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NEWS from the GREAT LAKES

General news on the African continent, its people, its relationships, its agreements, its challenges, its difficulties and its opportunities.

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South Africa - Apartheid reparations by corporations

A landmark case against several international corporations accused of aiding South Africa’s apartheid regime is underway. The companies include Daimler AG, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and IBM. They’re accused in a class-action lawsuit of complicity in human rights abuses during the years they did business in apartheid South Africa. The suit was filed several years ago by black victims of white minority rule. Their lawyers are seeking up to $400 billion in compensation.

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A burning issue in the climate change fight in Africa

Fuel-efficient cooking stove. It is a potent, if modest, weapon against climate change. By burning wood more completely, it will roughly halve the amount of fuel she uses.

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Africa saved Homo sapiens from extinction

Do you think you know who you are? Is every single person in the world coming from Africa?

Between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, genetic data suggest that the population dwindled to as few as 2,000 individuals. And then something happened. It began slowly, with only a few hints of the explosion to come.

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Cell Phones make life easier in Africa

Cell phones cut maternal deaths in GHANA

When we did not have mobile telecommunication, women were dying… Mothers used to bleed to death while waiting in their homes, for a health worker to come to help them. There has been not even a single maternal death since

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CRISIS WATCH

News on conflicts, insecurity, steps towards peace.

African civil society calls on the AU member states for ICC support

A network of African civil society and international organizations called upon African Union (AU) member states to use the AU's session about the International Criminal Court (ICC) to promote the court's ability to prosecute the world's worst crimes fairly and effectively.

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Making the most of the upcoming AU – EU peace and security dialogue

West African treaty on gun violence becomes law

African journalists at the mercy of the continent’s instability

MALAWI Press Review February 2010

Members of Parliament in Malawi are never short of controversies. It all started with their proposal to have their allocation of fuel revised upwards.

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