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Love Birds in a cage for sale
Biodiversity   Birds   Love   Photos   Wikipedia: Love Birds
 The Hindu 
Biodiversity: Unloved love birds
I was in Nagpur last week. I was told of an illegal bird market and so I went on Sunday morning. I saw hundreds of small cages with budgerigars and pigeons in them. Of course the team of People for... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
First lady Michelle Obama speaks during the Kids' Inaugural: Our Children. Our Future." event in Washington
Culture   Education   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Michelle Obama
 Newstrack India 
US First Lady laments culture of African Americans aspiring to be 'baller or rapper'
Tweet Washington, May 18 (ANI): Michelle Obama urged graduates of Bowie State University to encourage more young African Americans to follow in their footsteps and focus on education. On Friday, she... (photo: AP / Frank Franklin II)
ay Jan. 9, 2009 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attends the "New World, New Capitalism" conference in Paris.  Reuters 
Liberia's Johnson-Sirleaf defends governance record
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency, following an independent audit that cast doubt on her... (photo: AP / Francois Mori)

Africa   Corruption   Liberia   Photos   Wikipedia: Liberia
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with Mr. Albert Gerard Koenders, incoming Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire  Baltimore Sun 
U.N. chief appoints former Dutch minister to head Mali mission
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former Dutch development minister Albert Gerard Koenders as U.N. special envoy for Mali and head of the U.N.... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)

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Chadian President Idriss Deby (ayt1) Baltimore Sun
Chad seeks arrest of exiled president's allies
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad has charged four allies of the country's former president with human rights abuses and issued warrants for their arrest, a senior government... (photo: AP Photo / Jerome Delay)
Arrest   Chad   Hissene Habre   Photos   Wikipedia: Hissène Habré
Palestinians Hamas security guard during searching cars near the border between Egypt and Gaza strip in Rafah town southern Gaza strip on, 06 August 2012. Reports state that at least five gunmen were killed after they tried to infiltrate into Israel from Egypt, the Israeli military said Monday, shortly after killing 16 Egyptian security forces in an attack on a Sinai checkpoint. Another seven Egyptians were wounded in the initial attack, when the militants opened fire on the checkpoint and commandeered vehicles during a Ramadan fast in Rafah. Having hijacked the vehicles, they raced to the nearby Kerem Shalom.Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN The Guardian
Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap
ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press= RAFAH, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian security official says policemen at the country's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip have closed the... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Egypt   Gaza   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Rafah
Donor conference amasses 3.25 bln euros for rebuilding Mali CNTV
Donor conference amasses 3.25 bln euros for rebuilding Mali
BRUSSELS, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The international donors made a decision to mobilize 3.25 billion euro in supporting Mali's reconstruction, said a press release issue by the... (photo: European Community / EC)
Brussels   Conference   Mali   Photos   Wikipedia: Mali
white platinum jewellary Business Day
Platinum industry faces a new time bomb
Related articles Thinking in the same old way will not rescue the platinum industry Mining in Africa is not a ‘sunset industry’ Related multimedia Platinum mining and... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Industry   Mining   Photos   Platinum   Wikipedia: Platinum
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Johannesburg aerial view looking towards the south-east. Johannesburg is located in the eastern plateau area of South Africa known as the Highveld, at an elevation of 1,753 meters (5,751 ft). Tourism Indaba to focus on AfricaIndependent online (SA)
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Ben Affleck, actor and founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, listens to testimony during the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the evolving security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. TOMS and Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative collaboration The Examiner
Elephantine (Arabic: جزيرة الفنتين‎) is an island in the River Nile, located just downstream of the First Cataract at the southern border of Ancient Egypt. This region is referred to as Upper Egypt because the land is higher than that near the Mediterranean coast. The lure of natural chaos Stuff
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Mali offered more than €3bn in aid – with strings attached Mali offered more than €3bn in aid – with strings attached The Guardian
Former Dutch minister Koenders to be named UN Mali envoy, say diplomats Former Dutch minister Koenders to be named UN Mali envoy, say diplomats Business Day
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Algeria Egypt
- UN adds French Polynesia to decolonisation list
- Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
- Algeria’s aging regime, restive youth makes for a volatile p
- >Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
- Abdelkader and International Humanitarian Law
- Vimpelcom plans to delist Orascom stock-sources
Poster of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the suburbs of Algiers during 2009 presidential elections (massive fraud contested)
Algeria president sent to Paris after mini-stroke
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- Family of British girl, 5, who drowned in Egyptian hotel poo
- Egypt's opposition attacks Brotherhood-backed NGO draft law
- Violence erupts at Cairo protest calling on Morsi to resign
- These Are The International Social Networks Closing In On Fa
- Young British girl drowns at Egyptian resort
- Where were the lifeguards? Family of London five-year-old wh
The Burghers of Calais. A 1962 sculpture show at New York's Guggenheim Museum awakened an international art community to the breadth of Hirshhorn's holdings.
The world's best museums: a guide
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Kenya Nigeria
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- Player Ratings: Borussia Monchengladbach 3-4 Bayern Munich
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- Rwenzori Remains Focused
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Bayern's head coach Jupp Heynckes gestures during the Group A Champions League soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Manchester City in Munich, southern Germany, on Tuesday , Sept. 27, 2011.
Borussia Monchengladbach-Bayern Munich Preview: Heynckes bows out in familiar surroundings
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- 24-hour curfew in Nigeria city in military push
- Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city
- Nigeria Imposes Curfew in Military Campaign
- Nigeria’s offensive against Boko Haram continues with more k
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- Nigeria army imposes curfew in Maiduguri
File - In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 photo taken with a mobile phone, a police officer walks past a burnt out shopping mall in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Nigerian soldiers angry about the killing of an officer razed buildings and shot dead more than 30 civilians Monday in a northeastern city long under siege by a radical Islamist sect.
Boko Haram holds Nigeria to ransom
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South Africa Sudan
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- Weinstein Company shows off scenes from ‘Grace,’ ‘Mandela,’
- First 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' Poster, Starring Idris
- Guptagate points to lack of accountability
- China Exclusive: Sino-Egyptian economic zone attracts more i
- The Weinstein Company's Cannes Films Include Stories Of Grac
In this image taken from video, South African President Jacob Zuma, centre left, sits with the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela, centre right, is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, with unidentified members of his family and his medical team as they pose together more than three weeks after Mandela was released from hospital. Mandela was treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection.
Mandela Fades Amid Battles Over Who Will Claim Legacy
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- UN Agency Prepositions for Darfur Refugees in Chad Ahead of
- South Sudan town 'trashed by army'
- Sudans defuse row over rebel support, promise more talks
- Violence in South Sudan Town Shuts Down Hospital
- Gyms take off in Sudan for first time as women fight back ag
- Liberia Elected to African Political Parties Council
Dominique Strauss-Khan (left), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), flanked by Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairman of the Commission of the African Union, addresses Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Africa Steering Group press conference.
South Sudan Could be Africa Powerhouse: ex-IMF head
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