The Guardian By Maaza Mengiste A single photo focused the world’s attention on Sudan in 93. As Gaza and MH17 dominate, Africa’s horrors remain invisible Kevin Carter’s photograph, taken during the 1993 famine in Sudan. ‘The outcry from the public was immediate and visceral.’ Photograph: Megan Patricia Carter Trust/Kevin Carter/Corbis Sygma In the photograph a
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By Clay McGlaughlin, Times Standard Photo show at Ethiopian International Cafe features women, children Maureen Fitzgerald has always loved to travel. Starting with a cross-country bus trip that brought her from Philadelphia to San Francisco in the late 1970s — traveling with her 6-month-old son, Michael, and $7 in her pocket — she has a
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Bloomberg By William Davison Ethiopia, Africa’s fastest-growing economy, is looking to its capital to help sustain an expansion that averaged more than 10 percent a year in the past decade. Planners predict the population of Addis Ababa and five satellite towns will more than double by 2040 to 8.1 million, highlighting United Nations estimates that Africa’s global share
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Anadolu Agency ADDIS ABABA-Ethiopia has set up a national committee to draw up a plan to prevent and contain any possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which is currently sweeping West Africa, the country’s Public Health Institute said. “A national committee is set up to design a guideline enabling to prevent Ebola,” institute spokesperson
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Anadolu Agency ADDIS ABABA-Ethiopia has set up a national committee to draw up a plan to prevent and contain any possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which is currently sweeping West Africa, the country’s Public Health Institute said. “A national committee is set up to design a guideline enabling to prevent Ebola,” institute spokesperson
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BBC A Ugandan man who was seeking asylum in the US in 2010 because of Uganda’s stance towards homosexuality Some gay Ugandans have fled the country, saying they are being persecuted Uganda’s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed by MPs in December
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BBC A Ugandan man who was seeking asylum in the US in 2010 because of Uganda’s stance towards homosexuality Some gay Ugandans have fled the country, saying they are being persecuted Uganda’s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed by MPs in December
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NBC Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese mom who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, arrived Thursday in the U.S. after an international campaign to save her. Ibrahim, 27, landed at the Manchester, New Hampshire, airport shortly after 8 p.m. ET, with her husband, Daniel Wani, and their children, Martin and Maya,
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WHO Key facts Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%. EVD outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests. The virus is transmitted to people from wild
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BBC Sierra Leone’s president has declared a public health emergency to curb the deadly Ebola outbreak. Ernest Bai Koroma said the epicentres of the outbreak in the east would be quarantined and asked the security forces to enforce the measures. The UN says 729 people in West Africa have died of Ebola since February –
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