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Chinese Fuel Resurgence in Ivory Poachin

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Two decades ago trading ivory was banned worldwide but last year the law was relaxed allowing government stockpiles to be sold off. 134 Chinese nationals havebeen arrested in Africa trying ...

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Kenyan Fishermen Celebrate Somali Pirate

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Malindi is a small fishing town on the coast of Kenya. Most of the surrounding villages are mired in poverty. But for the fishermen, life is looking up for they ...

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A Town in the Mountains

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The mountain Kingdom of Lesotho has snow-capped mountains, hair-raising horse-races and spectacular rivers and waterfalls. But it has few other natural resources and is still relatively unknown to tourists too. ...

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WFP Airdrops

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Runtime: 02:41     Country: SUDAN The UN World Food Programme  (WFP) begins an airlift operation  to provide  food  for over  150,000  people  living  in  areas  that  cannot  be  accessed  by  ...

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Middle East Peace Process and China-Afri

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Runtime: 02:42 Country: EGYPTThe progress of the Middle East peace process and the activities of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) were the focus of the meeting ...

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Sino-African Ties

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Runtime: 02:46 Country: EGYPTEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao stressed the significance of enhancing Chinese-African relations in the fourth ministerial meeting of their ...

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Carpet Weaving

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A group of women in Mali’s town of Segou are pooling their carpet-weaving skills to bring out various unique rugs. The business has gone a long way in helping them ...

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Drought Tolerant Crops

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A major obstacle to producing enough food has been the dry weather, which hit many African countries last year, including Kenya, where 10 million people urgently needed food when rains ...

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Nomadic Fishing in Mali

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The district of Mopti in central Mali is a region of river deltas and floodplains that produce fish for export to Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The fishermen here ...

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Zambezi Express

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Zambezi Express is a musical about a young Zimbabwean footballer who refuses to let his circumstances stop him from getting to the top of his ...

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Swahili Fashion Week

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Swahili Fashion Week is a platform for designers from Swahili speaking Countries to showcase their creativity, initiating a dynamic and promising fashion industry. It is geared towards being the most ...

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UK African Films

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At this year’s London Film Festival, two African documentaries got people talking. Both were about ordinary people taking on governments: one was about whitefarmers suing Zimbabwe for taking their farms; ...

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Seeds for Fuel

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Every year about 20,000 hectares of trees are cut down to be used as firewood in Malawi. Because of this, the country’s forest cover is rapidly reducing. Now the government ...

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Picture on Conservation

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An international contest recently gave Professional and amateur photographers a chance to submit pictures about conservation. Here are some of the ...

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Tree Fight for Global Change

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The Congo Basin Rainforest, the second largest forest in the world, is helping mitigate climate change. A study in the scientific journal, Nature, based on 40-years of data from African ...

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Volleyball Net Weaving in Togo

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In Africa volleyball still isn’t as popular as soccer and few young people choose to take it up. Togo’s Volleyball Federation is determined to introduce the sport in schools – ...

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Granny Football Fever

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A penalty shootout is usually full of tension – and even if the players are mostly in their sixties and the soccer match is just for fun – scoring a ...

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Surfing in Liberia

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Liberia’s wars ended 6 years ago and naturally for most Liberians, the priority has been to rebuild their lives and their country. For the young Liberians in our next story, ...

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Only in Africa

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The Soap River

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Trailer: 00:30 Runtime: 03:47 Human washing machines, immigrants forced to rinse. We are in Cote d'Ivoire on the river of ...

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Obama's Land

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Trailer: 00:30 Runtime: 05:19 He is black and of African origin. He is the new Kennedy owing to his youth and freshness. This is Barack Obama, a child whose roots ...

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Rhinoserious Injury

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Trailer: 00:30 Runtime: 02:57 Emergency measures for a serious injury. In the Maasai Mara National Park, the doctors have to act very quickly to prevent an injury from getting worse. ...

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A Meeting With Joseph Kony

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A Meeting With Joseph Kony Country:Uganda         Length: 5:46 Joseph Kony is the controversial head of the Lords Resistance Army. Born in 1962 in Gulu, northern Uganda, Kony led the United ...

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A Chat with Koffi Annan

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Country KENYA, SOUTH AFRICA, SUDAN, RWANDALength: 07:53 Koffi Annan was the United Nations seventh Secretary-General. Although he is now retired he is still involved in various political, social and economic initiatives ...

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DR Ngozi Okonjo Iweala

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Country NIGERIALength: 02:09 Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is Managing Director of the World Bank, who is poised to “bring a unique set of skills and experience to the World Bank Group,” ...

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African Leaders

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Nelson Mandela - South Africa

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Trailer: 00:30Runtime: 11:54 From the darkness of prison to the light of presidency; he is the Voice of Africa. ...

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Robert Mugabe - Zimbabwe

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Trailer: 01:21 Runtime: 05:27From liberation to dictatorship Mugabe reigns in Zimbabwe with an iron fist. ...

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Jerry John Rawlings - 40% Discount

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Runtime: 05:00 A man with a voice and a man with a passion to drive his nation; Jerry John Rawlings is a man who has stood as one of t...

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Three Seasons

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Runtime: 14:23  Country: MALAWI Since the disastrous harvest of 2005, Malawi has experienced three successive bumper harvests. The national food requirements have been exceeded and Malawi even exported 300,000 ...

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Unseen Unsung Unforgotten

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Runtime: 2:00:00   Country:KENYA  Follow the lives of Taabu, Baraka, Riziki and Neema. Taabu contracted HIV while in college in the United States. He returns to Kenya to find himself. Despite leading ...

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House of Justice

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Runtime: 25:56  Country:ZIMBABWE A  chilling  documentary  on  the  atrocities  conducted  by  Zimbabwean  government  in  defiance of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) treaty. Accounts of torture, vandalism and violence on Zimbabwean ...

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Haiti: Africa Shows its Generous Side

However, the destructive earthquake that hit the Caribbean republic of Haiti, the nation’s worst ever in 200 years, seems to be changing the general belief that only Western nations, which are more endowed in all economic fronts than their African equivalents, can offer help if a disaster of Haiti’s magnitude were to strike any nation.

In the wake of the disaster, African governments and their people are also coming together with the world and have stepped up their gears in the rush to provide international assistance to the quake-ravaged nation, which unfortunately enough also bears the yoke of being the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.