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Ship with 800 sinks off coast of Zanzibar

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:57:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Close to 160 die at sea GENEVA, SWITZERLAND = A boat carrying more than 800 persons between the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba has sunk off the coast of Zanzibar, with nearly 190 people dead, 20 missing and more than 520 rescued, according to the government of Tanzania. Zanzibar is an autonomous region of Tanzania [...]

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Qaddafi versus NTC: Africa divided over support

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:51:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Rumours are rife that Muammar Qaddafi is hiding out with his old friend Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, but while they may be hard to prove, it’s clear that Africa has mixed feelings about who is or should be in charge in Libya, reports allAfrica. The African Union voted Friday 26 August against [...]

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3 East African countries among fastest growing economies in developing world

Lucy De Butts — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:06:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com (GenevaLunch) – Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda are among the fastest growing economies in the developing world in recent years, a report issued by the IMF 11 May indicates. The regional economic outlook launched in Dar es Salaam reported that ,of the fastest growing economies between 2005 and 2009, the three EAC countries were all highly [...]

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Kidnapped English couple to return home

Sean Ecker — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:34:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Rachel and Paul Chandler, a husband and wife team of sailors, are set to return home to Tunbridge Wells, Kent after being released by pirates in Somalia. “We’re fine, we’re rather skinny and bony but we’re fine,” Chandler said in Mogadishu 14 November. The couple were captured on their yacht in October 2009 off the [...]

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Mine-free world: rats help save lives

Jared Bloch — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:30:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Ed. note: GenevaLunch was on the ground this week in Cartagena, Colombia where the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining joined the Colombian Government in welcoming heads of state for the Summit on a Mine-Free World GenevaLunch background stories by Jared Bloch Cartagena, Colombia (GenevaLunch) - The Apopo organization was among the myriad governments and [...]

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FBI most wanted man killed by helicopter missiles in Somalia

Sean Ecker — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:30:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A military raid on a car carrying suspected Islamist militants in southern Somalia has likely killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Kenyan-born man officials say was a senior member of al-Qaeda in Eastern Africa. Nabhan is believed to be responsible for a bomb attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya in 2002 which killed [...]

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Likely Comoros crash victims washing up in Tanzania

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:11:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Thirteen bodies have washed up on the Tanzanian island of Mafia (map), along with debris, and they are thought to be those of victims of the Comoros archipelago crash of a Yemeni airliner in 1 July. Officials say DNA tests will be needed to identify them. The island is south of Dar es Salaam, not [...]

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Tanzanians on trial for Albino murders

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:05:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The trial has begun in Tanzania of 12 people accused of murdering albinos and selling their body parts for witchcraft purposes. More than 40 people have been killed in the last 18 months. BBC In a similar trial in Burundi that began in May, 11 people are on trial. Human rights groups have accused authorities [...]

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Guantanamo takes centre stage: Obama, Cheney “face off,” inmate to have US trial

Sean Ecker — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:27:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Guantanamo Bay prison on the island of Cuba has been centre-stage this week in the US, with President Barack Obama and former Vice-President Dick Cheney appearing in what NPR describes as “dramatic, back-to-back televised speeches” on the future of Guantanamo and the release earlier in 2009 of classified documents on the use of torture. [...]

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