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The Awá of Brazil are the world's most threatened tribe. Years of illegal logging and land grabs have brought them to the brink of extinction. But apart from the loggers and their guns, one of their biggest problems is the fallacy that Amazon Indians...
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Des scientifiques britanniques ont estimé à quelque 0,66 million de km3 le volume total des eaux souterraines en Afrique, soit plus de cent fois la ressource annuelle en eau renouvelable du continent et vingt fois la réserve d'eau douce des lacs africains....
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JPMorgan Chase & Co is pushing transaction banking in Africa and plans to add 50 new staff in Nigeria over the next five years, as it targets growing demand for trade finance from African firms, its head for the region said on Thursday. John Coulter,...
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THE European Central Bank controls Europe’s currency from Frankfurt, Germany’s financial centre. Beckhoff Automation, in a bucolic corner of Westphalia, controls the bank. Or more precisely, its devices control the bank’s lighting and ventilation. Other...
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Le président démocrate Barack Obama et Mitt Romney, son probable opposant républicain à la présidentielle américaine du 6 novembre, sont au coude à coude, selon un nouveau sondage New York Times/CBS publié mercredi. Les deux hommes rassemblent chacun...
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After nearly two decades under house arrest in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to Norway and Britain in June, her party said on Wednesday. It will be the first time she has set foot outside Burma in 24 years and the first time a member of her National...
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Le nœud septentrional de l'Université panafricaine (UPA) a été formellement lancé le 18 mars à l'occasion d'une conférence dans la capitale algérienne. Mokhtar Sellami, directeur de la programmation de la recherche et des études prospectives au ministère...
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that "some optimism has returned" to the global economy and has predicted slightly faster growth. The IMF revised world economic growth for 2012 to 3.5%, up from its previous forecast of 3.3%. It also expects...
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La situation demeure confuse dans la capitale de la Guinée-Bissau, moins d'une semaine après le coup d'État militaire qui a entraîné la chute et l'arrestation du premier ministre Carlos Gomes fils. Pendant que des citoyens fuient la capitale, l'opposition...
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On first acquaintance, it's hard to see Ikal Angelei as a rebel. Too young, too mild-mannered (perfect English diction), too much at ease in T-shirt and trousers. It's a salutary lesson in never judging the book by the cover; because this young Kenyan...
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A grimly familiar sequence of gunfire in the capital, military communiqués on the radio and the arrest of government officials is repeating itself in the small coastal state of Guinea-Bissau — apparently the latest West African nation to succumb to a...
Lire la suiteTalks got under way Saturday in Turkey between Iran and six world powers, as international diplomats seek to persuade Tehran to rein in its nuclear program. Iran's top negotiator, Saeed Jalili, said ahead of the talks that he intended to bring "new initiatives"...
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La chambre des Représentants du Connecticut a voté à son tour pour l'abandon de la peine de mort, une semaine après le Sénat de cet État, qui devrait devenir prochainement le 17e État américain à mettre fin à la peine capitale. Le vote (86 à 62) a eu...
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Senior officials at an all-Africa conference on science and technology in Kenya have said that if high levels of youth unemployment across the African continent are to be successfully reduced, innovation and entrepreneurship need to be included in university...
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An administrative court on Tuesday suspended a committee appointed to draft a new constitution, all but guaranteeing that Egypt will elect a president before it ratifies a new charter, and raising the stakes in the race. After more than a year of street...
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