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	"Feature service articles - Women seafarers: Fighting against the tide? - Department of Communication"> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Africa today is a continent in search of decent work.
		Despite evidence that sub-Saharan Africa has a fairly large proportion of women in the labour force - in fact, higher than the international average - women and girls are frequently trapped in the lowest paid, least skilled and most precarious occupations.
		In addition, despite increases in the share of women's wage employment in the non-agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa, from 18.9 per cent in 1990, to 28.6 per cent in 2001 (rates are lower in northern Africa), deep-seated gender discrimination remains a major constraint to growth and development.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/bureau/inf/features/03/africa.htm (1539 words)

	Extreme Makeover TV Show - Extreme Makeover Television Show - TV.com
		More Pictures Extreme Makeover follows the stories of the lucky individuals who are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be given a truly "Cinderella-like" experience: a real life fairy tale in which their wishes come true, not just by changing their looks, but their lives and destinies.
		This magic is conjured through the skills of an "Extreme Team," including the nation's top plastic surgeons, eye surgeons and cosmetic dentists, along with a talented team of hair and makeup artists, stylists,...
		The extreme team gives makeover to a 38 year old man, named Phillip, who is deaf and helps others like him find jobs and a marine wife, named Kerra, who's face was scared by a poisonous spider that bite her that her husband brought him in his luggage from Iraq.
	www.tv.com /extreme-makeover/show/18722/summary.html (567 words)

	Blixen
		She speaks of her years in Africa as a relief from her former life: "Here at long last one was in a position not to give a damn for all conventions, here was a new kind of freedom which until then one had only found in dreams" (29).
		Her writing of Africa filters through this position of social privilege that enabled her to watch and comment on the natives and the land from a position of authority in the eyes of her time.
		Blixen, he points out, is no uncouth soldier or repressed missionary, but "a refined lady of some discrimination and learning" (19), thereby legitimizing her words.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Blixen.html (1724 words)

	Africa: Global Apartheid
		The capacity of postindependence African countries to chart their own course was heavily affected by the fact that neither political nor economic structures had yet broken free of the colonial legacies of authoritarian governance and economic dependence on export of primary commodities.
		Despite victories by prodemocracy forces in Africa over the past decade, including the demise of formal apartheid in South Africa, and despite modest recoveries in economic growth rates in recent years, AIDS struck a continent that was extraordinarily vulnerable.
		In apartheid South Africa, that was the rationale for differentiating everything according to race, from materials for housing to standards of education and healthcare.
	www.africaaction.org /docs01/ga0106.htm (2706 words)

	Hands off Southern Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The place is southern Africa; the instrumentality is the United Nations, or, more specifically, its Afro-Asian bloc; the cause, the willingness of the United States representatives at the UN to vote for resolutions which may seem innocuous on the surface, but which have explosive implications.
		The Union of South Africa is committed to a policy of apartheid or separate development for its various racial groups: the whites, who are mostly of Dutch or British descent, the various native African tribes, the East Indians and the "coloreds," some of them people of mixed blood, some descendants of indentured Malays.
		One Point that should not be overlooked in considering denunciations of the present regimes in the Union of South Africa and Rhodesia is that hundreds of thousands of African natives have "voted with their feet" by voluntarily leaving other parts of Africa to seek higher wages and better opportunities in these two countries.
	www.libertyhaven.com /countriesandregions/africa/handsoff.html (2315 words)

	Africa Action: Africa Out of the Limelight: The Debt Crisis One Year After the Gleneagles G8
		Last year, leaders of the world’s economic powers proclaimed that 2005 would be the “year for Africa” and gathered at the annual Group of 8 (G8) meetings to create a plan to address the continent’s challenges.
		This deal was the result of years of activism on the part of civil society in Africa and throughout the Global South, supported by activists across the U.S. and beyond.
		Africa Action maintains that last year’s G8 deal was insufficient on paper and carried out incompletely in practice.
	www.africaaction.org /newsroom/index.php?op=read&documentid=1954&type=15&issues=2 (1138 words)

	Africa Action: Africa Action Talking Points on the G-8 and Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Below are Talking Points from Africa Action on the key Africa issues to be discussed at this week’s G-8 summit.
		The MDGs are a set of international goals agreed in 2000 which seek to halve extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, reduce childhood mortality and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases by 2015.
		If this year’s G-8 summit is supposed to transform the future of the world's poorest countries in Africa, then the leaders of these richest countries will have to promise to take their farmers off subsidies.
	www.africaaction.org /newsroom/index.php?op=read&documentid=1031&type=14&issues=2 (2558 words)

	WORLD SOCIAL FORUM : IS IT AFRICA'S TURN NEXT?
		Africa is also vulnerable to market fluctuations because of its high dependence on commodity exports, the report notes.
		"Africa continues to be marginalised as globalisation increases, yet a large proportion of the wealth of developed countries and multinational corporations has been accumulated via the exploitation of African resources, both human and natural," says Kajee.
		Kajee also points out that not all African states are hampered by a lack of infrastructure and poor flight connections.
	www.ipsterraviva.net /Africa/viewstory.asp?idnews=35 (788 words)

	UNESCO - Communication and Information Sector - How people use the Internet today in Africa
		Use the words "Internet" and "Africa" in the same sentence and you'll be soon be confronted by two opposing camps, both of them with well-entrenched ideas: For the first group, Internet is the solution for Africa.
		As is often the case, extreme positions conceal a subtler situation.
		But in Africa, even more than elsewhere, it is impossible to judge the impact of the telephone or the Internet simply by counting numbers of lines or connections.
	www.unesco.org /webworld/points_of_views/180302_cornu.shtml (1010 words)

	The Music of Africa
		To make music in Africa, it suffices for someone to begin in order for a second person to come in unexpectedly by tapping on a makeshift instrument, which can be just a bottle.
		In this sense, this revolutionary statement was preceded by the points of view of a few individuals like Julien Tiersot, who stated as early as 1889 that the Blacks were passionately interested and gifted in music.
		In East Africa, one notes a multitude of harps and lyres that mark the descent of the Nile Valley and Rift Valley as they open a passage that could go back to Egypt of the pharaohs.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/music/Worldmusic/mafrica/africa.htm (1397 words)

	Tips for Travelers to the Middle East and North Africa
		Unless the naturalized U.S. citizen renounces his or her original nationality at an embassy or consulate of the country of origin, he or she may still be considered a citizen of that country.
		In the hot and dry climates that prevail in the Middle East and North Africa, it is important to avoid water depletion and heat stroke.
		International crossing points between Israel and Jordan are the Arava crossing (Wadi al-’Arabah) in the south, near Eilat, and the Jordan River crossing (Sheikh Hussein Bridge) in the north, near Beit Shean.
	travel.state.gov /travel/tips_mid-east&nafrica.html (9468 words)

	Jendayi E. Frazer, "African Affairs" , eJournal USA, September 2006
		Translated to Africa, the key priorities are to support the spread of political freedom throughout the continent; expand economic opportunity and growth; address the unique challenge of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; and reinforce African initiatives to end conflict and fight terror.
		Africa is a rich continent in an impoverished state.
		Twelve of the 15 focus PEPFAR countries are in Africa, which is the largest recipient of this bold initiative.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itps/0906/ijpe/africa.htm (2152 words)

	Does an active sun trigger extreme drought in South Africa?
		For much of Southern Africa south of latitude 20 ° S, a link has already been made between periods of strongly reduced rainfall and a stronger atmospheric circulation in mid-latitudes with a shift of important rain bearing winds away from the subcontinent.
		The influx of cold water produced by such melting is then likely to cool the overlying air in the higher mid latitudes at the edge of ice centers such as Antarctica.
		Furthermore, all of these were followed by droughts in Southern Africa with more than one year of strongly reduced rainfall viz 1948 and 1950, 1958/59, 1968/69/70, 1982/83 and 1992/93.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2001/august/drought.htm (959 words)

	Online NewsHour -- Land Redistribution in Southern Africa: The Politics of Land Redistribution in Africa
		But for a country like South Africa -- considered a leader on the African continent -- and one like Namibia -- one of the region's most stable presences -- balancing sensitive political land reform decisions with the need to right historical wrongs is a complicated challenge.
		Mbeki, who has sought to be a representative for Africa and its interests on the global stage, has borne the challenge of guiding South Africa through its fledgling years of open democracy.
		One of the key turning points in the land issue occurred in 1965, when a white minority government declared its independence from Britain and white leaders seized the majority of the most fertile farming land.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/land/impact.html (2215 words)

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		Extreme poverty still existed in Brazil, however, the country had achieved some concrete results, with 11.2 million families or 44 million people covered in a total population of 185 million.
		Extreme poverty was one of the issues at the heart of the concerns of the international community.
		Furthermore, those living in extreme poverty were stigmatized, which was dangerous, because their feelings of frustration and abandonment had consequences that were impossible to predict.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6U2RK5?OpenDocument (12887 words)

	AFRICA
		It may be that in parts of Africa, the coolest temperatures and maximum ice extent in mountain glaciers occurred earlier or later than the maximum ice extent at higher latitudes.
		In east Africa, the general picture for the LGM is one of drier-than-present conditions throughout (Coetzee and van Zinderen Bakker 1988).
		Generally, the signs from the many pollen and palaeoenvironmental records across southern and eastern Africa are of mid-Holocene vegetation and climates that were quite similar to those of today, but with a vegetation structure not subject to the intense degradation by domesticated grazing animals that it undergoes at present in some regions.
	www.esd.ornl.gov /projects/qen/new_africa.html (11452 words)

	Extreme points of Africa-Eurasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of the extreme points of Africa-Eurasia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the supercontinent.
		Northernmost Point — Fligeli Point, Rudolfi Island, Franz Josef Land, Russia
		Westernmost Point — Santo Antão, Cape Verde Islands ¹
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extreme_points_of_Africa-Eurasia (114 words)

	Extreme points of the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The highest point measured from sea level is the summit of Everest.
		The lowest point is Challenger Deep, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench: 10,911 m (35,797 feet) below sea level [2].
		This point is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 614 km south of Accra, Ghana, in the Gulf of Guinea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_world (733 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: South Africa: Chemical Overview
		These agents were manufactured by South Africa at the Klipfontein factory near Pretoria and the Firgrove factory in the Cape Province, which employed a total of 1,697 persons and were capable of producing 250 tons of different chemical substances each month.
		In one undated document, he argued that although South Africa was not threatened by CW attack from abroad, chemical weapons could nonetheless be useful for the SADF.
		Although Hatfill's activities in southern Africa have yet to be fully clarified, it is known that he worked for the Rhodesian police's Special Branch and that he later obtained his medical degree from the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Chemical/index.html (11763 words)

	Defeating Global Poverty: Helping Africa to help itself
		The sums (the Commission for Africa calls for an extra $25 billion a year over the next three to five years) amount to just 0.08% of the 22 richest donors' combined GDP.
		In those emails I make the case that Europe, due to its proximate location to Africa, is well positioned to help Africa by allowing more immigration from Africa.
		This could liberate millions of Africans from lousy, corrupt African governments/economies (not to mention the "expatriot remittances" from these emigres that would flow back to Africa and fund schools, hospitals, public works projects, etc...) But most Western European countries are growing far to slowly to support this kind of assistance.
	defeatpoverty.com /2005/07/helping-africa-to-help-itself.html (466 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: South Africa: Biological Overview
		South Africa's biological weapons program was one of the two principal components of its covert state-sponsored CBW program, codenamed Project Coast (later Project Jota).
		There is no evidence that South Africa developed or produced BW agents of any type prior to the establishment of Project Coast, but by the early 1980s advanced research on many virulent biological pathogens had already been carried out for decades at several of the nation's leading medical, veterinary, and agricultural facilities.
		In addition to the legitimate research conducted in South Africa to manage natural outbreaks of diseases caused by biological agents, in 1960 a company named Mechem was established as the Chemical Defence Unit (CDU) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Biological/index.html (10408 words)

	AFRICA: Climate change becoming a matter of life and death
		Climate change, coupled with widespread deforestation of the slopes, is melting the ice and snow that has crowned Africa's highest peak for more than 11,000 years, dramatically altering the surrounding ecosystem.
		Projected warming will be greatest in the Sahel region and central southern Africa, accompanied by more extreme weather events, such as droughts and floods.
		Africa we don't have the financial resources, the educational system, the
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2005/april/kilimanjaro.htm (1140 words)

	MDGs in Africa - Goal 1
		Although North Africa as a whole and a small number of SSA economies have the potential to reach the sub-goal of reducing extreme poverty by half by 2015, the slow pace of progress in the majority of countries indicates that as a continent, Africa is unlikely to reach this goal, given the current trends.
		The number of poor people in Africa has actually risen since the 1990s by over 90 million, while the average income of the poor has declined, indicating worsening income distribution within the countries.
		On the whole, the proportion of people living with insufficient food has declined by only 3 percentage points since the starting point of the Goals in 1990, and hunger still prevails (see Figure 1).
	www.uneca.org /mdgs/goal1.asp (359 words)

	World News - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		Lactose tolerance in East Africa points to a surprisingly recent moment in human evolution
		Scourge takes toll on girls in sub-Saharan Africa.
		Africa adds to miserable ranks of child workers.
	www.iht.com /pages/africa/index.php (473 words)

	Geography of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its long coastline stretching more than 2,500 kilometres (1,553 miles) from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then north to the border with subtropical Mozambique on the Indian Ocean.
		By far South Africa's biggest neighbour is the ocean—or two oceans, which meet at the southwestern corner.
		This is a list of the extreme points of South Africa, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location in the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extreme_points_of_South_Africa (2050 words)

	Not Out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz
		Rather, he was an extreme Afrocentrist, author of many books describing how Greek civilization was stolen from Africa, how Aristotle robbed the library of Alexandria, and how the true Jews are Africans like himself.
		Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North.
		In the conclusion to the volume, the editors propose an entirely new scholarly framework for understanding the relationship between the cultures of the ancient Near East and Greece and the origins of Western civilization.
	www.wellesley.edu /CS/Mary/contents.html (5535 words)

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