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Nigerian rebels threaten 'all-out oil war'Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 A 10-week-old leadership crisis that has paralyzed government lies behind a threat by southern rebels to not only resume their war against Africa's largest oil industry but expand it with an "all-out onslaught" in which "nothing will be spared." Worse, the power vacuum caused by the absence of President Uramu Yar'Adua, who has been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia with heart problems since Nov. 23, threatens to rekindle the traditional rivalry between the Muslim-dominated north and the mainly Chris ... read more |
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Panama City (AFP) Jan 27, 2010The massive relief effort in quake-ravaged Haiti is one of the biggest in the 150-year history of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Wednesday. In two weeks, the IFRC has distributed 2.5 million liters (660,000 gallons) of water, 550 tonnes of medical supplies - all transported in 43 chartered flights - and fielded 21 emergency teams in ... more 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 28, 2010Former US president Bill Clinton launched an appeal for Haiti quake victims Thursday as doctors marveled at a girl's miracle recovery after 15 days buried in the rubble without food or water. Clinton urged global corporate bosses at the World Economic Forum in Davos to use the catastrophe which killed around 170,000 people as an opportunity to lift the devastated Caribbean nation out of gene ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 26, 2010The emergency medical period in Haiti will probably last another three months as many of the wounded will need regular care for some time, a leading US surgeon said Tuesday. The emergency phase will be "probably two to three months," said Chris Jobe, the head of orthopedic surgery at Loma Linda University of southern California. Volunteer doctors have treated thousands of people since th ... more |
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Rights group slams China firm over DR Congo workersKinshasa (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 A Chinese construction group is inflicting "unacceptable" working conditions on its Congolese labourers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a leading African human rights group charged Monday. It said workers were employed without contracts, hours were not respected, salaries were paid at less than the official rate, people were unfairly fired and there was no security and little medical care. The construction group, China Railway Engineering Corporation (Crec), was slammed by the African Assoc ... read more |
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