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Oprah’s African School for Girls
(Photo) Uptownmagazine.com In all the world there is perhaps no more recognizable champion for the underdog than Oprah Winfrey. She has made a career out of being an understanding, sympathetic...
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Young Congo Entrepreneur Tackles Youth Unemployment
By Lauri Elliott (Africa Good news) As the issue of youth unemployment has grabbed the attention of major international and African institutions this year, who are still looking for solutions to the...
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Kenyan schools re-open after teacher-strike deal
Kenyan schools have re-opened following a three-week strike by teachers after a deal was agreed to raise salaries. The government had threatened to sack them all last Friday when they rejected a pay...
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Deadly Kenya grenade attack hits children in church
Witnesses said they believed the grenade was thrown into the building from outside, and police said some of the injuries might have been caused in the ensuing stampede. One child has been killed and...
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Solutions sought to end use of kerosene lamps
Over time, the saving of $2 a week will pay for the installation of solar equipment. by James Melik Reporter, Business Daily, BBC World Service Once a week Badriya walks six miles from her village...
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South Africa’s textbook scandal
South Africa’s Basic Education Department is in court once again, accused of failing to deliver textbooks to school children in Limpopo, the country’s northernmost province. In a country where the...
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Africa’s bright future
I have been working on Africa since the 1970s, and now, as I leave the BBC, I look at the continent of my birth and see a brighter future than at any time I can remember. Johannesburg, June 1976. I...
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Sierra Leone whiz kid builds own radio station
by John Roach, NBC News Kelvin Doe’s neighborhood in Sierra Leone has power lines, but they seldom deliver electricity. So, the 16-year-old whiz kid built his own battery out of acid, soda, and metal...
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Mars meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ is in a class of its own
The rock was picked up in 2011 by Jonathan Amos Science corresponden, BBC A dark lump of rock found in the Moroccan desert in 2011 is a new type of Martian meteorite, say scientists. Weighing 320g,...
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London Couple Creates Black Dolls For Their Daughters To Maintain African...
by Terrell Jermaine Starr, NewsOne Chris and Ada Ngoforo, a Nigerian a couple living in London, grew so frustrated trying to find dolls that look like their young daughters that they decided to take...
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DR Congo unrest: Children freed from militia, says UN
The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says that 82 children – some as young as eight – have been rescued from an armed group. Monusco says the children, including 13 girls, had been...
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Fla. Teen Becomes Youngest Person Ever To Pass UK Bar Exam
Jul 31, 2013 By D.L. Chandler Florida Teenager Gabrielle Turnquest has a habit of breaking scholastic records. After becoming the youngest person to graduate from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.,...
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Saving Girls: Kakenya Ntaiya Is a CNN Hero
Kakenya Ntaiyacnn.com Serra Sippel-President, Center for Health and Gender Equity Pilot. Doctor. Teacher. These are the answers given by girls at Kakenya’s Center for Excellence in the tiny, rural...
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Why Africa’s Y! Generation Has Refused to Give Up
www.ynaija.com Chude Jideonwo You wouldn’t think it looking up at the endless commercials on CNN – Malawi as a new tourist destination, Uganda as a hot spot for business expansion and Nigeria with...
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Sierra Leone whiz kid builds own radio station
by John Roach, NBC News Kelvin Doe’s neighborhood in Sierra Leone has power lines, but they seldom deliver electricity. So, the 16-year-old whiz kid built his own battery out of acid, soda, and metal...
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Mars meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ is in a class of its own
The rock was picked up in 2011 by Jonathan Amos Science corresponden, BBC A dark lump of rock found in the Moroccan desert in 2011 is a new type of Martian meteorite, say scientists. Weighing 320g,...
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London Couple Creates Black Dolls For Their Daughters To Maintain African...
by Terrell Jermaine Starr, NewsOne Chris and Ada Ngoforo, a Nigerian a couple living in London, grew so frustrated trying to find dolls that look like their young daughters that they decided to take...
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DR Congo unrest: Children freed from militia, says UN
The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says that 82 children – some as young as eight – have been rescued from an armed group. Monusco says the children, including 13 girls, had been...
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Fla. Teen Becomes Youngest Person Ever To Pass UK Bar Exam
Jul 31, 2013 By D.L. Chandler Florida Teenager Gabrielle Turnquest has a habit of breaking scholastic records. After becoming the youngest person to graduate from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.,...
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Saving Girls: Kakenya Ntaiya Is a CNN Hero
Kakenya Ntaiyacnn.com Serra Sippel-President, Center for Health and Gender Equity Pilot. Doctor. Teacher. These are the answers given by girls at Kakenya’s Center for Excellence in the tiny, rural...
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