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31.01.2008 Learning About Living, an innovative program run by OneWorld and local organizations in Nigeria, uses computers and mobile phones to teach teenagers about sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention.

31.01.2008 A change of direction is needed in Afghanistan to avert a humanitarian disaster, a leading international charity warned world leaders today, as another report said six years of international engagement was under threat and the country was at a crossroads.

31.01.2008 Nearly nine in 10 corporations do not rate it as a priority, says the study, which canvassed more than 500 businesses in Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, India and China.
From: A World To Win

30.01.2008 Thousands of streetchildren are caught up in Kenya's post-election violence, according to a consortium of British charities who say they are totally overwhelmed by events.
From Consortium for streetchildren

30.01.2008 Landmine clearance in Sri Lanka since the Mines Advisory Group restarted operations there in September 2007 will allow more then 30,000 internally displaced persons to return to their communities, the organisation said.

30.01.2008 News at last of Eritrean journalist Seyoum Tsehaye, who is being held in cell 10, block A01 of the secret prison camp, Eiraeiro. And with the sighting comes more details of the prison.
OneWorld Guide to Eritrea

30.01.2008 The "U.N. Security Council (UNSC) is set to lose its credibility once again as it prepares to impose a third set of sanctions on Iran while failing to pass any strictures on Israel for its continued heavy-handed repression of Palestinians in Gaza," says a research organization focused on the Middle East.

30.01.2008 Chadian President Idriss Deby has affirmed that nearly half of the 180,000 displaced people in Chad will return to their homes by July. Local and UN officials believe this may be possible if security requirements are met.

30.01.2008 Mozambique could face a massive food crisis later in the year unless action is taken to support farmers hit by the continuing floods, an international anti-poverty charity said today.

30.01.2008 Nurhikma, 8 years old, and 3,000 other Filipino children from war torn areas in Mindanao, the Philippines recently participated in four days of fun activities for kids, a program coordinated by local and regional actors.

30.01.2008 Statement by women's organisations on the post-election crisis in Kenya.
From Pambazuka news

30.01.2008 A clearly-written guide to carbon capping has been released for free Internet distribution.
From: OnTheCommons.org

30.01.2008 The Africa Command (Africom) - the US military command headquarters for Africa - infringes on the sovereignty of the continent's states, say Mark P Fancher, Jeffrey L Edison and Ajamu Sankofa.
From Pambazuka News

29.01.2008 The UN refugee agency has asked donors to contribute $90 million for programmes to assist millions of internally displaced people during the coming year.

29.01.2008 Voting has begun to determine the winner of OneWorld's Person of the Year award from eight finalists working to promote human rights and prosperity around the world.

29.01.2008 After much speculation, the deputy leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, Vincent Otti, is confirmed dead. Observers maintain that Otti's absence will pose a serious obstacle to peace talks launched Monday between the rebel groups and the Ugandan government.

29.01.2008 With government-opposition talks organised by former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan due to take place in Kenya today, an MP of the Orange Democratic Movement was shot dead and two Kenyan military helicopters opened fired above a crowd threatening members of the Luo tribe sheltering at a police post.
+ Paralysis as roads cut off in fresh violence

29.01.2008 Three staff members of a leading medical charity have been killed in the Somali town of Kismayo.
+ Ban Ki-moon deplores killings

29.01.2008 Listen to Chalmers Johnson, whose most recent books focus on the American empire: Blowback, The Sorrows of Empireand now Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.

29.01.2008 A leading conservation group has called on more retailers to boycott Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna until the imperilled species is out of danger.