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  • September 2007

    • Global Infant Mortality Rate Lowest in Years

      Reuters  |  Sep 13, 07 3:10 AM CDT

      Global Infant Mortality Rate Lowest in Years

      (Newser) - Infant mortality rates have dropped to new lows worldwide, according to UNICEF. Vaccination drives, education supporting breastfeeding, and anti-malarial measures helped drive last year's death rate of children under 5 down to 72 per 1,000. It stood at 93 per 1,000 in 1993. "It could be  that this is the tipping point when we now see a dramatic decline," said a UNICEF official. More »

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      health  • children  • Africa  • infant mortality  • mortality  • UNICEF

    • Painkiller Is Denied to Poor

      New York Times  |  Sep 10, 07 10:08 AM CDT

      Painkiller Is Denied to Poor

      (Newser) - Though morphine is cheap, effective, and widely available, most people sufferering extreme pain don't  get it, the New York Times reports. The poorest 80% of the world’s population consumes only 6% of the pain-killer . Why? Because health care workers in poor countries are afraid to prescribe morphine, or not allowed to. "Opiod phobia" is what one hospice chief in Sierra Leone calls it. More »

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      health  • drugs  • Africa  • health care  • poverty  • drug abuse  • morphine

  • August 2007

    • China's Africa Aid Has a Price

      New York Times  |  Aug 21, 07 8:49 AM CDT

      China's Africa Aid Has a Price

      (Newser) - As China increases its economic investment in Africa, locals are finding that the benefits of increased trade with the East comes at a price. In the third of a series of articles in the New York Times , workers at a Zambian factory describe how Chinese imports have undercut their market and driven them out of business. More »

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      China  • Africa  • globalization  • trade  • Hu Jintao  • Zambia

    • Israel Rejects Refugees from Darfur Region

      Associated Press  |  Aug 19, 07 4:37 PM CDT

      Israel Rejects Refugees from Darfur Region

      (Newser) - Israel has turned back 48 Africans to Egypt and says it will no longer accept Darfur refugees who illegally enter the country, the AP reports. Some of the 50 migrants a day who have already snuck into the country will be allowed to stay, Israel says, but all others will be returned to Africa even if they face poverty or death. Critics are prompting questions over the Jewish state’s moral obligation toward targets of genocide. More »

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      Israel  • Africa  • Sudan  • Darfur  • Egypt  • genocide  • refugee  • asylum

    • Chinese Seek Fortune in Africa

      International Herald Tribune  |  Aug 17, 07 3:22 PM CDT

      Chinese Seek Fortune in Africa

      (Newser) - A growing number of poor Chinese are flocking to Africa, hoping to cash in on the destitute continent’s infinite growth potential. China is building factories in eastern Africa, and trade between the two burgeoning economies ballooned to $55 billion last year. The eastern entrepreneurs are diving into every sector of the African market—from diamonds to ice cream—but oil is particularly piquing their interest. More »

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      China  • oil  • Africa  • World Bank  • trade  • Chad  • Tanzania  • Zambia  • mineral resources

    • China Seeks Oil in Africa

      New York Times  |  Aug 13, 07 10:34 AM CDT

      China Seeks Oil in Africa

      (Newser) - China is exploring the sweltering wilderness of Chad in search of lucrative pockets of oil and other materials, the New York Times reports. Chinese officials tout the strategy as a "win-win" situation as the country develops relationships with African nations to achieve mutual prosperity by capitalizing on natural resources out of the shadow of Western influence. More »

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      China  • US economy  • oil  • Africa  • poverty  • trade  • Chad  • natural resources

    • African Union Rejects Asian Troops for Darfur

      BBC  |  Aug 13, 07 3:47 AM CDT

      African Union Rejects Asian Troops for Darfur

      (Newser) - Asian troops promised by the United Nations for a joint peacekeeping force in Darfur won't be needed, the leaders of the African Union said yesterday; African countries  will supply all 26,000 peacekeepers, the BBC reports. But critics doubt that enough trained African soldiers are available for an effective force, and that they will be sufficiently independent of the Sudanese government to stop the violence.  More »

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      Pakistan  • United Nations  • Africa  • Sudan  • Darfur  • Indonesia  • Nepal  • African Union  • peacekeeping force

    • South African Prez Fires AIDS Crusader

      Mail & Guardian (South Africa)  |  Aug 10, 07 11:02 AM CDT

      South African Prez Fires AIDS Crusader

      (Newser) - South Africa's president has fired his government's leading HIV/AIDS crusader, the prime mover of a plan to offer free treatment to millions. Thabo Mbeki dismissed his deputy health minister, who has opposed his AIDS denialism for years, the Mail and Guardian reports.  Mbeki has drawn worldwide outrage for the move, which puts at risk her ambitious antiretroviral campaign. More »

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      health  • Africa  • South Africa  • AIDS  • Thabo Mbeki  • HIV  • infection  • illness

    • Kenyan Fossil Rattles Human Family Tree

      National Geographic  |  Aug 9, 07 8:15 AM CDT

      Kenyan Fossil Rattles Human Family Tree

      (Newser) - Two of our ancestors apparently lived alongside each other in Africa rather than evolving from one to the next on the path to Homo sapiens , as scientists once believed. National Geographic reports that a Homo habilis skull dug up in Kenya is surprisingly young, making its 1.4 million-year-old owner a neighbor to Homo erectus rather than an evolutionary forerunner. More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • evolution  • archaeology  • fossil  • human evolution  • anthropology  • origins of humanity  • homo sapiens  • Homo erectus

  • July 2007

    • African Villagers Sold on the Simpsons

      BBC  |  Jul 26, 07 5:25 PM CDT

      African Villagers Sold on the Simpsons

      (Newser) - Villagers in a remote Kenyan village are thrilled about tomorrow’s premiere of The Simpsons movie, but not because it’s playing in a theater near them. Most, in fact, have never even seen the TV show. But their soapstone busts of the cartoon characters have been declared official Simpsons merchandise, and business is booming, the BBC reports. More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • The Simpsons  • The Simpsons Movie  • Twentieth Century Fox

    • Darfur Lake Is Dried Up, Draining Hope

      BBC  |  Jul 20, 07 4:41 PM CDT

      Darfur Lake Is Dried Up, Draining Hope

      (Newser) - Hopes for an enormous underground lake discovered recently in Darfur might supply enough water to end starvation and violence in the area were dimmed by a second opinion from  a French geologist. The area receives too little rain and has the wrong type of rocks for water storage, said a specialist in mineral and water exploration: the lake probably dried up thousands of years ago. More »

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      Africa  • Sudan  • Darfur  • Boston  • genocide  • water  • Crisis in Darfur  • lake  • geologist  • Darfuris

    • Elephants Go on the Offense in Africa

      Times (UK)  |  Jul 15, 07 12:57 PM CDT

      Elephants Go on the Offense in Africa

      (Newser) - Elephants are now endangering Southern Africans, as attacks on humans increase and the creatures savage farms. While tourists tend to see the mammoths as cuddly and harmless, Africans tell the Times that the peril is becoming an elephant in the room. "Elephants are horrible things to live next door to," one expert says. "I think we should kill them," adds a villager. More »

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      Africa  •