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<title>EIN News: West Africa Government &amp; Politics News</title>
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<title>&apos;Tireless and self-effacing&apos; Ahtisaari wins Nobel prize</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192556860</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  achievements range from helping end apartheid South Africa&apos;s control of Namibia and steering the country  ...  worked with Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Russian prime minister, to negotiate an end to the Kosovo  ...  with the Namibian guerrillas of the South West Africa People&apos;s Organisation before being made UN commissioner  ...
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<title>Developing nations face financial crises</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192551402</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:20 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in IDA funding for food projects in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Malawi, Burundi and Togo and  ...  India, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.&quot; Mr Zoellick warned that the financial events  ...
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<title>Seven doctors undergo training in psychiatry</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192551397</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:20 GMT</pubDate>
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...  time in the history of psychiatry in Ghana, as many as seven doctors are undergoing  ...  nurses to mental health. We urge the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service to  ...  Kertesz noted that many families in the African sub-region considered mental problems as the preserve  ...
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<title>Odinga slams African leaders&apos; fear of criticising each other</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192551122</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, on Thursday condemned African leaders&apos; fear of criticising each other, saying  ...  a silver jubilee lecture for one of Nigeria&apos;s major dailies, the Guardian. The Kenyan premier,  ...  Africa&apos;s hot spots such as Darfur and Somalia. &quot;The AU needs to be more engaged,&quot;  ...
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<title>Conflict Resolution Marked Career of Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192544332</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  whole transition to peace in Namibia, in south-west Africa in the late 1980s,&quot; he said. &quot;He  ...  a school teacher before joining Finland&apos;s Foreign Ministry in 1965. He was a senior Finnish  ...
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<title>Global market update: Johann Rupert &apos; chairman, Richemont</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192537083</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  up in the next half hour, South Africa&apos;s leading business man will offer his perspective  ...  outlook is rosier, and Angola to surpass Nigeria as Africa&apos;s biggest pumper of oil. The  ...  me it is the reaction of the voters. And ultimately my big fear is what&apos;s  ...
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<title>Dogs of War: A big step for accountability</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192534277</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  armed conflict. The document was signed by Afghanistan, Angola, Australia, Austria, Britain, Canada, China, France,  ...  France, Germany, Iraq, Poland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States.  ...  headquartered, also must be included. Finally, Angola, Sierra Leone and South Africa were all countries that  ...
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<title>Intergovernmental Group Of Twenty-Four On International Monetary Affairs And Development Communiqu(C)</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192533388</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  strongly endorsed an additional Chair for Sub-Saharan Africa at the World Bank Group&apos;s Board by  ...  Ethiopia; Herv Nz Nong, Gabon; Paul Acquah, Ghana; Chukwuma Soludo, Nigeria; Trevor Manuel, South Africa. Asian Group :  ...
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<title>Excess baggage</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192533382</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  been abandoned to Asian, Middle Eastern and African immigrants and drug-users. Those few Greeks who  ...  representation in Greece: Somalia for the Africans, Afghanistan or Palestine for Middle Easterners. They ask  ...  trafficking networks that stretch from Bangladesh and West Africa to Istanbul, Berlin and London. More stringent  ...
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<title>Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192529657</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  country through a decade of negotiations between South-West Africa People&apos;s Organization (SWAPO) guerrillas and the South  ...  core of Kosovo&apos;s constitution and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told the Associated Press that  ...
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<title>Killing Malarial Mosquitoes Now</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192529517</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  knew this preventable disease was killing an African child every 30 seconds  a million  ...  net distribution efforts, a survey by the Mali health ministry found that 51% of young children had  ...
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<title>Odinga identifies bane of democracy in Africa</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192528068</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:25 GMT</pubDate>
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... Odinga identifies bane of democracy in Africa Odinga identifies bane of democracy in Africa Lagos, Nigeria - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has identified corruption, ethnicism, weak leadership and non-participatory electoral process as the  ...
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<title>Weekly Africa column By Dr. Wolfgang Thome</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192527395</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:24 GMT</pubDate>
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... Weekly Africa column By Dr. Wolfgang Thome By Dr.  ...  times a week from Addis to the West African destination, using a B757 aircraft. The flights  ...  be said about the political situation in Somalia, where since the overthrow of the former  ...
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<title>Oakwood author puts pen to work for Christian love in &apos;Honorable Deception&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192527272</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:24 GMT</pubDate>
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...  quandary. He is supposed to go to Togo, Africa, where Germans are developing the country into  ...  until they are properly married. Wolfgang Gunther, deputy of Lord Hempleman, is &quot;frothing at the  ...
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<title>Country Ranked As Emerging Economy By IMF</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192523848</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 19:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a select group of countries - including Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Uganda - to  ...  of these countries along with Botswana and Nigeria should enable them to weather the current  ...  that the very conservative nature of the African banking system should ensure that Kenya and  ...
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