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STEALING PUBLIC FUNDS AND NOBODY IS REACTING?
OSLO KOMMUNE (Municipality) tells API that action will be taken sooner rather than later!
Norway: 75% of Immigrant organizations in Oslo are getting money from the municipality through false pretences and by colluding with some corrupt municipal officials participating in making the scam a success.
Oslo municipality has fallen victim of a number of immigrant organizations that through false pretences get funding for projects that do not exist.
Most of the organizations in question use projects that do not exist to get the money and thereafter file false reports to indicate that the projects have been completed and yet none of [...]
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Men, all men, want a full head of hair
Male Hair Syndrome
Men, all men, want a full head of hair. No matter how secure, powerful, rich or successful a man is, his Achilles heel is the pattern of his hair growth.
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Kenya: Drama in Butere court
BY JEFF OTIENO
There was a drama in Butere court in a case which Mumias legislator Ben Washiali has been charged over incitement.
Lawyers representing the 5 accused protested to the presiding magistrate and stage a walk out over what they termed “lack of fairness”.
The case which had earlier been adjourned in 25th May 2009 during the first hearing was being heard this week 3rd July 2009 and all the five witnesses, and five accused persons were present.
Drama ensued in the parked tensed court when the………
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Kofi Annan may want to continue babysitting the Kenyan leaders
Kofi Annan gave Kenya until the end of August to form a local tribunal to try the architects of the post-election violence that saw many people get killed, or face the consequences of the secret list being handed over to the International Criminal Court. Many politicians are against having a local tribunal and prefer to have the ICC do its job and give Kenya the justice it so much longs to have.
Many have stated that a local tribunal will be manipulated by leaders and there will be no justice. This is true in itself because many Kenyan leaders are known to buy their way in anything they so much want to get done.
It is a waste of time and money to see the Justice Minister, the Attorney General and one other minister travelling to……………
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Putting a stop to sugar daddies and mummies in Rwanda expected to reduce spread of HIV
 Photo: Zoe Flood/IRIN  |
| Campaign poster outside the National University of Rwanda, Butare |
KIGALI, – A new HIV prevention campaign in Rwanda – “Sinigurisha” (I am not for sale) – warns against cross-generational sex involving both older men and older women.
“Sexual relationships between girls and older men [sugar daddies], and boys and older women [sugar mummies] – often in exchange for gifts and money – are very prevalent in Rwanda.
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KENYA: Struggling to meet demand for male circumcision
 Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN |
| A mother comforts her son who has just been circumcised at a Marie Stopes clinic in Nyanza |
KISUMU, – Demand for medical male circumcision has been rising in Kenya’s south-western Nyanza Province since it became available as part of a package of HIV prevention services in November 2008.
Although local communities do not traditionally practice male circumcision, intensive sensitization programmes by governmental and non-governmental organizations are boosting acceptability.
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NAMIBIA: Court case highlights workers rights
 Photo: AMREF |
| None of the employees consented to be tested for HIV |
JOHANNESBURG, – In a landmark case in Namibia, 22 hotel workers are taking their employer and a doctor to court for allegedly testing them for HIV without their informed consent.
In February 2000, the owner of Oshakati Country Lodge in northern Namibia hired a doctor to conduct HIV tests on all the lodge’s employees. Those who asked about the nature of the test were told it was for general hygiene.
More: Contacting HIV tests by force
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Michael Jackson, the King of the Pop, was “KILLED” by the US prosecutor when….
Michael Jackson, the King of the Pop, was “KILLED” by the US prosecutor when he chose to humiliate him by being naked photographed before being dragged through the courts.
Or what would you as a reader call what happened to Michael Jackson, a star and King of Pop music being character assassinated and tainted, now slain-looking though alive and pushed to a corner?
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Controversy: Preparation to hold a constitutional referendum on 4 August continues
NIGER: Timeline of constitution controversy
DAKAR, – Calls to change Niger’s constitution to allow President Mamadou Tandja to stay in office have been met with protests from parts of Niger’s civil society, a negative ruling from the country’s highest court and a regional sanctions threat.
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UGANDA: HIV-positive mums struggle to find safe food for their babies
 Photo: Charles Akena/IRIN |
| The price of cow’s milk has recently gone up by more than fifty percent |
GULU, – The rising cost of food in northern Uganda is forcing HIV-positive new mothers to turn to risky alternatives to formula milk or exclusive breastfeeding, as recommended by health professionals.
Despite the insecurity caused by a two-decade-long war in the north, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in the region are reported as largely successful.
The Italian NGO, the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI), says that in its programmes in the districts of Kitgum and Pader, HIV testing and counselling acceptance rate are above 90 percent; more women are also coming to health centres to deliver their babies.
