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Mozambique government seizes land from peasants, partners with Brazilian agribusiness — Dec 4, 2014

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Worrisome development in Mozambique where the Frelimo government plans to transform small farms into big-scaled operations. The livelihoods of millions of small farmers could be threatened. Frelimo originally was a Marxist-Leninist party but adopted some democratic policies once it came in power. The party has ruled Mozambique for decades.

Ebola vaccine passes first safety hurdle — Dec 3, 2014

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An experiment vaccine against Ebola has produced promising results in its first safety trial in humans. The researchers are now hoping to run Phase II/III trials in west Africa to test the vaccine's effectiveness.

The candidate vaccine contains segments of Ebola genetic material from two strains of the virus – Sudan and Zaire – delivered by an adenovirus vector that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health in Maryland injected 20 healthy adults with the vaccine. The researchers found anti-Ebola antibodies in all 20 volunteers within four weeks of receiving the vaccine. Antibody levels were higher in the half of the group that received a larger vaccine dose.

Suicide Bomber Kills Nearly 50 at Nigerian High School — Nov 10, 2014

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A suicide attacker disguised as a student detonated a bomb at a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Monday morning, killing nearly 50 boys who were between 10 and 20 years old, officials and witnesses said.

Chinese officials caught smugging ivory in Tanzania — Nov 6, 2014

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BEIJING — When Chinese President Xi Jinping took a large government and business delegation to Tanzania on his inaugural trip abroad in March 2013, he took pains to emphasize that his country’s growing ties with Africa would benefit the people of the continent.

But even as he spoke in glowing terms about unity and cooperation, his entourage was busy buying up thousands of kilograms of illegal ivory, using the cover afforded by their official status to smuggle it home, an investigative report released Thursday alleges.

Such was the scale of the purchases that local prices in one market in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, doubled to $318 per pound during the president’s visit, according to “Vanishing Point: Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania’s Elephants,” released by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

The last kings of Africa — Oct 27, 2014

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Vienna-based photographer and art historian Alfred Weidinger has spent the past five years capturing the splendor of Africa's monarchies and tribal leaders for his photographic project, The Last Kings of Africa. The project is his attempt to capture the beauty and mystique of the region's most powerful sovereigns. So far he has photographed 220 tribal kings and leaders, with many more to go.

Eyewitness to Hell: Ebola in Liberia through the lens of a photographer — Oct 24, 2014

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Firsthand account of daily life in Liberia. The people live in fear for their lives while groups of local men undertake the thankless and dangerous task of body removal for the dead. This is a powerful, touching testimony.

With Aid Doctors Gone, Ebola Fight Grows Harder — Aug 16, 2014

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When people started dying of Ebola in Liberia, Clarine Vaughn faced a wrenching choice: Should she send home, for their own health and safety, four American doctors working for Heartt, the aid group she led there? Or should she keep them in the country without proper supplies or training to fight the virulent, contagious disease, which was already spreading panic?

After much agonizing, Ms. Vaughn, who lives in Liberia, pulled the doctors out and canceled plans to bring in more. The African physicians and nurses left behind told her they understood, but felt abandoned. They said, “We need you guys here,” she recalled.

Kenyan girls taken to remote regions to undergo FGM in secret - July 24, 2014

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Parents are taking their daughters to remote regions of Kenya to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in secret, according to the head of the country's new FGM prosecution unit.

Christine Nanjala, who has led a high-profile crackdown on the practice, said perpetrators were becoming increasingly difficult to catch as many moved underground to carry out the practice.

Chinese admit role in graft and poaching in Africa — July 14, 2014

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"China’s ambassador to Tanzania Lu Youqing has admitted that some Chinese nationals and companies engaged in corruption and illegal ivory trade in the country. He also voiced his concern about “shoddy” work done by Chinese contractors in road projects in some African countries. In an interview published by the South China Morning Post, the envoy expressed his disappointment over “bad habits” that tarnish China’s image in Tanzania and across the African continent."

Former Ivoirian President Stands Trial for Crimes Against Humanity — June 12, 2014

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Judges at the International Criminal Court say former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo will stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity.

The court's pre-trial chamber found "substantial grounds" to believe Gbagbo is responsible for acts of murder, rape and other crimes committed in Ivory Coast between December 2010 and April 2011.

Below the radar: How human rights abuses are being ignored in Tanzania — July 16, 2013

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This editorial decries judicial corruption in Tanzania and lists numerous examples to support its arguments.

Mali and the Africa Land Grab — Feb 24, 2013

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Journalists examine France's motives sending forces to intervene in Mali civil war. Examines the politics affecting land, water and food security. Drought, civil war, food security issues are contended by a number of international players including France, Libya, the USA, Mali, the Toureg separatists as well as Al Quaida.