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20 is Too Young to Die

Mohammad Barry | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Gambia, Ysa, 25-Most-Powerful-and-Influential-Young-People-in-the-World, Gen: Change, Ysa List, Teen News

Wearing an ''HIV positive'' T-shirt, I stood before the world -- specifically, in front of the nations hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic -- and asked politicians to remove the shroud of silence.

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Fighting Malaria Is a Full Time Job

Catholic Relief Services | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Benin, Malaria, Gambia, Global Health, Niger, World Malaria Day, Africa, Mosquito Nets, Mosquitoes, Fighting Malaria, Impact News

April 25 is World Malaria Day. It is a time to celebrate the progress made in the fight against this disease, but it also time to renew our commitment to eradicating the killer of at least 650,000 people worldwide in 2010.

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Why We Need Tougher Laws Against Female Genital Mutilation

Voice of America | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Mali, World Health Organization, Gambia, Togo, Sudan, Female Genital Mutilation, Elise Johansen, Day of Zero Tolerance, United Nations, Somalia, Fgm, Djibouti, Impact News

United Nations, international and human rights organizations are calling for an end to female genital mutilation and appealing for tougher legislation...

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Gambia Convicts 8 Foreigners Of Cocaine Trafficking

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Gambia, Cocaine Trafficking, Gambia Cocaine Trafficking, Drug Smuggling, Cocaine, Gambia Drug Conviction, Gambia Cocaine Conviction, World News

BANJUL, Gambia -- A court in the tiny African nation of Gambia has convicted eight foreigners of trafficking cocaine and sentenced them each to 50 yea...

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PHOTOS: Conservationists Bring Street Art To Gambia

Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Africa Charity, Bushdwellers, Remed, Public Art, Gambia, Freddy Sam, Charity, Africa-Street-Art, Street Art, Africa, Roa, Best Ever, Write-on-Africa, Tika, Wide Open Walls, Arts News

Belgian street artist ROA has lent his talents to the Wide Open Walls (WOW) project in the Gambia through a series of public artworks. ROA is known fo...

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Maryland Teacher Helps 450 Kids In Africa Get Scholarships

Bowie Patch | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Greatest Person of the Day, Bowie, Beverly Berndt, Gambia, Africa, Bowie Schools, Maryland Schools, Impact News

What started as taking a small group of young people to Gambia for service trip has sparked projects across the country working to help those in need....

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An American in Peril

James Moore | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Embassy, Africa, Consular, Hassan, U.S., Gambia, Mile 2, Jammeh, Ahyah, Touray, Hassan Touray Gambia, Hassan Touray, Hassan Touray Imprisonment, Free Hassan Touray, World News

A U.S. citizen from Texas, Hassan Touray is being incarcerated in the notorious Mile 2 Prison in The Gambia, Africa. He went home to The Gambia to help. His altruism, however, has led to his imprisonment.

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Dancing to End Female Genital Cutting

Julia Lalla-Maharajh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julia Lalla-Maharajh, Davos, Orchid Project, World Social Forum, Human Rights, Africa, Dakar, Communities, Fgc, Gambia, Molly Melching, Female Genital Cutting, Senegal, Tostan, Bill Clinton, Unicef, Cultural Differences, Impact News

Communities are changing, shifting, abandoning. The very people who have perpetuated the practice of female genital cutting for centuries are choosing to change.

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Cocaine Gambia Raid: $1 Billion In Drugs Seized

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Africa, Cocaine, Gambia Cocaine, Cocaine Gambia, Cocaine Gambia Raid, Gambia, Cocaine Raid, Drug Bust, World News

At least two tonnes of cocaine with a street value of some $1bn has been seized in The Gambia, bound for Europe. ...

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The Difference a Year Can Make

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Kenya, Gambia, World Health Organization, Pace, Pfizer, GAVI Alliance, Pneumococcal, Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, Vaccines, Paul Kagame, World News

Minister of Health Richard Sezibera administers first dose of pneumococcal vaccine in the developing world in Rwanda, April 2009 Almost exactly...

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Al Qaeda In The Islamic Maghreb: Kidnappings Rife Across North Africa

GlobalPost | Solana Pyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barcelona Accio Solidaria, North Africa, Gambia, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al Qaida, Mauritania, Morocco, Terrorism, North Africa Al Qaida, Senegal, Al Qaeda, World News

RABAT, Morocco -- They called it a "solidarity caravan" -- a group of Spanish volunteers delivering truckloads of donated computers, wheelchairs and o...

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Gambian Man, Kidnapped By Witch Hunters, Describes His Ordeal

allAfrica | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Witch Hunt, Witch Hunters, Witch, Gambia, Witchcraft, Africa, World News

Mr. Ali Marr of Barra, a victim of the witch hunting exercise that saw the abduction of people by armed security agents and so-called witch hunters, r...

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Dick Cheney Believes There Are Witches in Gambia

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Witch Hunt, Conservatives, Gambia, Witch Doctors, Dick Cheney, Neocons, Neo-Conservatives, Republicans, Witches, Torture, World News

Is it possible that people will say absolutely anything to get you to stop torturing them, including admitting to being a witch?

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Gambia Rounds Up 1,000 'Witches': Rights Group

AP | TODD PITMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yahya Jammeh, Witches Gambia, Africa Witches, Gambia, Africa, Africa Witch Hunt, Gambia Witches, Amnesty International, Gambia Witch Hunt, Gambia Witch, Witch Hunt Gambia, Amnesty International Gambia, Gambian Witches, Witch Hunt Dakar, Senegal Witches, Dakar Witch Hunt, World News

DAKAR, Senegal — Authorities in Gambia have rounded up about 1,000 people and forced them to drink hallucinogens in a witch-hunting campaign tha...

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Scottish Missionaries To Serve Time, Hard Labor in Gambia for Sedition

Gambianow.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chaplain, Gambia, Sedition, Africa, One Year Sentence With Hard Labor, Pentecostal Church, Scottish Missionaries, President Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Jammeh, Gambian Army, David and Fiona Fulton, World News

David & Fiona Fulton, two missionaries charged with committing sedition in the Gambia are due in court on Tuesday. David Fulton, a former Major in ...

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