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All Bark No Bite: SADC Summit Leaders fail to Confront Mugabe:
Heads of State and foreign ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) met on August 21 for the 31st Ordinary Summit for SADC heads of State and Government, in Luanda Angola. The purpose...
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Soccer Legends Raise Money for Victims of Food Crisis in East Africa:
Last week Tuesday football legends held a charity match to raise money for the many people starving in Northern Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. The match was organized in response to Oxfam’s...
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Will Somalia Survive as a Nation State?: An Analysis of the Crisis in Somalia
For many years now Somalia has been on a steadfast decline since it was thrust into anarchy in 1991, and by anyone’s reckoning, the severity of the current tragedy has been aggravated by the...
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The African Union Calls Pledging Summit to Help Victims of Famine
A report by BBC News said the African Union has announced it is to hold a summit meeting to pledge help for the victims of Somalia’s drought. Twelve million people are at risk of starvation and in...
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Air Bridge Opened in Somalia
Last week, the first UN World Food Program aircraft arrived in the capital of Somalia with 14,000 tons of food on board. In two regions of the country, there has a famine triggered by drought, civil war...
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West African Countries Increasingly Emerging as a Drug Trafficking Hub
Drug traffickers faced with limitations to transit routes through Asia and the Middle East are turning to Africa as a prime location for illicit activities, causing instability and an increase in substance...