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26/10/2012 - Report: Uganda

Africa could feed itself, says World Bank

The World Bank has said that Africa’s farmers have the potential to grow enough food to feed the continent and avoid future food crises if countries remove cross-border restrictions on the ...

26/04/2012

French press review 26 April 2012

The French presidential election has not magically vanished from the national front pages, but there is something far more important going on.

19/12/2011 - North Korea

Kim Jong-Un new North Korean leader after death of Kim Jong-Il

North Korean state media has announced the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, aged 69, of a heart attack, plunging the deeply isolated nation into a second dynastic succession.

Air raids sow fear in Blue Nile province
03/11/2011 - International report

Air raids sow fear in Blue Nile province

Despite the birth of South Sudan in July this year, the situation remains tense between Juba in South Sudan and Khartoum, the capital of northern Sudan.

Boffins work on making meat without the livestock
31/10/2011 - International report

Boffins work on making meat without the livestock

About a billion people across the globe are undernourished. And the number is on the rise. Now science could be the answer to tackle worldwide hunger.

Singer Youssou N'Dour appeal for Horn of Africa
13/09/2011 - African news explained

Singer Youssou N'Dour appeal for Horn of Africa

Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour is urging Africa to do more for victims of drought in the Horn of Africa.

19/08/2011 - Turkey - Somalia - report

Turkey's Erdogan visits famine-hit Somalia in Islamic aid push

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan starts a visit to drought-hit Somalia Friday on a trip which is considered particularly dangerous

09/08/2011

African press review 9 August 2011

The UN is watching the cleanup after Shell's oil spill in Ogoniland. SA police are told to treat rape victims with more respect and deaths during childbirth soar.

07/08/2011

French weekly magazines review

In this week's French press; tyrannic leaders, the DSK-Banon affair, the French Socialist Party, the devastating famine in Somalia, and the secrets of various French counties.

Displaced people sit with their packed belongings as they prepare to flee Badbado settlement after two groups of Somalia government soldiers clashed inside the camp 5 August 2011.
06/08/2011 - Somalia

Shebab rebels pull out of Mogadishu

The Somali capital has been "fully liberated" from Islamist Shebab rebels, the country's president said on Saturday.

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