"We're not going to be able to protect endangered species in the future -- whether it's elephants in Africa or whether it's rare plants that might be producing the cure for cancer, " said Jim Jontz of the Endangered Species Coalition.
It's been widely reported that the father of the suspect in the Christmas incident warned U.S. officials in Africa about his son's extremist views.
Raw materials that are plentiful in Africa have been a crucial source of China's own spectacular growth while China is playing a key role in Africa's own economic development, particularly in infrastructure projects.
This year, the 31-year-old will be the first-choice goalkeeper in a U.S. team tipped by many to spring surprises in the sport's showpiece tournament in South Africa.
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Beeman, a professor at Brown University who's an authority on Central Asia, to conclude that Osama bin Laden's bombings in 1998 of U.S. embassies in Africa were designed to nip the budding relationship between the Taliban and Western interests.
While the smoking population is half what it was a generation ago in the U.S. and other industrialized nations, with only one in five using tobacco, it's different in Africa and East Asia, where time stands still when it comes to cigarettes.
In the Parrot's Beak in West Africa, help for refugees and displaced people depends on the goodwill of at least three governments and one rebel group.
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In his column, Novak attributed the information about Plame's involvement in Wilson's trip to Africa to two unnamed senior administration officials.
Some of them also see South Africa as America's ally in Africa.
Superstorm Sandy in the United States, drought in Africa's Sahel, a bitter cold snap in Europe and floods in China were just some of the severe weather events of 2012.
Solanki, 31, has played in 51 one-day internationals, the last in the summer of 2006 and also featured in England's Twenty20 squad in South Africa in September.
It's the second embarrassing dismissal of a high ranking officer involved in the U.S. military hierarchy in Africa in five months.
"It's now time for the newly elected folks to show up and form their government, " Bush said during a news conference in Ghana, the fourth of five nations he's visiting in Africa.
He was celebrating the sixth victory of his national team in football's Africa Cup of Nations after it had beaten Cameroon 1-0 to keep the title it had won in the previous tournament in 2006.
People forget that this so-called Arab Spring revolution started in North Africa, that's Africa -- it was about youths demanding jobs, yes, there was governance issues but at the end of the day it was about jobs and prosperity and lack of vote.
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Eriksson left Meadow Lane in February and will lead the Ivory Coast in this summer's World Cup in South Africa.
Ambitious Beckham has other goals in mind before that happens including winning a place in England's World Cup plans for next year's finals in South Africa.
Parker, who missed out on a place in England's World Cup squad for this summer's final in South Africa, returned to club action last Friday against Panathinaikos.
The most recent violence at Lonmin spun from a rivalry between the emerging Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, or AMCU, and NUM, the country's largest mine union, who are competing for majority union membership in South Africa's platinum mines.
He did, however, make South Africa's team for last year's London Olympics, reaching the semifinals in the 400 meters and then running for South Africa's 4x400 relay team in the final.
The U.S. Embassy in Kenya is the largest in Africa, indicating this country's importance to U.S. foreign policy.
Schalke are not the first football club to open a cemetery for their fans, with Argentina's Boca Juniors having created one with 3, 000 plots in 2007 while South Africa's Kaizer Chiefs have entered the market in different fashion, offering fans a Funeral Plan which effectively serves as a life insurance policy.
Ganguly gave special praise to Anil Kumble, who joined Kapil Dev as India's highest Test-wicket taker on 434 dismissals after snapping up three in South Africa's second innings.
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Rebecca and Drea have just vacationed on safari somewhere in Africa, and Peter once volunteered somewhere in Africa with Rebecca's since-deceased brother.
As anyone who's spent time in Africa will tell you, it's a diverse continent that's home to both immense joy and incredible sorrow.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says South Africa's wine industry is trying to recover from its chequered past.
William "Kip" Ward, the first four-star general to command U.S. military operations in Africa, was demoted for excessive spending from duty at U.S. Africa Command (Africom).
But he was also instrumental in the unification of South Africa's racially divided cricket unions in 1991, creating the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA).
If India - with its own important historical association with Africa - was initially taken by surprise by the scale of China's interest in Africa it has been playing catch-up in a major way, too.
Scotland must now address the small matter of beating the Netherlands at Hampden on Wednesday to guarantee second place in Group 9 and a chance of a play-off place for next year's finals in South Africa.
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