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Climate Change: Its Effects On Migration, Conflict In Northern Ghana
Joy Online
Scientific evidence available to various research institutions in Ghana have showed that the three regions of the North – comprising Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions – are considered the poorest areas in the country and also have the most degraded environments. Similarly, they are among r...
Ethiopian Airlines
(photo: GFDL / Northside)
Ethiopian Airlines ignores turbulence to focus on growth
Business Day
| IGNORING the furious winds buffeting the global aviation industry, 66-year-old Ethiopian Airlines is investing more than $2,6bn to ensure it capitalises on its location and the ever-increasing interest in Africa from emerging-market giants such as China, India and Brazil. | Ethiopian will be the f...
In Land’s Bounty, a Political Chip
The New York Times
| BINGA, Zimbabwe — More than a decade after Zimbabwe’s government began seizing sprawling white-owned commercial farms, a new fight is brewing here over who will profit from the nation’s vast bounty of platinum, chromium, nickel an...
The Zimbabwe Mugabe didn't want you to see
NZ Herald
| While working undercover along the Zimbabwe border, Kiwi photojournalist Robin Hammond was arrested and taken into custody by Robert Mugabe's brutal henchmen. Released last week after 25 days in a lice-infested prison cell, he tells his own story f...
Sunny Leone is a shy girl, says Bahesh Bhatt
Gulf News
| "I always knew that she is a very shy person. Just because she is a porn star doesn't mean that she has lost her feminine quality of being shy. During the lovemaking scene with Randeep she was finding it very difficult to do it comfortably,&qu...
XCLUSIV FOTOS: Miss World 2011 And Team Finally Arrives In Ghana
Peace FM Online
Finalist the most beautiful woman in the world presently, Ivian Sarcos, the 22 year-old winner of the 2011 Miss World, has touched down on Ghanaian soil. | The enviable beauty queen arrived in Ghana, on Saturday evening May 19, 2012 at the Kotoka Int...
Syrian soldiers check a burned truck in front of a damaged military intelligence building where two bombs exploded, at Qazaz neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday May 10, 2012
AP / Bassem Tellawi
Damascus blasts kill 40 and wound 170, says Syrian TV
The Independent
| Syrian television blamed "terrorists" for the morning rush-hour blasts, which were the deadliest to hit the capital since the revolt began. It showed mangled, burnt and...
Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants take part in a rally calling for the Arab League during their summit in Libya to cancel an initiative for indirect talks regarding peace with Israel, in Gaza City, Saturday, March 27, 2010. Earlier this month, Arab nations opened the door for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to enter four months of indirect, American-brokered peace talks with Israel. But they later threatened to withdraw support for the indirect talks because of recent Israeli announcements on plans for new settlement building. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN)
WN / Ahmed Deeb
Obama's democracy: Insulting Islam means life sentence in Libya
The Examiner
|  Barack Obama has a new foreign policy achievement to boast about on the campaign trail in 2012: turning Libya into a Iranian-style Islamofascist state. | New laws in the North ...
The heart of SA health
UN / Devra Berkowitz
The heart of SA health
Independent online
Zohra Mohamed Teke | According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the deaths of about 1 500 women every day around the world owing to pregnancy-related complications, could ha...
President’s Korea visit opens new horizons
Nation
| President James Michel’s visit to Korea this week has brought the two countries’ determination to cut emissions through renewable energy into sharp focus and opened new horizons. | A major outcome of the visit is the proposed funding of a solar pow...
Waked’s Zad sings with Cheikh Imam doc
Screen Daily
| Egyptian actor and filmmaker Amr Waked, star of Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, is coproducing Cheikh vs Imam. | Egyptian actor and filmmaker Amr Waked, star of Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, has revealed that his Cairo-based production company Zad is c...
Clint Eastwood's family gets real on new E! series
Jakarta Post
| Dina Eastwood has heard the question repeatedly: Why put her family and superstar husband Clint Eastwood on display for a reality TV show, generally the province of D-list or wannabe celebrities? | The answer is simple, she said. "Mrs. Eastwood &am...
Art & Culture
Libya former rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj, second left, speaks with Libya fighters prior to the arrival of Libyan Transitional National Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at Metiga airport in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011.
(photo: AP / Francois Mori)
'Rendition' Libyan commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj to form his own party
The Daily Telegraph
Abdel Hakim Belhadj, a prominent Islamist commander suing MI6 over his alleged rendition by the CIA in 2004, is poised to emerge as a powerful political force in Libya after announcing that he would form his own party. | Libyan Tripoli military commander Abdelhakim Belhaj addresses a rally in Tripoli on September 9, 2011.  Photo: AFP/Getty Ima...



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