US gov't to young Kenyans: 'Yes Youth Can!'

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A U.S. government-backed program is telling young Kenyans that 'Yes Youth Can!' in a political program designed to improve leadership skills that carries overtones of President Obama's election message...

We'll cut your aid if you persecute gays, Britain warns African nations

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Daily Mail - International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has already cut aid to Malawi by £19 million after two gay men were sentenced to 14 years hard labour...

Liberian Nobel winners confronted thugs, killers

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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia...

Black stars on sidelines of Somalia famine fight

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theGRIO REPORT - Would it be too far-fetched to imagine a coalition of African-American celebrities united as a voice for the women and children in the Horn of Africa who are too weakened by malnutrition to speak in a loud voice?..

South Africa: Tutu blasts ANC over Dalai Lama visa

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Tutu had invited the fellow Nobel Peace laureate to South Africa to attend his 80th birthday party festivities...

UN debating prize in tainted African ruler's name

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PARIS (AP) - UNESCO's director-general appealed to the organization's executive board Friday to reject a life sciences prize to be named after Equatorial Guinea's president, who has been accused of human rights violations...

Hijacking fugitive lived openly in Africa

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Retired Guinea-Bissau Ambassador John Blacken told The Associated Press he was stunned to hear the news of George Wright's arrest Monday in Portugal...

First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's most recognizable woman, Maathai won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism...

US university to open branch campus in Rwanda

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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Carnegie Mellon University will open a branch campus in Rwanda next year, making it the first American university to do so in central Africa....

Somalia has world's highest infant mortality rate

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The U.N. says Somali children are more likely to die before they turn 5 than those in any other country in the world.

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US gov't to young Kenyans: 'Yes Youth Can!'

We'll cut your aid if you persecute gays, Britain warns African nations

Liberian Nobel winners confronted thugs, killers

Black stars on sidelines of Somalia famine fight

South Africa: Tutu blasts ANC over Dalai Lama visa

UN debating prize in tainted African ruler's name

Hijacking fugitive lived openly in Africa

First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies

US university to open branch campus in Rwanda

Somalia has world's highest infant mortality rate

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