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 61% obese in SA - survey
Wed 8 Sep 2010
| Sixty one percent of South Africans are overweight, according to a survey released on Wednesday. | Cape Town was the worst affected with 72 percent of those surveyed there overweight, obese or morbi... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Ruling party presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo gestures as he discusses election results being shown on a TV in his office, in Accra, Ghana Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. Official results, which were still being tallied on Tuesday, showed Akufo-Addo with a narrow lead over his main rival, opposition candidate John Atta
Akufo-Addo   Cape   Democracy   Human   Photos   		 Peace FM Online 
The NPP's Akufo-Addo Bites The Bullet In Cape Coast
Wed 8 Sep 2010
Some problematic aspects of the human element in our democracy were on full display at Cape Coast on Saturday when the NPP's Akufo-Addo was marginalized (downgraded, belittled, or alienated?) at the d... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell)
UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo  The Times Of India  Wed 8 Sep 2010
UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July - more than double the number previously rep... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
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Al-Shabaab fighters provide security during a demonstration in Suqa Holaha neighborhood in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, July 5, 2010.  BBC News  Wed 8 Sep 2010
'Slow genocide' in Somalia's capital Mogadishu
The sound of gunfire echoes through almost every street in Mogadishu. | Residential areas frequently come under heavy, indiscriminate shelling, corpses litter the alleyways, and neither side seems to ... (photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
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A Congolese government soldier (FARDC) stands guard by a UN truck at the Kibati checkpoint north of Goma, eastern Congo, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. Government forces stopped a UN convoy they claim was infiltrated by CDNP rebels in Goma, and took them into custody. UN officials say they were transporting 10 Mai Mai militiamen who had surrendered to the UN demobilisation prog BBC News Wed 8 Sep 2010
UN peacekeepers 'failed' DR Congo rape victims
UN peacekeepers have "failed" the victims of mass rape in eastern DR Congo, a senior UN official has said. | Atul Khare told the Security Council that the scale of system... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon listen to a speech of the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila, not seen, during a gala dinner in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo China Daily Wed 8 Sep 2010
UN actions 'not adequate' in preventing DRC rapes
2010-09-08 06:40:17.0UN actions 'not adequate' in preventing DRC rapesUN,mass rapes,DRC,rape,Atul Khare,peacekeeping11004220Global General2@webnews/enpproperty--> | UNITE... (photo: AP / Olivier Pollet, pool)
Photos   Rapes   UN   Wikipedia: Democratic Republic of the Congo   Women  
Financial analyst George Soros pauses during a news conference at International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. The Times Of India Wed 8 Sep 2010
Soros gives $100 mn to Human Rights Watch
WASHINGTON: Billionaire George Soros said on Tuesday he is giving Human Rights Watch up to 100 million dollars to help transform it into a global organisation. “It’s ... (photo: AP / Jose Luis Magana)
Human Rights   Money   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Human Rights Watch  
A child of road construction workers sits near her parent's work site, in Gurgaon, India, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. In 2006, nearly 9.7 million children died worldwide before reaching the age of 5, mostly from preventable causes such as diarrhea, malaria or malnutrition, UNICEF said in its annual report, released Tuesda The Star Wed 8 Sep 2010
UNICEF to boost aid efficiency by targeting poorest
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. children's foundation UNICEF plans to make the poorest and most remote regions of needy nations top priority for aid, an approach it... (photo: AP / Gurinder Osan)
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African National Congress presidential candidate Jacob Zuma reacts as the result board shows the number of parliaments seats the ANC won at the Independent Electoral Commission result center in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday April 25, 2009. South Africa's long-dominant ANC won overwhelmingly in parliamentary elections, but did not get the two-thirds of the vote it won with ease in the last elections, according to the final tally released Saturday. The victory puts party leader Jacob Zuma in line for the presidency. Gulf News Wed 8 Sep 2010
Zuma's two bad calls
| When he became president of South Africa just over a year ago, Jacob Zuma promised to quench South Africans' thirst for renewal. After the aloof and idiosyncratic Thabo... (photo: AP / Themba Hadebe)
Economy   Photos   Politics   S Africa   Wikipedia: Jacob Zuma  
photo of red Fox Post-Bulletin Tue 7 Sep 2010
Existence of rare red fox is confirmed
Tweet | 9/7/2010 9:04:10 AM | Associated Press | LOS ANGELES — The genetic signature of canine slobber on a bait bag of chicken scraps and a fuzzy photograph from a motio... (photo: Creative Commons / Rob Lee)
Environment   Nature   Photos   Wikipedia: Red Fox   Wildlife  
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the students at the Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 21, 2010. Breitbart Tue 7 Sep 2010
UN chief in Rwanda for talks on troop withdrawal threat
| A soldier from the Indian Batallion of the MONUSCO mans a post on September... | UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Rwanda on Tuesday for surprise talks with P... (photo: AP / Ibrahim Usta)
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Financial analyst George Soros pauses during a news conference at International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. Soros gives $100 mn to Human Rights Watch The Times Of India
African National Congress presidential candidate Jacob Zuma reacts as the result board shows the number of parliaments seats the ANC won at the Independent Electoral Commission result center in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday April 25, 2009. South Africa's long-dominant ANC won overwhelmingly in parliamentary elections, but did not get the two-thirds of the vote it won with ease in the last elections, according to the final tally released Saturday. The victory puts party leader Jacob Zuma in line for the presidency. Zuma's two bad calls Gulf News
Bread - Food - Commodity Mozambique reverses bread price increase The Daily Telegraph
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon listen to a speech of the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila, not seen, during a gala dinner in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo UN actions 'not adequate' in preventing DRC rapes China Daily
A child of road construction workers sits near her parent's work site, in Gurgaon, India, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. In 2006, nearly 9.7 million children died worldwide before reaching the age of 5, mostly from preventable causes such as diarrhea, malaria or malnutrition, UNICEF said in its annual report, released Tuesda UNICEF to boost aid efficiency by targeting poorest The Star
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks to the media as he visits a UN housing project in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 21, 2010. UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo Herald Tribune
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Homeless - poor kids and a girl on a footpath, India Four million poor children dying 'of neglect' BBC News
Orphaned Children Children's Home Of Hell: The Full Story Peace FM Online
Halle Berry. (dy1) Halle Berry Takes Break From Filming In South Africa To Visit Children's Charity Starpulse
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Facebook Facebook generation gears up to monitor Nigeria poll The Star
Rebels loyal to Laurent Nkunda's movement patrol in Rutshuru, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Goma, in eastern Congo, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. An upsurge in fighting between rebels loyal to Laurent Nkunda and the army since August has displaced more than 220,000 people in a region already home to about 800,000 more displaced. Nkunda's fighters advanced to the doorstep of Goma Wednesday, forcing U.N. peacekeepers and the bedraggled army to retreat in tanks and commandeered civilian Climate shifts 'not to blame' for African civil wars BBC News
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