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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has urged African leaders to respect gay rights. He told a two-day African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa that the Arab Spring was a "reminder that leaders must listen to their people."
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An Ethiopian court sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison. But the men argue they were just doing their job as journalists.
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According to the United Nations, over 11,000 million drought-stricken people are in desperate need of aid. Located in two regions of southern Somalia, southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle, approximately 3.7 million people are in starvation crisis.
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American actress Scarlett Johansson spent time this week in the Horn of Africa in her role as Oxfam Ambassador to see first hand the impact of the East African drought.
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Washington -
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives have done a lot to damage U.S. radio and TV programs for audiences abroad nearly beyond repair.
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As aid workers scramble to distribute adequate food and water supplies to drought-stricken residents throughout East Africa, the region's worst drought in 60 years continued to threaten larger populations.
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Millions in eastern Africa are facing severe food shortages as the region's worst drought in decades continues to wither crops and kill livestock.
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Penang -
Enhanced production through genetic improvement has converted Tilapia, also known as the “wonder fish”, in the second most cultured aquatic animal species in the world after carps, and a major internationally traded commodity.
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Pretoria -
The Somali extremist group Al Shabaab is ‘losing momentum’ against a combination of a new moderate group and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), raising the possibility of an eventual defeat of the Al-Qaeda-linked organisation.
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Explorer Jeremy Curl will this summer attempt to cross the Danakil Desert in Ethiopia by foot. If he succeeds he would be the first man alive to do so.
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