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Kwame Nkrumah statue unveilled in Addis Ababa

29/01/2012 ANA 0

President John Evans Atta Mills at the weekend unveiled the statue of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President at the forecourt of the new African Union (AU) building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was assisted […]

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AFRICA: High cost of child trafficking

29/01/2012 ANA 0

Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts. “Trafficking […]

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HEALTH: Yaws treatment study prompts WHO review

27/01/2012 ANA 0

Findings that a one-time oral treatment to cure yaws, a neglected tropical disease, is as effective as the currently recommended penicillin injection have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a meeting on how […]

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EGYPT: Anti-bird flu campaign planned

26/01/2012 ANA 0

A nationwide campaign to stop the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt is to be launched by the government in a few weeks, say officials, but details are still sketchy. The new plan, which […]

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