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CNN
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A "national electrical emergency" has been declared in South Africa where power cuts are affecting millions of people and casting doubt over plans to host the football World Cup in 2010. Authorities on Friday outlined steps to combat the problem that is s..
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BBC News
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Leaders of the G8 nations meeting in Germany have pledged to spend $60bn fighting Aids, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa.
Officials said half of that amount would come from the United States.
On the final day of their summit, G8 leaders also commi..
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Alter Net
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Corporate foundations that have pledged millions believe that genetically altered crops will rescue Africa from endemic shortfalls in food production. Are they creating a 'green revolution' or hijacking the food supply?
Genetically altered crops will r..
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SF Gate
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A woman was convicted Monday of hiring a hit squad to murder her lover's baby daughter, ending a trial that had dominated headlines for months with details of South Africa's first known contract killing of an infant.
Dina Rodrigues was found guilty of..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Threat of global pandemic ... A patient suffering from TB eats lunch at a hospital in Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Regular TB is already the largest killer of people with Aids in South Africa...
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Reuters
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Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday pledged to double his country's assistance to the African continent by 2009, and proposed a raft of new loans, development projects in health and agriculture, and debt cancellations...
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BBC News
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South Africa's governing party leader Jacob Zuma has criticised the delay in publishing the results of presidential elections held in Zimbabwe 11 days ago.
Mr Zuma's comments are in stark contrast to those of South Africa's president who said the situa..
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BBC News
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African and European politicians are meeting in the Ghanaian capital Accra to discuss how to stem the illegal flow of African migrants to Europe.
One plan is to publicise in Africa the stories of hazardous journeys to Europe, in the hope of persuading..
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BBC News
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South Africa's biggest gold and platinum mining companies have suspended production because of a spate of recent power cuts.
They took the drastic measure after state power company Eskom said it could not guarantee supplies, raising fears of miners bei..
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CNN
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This week on Inside Africa: a look back at 2007. Nic Robertson relives the dangers of covering a humanitarian crisis in Chad, Robyn Curnow reflects on an accident that trapped thousands of miners underground in South Africa, while Richard Quest tells us w..
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BBC News
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South Africa's top prosecutor says there is enough evidence to charge the new leader of the governing party, Jacob Zuma, with corruption.
The acting head of the National Prosecuting Authority, Mokotedi Mpshe, said a final decision on when to take actio..
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BBC News
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Supporters of Jacob Zuma have been celebrating his election as the new leader of South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress.
Mr Zuma defeated President Thabo Mbeki after an acrimonious conference, during which Mr Mbeki was heckled...
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BBC News
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Delegates from the African National Congress are due to vote on who becomes the next leader of South Africa's ruling party.
President Thabo Mbeki is locked in a bitter struggle for the leadership against his former ally, Jacob Zuma.
Mr Zuma is a fav..
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BBC News
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Four rare gorillas are being flown from South Africa to Cameroon, five years after they were illegally smuggled to Taiping Zoo in Malaysia.
The Malaysian authorities returned the four Western Lowland gorillas to South Africa in 2004 and they have since..
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BBC News
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The economic outlook for Africa is improving after a decade of growth of 5.4% for the continent that matches global rates, the World Bank has said.
The trend indicates that a fundamental change is occurring in Africa, a World Bank official told the BBC..
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BBC News
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South Africa's military is needed to fight crime on Cape Town's Table Mountain, the city authorities say.
The city's tourism head Simon Grindrod said there had been 15 muggings on the mountain, one of South Africa's most famous landmarks, in the past 1..
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Al Jazeera
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The boat met "hostile weather", Alex Koroma, a station manager for Radio Kolenten, told the AFP news agency by telephone.
The vessel, named Amunafa, is powered by outboard motors and regularly ferries goods and people between Sierra Leone's coastal to..
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Yahoo News
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Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite efforts to stamp it out. London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, hopes a campaign beginning on..
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Los Angeles Times
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JUST WHEN IT SEEMED that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on "Madonna's Malawi." At the same time, the memoirs of an African child soldier..
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