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BURKINA FASO: Vital role for local food - IRIN
People loading therapeutic foods onto a truck in Burkina Faso. Aid workers say better use of local foods can help prevent malnutrition crises needing emergency response OUAGADOUGOU, 6 July 2010 (IRIN) - Local food ...

Niger, Burkino Faso take border dispute to court - AP - msnbc.com
West African neighbors Niger and Burkina Faso have asked the International Court of Justice to settle their disputed border. The two landlocked countries have signed an agreement in which they agree to implement the ...

BURKINA FASO: Boost for garden drip irrigation - Reuters AlertNet
OUAGADOUGOU, 26 July 2010 ( IRIN ) - It is raining in Burkina Faso - flooding in some areas - but aid workers and rural families are preparing for the dry season, when water shortages tend to kill off home gardens. Helen ...

AUC-NEPAD and Stakeholders Sign CAADP Compact Agreement with Burkina Faso - AllAfrica.com
The African Union Commission (AUC), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Development Partners and the Private Sector have signed a Comprehensive ...

BURKINA FASO: Hospital patients evacuated post-flooding - IRIN
Burkina Faso's main hospital, Yalgado Ouédraogo hospital, has shut down key wards and evacuated patients after 1 September flooding OUAGADOUGOU, 2 September 2009 (IRIN) - Flooding has affected an estimated 150,000 ...

A springtime for Burkina Faso’s press - Ethiopian Review
I will continue to relive for a long time August 5, 1960, the day Upper Volta, as Burkina Faso was then known, proclaimed independence from France! As a presenter of the newly founded national radio network, I was on the ...

West African neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso ask world court to settle their disputed border - Canada East
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - West African neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso have asked the International Court of Justice to settle their disputed border. The two landlocked countries have signed an agreement in ...

Burkina Faso and Niger refer border dispute to UN World Court - UN News Centre
21 July 2010 – The West African countries of Burkina Faso and Niger have submitted a dispute over their common border to the United Nations International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) as part of a wider agreement by the two ...

Inondations au Burkina: 14 morts et 31.000 sinistrés - Reliefweb.int
OUAGADOUGOU — Quatorze personnes sont mortes noyées et au moins 31.000 ont été sinistrées à la suite des inondations qui ont frappé la semaine dernière l'est et le centre-nord du Burkina Faso, selon un nouveau ...

Farmers and cattle herders in Burkina Faso find a middle way - The Guardian
Nomadic ... Fulani herders are found all over Africa, an awkward minority whose existence is threatened by disputes over natural resources. Photograph: National Geographic The third seasonal rainstorm hit us as we drove ...

Pakistanis rush to scene: 'I just wanted to help'


French couple held after discovery of 8 dead babies

Police outside the home of a couple who was expected to appear in court Thursday after police found the corpses of eight newborn babies in their village in northern France.A French couple was expected to appear in court Thursday after police found the corpses of eight newborn babies in a village in northern France.




Germany charges man, 88, in Nazi-era murders

Polish soldiers holding eternal flames stand in front of a wall during the inauguration at the vast new memorial for the victims of the Belzec Nazi death camp in Belzec, Poland, on June 3, 2004. The world's third-most-wanted Nazi suspect has been charged in Germany with participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp and other crimes during the Third Reich, officials said Wednesday.




Oil tanker damaged; cause disputed

In this photo released by the Emirates News Agency (WAM), damage is seen on the side of the M. Star oil supertanker as it arrives at Fujairah port in the United Arab Emirates Wednesday.A Japanese shipping line raised alarm Wednesday when it said that one of its supertankers was damaged by an explosion in the Persian Gulf, but authorities on both sides of the tense waterway denied that any strike occurred.




Canadian man gets 11 years for sex tourism charges
A Canadian man who videotaped himself having sex with girls as young as eight in Cambodia and Colombia victimized the children, a judge ruled Wednesday in sentencing him to 11 years in prison.

US: Drills sent 'clear message' to NKorea

South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally against South Korea's joint military exercises with the United States near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. North Korea renewed its long-standing demand Wednesday that Washington abandon its "hostile policy" toward Pyongyang as the U.S. and South Korea held a fourth day of joint military drills. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)For four days, U.S. and South Korean troops fired artillery into the skies and dropped anti-submarine bombs on underwater targets — dramatic exercises meant to warn North Korea not to strike again.




'Emotional' reunion for Haiti quake baby, mom

Marie Miracle Seignon is reunited with her daughter Landina at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London six months after the baby was pulled from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake.A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti.




100 million Facebook users' details published online

Screen capture of Facebook directory downloadThe personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will no longer be able to make the information private.




Spanish region says adios to bullfighting

Lawmakers in Spain's Catalonia region -- home to Barcelona -- have voted to ban bullfighting.  Catalonia is the first mainland region to do so; fights in other regions, such as the April 4 on seen here in Madrid, will not be affected.Lawmakers in Spain's Catalonia region outlawed bullfighting Wednesday, becoming Spain's first mainland region to do so after a heated debate that pitted animal rights against tradition.




Medvedev widens powers of KGB successor agency
Russia has broadened the authority of the Federal Security Service, the KGB's main successor agency, giving it Soviet-style repressive powers in a move critics say could be used to stifle protests and intimidate government opponents.

Four S. Africans to pay fine for racist video

South African former university students, from left, Johnny Roberts, Schalk van der Merwe, RC Malherbe and Danie Grobler pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of humiliating black housekeepers in a video.Four white South African men reached a deal on Wednesday to pay fines for making a video showing elderly black cleaners being humiliated, including by drinking what was apparently urine-tainted soup.




Tanzania to hang blood-drinking killer of albino girl
A man has been sentenced death by hanging for killing a five-year-old albino girl in Tanzania by hacking off her legs with a machete and then drinking her blood, media reported on Wednesday.

Pakistan jet crash kills all 152 on board
A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan's capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and scattering body parts and twisted metal far and wide.

Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered

This 1851 illustration shows the HMS Investigator on the north coast of Baring Island in the Arctic. Arctic archaeologists have found the ship that forged the final link in the Northwest Passage and was lost in the search for the Franklin expedition. Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.



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