By Peta Thornycroft Harare 29 February 2008 Presidential hopeful Simba Makoni, who spent all of his adult life in the ruling ZANU-PF party, blames the party and its leaders, not the West, for the current suffering experienced by Zimbabweans. In an ex

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Making a living doing exactly what you enjoy doing is a blessing. Theres one lucky man called Bai Zehua who owns a shop selling handicraft made from gourds. Working with gourds has always been my hobby. I enjoy painting on them, carving designs on t

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 27 April 2006 Eritrea's presidential spokesman says his country is pursuing a long-term food security strategy that largely shuns foreign food aid as a way of making the coun

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To Helen Helen thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently o'er a perfumed sea, The weary wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have

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In much of Asia, especially the so-called rice bowl cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks. Chopsticks are two long, thin, usually tapered, pieces of wood. Bamboois the most common material, but they are a

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By Alisha Ryu Near Galkayo, Somalia 06 October 2009 The United Nations is warning that years of drought and conflict are pushing many regions of Somalia toward a new cycle of hunger, devastation, and human suffering. Worse than ever Rotting carcass

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