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Digital Real-time Crisis Map, Built on African Community-Run Radio Network, Exposes Mass Atrocities of Brutal Rebel Group, the Lord’s Resistance Army and Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers; Currently, 4 of 5 Incidents of Violence Go Unreported for Months or More View all images SAN DIEGO, Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As totalitarian regimes around the …
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(New York Times) – In a Mother’s Day column in the spring, I suggested that readers commemorate the day not only with flowers but also with a donation to lift up women around the world. Readers showered one group that I mentioned, www.MothersDayMovement.org, with more than $135,000 that was forwarded to a slum empowerment group …
(Global Soap Project) – For the 5th year, CNN has asked its viewers for nominations for their everyday “heroes” – people that make a difference in the world. This year, one of our supporters, Jack Harvey, from Knoxville, TN nominated Global Soap Project founder Derreck Kayongo for the award. When his profile aired in June, …
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Discovery Technology 10 Ways Cell Phones Help People Living in Poverty by Niki Denison Cell phones are ubiquitous and changing the face of the developing world. Cell phones are becoming ubiquitous, even in underdeveloped countries. This unprecedented penetration by a communications technology is clearly changing the face of the developing world for …
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(BBC Sport) – Patrick Makau retained the Berlin men’s marathon title in a world record time. The Kenyan finished in a time of two hours, three minutes and 38 seconds to shave 21 seconds off the record set by Haile Gebrselassie on the same course. The Ethiopian great failed to finish having experienced apparent stomach …
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(Thought Leader, Mail & Guardian) – “This is Africa” (TIA) is used in the context of what is perceived to be “African” versus “unAfrican”. For this article, unAfrican includes, but is not limited to, systems that work, clean places and timeliness. African, however, is dirty, tardy and disorganised. Even though I surround myself with Afro-optimists, …
(Associated Press via NPR) – Organizers have set a new date in October to dedicate the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. Hurricane Irene forced them to postpone the event in August, days before 250,000 people were expected to attend. The memorial’s executive architect Ed Jackson Jr. told The Associated Press on …
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(Reuters) – Miss Angola Leila Lopes, a business student from the town of Benguela in her home country, was crowned Miss Universe on Monday after dazzling a panel of judges with her beauty and impressing them with her brain. Lopes, 25, laughed and smiled as she hugged runner-up Miss Ukraine Olesia Stefanko, then felt …
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