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** FILE ** Exterior view of the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, seen in a March 16, 2003 file photo.
Crimes   Egypt   Health   Photos   Society  
 IRINnews 
EGYPT: Controversial organ transplant bill welcomed by WHO
web | Photo: COFS CAIRO, 7 February 2010 (IRIN) - A controversial organ transplant bill expected to become law in the next few weeks could regularize organ transplants and curb Egypt's booming illicit... (photo: AP / Keystone, Fabrice Coffrini)
A group of rebel soldiers, working with Congo's army following a recent split in Laurent Nkunda's rebel movement, pass through a government checkpoint just outside Goma, Congo, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
Congo   Desert   Fighting   Photos   Rebels  
 Seattle Times 
One by one, rebels desert from army in Congo
KIMUA, Congo - | The young man had been fighting in the rebel movement for 11 years when a piece of paper fell from the sky and fluttered down onto the jungle floor. | When he was sure no one was look... (photo: AP / T.J. Kirkpatrick)
Odile Nibizi and Annabella Nshimirimana: Many women in Bujumbura Rurale were forced into war. Others who stayed in the villages ended up performing chores either for the army or the FNL  IRINnews 
BURUNDI: Female ex-combatants picking up the pieces
web | BUJUMBURA, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) and knew how to kill in battle. | "... (photo: IRIN News / Judith Basutama)
Africa   Bujumbura   Burundi   Photos   Society  
Mohammed al-Khouli, 9, in a technology class at al-Mu'tasem Elementary School in Gaza City  IRINnews 
OPT: Gaza schoolchildren struggling to learn
web | Photo: Suhair Karam/IRIN GAZA, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Nearly half a million children in Gaza returned to overcrowded and dilapidated schools on 1 February, many attending in a shift system, wi... (photo: IRIN News / : Suhair Karam)
Children   Education   Gaza   Photo   Photos  
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Unemployment tops 37 percent and is widely seen as driving Yemens multiple security crises and instability IRINnews
Analysis: Yemen's rebellions fuelled by economic meltdown
web | Photo: Hugh Macleod/IRIN SANAA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) - From the Shiite rebellion in Saada in the north to the surge of secessionist movement in the south and the ... (photo: IRIN News / Hugh Macleod)
Economy   Photo   Photos   Sanaa   Yemen  
A young boy at the Zam Zam camp for Internally Displaced Persons, in the Darfur region of Sudan. BBC News
Analysis: Defining genocide
| The International Criminal Court (ICC) will once again consider whether to bring genocide charges against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. | He is accused of backing p... (photo: UN file / Eskinder Debebe)
Genocide   Justice   Photos   Sudan   UN  
Francine Nijimbere: Her husband cut off her arms in 2008, Burundi IRINnews
BURUNDI: Francine Nijimbere, "I'm like a babyâEuro¦ I am helpless"
web | BUJUMBURA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - When her husband cut off her arms in 2008 for giving birth only to girls, life changed drastically for Francine Nijimbere. | She... (photo: IRIN News / Judith Basutama)
Africa   Burundi   Human Rights   Photos   Women  
Over 150,000 people have fled to the neighbouring Republic of Congo since October 2009 when fighting erupted between two clans in Equateur Province (file photo) IRINnews
DRC-CONGO: Of fish wars and displacement
web | KINSHASA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Rival ethnic communities in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed many times over the years, but most recently o... (photo: IRIN News / Laudes Martial Mbon)
Africa   Conflict   Fish   Kinshasa   Photos  
Politics & Government Business & Economy
- Chad's president makes rare visit to Sudan to ease tensi
- Chad's president makes rare visit to Sudan to ease tensi
- OPT: Building back in Gaza - with mud bricks
- Chad president visits Sudan amidst warming ties
WEST & CENTRAL AFRICA: Communities on the edge
WEST & CENTRAL AFRICA: Communities on the edge
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- Congo lifts copper export ban
- Finance Minister Calls for Dev't Partners' Support
- Country to Import More Fingerlings From Uganda
- Hon. Ketcha Donates Helmets to Bike Riders
Unemployment tops 37 percent and is widely seen as driving Yemens multiple security crises and instability
Analysis: Yemen's rebellions fuelled by economic meltdown
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Human Rights Legal Affair & Crime
- Chad's leader travels to Sudan to smooth relations
-  Engonga fired for alleged coup plan
- Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Ass
- Congo conflict: 'The Terminator' lives in luxury whi
A young boy at the Zam Zam camp for Internally Displaced Persons, in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Analysis: Defining genocide
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- DRC: Security beefed up for North Kivu IDPs
- Battle Against Loans Sharks Rests With Banks
- EGYPT: Controversial organ transplant bill welcomed by WHO
- Paper falls from sky bearing good news for Congo rebels: It&
** FILE ** Exterior view of the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, seen in a March 16, 2003 file photo.
EGYPT: Controversial organ transplant bill welcomed by WHO
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Aids & Malaria Religion
- Global Fund Commits $400 Million to Fight Aids,TB
- Best for the wild at heart: South Africa
- Church Leaders Campaign for Condom Use
- Binagwaho Cautions On Sex Workers' Rights
Lesbian couple Bathini Dambuza, left, and Lindiwe Radebe, right, show off their engagement rings as they pose for a photograph on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006. Dambuza and Radebe, who have been engaged for a year, want to take their relationship to the natural next step and get married after the the South African parliament approved new legislation recognizing gay marriages, in an unprecedented move on a continent where homosexuality is taboo. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell) arried after the The South African parliament approved new legislation recognizing gay marriages.
Letters: Homosexuality in Africa
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- Man Maimed for Stealing Church Offerings
- Bamenda Mobilized to Standby Catholic University Project
- Vatican: Rwanda bishop has resigned
- Pope Appoints New Ambassador for Cameroon and Equatorial Gui
An Iraqi policeman secures an area near a polling station in Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 30, 2009, before the country's provincial election in Kadhimiya.
IRAQ: Sectarian tension ahead of polls threatens "humanitarian crisis" - analysts
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