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NDJAMENA, 12 May 2008 (IRIN) - Chad's government has denied allegations made by neighbouring Sudan that it backed rebels who raided the Sudanese capital Khartoum on 10 May. (IRIN)

GARISSA, 12 May 2008 (IRIN) - Muslim leaders in Kenya's North Eastern Province have resolved to campaign against the promotion of condoms as a means of preventing HIV. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 12 May 2008 (IRIN) - Representatives of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and an Eritrea-based opposition alliance were gathered in Djibouti on 12 May for peace talks, with the government expressing optimism about the outcome. (IRIN)

JUBA, 12 May 2008 (IRIN) - For years, Lole Laila Lole had to drink, cook with, and bathe in the dirty, contaminated water he fetched from the River Nile. "There was no other way," he told IRIN/PlusNews. (IRIN)

Africa must reduce the multiplicity of decision centres, 53 states, 53 ministers of finance, and interlocutors and integrate its development programmes for the continent to achieve meaningful development, the former World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, said at the weekend in Tunis. (webremix.info)

Civil society organisations have warned African Caribbean and Pacific, ACP, countries to resist Economic Partner Accords, EPAs, since they have failed to advance development in Africa. (webremix.info)

NDJAMENA, 9 May 2008 (IRIN) - Four troops from EUFOR, the European Union force in Chad, were arrested on 7 May by local authorities near the southern town of Moundou. They have not yet been released. (IRIN)

JOHANNESBURG, 9 May 2008 (IRIN) - "Eish, with ARVs [antiretrovirals], you get fat and you get old," a patient at Johannesburg Hospital recently told her doctor. (IRIN)

HARARE , 9 May 2008 (IRIN) - Hunger is giving a brutal edge to the alleged work of militias implementing Operation Mavhoterapapi (Who did you vote for?), a campaign launched by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government in the wake of the ruling party's loss of its parliamentary majority for the first time since independence in 1980. (IRIN)

KABEZI, 9 May 2008 (IRIN) - At least 20,000 people have fled their homes near the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, after fighting between the army and rebels, officials said on 9 May. (IRIN)

BANGUI, 9 May 2008 (IRIN) - The Central African Republic is striving to turn the page on decades of armed violence linked to mutinies, coups and attempted coups. Hundreds of thousands of civilians remain displaced, many of them unable, or too afraid, to farm their land. This is an overview of the various armed groups, government security forces and international military missions in the country. (IRIN)

ZIGUINCHOR, 9 May 2008 (IRIN) - After years of delays linked to instability in strife-torn Casamance, the government finally launched a landmine clearance programme in the region in February 2008, but lack of adherence to the 2004 peace accord is hampering progress. (IRIN)

ZIGUINCHOR, 9 May 2008 (IRIN) - Stéphanie Malak was injured by a landmine in 1998 when her village, was attacked, allegedly by rebels from the Movement for Democratic Change (MFDC), and then mined. She fled with her family to Ziguinchor where she is trying to make ends meet. She told IRIN her story. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 9 May 2008 (IRIN) - Unidentified gunmen killed an official of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Kenya's northwestern town of Lokichoggio on 7 May, in what the agency has described as the first killing of a WFP aid worker in the relief hub for Southern Sudan. (IRIN)

OUAGADOUGOU, 8 May 2008 (IRIN) - With an increased number of children living in the streets of urban areas in Burkina Faso, the government and several non-governmental organisations are coming up with new approaches to address the problem. (IRIN)

BELMOPAN, Belize: The Executive Director and the Senior Advisor of the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD), Jennifer Astaphan and Richard Maldavo respectively, visited Belize, ho... (webremix.info)

During the maiden African Water week conference in Tunis, Tunisia recently, African Development Bank President Dr Donald Kaberuka talked to Simon Kasyate on various economic and development issues. Excepts: (webremix.info)

President Yoweri Museveni attended the India/Africa Partnership Summit Forum in New Delhi, India, last week. He made the following speech on April 8: (webremix.info)

Developing economies now produce 41 percent of the world's output, up from 36 percent in 2000, according to the World Development Indicators 2008, released today. The combined output of the world's economies reached $59 trillion in 2006. Using new measurements that take into account the differences in price levels between countries, China now ranks as the second largest economy in the world, and 5 of the 12 largest economies are developing economies. Strong growth over the period has increased the shares of all developing regions except Latin America and the Caribbean, while the share of high-income economies fell by 5 percent. (webremix.info)

ZIGUINCHOR, 8 May 2008 (IRIN) - Armed men claiming to represent the rebel group Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) attacked twenty villagers from Tampe 15 km east of the regional capital Ziguinchor on 7 May and hacked each of their left ears with machetes, according to the victims and the Senegalese army. (IRIN)

COTONOU, 8 May 2008 (IRIN) - Twenty years ago Benin was among the countries in West Africa most affected by endemic river blindness. Today the disease, which causes blindness and chronic skin irritation and is blamed for stunting economic growth of the populations it affects, has been almost completely eradicated. (IRIN)

BOUAKE, 8 May 2008 (IRIN) - A straw hut in the courtyard of the Ariel Glaser Paediatric Centre in Bouake is filled with children of all ages playing or eating meals prepared by the centre's cook, all under the watchful eye of relatives. This special space for children infected or affected by HIV was set up in 2007 in response to growing demand. It is managed by the Centre for Solidarity and Social Action (CSAS), which provides HIV/AIDS care in Bouake, Cote D'Ivoire's second largest city, in the centre of the country. (IRIN)

BRAZZAVILLE, 8 May 2008 (IRIN) - Faced with the still pressing marginalisation of the indigenous Baka people, NGOs in Congo are implementing projects to improve living conditions in these communities. (IRIN)

Post Primary education in Africa should focus on the development of vocational and technical skills so that African youths can be employable and contribute to the development of their societies. (webremix.info)

In recognition of Earth Day, Africa Action today released a new resource entitled A Strategy of Extraction examining the oil industry in Africa using the case study of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. Because of poverty and geography, Africa will be disproportionately impacted by climate change. Africa Action urged leaders to prioritize sustainable, people-driven development in U.S.-Africa relations. (webremix.info)

MIAMI, FL, April 21, 2008. Miami-based Lionstone Development, L.L.C. through its affiliated companies, announced two new hotel acquisitions in the Caribbean, expanding the company's existing portfolio... (webremix.info)

MIAMI, FL, April 21, 2008. Miami-based Lionstone Development, L.L.C. through its affiliated companies, announced two new hotel acquisitions in the Caribbean, expanding the company's existing portfolio... (webremix.info)

MIAMI, FL, April 21, 2008. Miami-based Lionstone Development, L.L.C. through its affiliated companies, announced two new hotel acquisitions in the Caribbean, expanding the company's existing portfolio... (webremix.info)

AFRICA will not develop unless the political leaders give priority to the development of science and technology, the chairman of the Ghana Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, has said. (webremix.info)

MONROVIA, 7 May 2008 (IRIN) - The current police force in the Liberian capital Monrovia is unable to combat an increase in violent crime, according to a recent independent report and many of the city's residents have created their own civil defence groups. (IRIN)

BULAWAYO, 7 May 2008 (IRIN) - In the latest blow to Zimbabwe's wounded economy, the Botswana government has banned the export of bulk fuel to the neighbouring country. Scanty parallel market supplies are quickly running dry and transport is grinding to a halt across Zimbabwe. (IRIN)