Globalist: Signs that the worst may be over in Africa
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JOHANNESBURG Say &quot;Africa&quot; and what comes to mind? The genocide in Darfur, Sudan, or the HIV-AIDS epidemic affecting some 30 million Africans, or the violence in the Ivory Coast, a country once considered an oasis of calm on a calamity-stricken continent?
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To judge how far aid has helped Africa along the road to prosperity, just look down at the pavement Â or the lack of it.
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Smaller but mightier than its neighbors, Rwanda&#39;s greatest clout may come from its nightmare past: a widespread sense around the world that the country was largely abandoned
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Latin America has seen a decline in child mortality rate, but the situation in Iraq, countries of the former Soviet Union and those in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the
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Africa's economy will grow faster this year, but changes are still needed for it to catch up with the rest of the world.
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Nearly five years after the fall of   the Taliban in Afghanistan, Africa has emerged as a leading   front in a U.S. military campaign to deny al Qaeda a new safe   haven in the continent's vast, hard-to-govern regions.
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Findings of UN panel on global warming put African and Asian regions among those most at risk.
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T wo days after Christmas, Kenyans will vote in a general election that will shape more than just the future of Kenya itself. A stable Kenya helps hold together a rough neighbourhood that includes Sudan and Somalia. A prosperous, globalised Kenya, where the spread of mobile telephones has spawned a new generation of entrepreneurs, should be an example for the region. Kenya is where a million tourists a year form their impressions of the continent of Africa. Hence my concern for the future of my country, from which I chose to exile myself three years ago.
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Cape Verde Is. The disaster in Southeast Asia touches us all. Areas, which were already very poor has been affected by incomprehensible destruction.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Not so long ago, many in the West hailed British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Africa&#39;s new savior: the European leader who shamed other rich countries into helping the impoverished continent he called the &quot;scar on the conscience of the world.&quot;
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- A warmer world already seems to be producing a sicker world, health experts reported Tuesday, citing surges in Kenya, China and Europe of such diseases as malaria, heart ailments and dengue fever.
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Rising global temperatures will hit Africa's poor the hardest, reducing their ability to deal with disease, feed themselves and earn a living, a scientist told an international conference on climate change Wednesday.
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Zimbabwe is closer to collapse than ever, and only regional leaders can make a difference, a new report says.
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Nearly five years after the fall of  the Taliban in Afghanistan, Africa has emerged as a leading  front in a U.S. military campaign to deny al Qaeda a new safe  haven in the continent's vast, hard-to-govern regions.
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Western experts worried about the   security of oil supplies from Africa's Gulf of Guinea have   considered several doomsday scenarios, including suicide   attacks by determined Islamist militants on offshore oil   platforms.
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Safe no more: An acute global shortage in contraceptives has experts in Africa predicting a population explosion and a frightening spread of AIDS.
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Muhammad Yunus warned that the globalized economy was becoming a dangerous Âfree-for-all highway.Â