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Ghanaian non-profit turns trash to exports - Environment
Ghanaian non-profit turns trash to exports - Environment

Posted in Environment / Nature by flow007 17 days ago (http://www.dw.de)

Pure water sachets came to West Africa 10 years ago. The half-liter bags sell for 2 euro cents, providing a cheap and clean source of water for many. But the solution to a water problem generated a trash problem in Ghana's capital, Accra. Along with other trash, the blue and white sachets litter the streets and clog sewage drains.
British architect Stuart Gold didn't want to accept the problem

Country: Ghana

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Mali: War Crimes by Northern Rebels - Human Rights Watch

Mali: War Crimes by Northern Rebels - Human Rights Watch

Posted in Human Rights by flow007 18 days ago (http://www.hrw.org)

Separatist Tuareg rebels, Islamist armed groups, and Arab militias who seized control of northern Mali in April 2012 have committed numerous war crimes, including rape, use of child soldiers, and pillaging of hospitals, schools, aid agencies, and government buildings, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today.
HRW also received credible information that Malian army soldiers have arbitrarily detained a

Country: Mali

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Ethiopia: Netizens Outraged as Ethiopia Steps Up Internet Censorship Global Voices
Ethiopia: Netizens Outraged as Ethiopia Steps Up Internet Censorship Global Voices

Posted in Human Rights by flow007 19 days ago (http://globalvoicesonline.org)

Ethiopian netizens are outraged and expressing their concern on different social media platforms as the Ethiopian government increasingly engages in blocking and surveillance of selected websites, blogs and Facebook pages. The report about Ethiopia’s authorities engaging in online censorship came about after all previously blocked websites and blogs became available for three successive days duri

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Egypt - The Drama of the Presidential Race

Egypt - The Drama of the Presidential Race

Posted in Politics by flow007 32 days ago (http://globalvoicesonline.org)

Hazem Salah Abou-Ismail, the Salafi cleric, is one of the candidates with the biggest chance of success. However, news came weeks ago that his mother might have US-American citizenship. The constitutional amendments made last year state that applicants cannot stand for presidential elections if at least one parent or spouse holds foreign nationality, Abou Ismail might be disqualified if this is p

Country: Egypt

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Biogas is Real – Africa Biogas Partnership Programme
Biogas is Real – Africa Biogas Partnership Programme

Posted in Technology / Science by flow007 33 days ago (http://africabiogas.org)

Biogas is generated through conversion of animal or human dung, within an air tight enclosure (digester or biogas plant) that does not let in oxygen, into combustible methane gas.

Lilian Lelei is an entrepreneur and a trained biogas mason. She sums up her engagement in three words, "biogas is real". Since 2005, Lilian started her own biogas construction company six years later employing four o

Country: Kenya

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South Sudan: Thousands of civilians fleeing for their lives with no aid, MSF medical facilities looted and damaged

South Sudan: Thousands of civilians fleeing for their lives with no aid, MSF medical facilities looted and damaged

Posted in Education / Health by flow007 136 days ago (http://www.msf.org)

Renewed inter-communal violence in Jonglei State, South Sudan, has forced thousands of families to flee into the bush. Two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical facilities have been targeted and the independent medical humanitarian organisation has had to temporarily suspend its much needed medical activities in Pibor County.

Country: South Sudan

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Police brutality in Egypt
Police brutality in Egypt

Posted in Video by flow007 151 days ago (https://www.youtube.com)

Egyptian police beating and kicking unarmed, peaceful demonstrators

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Carter Center: DRC Presidential Election Results Lack Credibility
Carter Center: DRC Presidential Election Results Lack Credibility

Posted in Politics by flow007 155 days ago (http://www.cartercenter.org)

The Carter Center finds the provisional presidential election results announced by the Independent National Election Commission (CENI) on Dec. 9 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to lack credibility. CENI results point to the re-election of incumbent President Joseph Kabila with 49 percent of the vote followed by Etienne Tshisekedi with 32 percent and Vital Kamerhe with 7.7 percent. Voter