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- Let them eat snail: Nutritional giant snails could address malnutrition
- BBC News - Egypt recalls Algerian envoy as football row deepens (10 comments)
- Sahara cocaine plane crash probed (1 comment)
- Aid group: 24,000 infant deaths preventable daily (1 comment)
- Kenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violence
Let them eat snail: Nutritional giant snails could address malnutrition
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:33 PM EST (Science Daily)
A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie.
BBC News - Egypt recalls Algerian envoy as football row deepens
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:56 PM EST (BBC News)
The Egyptian government has recalled its ambassador to Algeria following complaints about violence toward football fans, reports say. The move comes hours after Algeria's ambassador in Cairo was summoned to the Egyptian foreign ministry.
Kenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violence
Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:57 AM EST
A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.
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Sahara cocaine plane crash probed
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:13 PM EST (BBC News)
The UN is investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela.
Is it time to privatise rugby in South Africa?
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:07 PM EST (sarugby.com)
It's time to privatise rugby in South Africa. Nothing has been more frustrating in the so-called "professional era" of rugby union since 1995 than to watch the sport turn into the epitome of crony corporatism.
Aid group: 24,000 infant deaths preventable daily
Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:01 PM EST
More than 24,000 infants die daily from preventable diseases in developing countries because governments have failed to spend more on health care, an international aid group said Monday.
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Ghana illegal mine collapse kills 15; 13 women
Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:38 AM EST
A police official says 15 people — 13 of them women — were killed when a gold mine caved in on them in western Ghana.
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Michael Specter: Denying Denialism In South Africa Over AIDS
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:48 PM EDT (New Yorker)
Good piece and good news. I've been talking here about an upcoming interview with this author and soliciting questions for it.
Guinea coup leader says he "regrets" massacre
Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:28 AM EDT
The man who led Guinea's most recent coup says he "bitterly regrets" the deaths of civilians who were gunned down by soldiers at a protest last month.
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Maternal Mortality Rates in Malawi
Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:00 PM EDT (BBC News)
Although maternity mortality rates remain high in Malawi, in Pitala village they may "have fallen to zero," apparently partially due to a bicycle ambulance, as reported in this BBC article.
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