AP: Kids Left in Africa Begged for Change
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IBADAN, Nigeria - Allegedly abandoned by their American mother in Africa, seven children from Texas begged small change to buy food and shuttled from a neglectful stranger's care to a concrete-block orphanage, Nigerians said Thursday.    Eventually, the children proved their American citizenship to a passing missionary from Texas by singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." He notified U.S...
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KALMA CAMP, Sudan -- She has been in the world for 18 days, and her life is tainted. Curled naked under a blanket close to her mother, Nashwa is too young to know shame, the emotion that will be like a shadow to her.
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ROME When a 9-year-old Somali girl named Asma arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in a rickety boat full of illegal immigrants earlier this year, she was in shock.
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Six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence in Libya after an eight-year ordeal over the infection of hundreds of children with HIV-tainted blood were facing an anxious wait on Wednesday as the world called on Tripoli to send them home.
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The UN children&#39;s agency Saturday called upon eastern and southern African nations, where more than eight million children live in dire poverty, to fight the boom in child trafficking on a war footing.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Naomi Ewowo had just lost her parents when her family branded her a witch. She was 5.
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Nigerian pupils and teachers explain how the $100 laptop project has helped education Africa.
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NAIROBI - When parents in Africa die of AIDS, their orphaned children often go to live with foster parents, in institutions or even on their own.
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WASHINGTON -- Largely because of the AIDS crisis, nearly one-quarter of all children in Zimbabwe are orphans, a figure that approaches historic levels set in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994, according to a new national survey.
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Three of the seven American children abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage had suffered years of abuse, including broken bones and beatings with extension cords, before they were adopted by the woman who left them in Africa, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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KAKUMA, Kenya -- They had learned how to buy bus tokens and clip coupons. Gotten hands-on training for lighting a gas stove and flushing a toilet. Taken a pop quiz on women's rights.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children left the African nation on Friday for France where they are to serve their sentences in jail under a bilateral accord.
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ROME Huge numbers of migrants from Africa have showed up in rickety boats on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the last few days, and the government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them back to Libya, almost immediately, by
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Ever wonder where America's yellow school buses go to die? Some don't -- they find a second life on Central Africa's rutted, traffic-choked roads.
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DROWNING IN DEBT: African nations say debt incurred by past generations is keeping them poor and unable to cope with pressing needs, such as the AIDS epidemic.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.