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Articles published since 12 March 2006

Somalia
 THOUSANDS FLEE MILITIA FIGHTING IN MOGADISHU
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10650.html

Uganda
TORTURE AND DISPLACEMENT STILL RAMPANT IN THE NORTH
Two million civilians have been driven from their homes by 20 years of armed 
conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan  government 
in Northern Uganda. 
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10649.html

Lesotho
OVC GUIDELINES OUT
The increasing rate at which children are being orphaned and abandoned in 
Lesotho has called for concerted action to regulate institutions that purport 
to be taking care of children
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10648.html

Cameroon
BIYA SUFFERS MALAISE IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA


http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10647.html

Kenya
LOOKING EAST
The holier than thou attitude of the Western powers is fast causing them 
friction on the African continent. Many of these countries tired of having 
democracy, corruption and good governance preached to them are turning mostly 
to China as a replacement of these traditional international relations
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10646.html

Sounthern Africa
ANTICIPATE A CHANGED AFRICA - VERRYN
As starvation tightens its grip across Zimbabwe, increasingly desperate exiles 
brave the crocodile-infested waters of the Limpopo to try their luck in South 
Africa.  Pregnant women and mothers with young children drag themselves to 
Johannesburg, where many of them appeal to the churches for safe haven.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10645.html

Uganda
 KAMPALA SLAMMED FOR 'MEDIA CRACKDOWN'
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10644.html

Benin
POLITICAL NEWCOMER IN LEAD IN FIRST ROUND OF PRESIDENTIAL POLL
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10643.html

Africa
JOY AS PHASE I MENINGITIS VACCINE TRIAL IS COMPLETED
Africans have a reason to smile following the announcement of a successful 
completion of Phase I clinical trial of a new conjugate vaccine against 
serogroup A meningococcus, a bacterium that causes deadly Meningitis 
epidemics and untold suffering in sub-Saharan Africa. 
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10642.html

Nigeria
RELIGIOUS KILLINGS CONTINUE UNABATED
Uneasy calm is returning to regions most affected by religious violence in 
February following the cartooning of Prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10641.html

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