| March 20, 2009 | - Pope Benedict XVI visited Africa. In Angola he warned against witchcraft, corruption, and condoms, and two girls were trampled to death at a stadium where he appeared. “I entrust them to Jesus,” he said, “so that he welcomes them into his kingdom.” Pygmies in Cameroon built a ceremonial hut outside the apostolic nunciature in Yaounde and presented the Pope with a basket, a cloth mat, and a turtle.
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Agence France Presse
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| May 23, 2008 | - The United Nations, responding to food riots in 30 countries, said that the number of chronically hungry people in the world was expected to rise 100 million to 950 million. Japan released 20,000 tons of its 1.5-million-ton rice stockpile for sale to Africa.
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The Washington Post
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The Daily Star
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AFP
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| October 23, 2007 | - The $5-million African Leadership Prize, an award designed to encourage good governance in Africa, was awarded to former Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano, who ruled his country for 18 years before stepping down in 2005. “Those who govern badly,” said an analyst at the South African Institute of International Affairs, “bag a lot more than $5 million.”
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Washington Post
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| August 20, 2007 | - As part of President Bush's $15 billion anti-AIDS program, the United States will begin paying for African men to be circumcised.
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Washington Post
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| July 2, 2007 | - In Nairobi
Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi, surrounded by his squad of female bodyguards and wearing a shirt printed with pictures of the African presidents, called for the creation of a “United States of Africa” and implied that he should be its first leader.
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Telegraph
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| May 10, 2007 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair announced that he will resign next month after ten years in power. Much speculation ensued about what the 54-year-old Blair would do next, and it was thought that he might establish a foundation to fight poverty in Africa. “[Blair] was the worst thing that ever happened to Africa,” said Bright Matonga, the deputy information minister of Zimbabwe. “We hope that the children of Iraq and Afghanistan he is killing everyday will haunt him for the rest of his life.”
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Daily Mail
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The Australian
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Guardian
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| January 15, 2007 | - Experts warned that Lake Chad, Africa's third largest body of water, could become a pond within two decades.
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BBC
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| August 8, 2006 | -
Spain,
Sicily, and North Africa were on jellyfish alert, with over 30,000 people stung so far this summer. The jellyfish explosion, a researcher explained, is due to overfishing and global warming.
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BBC News
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| July 6, 2006 | - It was reported that Melinda Gates is more comfortable than her husband Bill when it comes to holding AIDS babies in Africa or talking to male prostitutes in India.
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New York Times
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| May 16, 2006 | - A British-Ugandan team of scientists said that the glaciers of the Rwenzori Mountains in East Africa, which the Greek geographer Ptolemy called "the mountains of the moon," could melt within the next two decades.
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BBC News
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| May 2, 2006 | - In England the Archbishop of York played African drums and led a conga line as he wore a hoodie.
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BBC News
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| April 12, 2006 | -
Researchers in Africa discovered a catfish that stretches out of the water to eat land animals.
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Nature
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| April 6, 2006 | - An independent study of AIDS in Africa, funded by an international consortium and performed in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, found that 3 percent of Rwandans age 15 to 49 are infected with HIV, a much lower figure than the 30 percent estimated by some researchers or the 13 percent estimated by the United Nations. Infection rates, the study found, were similarly overstated throughout East and West Africa, although in southern Africa the rate of infection remained extremely high: for example, 34.9 percent of Botswanans in the 15 to 49 age group are infected with HIV. "From a research point of view," a British economist said of UNAIDS, "they've done a pathetic job."
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The Washington Post
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| April 6, 2006 | - The 7,000-man African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur was under investigation for raping and abusing local women and girls.
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The New York Times
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| March 31, 2006 | - Three quarters of Africa's farmland lacked the basic nutrients needed to grow crops. "We must," said Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, "feed our soils."
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The New York Times
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| March 22, 2006 | - It was reported that the World Bank's plan to privatize water supplies in impoverished nations had largely failed. Of the $25 billion invested in clean water, only 1 percent had reached sub-Saharan Africa, and much of the money had gone to providing clean water to the wealthy.
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The Guardian
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| December 22, 2005 | - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress for $50 million to support African troops in Darfur, but her request was rejected.
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Herald News Daily
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| December 18, 2005 | -
Scientists decoded the mitochondrial DNA of the woolly mammoth and confirmed that the mammoth was more closely related to the Asian elephant than to the African elephant.
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BBC News
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| November 11, 2005 | - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected President of Liberia, becoming the first woman elected to lead an African country.
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CNN.com
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| November 5, 2005 | - Rioters near and around Paris set thousands of cars and dozens of buildings on fire after two teenagers of African descent were electrocuted while trying to escape the police.
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The Guardian
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| August 9, 2005 | -
Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Mali were facing major food shortages.
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BBC News
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| July 8, 2005 | - Leaders at the G8 meeting decided to double the aid sent to Africa to $50 billion. “Too little,” said a Uganda aid activist, “too late.”
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Reuters
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| June 17, 2005 | - A report prepared for the London Metropolitan Police Service expressed concern that young African boys were being sacrificed in England.
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The Guardian
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| April 15, 2005 | - The International Monetary Fund announced that sub-Saharan Africa's
economy had grown 5 percent last year, with inflation at its lowest in twenty-five years.
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BBC News
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| March 4, 2005 | - The U.N. predicted that 90 million Africans will have HIV by 2025.
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BBC News
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| December 26, 2004 | - A 9.0 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that ravaged south and southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa. The wave reached from Somalia and Kenya to Malaysia. Thousands of fatalities were reported in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, South India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Three-story waves washed sunbathers into the sea, carried away snorkelers, and swallowed up Hindu ritual bathers celebrating Full Moon Day. A prison in Sumatra was torn open by the tsunami, and hundreds of inmates fled. A baby was washed from her father's arms. At least 25,000 died, and millions were displaced. Entire towns were turned into rubble. Corpses hung from trees and fences, and the rotting bodies of humans and animals threatened to pollute water supplies. It was difficult to bury the dead for lack of dry ground. The earthquake was the largest since 1964, and slightly altered the rotation of the earth.
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New York Timesimes
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Wikipedia
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New York Timesimes
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MSNBC
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Reuters
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| August 25, 2004 | -
Polio continued to spread in Africa.
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New York Times
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| July 13, 2004 | - The United Nations estimated that southern Africa will have 50 million AIDS orphans by 2010, and the World Bank reported that only 700,000 orphans receive support from AIDS resources.
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New Scientist
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| July 10, 2004 | - A plague of locusts was massing in Africa.
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New Scientist
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| April 26, 2004 | -
Unicef released a report on slavery in Africa concluding that the practice continues in every country on the continent.
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BBC
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| January 19, 2004 | -
Polio was spreading from Nigeria to other countries in Africa.
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AllAfrica.com
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| October 27, 2003 | - and western Africa was suffering a plague of dusty locusts.
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News 24 South Africa
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| December 4, 2001 | - Archaeologists announced the discovery of artifacts in South Africa that establish modern human behavior in Africa more than 70,000 years ago, which contradicts the prevailing theory that such traits as symbolic thinking emerged in a “creative explosion” only after humans migrated to Europe 40,000 years ago.
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| October 23, 2001 | - In New York, four of Osama bin Laden's colleagues were sentenced to life in prison in connection with the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa.
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| September 4, 2001 | - People in darkest Africa were bleaching their skin to look like Michael Jackson.
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| August 7, 2001 | - The Southern Africa
Catholic Bishops Conference condemned the use of condoms to prevent AIDS because using rubbers is sinful and dangerous.
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| July 10, 2001 | - The United Nations reported that Western aid to Africa has fallen by a third since 1994.
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| July 3, 2001 | - A giant cloud of dust from the Sahara blew across the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, reducing air quality and visibility in Texas.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
President Bush went to Europe but avoided France and Germany, whose leaders are unlikely to go along with his missile-defense scheme. “There's some nervousness,” the President said, “and I understand that. But it's beginning to be allayed when they hear the logic behind the rationale.” In Sweden, at a meeting of the European Union, Bush told reporters that “we spent a lot of time talking about Africa, and we should.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.” Bozo the Clown finally went off the air.
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| May 29, 2001 | - Jack Kemp was exasperated with criticism that President Bush was governing from the far right, noting that Colin Powell was off in darkest Africa talking about AIDS. “What more do they want from this president?”
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| May 15, 2001 | -
Scientists at MIT's Whitehead Institute found evidence that Europeans are descended from about 50 people who left Africa 60,000 years ago and inbred among themselves for 30 generations.
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| March 27, 2001 | - A new internal report alleged that Roman Catholic priests have been sexually abusing nuns in several countries, especially in Africa, where the notion that nuns are probably HIV-negative was apparently a contributing factor.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Indonesia's president Abdurrahman Wahid was sightseeing in the Middle East and north Africa while machete-wielding Dayak tribesmen in Borneo continued to hunt down Madurese settlers and chop off their heads.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
Genetic tests revealed strong evidence for the “out of Africa” theory of human origins.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Political violence continued in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
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| July 25, 2000 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat failed to meet President Bill Clinton's deadline for making peace in the Middle East; Clinton declared the summit over and flew to Okinawa for a meeting of the G8, the world's seven richest industrialized countries plus Russia, where the leaders issued a strongly worded statement decrying the alarming lack of Internet access in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.
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