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A replica of a 19th century slave ship, which became a symbol of the anti-slavery movement after kidnapped Africans rose up on board against their captors, arrived on Sunday in Sierra Leone.
Cheering Sierra Leoneans lined the docks to see the 39m schooner, topped with three billowing sails and the Sierra Leonean, US and Canadian flags, make its first stop in Africa since it set sail in June from New Haven, Connecticut.
The Amistad's voyage commemorates Britain's abolition of the transatlantic slave trade 200 years ago this year.
The ship has already stopped in Britain and Portugal on a voyage expected to last 14 months, retracing the routes of the slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas.
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China will send doctors, hospitals and business to Africa
BEIJING, 4 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday pledged to double his country's assistance to the African continent by 2009, and proposed a raft of new loans, development projects in health and agriculture, and debt cancellations.
In his speech opening the two-day China-Africa summit in the Chinese capital Beijing, Hu said China wants to be Africa's "partner".
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WEST AFRICA: Tandja wins new ECOWAS mandate
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NIAMEY, 13 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - President Mamadou Tandja of Niger has been re-elected chairman of the West African regional group ECOWAS at a summit where leaders pledged strides in bolstering peace across the world’s poorest region.
“To further consolidate peace and stability, priority will need to be placed on promoting democracy and good governance,” Tandja said at Thursday’s close of the summit of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States.
Peace-sealing elections in 2005 in Liberia and Guinea-Bissau have brought new hope to one of the world’s most troubled regions, Tandja said.
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A baby born in Africa faces a harrowing struggle to survive even a day due to a lack of basic ante-natal care, a report by a group of international health organisations has said.
Around 500,000 children die on the world's poorest continent within the first 24 hours while an average of 1.1 million lose their fight for life within a month of their birth, said the report compiled by researchers from groups such as the World Health Organisation, Save the Children and USAID.
There are many women and babies out there who don't have anybody to shout for them and are dying uncounted and unnamed but definitely not unmourned," said Joy Lawn of Save the Children at the report's launch in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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: WEST AFRICA: 12 nations band together to fight off H5N1 threat
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Chicken farm in Senegal
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DAKAR, 23 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Twelve West African nations on Thursday pledged to work together to fight the deadly H5N1 virus and called on the international community to back a joint emergency fund dedicated to the battle against bird flu.
In a statement issued after two days of talks in the Senegalese capital, the group of nations - two of them bordering Nigeria, the only bird-flu-hit country in Africa to date - agreed on “the need for a concerted and coordinated approach in setting up national campaigns” against the virus.
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