Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
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Protests took place in 30 countries to bring attention to the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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Arab tribes in Darfur were fighting over the spoils of war, killing hundreds of people and displacing tens of thousands.
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Researchers in Uganda said that washing the penis after sex increases the risk of HIV infection. “Don’t just finish and jump out of bed,” advised Dr. Ronald Gray, co-author of the study. “There ought to be a little time left for postcoital cuddling.”
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The UN Security Council has approved a joint UN-African Union force of up to twenty-six thousand troops for Darfur.
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A group of prostitutes thought to be immune to HIV have now become infected, causing dismay to scientists hoping to develop an AIDS vaccine.
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A French geologist stated that a newly discovered underground lake in Darfur, which was expected to help bring peace to the water-starved region, likely dried up at least 5,000 years ago.
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe ordered all shop prices to be cut by at least half, and sometimes several times more, sparking a crazed shopping spree, which economists say will only increase the economic crisis “Operation Reduce Prices” is attempting to alleviate.
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Scientists are studying African prostitutes that don’t have AIDS.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said the world has failed Darfur.
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France is holding a 15 nation conference in Paris to try and figure out what to do about Darfur. The African Union is not attending.
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A UN reported warned that the Darfur conflict heralds era of wars triggered by climate change.
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Iraq was rated the world’s second most unstable country, behind Sudan.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday called global warming a form of external aggression against Africa as the impact of the phenomenon is felt more acutely on the continent than elsewhere.
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Zimbabwe will collapse within six months, possibly leading to a state of emergency, according to a leaked briefing report for aid workers in the country.
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A group of Nigerian families has sued the drugs giant Pfizer following the deaths of 11 children and injury to others who are said to have taken part in tests of a drug to treat meningitis.
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President Bush called Wednesday for Congress to spend $30 billion to fight global AIDS over the next five years, a near doubling of financing that is part of a White House effort to burnish Mr. Bush’s humanitarian credentials before he meets leaders of the Group of 8 industrialized nations next week.
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United Nations officials said on Friday that rebel leaders in the Central African Republic had agreed to begin sending 400 child soldiers home to their families.
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The United Nations top humanitarian chief is saying the refugee situation in Somalia is now worse than Darfur.
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Researchers have produced new DNA evidence that almost certainly confirms the theory that all modern humans descended from the same small group of people.
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