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Areva wins Niger uranium licence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7813242.stm

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

The French nuclear energy group Areva has been awarded a licence to build and operate the Imouraren mine in Niger. Areva says it expects it to become...

AFRICA: Call to ban cluster bombs

Monday, September 29, 2008

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid...

SUDAN: I have a mine in my living-room, what should I do?

IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Dengershufu in Malakal, capital of the Sudanese state of Upper Nile, looks like any low-income suburb of a post-conflict Southern town, with roadside...

SOUTH AFRICA-ZAMBIA: Divisions surface on the proposed cluster munitions ban

Sunday, April 06, 2008

South Africa cut a lone figure in Zambia's tourist capital of Livingstone as the only African country not to endorse a global ban on the use of all...

African nations gather to support a ban on cluster bombs

Saturday, April 05, 2008

A 39-nation coalition in Africa passed a declaration on Tuesday to ban cluster bombs in a nearly unanimous vote. The gathering in Lusaka, Zambia was...

Thousands trapped in South African mine; over half rescued so far

Wikinews

Thursday, October 04, 2007

As many as 3,000 mine workers are trapped in Elandsrand mine, a gold mine in South Africa about 50 miles west of Johannesburg in Carletonville,...