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Health policy development is a fundamental weakness of resource sapped governments in Africa. This article provides an overview of key issues and a potential roadmap for future action.
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Hope has been resuscitated among long-suffering Zimbabweans after a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, was announced late on Sept. 11.
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It is unlikely that former prime ministers Dominique de Villepin or Alain Juppé, or anyone else on the commission's list of French genocide suspects, will be extradited to Rwanda.
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Innovative Millennium Villages Project in Bonsaaso, a cluster of poor and remote settlements in Ghana's Ashanti Region, focuses on achieving Millennium goals.
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Between April and December 2007, the Home Office sent 1,999 asylum seekers back to their original countries. Some of the Somali nationals were sent to Mogadishu, the most dangerous city in the world.
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The backlog of applications for refugee status dates back to the late 1990's, when people from troubled African countries became attracted to South Africa after its transition to democracy.
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Addressing an emergency summit on the global food crisis in Rome in June, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon underscored the threat to political stability and development.
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The emergence of a power vacuum motivated Strasser and his men to seize power. His ascension to power inspired the youth, who believed that someone had finally emerged to champion their cause.
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The drug trade is fast turning large parts of West Africa into areas that are all but ungovernable, with major implications for international security.
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For the millions of Africans dealing with HIV/AIDS, a beacon of hope has emerged from an unassuming single story clinic, nestled in the hills of this city.
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An agreement between Zimbabwe's political parties to pursue negotiations to establish a new constitution and bring an end to political violence has been met with skepticism by ordinary Zimbabweans.
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The July 13 impounding of a plane loaded with cocaine, and the subsequent arrest of alleged drug traffickers, overshadowed all government business in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for several days last week.
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People continue to be enslaved in northern Mali, according to Malian human rights organization Temedt, despite a widespread belief that slavery no longer exists in the country.
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On June 10, Samuel Atere-Roberts participated as project manager in the commissioning of the solar powered computer center at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Many have missed out on the economic boom of the past decade that has seen robust growth rates but which has been largely driven by huge capital investments that have created few employment opportunities.
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