Crumble of the stadium where Ali fought Foreman
 
A venue where boxing history was made has become derelict
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Are strongmen hiding behind peacekeeping?
 
Troop contributions for UN missions are helping African nations build a
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The effectiveness of a UN resolution in DRC
 
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The Obbo Wacky Index of African Leaders
 
Commentator Charles Onyango-Obbo ranks African leaders in a political beauty
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Gorilla's battle to remain 'king'
 
Out in the wild with some of the world's last 700 mountain gorillas
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Kenya celebrates a brand new constitution
 
The new laws are among the most progressive in Africa
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Jah! But who goes there?
 
As Rastafari pilgrims descend on their Ethiopian spiritual home, can they
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Gold diggers go for Sudan's desert riches
 
Gold rush spurred by rise in gold prices over the past two years
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The restless skirts in Africa's palaces
 
When middle class African women rebel against patriarchal orthodoxy.
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Egypt's graduates troop into the desert to farm
 
About a million acres of land reclaimed, technical skills passed on to the
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Remembering the Herero genocide
 
Herero chief tells his subjects never to forget how they suffered at the
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Polio creeping back in Africa
 
Africa still vulnerable to polio infections in spite of impressive strides it
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A walk through Africa's most polluted town
 
Kabwe's poisonous legacy lives on 16 years down the line
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Through Harare’s “sacred tombs”
 
Just who should lie in Zimbabwe's national shrine?
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Flying in Africa is a nightmare
 
The confusion hampers trade and tourism
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In Somalia, private universities rule
 
Shaken by civil war, Somalia's only public university collapsed paving way
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Fashion act beyond the ramp
 
Cape Town event presents a more meaningful, and accessible fashion industry
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Mali turns to GM mosquitoes to fight malaria
 
Project could save millions of lives in Africa where malaria is the biggest
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Sudan deals with curse of her debts
 
Issue proves divisive as South prepares for referendum.
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Africa's burden of poor city planning
 
UN worried about population surge and unplanned urban spaces.
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Bushmen forced to sing to a new tune
 
From the wild into an urbanised life.
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Desperate race to save "holy waters"
 
South African community resists attempts to disturb their "holy grounds"
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Morocco boom attracts wrong crowd
 
Growth-related ills show as country expands its infrastructure
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Burundi's pygmies stand tall
 
Previously marginalised, new policies are lifting the often forgotten
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Kagame: Wrong man to build democracy
 
In this last part of the series on Rwanda, CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO argues that
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Hope for men with sex organ disease
 
Timely intervention gives a new lease of life to thousands walking in the
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'Paradigm shift the key to Africa's growth'
 
Japan is focusing on infrastructural projects, agricultural food production
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Elusive dream of African unity
 
Its been decades of attempts to build a united Africa. How far is the process
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Zimbabwe on the brink of a comeback?
 
Huge diamond find would solve country's problems in one swoop, or will it?
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Blogging censorship out of town
 
North Africans going against the grain even when the risks are high
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Kagame’s ‘Congo crisis’
 
This is the second part of CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO’S report on the ‘new’ Rwanda
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Unveiling Mandla Zwelivelile Mandela
 
Can he fit into his grandfather's shoes?
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Immigrants in Tripoli see some light
 
Exposed refugees now get some reprieve
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Breaking bread with the President
 
CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO ventures inside the ‘lion’s den’ — at the latter’s
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Mogae joins Rawlings in housing woes
 
Former Botswana president unhappy about the state of his retirement home
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Prof Rivers floods Africa with degrees
 
VIPs around Africa could have paid thousands of dollars to three Americans
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Rawlings' family 'homeless'
 
Retired president wants the government to rebuild their house or buy them a
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From Brazil with love, but is it enough?
 
The South American giant has been aggressively building ties with a hugely
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The Niger Delta's forgotten oil spills
 
The headlines have been fixated on the Gulf of Mexico gush. In Nigeria,
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The curse that is Angola’s rivers
 
Water sources a breeding ground for a black fly threatening to bring a nation
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The curse of spilled tanker oil
 
Crowds often tempted to siphon petroleum products after accidents
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The making of Zimbabwe's garden city
 
The urban vulnerable embrace external support to fight hunger
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Remembering Manute Bol
 
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Why they prefer continuity in Cairo
 
Country's neighbours and allies would rather continuity after President
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Can Britain lift Sierra Leone out of poverty?
 
Sierra Leoneans feel they are caught in the poverty trap
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Reality of the Rainbow Nation
 
South Africans struggled for many years to liberate themselves from the
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Rosewood massacre in Madagascar
 
Timber merchants target Malagasy's goose that lays golden eggs
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Olusegun Obasanjo speaks
 
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo jetted in Nairobi on Monday to
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Libya becomes a dead end for migrants
 
Illegal immigrant landings on Italian and Maltese shores are "almost zero
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Graft: Ghana media on the spot
 
The corrupting practice of "solidarity' has become very much entrenched
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Party hearty, but beware of HIV
 
Night wedding parties fuel the HIV/Aids fire in rural Tanzania
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Nigeria's global capital of oil pollution
 
Years of pollution in Niger Delta have been ignored by oil companies
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The village that will not need food aid
 
Region perched on mountains makes strides to tame hunger after the famine of
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The god carvers of Osogbo 
 
Works of ordinary men the subject of discussion in classrooms, art show
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Kinshasa, Congo's multicultural hub
 
The capital of DRC hums with energy and life
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This messenger of God Nkurunziza
 
Burundian President can preach, sing, dance, jump and literally roll on the
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Mali's Kanouté: More than a footballer
 
Sevilla star puts up complex for disadvantaged children in Mali
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Donor darling: What Ethiopian poll can teach Africa
 
Despite the controversy surrounding his party's latest poll victory, Prime
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Pirates of the Mediterranean
 
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African migrants returning home
 
Not only are more Africans returning, but they are coming home sooner
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Lobby downgrades Southern Africa media freedom
 
Ranking leaves region without any countries in the free category for the
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Divorcees Radio on air in Egypt
 
Once considered a social taboo, divorce topic is starting to be discussed
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Imagine an oil spill occurs off the coast of Mombasa...
 
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Chiluba: Zambia's king maker or populist?
 
The outcome of 2011 polls will point to how much clout former president
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Mali pays tribute to independence leader
 
Founding father's legacy lives on years after his death in jail
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All about the Nile
 
The issue of equitable use of the waters of Africa's longest river defies
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For jailed journalist, a never-ending nightmare
 
Eritrean-Swedish man has been in a high-security Eritrean prison for ten
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First ladies at five seats of power in Africa
 
Wives of Africa's presidents pour their hearts out
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The rise and fall of an Algerian tycoon
 
Britain to extradite Rafik Khelifa in what promises to be a politically
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Goodluck's canny balancing act
 
Behind the scenes in Sambo's curious pick as Nigeria Veep
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The bane of early marriages
 
The lure of dowry driving girls out of the classroom
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Chewa defy odds to keep tradition
 
Nyau remains a trademark of a people separated by colonial boundaries
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The International Criminal Court
 
What is the International Criminal Court?
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The plunder of Africa's past
 
The theft of continent's artefacts happened and still does happen
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A Mutually Beneficial Relationship?
 
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Eritreans on the run
 
With President Isaias Afeworki tightening his grip on Eritrea, thousands are
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DR Congo refugees not welcome
 
Refugee issue risks poisoning relations between DRC and Congo Brazzaville
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Televangelism rocks Kigali
 
Kigali beats to the rythm of a big-time televangelist
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Africa's answers to Imelda Marcos
 
Some Africa's first ladies are slowly spinning into symbols of the corrupt
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Saving African textiles
 
New trade body set to offer single voice to besieged industry
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Friends From the East...
 
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Namibia jittery over Chinese 'invasion'
 
Lack of laws in Namibia restricting foreign companies to certain economic
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Graduate, 99, wants to be a consultant
 
Age is proving no handicap for Ghana's oldest graduate
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Conjoined twins spark Muslim conversions
 
Cameroonian twins Pheinbom and Shevoboh, once seen as a bad omen, change
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The motorcycle, the new Kenyan king
 
Motorcycle taxis are rapidly transforming the face of the East African
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The intricate web of cocoa smugglers
 
Clamp down against illegal cross-border trader fails to bear fruits
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Leper colonies of Africa
 
In many parts of Africa, reveals our two-parts series, lepers are almost
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Rise and fall of Zimbabwe
 
Mugabe on the spot as a battered Zimbabwe turns 30
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Troublesome brews of Africa
 
Cash hungry brewers spoil the party with deaths
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The Same ol' Story in Sudan?
 
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It affected the world...
 
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Wrestling catches on in Senegal
 
Young Senegalese turn to the sport of wrestling
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Malema moves too close for comfort
 
Zuma's recent verdict against Malema leaves analysts talking
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Rwanda attacks: What's the message?
 
Genocide memorial week sees civilian grenade targets as President takes on
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Thrill of Sudan elections
 
There is unfinished business but Sudan looks hopeful
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In the name of Maasai gods
 
Spiritual leader resists temptations, retains traditional authority
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Power behind Cairo's throne
 
Suzanne Mubarak: Dedicated grandmother, a lady in charge
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Girls peddle flesh for survival
 
Scores of youngsters turn to commercial sex industry to fend for basic needs
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Colour and class still count in South Africa
 
Few dare talk about it openly, yet racism is still very much an aspect of the
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Dark past returns to haunt Zimbabwe
 
A journey through Zimbabwe's Goromonzi secret torture chambers
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Namibia‘s shebeens: A haven of crime?
 
Drinking joints increasingly becoming troublespots, but owners and patrons
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Lost Jewish tribe 'found in Zim'
 
Many Lemba are Christians and Muslims, but they embrace their Jewish roots
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Is this Burundi's Obama?
 
As Burundi emerges from civil war, writes Africa Review's Josh Kron in this
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Burundi's new ethnic realities
 
Burundi's former rebels, in the first of this two-parts series, complain
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Sibling rivalry divides Maghreb North
 
Region put apart by "big brother" interests
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Gaddafi's Song
 
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