MALI: Child marriage a neglected problem

Seeded on Mon Sep 3, 2007 8:07 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Two years ago, in the western Malian village of Korera-Kore, a 13-year-old girl was forced into marriage during her school summer holiday. She died after complications during sex on her wedding night.

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Blood Diamonds

Seeded on Mon Sep 3, 2007 8:02 AM EDT (wow.gm)

It has been said that war is the price of peace? Angola and Sierra Leone have already paid too much. Let them live a better life. Ambassador Juan Larrain, Chairman of the Monitoring Mechanism on sanctions against UNITA.

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Scottish archaeology student discovers 5,000 year old chewing gum in Finland

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:48 AM EDT (wow.gm)

An archaeology student from Scotland has discovered a 5,000 year old piece of chewing gum on a dig in Finland.

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55 line up for Jammeh's hypertension treatment

Seeded on Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:13 AM EDT (wow.gm)

President Yahya Jammeh, the Gambian on Thursday started the treatment of 55 people suffering from high-blood pressure (or hypertension), another killer-infection in the country.

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Professor Gomez Challenges Gambians

Seeded on Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:44 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Professor Ba Banutu-Gomez, the proprietor of the newly built Bantu Business College, has called on all Gambians outside The Gambia to stop focusing on politics, and instead focus on developing the country regardless of any political ideology one may have, adding that if the count …

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Nurse jailed for abortion

Seeded on Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:36 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Magistrate Pa Harry Jammeh of the Kanifing Magistrate's Court yesterday, convicted and sentenced Dam Jeng, a nurse at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH), to two years imprisonment with hard labour, without any option of a fine.

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GLOBAL: Microbes don't know geography - WHO report

Seeded on Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:24 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Regardless of capability or wealth, no country is immune to the increasing risk of disease outbreaks, epidemics, industrial accidents and other health emergencies, according to a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report.

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D2.4m for Jammeh's Breakthrough

Seeded on Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:49 AM EDT (wow.gm)

President Yahya Jammeh, on Friday August 17, received at Kanilai a sum of D2.4 million from different departments, institutions and individuals for his breakthrough in the cure for HIV/AIDS, asthma and diabetes, through his herbal medication, which started some seven months ago.

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Gambia U-17 Clinch Gold in Abidjan

Seeded on Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:24 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Sainey Touray Wins Golden Boot The Gambia U-17 team has proved all predictions wrong by clinch the Ivorian four-nation Football tournament, staged by the Ivorian Football Federation to mark the 47th Anniversary of nationhood.

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Analyst Suspects Kadhafi Phobia in AU Summit Outcome

Seeded on Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:07 AM EDT (wow.gm)

The Ninth Ordinary Summit of the African Union is in the history books following its conclusion in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. But some Africans are still feeling betrayed over the leaders' failure to form a United States of Africa.

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Spain Pledges One Million Euro to The Gambia

Seeded on Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:09 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Spain has pledged 1 million Euro on top of the 5 million package earlier pledge to cut illegal migration of Gambia youths to Europe.

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Air Senegal International Invites Four Journalists, 11 Staff from Different Travel Agencies

Seeded on Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:58 AM EDT (wow.gm)

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In Reconciliation With Wade

Seeded on Wed Aug 8, 2007 7:34 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Idrissa Seck Receives Go Ahead from Party Militants

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Gambian Referee Used as Scapegoat - Lawyer Lucien

Seeded on Wed Aug 8, 2007 7:25 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Lucien Hounkanly, the Lawyer of the suspended Togolese FA President, Tarta Axlessi, has said that Gambian International Referee, Pa Abdou Sarr alias Jasper, has been used as Scapegoat by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in the long outstanding leadership battle in the …

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Jammeh on Health Service Delivery

Seeded on Wed Aug 8, 2007 7:07 AM EDT (wow.gm)

President Yahya Jammeh has re-iterated that the provision of standard and affordable health care services is upper-most on his government's development agenda.

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Well-preserved baby mammoth found in Siberia

Seeded on Wed Aug 8, 2007 6:48 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Well-preserved remains of a baby mammoth has been found in the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia (Russia). The baby mammoth, named Lyuba, was a six-month-old female at the time of death, approximately 10,000 years ago.

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In Abidjan U-17 Tourney

Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 9:00 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Gambia Play Niger Thursday The Gambia National U-17 team, which left Banjul on Saturday morning for Abidjan to take part in the four nation U-17 tournament, arrived safe at the Abidjan International Airport on board of Slok Air International.

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GLOBAL: New findings could extend lives of positive children

Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 8:43 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Only 15 percent of children who need treatment are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, the world's largest gathering on AIDS and science, heard on Wednesday in Sydney, Australia.

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DRC: Starving detainees escape South Kivu prison

Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 8:34 AM EDT (wow.gm)

More than 100 inmates escaped from the rundown central prison in Uvira, an area on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after a demonstration over conditions, area administrator Eoloko Nsala said.

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Mount Kilimanjaro - Africa's Highest Summit

Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 8:15 AM EDT (wow.gm)

Mount Kilimanjaro stands on a featureless part of the East African plateau, on the Tanzanian side of the Kenya border near Moshi, side by side with the smaller Mount Meru.

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Book on Late Deyda Hydara Due Out Soon

Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 7:56 AM EDT (wow.gm)

The biography of Deyda Hydara, the slain publisher of The Point newspaper, will soon be released to the public. It is titled A Living Mirror: The Life Of Deyda Hydara, and is written by Aloa Ahmed Alota and Demba Ali Jawo.

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AFRICA: Falling HIV rates tell complex story

Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 7:55 AM EDT ()

When it comes to sub-Saharan Africa's devastating AIDS crisis, there is an understandable tendency to latch onto any scrap of good news.

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COTE D'IVOIRE: Government urged to act over sexual abuse of women

Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 7:35 AM EDT ()

Human rights activists and at least one government official are hopeful the Ivorian leadership will take action on growing evidence that government and rebel forces sexually abused hundreds - if not thousands - of women during the conflict and continue to do so today.

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Book Authored By Mrs. Phillot Launched

Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 7:27 AM EDT ()

A book, authored by Mrs. Ralphina Phillot-Almeida, was on 26 July 2007, launched at the National Library in Banjul. The book contains various literary devices such as poems, stories and proverbs.

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President Jammeh Urged to Participate in Sickle Cell Treatment

Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 7:21 AM EDT ()

In an extraordinary meeting held last Friday at Churchill's Town, some concerned parents whose children are suffering from sickle cell disease called on President Jammeh to take part in the treatment of the disease, following what they term as his successful breakthrough in the t …

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