie, with Algerian and French background, analyses the rights situation of gays and lesbians in the Muslim world in this article previously published in the New Internationalist.

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