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Africa

A community portal about Africa with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km including adjacent islands, it covers... [more]

A community portal about Africa with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km including adjacent islands, it covers 6.0% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area. With more than 890,000,000 people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14% of the world's human population.

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The 26 African countries participating in the meeting include Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea-Conakry, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Lesotho, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique ...  
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Johannesburg — The credibility of the world's "blood diamond" monitoring group has been damaged after its failure this week to suspend Zimbabwe despite overwhelming evidence of serious human rights abuses and smuggling in the Marange diamond fields ...  
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Investigators for the world's diamond control body say the gems were mined by virtual slaves who had been told to dig or die, and were smuggled out by soldiers who rape and beat civilians. Yet the Kimberley Process, the ...  
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QUITO, Ecuador--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The massive oil contamination for which Chevron faces a potential $27 billion liability in Ecuador’s courts is a “clear violation” of the rights of indigenous peoples to life, security, and self-determination, said Kerry Kennedy, a human rights advocate and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, in an opinion piece posted on the Huffington Post this week. Kennedy recently visited an area of Ecuador which...  
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JOHANNESBURG (Commodity Online): Zimbabwe’s bad reputation as a blood diamond source has sullied the entire Africa’s image with global media reporting that the entire African region is under scanner by the Kimberley Process. Last week several ...  
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