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Avoiding the Resource Curse: Spotlight on Oil in Uganda
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Kyohero fishing village on the shores of Lake Albert, Uganda. The discovery of oil around the Lake Albert region has raised hopes of boosting … see more »
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Sudan Armed Forces Deploy Along Southern Border
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The Satellite Sentinel Project has released images showing Sudanese Armed Forces deployments at the time of South Sudan's independence referendum. … see more »
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Uganda's Presidential Candidates
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Uganda returns to the polls in February, where President Yoweri Museveni is favoured to win a fourth term. see more »
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Carter Center Observers Monitor Southern Sudan Referendum
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Former United States President Jimmy Carter has a long history of working for peace in Sudan. In January a delegation from the Carter Center in … see more »
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Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Fifty years after the assassination of Congolese Independence leader Patrice Lumumba, the ordinary people of Congo are no closer to controlling and … see more »
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Southern Sudan Votes in Independence Referendum
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South Sudanese voters went to the polls during the week beginning January 9, 2011, to decide whether they wanted independence. see more »
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Sudanese in the United States Vote in South's Independence Referendum
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A small curbside office suite in Alexandria, Virginia, USA becomes a polling site of the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, administered by the … see more »
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Southern Sudan Gets Ready to Vote for Referendum
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Photo Essay courtesy of Christian Aid/The Guardian Much of Sudan is in transit as southerners return from Khartoum and other areas in the north to … see more »
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January 9th: Countdown to Referendum
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An official of Sudan's National Elections Commission inspects a shipment of ballots delivered via helicopter by the United Nations Mission in the … see more »
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Pilot Vaccination Campaigns For New Meningitis Vaccine
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More than one million people received a shot against group A meningococcal meningitis in pilot programmes carried out in Burkina Faso, Niger, and … see more »
