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Alicia Keys performs during The Freedom Tour at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida - March 27, 2010
AIDS   Alicia Keys   Photos   Singer   Wikipedia: Alicia Keys		  Boston Herald 
Alicia Keys campaigns for HIV education
WASHINGTON — Alicia Keys says she wants to spark a global conversation about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The Grammy Award-winning singer says that when she traveled to Africa and India she felt... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
1/1/2012, New Year, Fireworks in KLCC, Malaysia.
Cape   Festival   Jazz   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: List of jazz festivals		  All About Jazz 
Cape Town Jazz Festival: Cape Town, South Africa, April 5-6, 2013
By DAN BILAWSKY, Dan Bilawsky Senior Contributor since 2010 Jazz fan, music educator and writer. Recent articles (568 total) Cape Town Jazz Festival: Cape Town, South Africa, April... Scratch Lenny... (photo: WN / Periasamy)
File - Peacekeepers in armoured vehicles from the UN’s mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), MONUSCO, are deployed to the town of Bunagana where heavy gun fights between Government FARDC forces and insurgent groups have pushed residents to flee toward the Ugandan border.  BBC News 
DR Congo: UN's failed illusion of security in the east
It was a familiar sight at Kanyaruchinya, just a few kilometres north of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: White armoured personnel carriers had taken up positions along the... (photo: UN / Sylvain Liechti)
Congo   Photos   UN   Violence   Wikipedia: Democratic Republic of the Congo
French President Francois Hollande greets well-wishers during his two-hour-long visit to Timbuktu, Mali, Saturday Feb. 2, 2013.  The New York Times 
French President Defends Mali War After Attacks
PARIS — France's president says his country must fight harder against terrorists in Africa, after two suicide bombings apparently staged by extremists angry over the French military intervention in... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)
France   Mali   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: Northern Mali conflict (2012–present)
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A bus carrying Palestinian passengers arrive from the Egyptian side as Egyptian soldiers guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2013. Egypt re-opened the border crossing on Wednesday five days after they sealed it of the abduction of seven security personnel. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN CNTV
Egypt reopens Gaza border crossing after soldiers released
GAZA, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian authorities reopened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip Wednesday after seven kidnapped Egyptian soldiers were released. "The... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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File - Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with former South African President Nelson Mandela in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 March, 2006. The Guardian
South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press= JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house,... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe)
Nelson Mandela   Photos   Politics   South Africa   Wikipedia: Nelson Mandela
People run away from tear gas during a demonstration against the deployment of 11,000 police and soldiers in the city of Kairouan, to prevent the ultraconservative Muslim group Ansar al-Shariah from holding its annual conference, Sunday May 19, 2013. The Daily Telegraph
Tunisian police clash with Salafists over banning of annual congress
Security forces and hardline Islamists fought street battles in Tunis on Sunday, with one protester killed and 15 policemen wounded, after the authorities banned the... (photo: AP / Amine Landoulsi)
Photos   Police   Protests   Tunisia   Wikipedia: Tunisian revolution
Rwanda President Paul Kagame speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning organized by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in central London Wednesday July 11, 2012. The Observer
Is Kagame Africa's Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda's tragic history?
Pressing the flesh: with Bill Clinton, who described Kagame as ‘one of the greatest leaders of our time’. Photograph: Ed Ou/Getty Images Paul Kagame is angrier than I've... (photo: AP / Carl Court)
Africa   Paul Kagame   Photos   Rwanda   Wikipedia: List of awards and honours bestowed upon Paul Kagame   Wikipedia: Paul Kagame
In this photo taken with a mobile phone, Tuesday, May. 7, 2013, soldiers and journalist looks at bodies of prison officials killed by Islamic extremist during heavy fighting in Bama, Nigeria. BBC News
Nigeria army's offensive to continue "as long as it takes"
Nigeria's army has vowed to continue its offensive against militants in the north-east "as long as it takes" to achieve its main objectives. Brig Gen Chris... (photo: AP / Abdukareem Haruna)
Military   Nigeria   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Boko Haram
US Navy 081008-N-1082Z-045 Pirates leave the merchant vessel MV Faina for the Somali shore Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 while under observation by a U.S. Navy ship BBC News
Seychelles cells: The Somali pirates jailed in paradise
There are more than 1,000 convicted Somali pirates in prisons around the world. Some of them end up in a UN-funded jail on the tiny island nation of Seychelles. The... (photo: Public Domain / BotMultichillT)
Photos   Pirates   Prison   Somalia   Wikipedia: Piracy in Somalia
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Nigerian Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru at the U.S. Department of State in Washington Kerry, in Africa, Presses Nigeria on Human Rights Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Guinean soldiers assisting police patrol the mostly Peul suburb of Bambeto in Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010, as groups of UFDG youth set up barricades. A de-facto curfew is in efffect in the area, residents staying inside, one day after it was announced that RPG candidate Alpha Conde had won Guinea's tense presidential election. Conde received 53.5 per cent of the 2.89 million ballots cast. His opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo, got 47.5 per cent of the votes. A total of 4.2 million citizens had registered to vote. At least five killed as Guinea protests escalate Reuters
Aids / HIV
We are in the big market of the capital Lome Togo, e, a country in West Africa. between BENIN, Burkina Faso and Ghana on the West Coast of Africa Nous sommes dans le grand marché de Lomé la capital e du Togo, un pays de l'Afrique de l'ouest. situe entre le BENIN , le burkina faso et le Ghana sur la cote ouest de l'Afrique une revendeuse d'eponge on wednesday, january 05, 2011. Africa has chance to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth Business Day
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Love Birds in a cage for sale Biodiversity: Unloved love birds The Hindu
Maize crop in a field - corn crop - agriculture Enslaved to maize: Why we need to re-think Malawi’s agricultural future The Independent
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File - Children at play at the Yida settlement in Unity state, in northern South Sudan, 12 March, 2013. Opened in 2011, Yida has over 70,000 refugees. Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees Voa News
A bus carrying Palestinian passengers arrive from the Egyptian side as Egyptian soldiers guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2013. Egypt re-opened the border crossing on Wednesday five days after they sealed it of the abduction of seven security personnel. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release The Guardian
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