Campaigners chide UK shops over Africa "blood" gems
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Britain's top retailers are not doing enough to prevent conflict diamonds from Africa reaching consumers, rights groups said on Tuesday, on the eve of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's farewell visit to the continent.
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Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite efforts to stamp it out. London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, hopes a campaign beginning on Wednesday will highlight that the practice is a crime here.
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Britain's treasury chief called Thursday for half a trillion dollars in new aid for poor nations, particularly in Africa, a continent where Prime Minister Tony Blair said a tsunami-scale death toll happens every week.
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Africa may be seen by the rest of the world as a continent dogged by war and poverty, but Africans themselves are fiercely proud of their homeland, a survey conducted by British broadcaster the BBC showed on Monday.
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South Africa&#39;s national blood service is to meet to discuss whether to stop treating blood donated by black people as high risk.
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LOCAL SHOPS TAKE PART IN TV APPEAL ISLE of Man residents are being urged to dig out old clothes for Blue Peter and the British Red Cross.
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Screening for TB by the United Kingdom discriminates against Kenyans with HIV, say Aids activists.
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The British Red Cross has set up a fund for AIDS victims in Lesotho after the screening of a documentary shot by Prince Harry during a visit earlier this year, a senior British diplomat said.
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In successive appeals to some of the world's business and political elites, Britain's Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac of France called for a concerted international effort to stem the twin ravages of disease and poverty hobbling the poorest nations.
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Find out what some suppliers are doing to stem the global flow of "blood diamonds"&#8212;gems mined and sold illegally to fuel deadly rebel conflicts.
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Corner shops in the UK are suffering because of the cigarette smuggling trade, a new survey reveals.
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South Africa's ruling party has  accused top U.S. officials of treating Africans like guinea  pigs amid questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before  a U.S.-backed roll-out of the treatment across the continent.
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Pretoria - Race was unacceptable in determining the health risk posed by donated blood, the department of health and the SA National Blood Transfusion Service decided in Pretoria on Friday.
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British animal rights radicals claim to have contaminated dozens of vials of contact lense solution in France and antiseptic cream in Britain to protest against animal testing, Paris prosecutors said Friday.
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afrol News, 8 December - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has demanded an apology from the South African National Blood Service after it was known that it used race to determine the risk of blood by its donors.
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Â· Oil revenues fund ethnic cleansing, says campaign Â· Barclays and Church of England among targets
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Britain's ambassador to Kenya  renewed criticism Friday that Nairobi lacked the will to stamp  out corruption, the latest salvo in a simmering diplomatic spat  between Kenya and its international donors.