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If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines.
A landmark concert featuring artistes from eight of the ten South East Asian
Nations (ASEAN) took place here on Jan. 21, in an effort to build a regional
community through the common language of music.
Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his
way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages.
The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro is unveiling a
battery of creative tactics to engage the population in the
battle against dengue fever, which is threatening to reach
unprecedented epidemic proportions as a new virus strain hits
Brazil.
Radio Mega FM's transmission tower rises from the centre of
Gulu town,
transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to
listeners across the
district. But it also serves as something of an informal
memorial to community
radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord's Resistance Army's
destruction of
northern Uganda.
"It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain," recalls Alefia Mustansir, 40, of her childhood experience.
"I'd say there are around 5,000 of us in the country, but if you ask me next
week we may well be under 3,000. After twenty centuries of history in
Mesopotamia, we Mandaeans, are about to vanish." Anxiety about the future of
his people is more than evident in the figures given by Saad Atiah Majid,
chairman of Basra's Mandaean Council.
Community radio stations in Brazil are finding the internet
and user-friendly information technologies to be valuable
allies for their broadcasts, which focus on citizenship,
social equity and human rights.
When Cameroon's President Paul Biya announced that the 50th
anniversary of the reunification of French and British Cameroon will take
place later this year, it resurrected bitter feelings among Anglophone
Cameroonians who say they do not feel like equal partners with their
Francophone counterparts.
A campaign to stop people buying merchandise from street vendors is
gaining momentum in Malawi's main cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre and Mzuzu
after the small-scale traders went on a rampage undressing women and girls
wearing trousers, leggings, shorts and mini-skirts.
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