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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
VOA News reports on reactions from last week's U.N. World Summit on Food Security in Rome: "The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by two thousand fifteen.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
It has been a long time since we last discuss issues of national concern that need your personal, direct intervention. The reason has been simply this: we thought to give you time to digest and take actions on those issues that we already threw at your feet. We thought you might have had your hands full and in a case of a spill, some issues may not get the kind of attention they deserve. Now we are...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
Date: 23 Nov 2009 Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj has praised civil society organizations in Liberia as the bridge builders between the government and the people.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Liberian Journalist D. Emmanuel Wheinyue was Thursday among three African journalists' recipients of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) "Good News for Africa Competition Award" for promoting positive news of the continent.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Many children in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent who is alive, according to research by Save the Children . Photographer Rachel Palmer took these images during a visit to ophanages in Liberia, where the charity estimates 80% of the children are not truly orphans.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Many children in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent who is alive, a charity claims today. According to research by Save the Children, 98% of children in residential care in central and eastern Europe, 94% of those in Indonesia and 90% of children in Ghana are not actually orphans but have at least one living parent. In Liberia and Sri Lanka, the figure is 88% and 80%...
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High school sports (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
One team is 14-0, played smallish competition most of the year, comes from a little town, is a public school, and has a roster filled with seniors. The other is 9-5 but lost all five to 3A/4A/5A teams, comes from a (relatively) large metro area, is private, and won't be saying goodbye to many of its top players come Graduation 2010. In short, Class 2A state football finalists Monrovia and Fort Wayne...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The trial for former Liberian president Charles Taylor took an early adjournment today when immediately after the mid-morning break, one of the judges reportedly fell ill. Prior to the court's adjournment, the accused former Liberian president denied allegations that he sent his rebel fighters to attack neighbouring Guinea, saying that he gave approval to "hot pursuit missions" which entered...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ranchi, Nov. 23: In the Kolhan region, Madhu Koda is drawing huge crowds. Milking his home turf advantage dry, the former chief minister is brazen. Mocking even his detractors who have put him at the centre of a Rs 2,000cr scam that has a whiff of everything from hawala to nondescript mines in Liberia.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has again appealed to partisans of the Unity Party and the Congress for Democratic Change to demonstrate political maturity, through mutual respect and tolerance, as they go about casting their votes and tabulating the results.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The world's first multi-country yellow fever vaccination campaign began on 23 November, with 12 million people targeted across Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The push comes as the killer mosquito-borne disease is resurging in some sub-Saharan African countries and vaccine stocks are running low.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senior Associate Professor of the University of Liberia (UL) MASS Communication Department and former independent candidate in the Montserrado County By-election, Alhaji G. V. Kromah has averred that he lost the election in the first round but won the battle.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Liberians have been urged not to give up on the political process, because there is still hope. The call was made by the pastor of New Water in the Desert Assembly Apostolic Pentecostal Church, reverend Kortu K. Brown during multi-faceted activities to include the distribution of relief items to vulnerable people in Brewerville community, executed by the church on Friday.