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Malaria Deaths Hugely Underestimated - Lancet Study
Worldwide malaria deaths may be almost twice as high as previously estimated, a study reports. | The research, published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggest 1. 24 million people died fr... (photo: Wikipedia Commons / Noodle Snacks)
Logistics Specialist Seaman Sergio Torres draws pictures with a child at the Vladivostok children's cancer ward.
Disease   Health   Kids   Photos   Wikipedia: Cancer  
 Peace FM Online 
75% Of Childhood Cancers Are Curable
A Consultant Pediatrician at the Department of Child Health, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Lorna Awo Renner says when detected early, about 75 percent of childhood cancer can be cured. | Unfortunate... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Brian A. Stone)
Common method of protecting from malaria while sleeping. Tabuk, Kalinga province, the Philippines.  Ghana Business News 
Study shows malaria deaths declining
| Although malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought, the number of deaths is falling rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up, a new research has revealed. | The... (photo: Creative Commons / Gubernatoria)
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File - A young malaria patient near Alem Kitmama, North East of Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia.  The Daily Telegraph 
Malaria death toll far higher than previously thought
Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people a year, nearly 50 per cent more than previously thought, and inflicts a high toll among adults and older children and not just toddlers, a new investigation ... (photo: WHO / P. Virot)
Health   Malaria   Photos   Science   Wikipedia: Malaria  
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The Little Economy That Could Foreign Policy
The Little Economy That Could
| All right, confess: If you've heard of Mauritius at all, it's probably because you know it as the former home of the dodo bird. But there are better reasons to look clo... (photo: WN / Marzena)
Africa   Economy   Mauritius   Photos   Wikipedia: Mauritius  
Boeing 777-223ER - American Airlines (reg:N756AM Al Jazeera
American Airlines to cut 13,000 jobs
| The parent company of American Airlines says it needs to eliminate about 13,000 jobs, as one of the largest US airlines remakes itself under bankruptcy protection. | Th... (photo: Creative Commons / Eluveitie)
Company   Employees   Jobs   Photos   Wikipedia: American Airlines  
Moa river basin-Sierra Leone Scientific American
Conflicts and Cooperation in Conservation: Adventures in Researching the Pygmy Hippopotamus on Tiwai Island, Sierra Leon
| Our vehicle pulled into the village late one rainy night. Dozens of my new neighbors, Sierra Leone’s Mende people, emerged from their thatch-roof houses, looking cros... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Africa   Photos   Sierra Leone   Wikipedia: Pygmy hippopotamus   Wildlife  
File - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor alights from the Nigerian government plane into the waiting handcuffs of United Nations Peacekeepers who effected his arrest at Monrovia's Roberts International Airport on his arrival from Nigeria, 29 March, 2006. Star Tribune
Charles Taylor lawyers seek to reopen defense case to admit UN report on mercenaries
| AMSTERDAM - Lawyers for former Liberian president Charles Taylor have asked a U.N.-backed war crimes court for permission to reopen their defense case, saying a recentl... (photo: UN / Mathew Elavanalthoduka)
Africa   Crimes   Hague   Photos   Wikipedia: Liberia  
Police arrest a protester in Dakar, Senegal Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. CNN
Tense Senegal braces for more protests as anger mounts
February 1, 2012 -- Updated 0719 GMT (1519 HKT) A Senegalese court has ruled that President Abdoulaye Wade can run for office again. | Dakar, Senegal (CNN) -- A tense Sen... (photo: AP / Gaby Barnuevo)
Africa   Photos   Protests   Senegal   Wikipedia: Senegalese presidential election, 2012  
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, left, and South African President Jacob Zuma, right, shake hands as they met at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. The Guardian
African Union summit, food crisis in the Sahel and global hunger figures
| Deadlock in the race for the AU commission leadership, food shortages in Niger and Chad, and the puzzling lack of scrutiny directed towards the FAO's hunger statistics ... (photo: AP / Elias Asmare)
Chad   Food   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: African Union  
Iron-ore is one of the state's leading export commodities Mining Weekly
African Minerals arranges $868m to fund Tonkolili expansion
| JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – London-listed African Minerals has arranged $868-million in financing for the continued expansion at its Tonkolili iron-ore proj... (photo: Creative Commons)
Africa   Johannesburg   Mining   Photos   Wikipedia: Sierra Leone  
Cocoa Ghana Business News
Hershey Company to invest $10m to improve conditions in cocoa communities in West Africa
| The Hershey Company on Monday said it would expand and accelerate programmes to improve conditions in cocoa communities by investing $10 million in West Africa and cont... (photo: Creative Commons / Wilfredor)
Cocoa   Company   Photos   West Africa   Wikipedia: The Hershey Company  
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon delivers a speech during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday Dec. 7. Peace FM Online
Ban Ki-moon Should Fight Kwashiorkor Not For Gay Rights - Prof. Ocquaye
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Ocquaye, has challenged African leaders to remain resolute and should not give in to pressure from the West to legalis... (photo: AP / Israel Leal)
Kwashiorkor   Photos   Rights   UN   Wikipedia: Kwashiorkor  
Politics Human Rights
- Cuba’s Fidel Castro writes his Memoirs: Any lesson for Ghana
- Ghana charges political heavyweights
- Former President Scolds African Governments
- President Must Act on Economic Crimes Office Report Now!
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Nokia establishes stance on conflict minerals in formal policy
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- Nearly 2,000 African communities end female genital mutilati
- Headmaster Ban Ki-Moon Lectures African Leaders
- MALI-MAURITANIA: Displaced Malians burden food-insecure host
- Ghana's Annan to Play
Equatorial Guinea national team sing their country national anthem during the opening ceremony of the  African Nations Cup soccer opening ceremony at the  Estadio De Malabo stadium.
Ivory Coast coast to semi-finals
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Business & Economy Energy & Industry
- Stadium nightmares
- Call for tighter laws to halt illegal timber imports
- MTN Trains Police in Customer Service
- Church Leadership Flexes Their Business Muscles
Boeing 777-223ER - American Airlines (reg:N756AM
American Airlines to cut 13,000 jobs
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- Explosion, gunfire rock northern Nigeria's Kano
- Etihad makes a second bid for Nigeria route
- Police station attacked in Nigeria's Kano
- Fans go it alone at Africa Cup of Nations
Equatorial Guinea national team sing their country national anthem during the opening ceremony of the  African Nations Cup soccer opening ceremony at the  Estadio De Malabo stadium.
Ivory Coast coast to semi-finals
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AIDS & Diseases Society & Culture
- Number of People Living With HIV to Increase
- HIV Treatment Vaccine Expected in Five Years - Institute
- Chevron rig burns off Nigeria as damage hits shore
- Dead fish, health problems emerge as Chevron rig off Nigeria
Tasmanian mosquito
Malaria Deaths Hugely Underestimated - Lancet Study
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- Profiles In Black History: Alexander Crummell, Ph.D.
- Confidence of Big Brother Africa Coming Up With Her Own TV S
- Nearly 2,000 African communities end female genital mutilati
- Taxi Drivers Threaten AMA
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, left, and South African President Jacob Zuma, right, shake hands as they met at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012.
African Union summit, food crisis in the Sahel and global hunger figures
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Agriculture & Farming Sports
- Former President Scolds African Governments
- Africa Is Quickly Becoming The Greatest Investing Opportunit
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- A New Foroyaa and a New Year What Is the Way Forward?
Moa river basin-Sierra Leone
Conflicts and Cooperation in Conservation: Adventures in Researching the Pygmy Hippopotamus on Tiwai Island, Sierra Leon
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- Ghana, Mali scrape through to African F4
- Soccer Shorts
- Fans go it alone at Africa Cup of Nations
- Liverpool and Spurs share Anfield stalemate
Ghana's Andre Ayew clinches his fist after winning their African Cup of Nations quarter final soccer match at the Stade de Franceville in Franceville, Gabon, Sunday Feb. 5, 2012.
Ghana march on in quest for fifth Nations Cup
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