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Save The Children Pushes Congolese Teens To Keep Their Babies

Worldcrunch.com / SYFIA INTERNATIONAL GOMA — The girls, all of them under 18 and all pregnant, are taking the courtyard outside the Murara Hospital by storm. The mothers-to-be are here in the eastern...

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Why Egypt Has Joined The Gulf Coalition In Yemen

Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Why is Egypt jumping into Yemen? Supporters of Egyptian military participation in the coalition fighting the Houthi rebels' takeover in Yemen say it's important to...

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Why Nigeria's Rejection of Goodluck Jonathan Is a Lesson For Africa

Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -Editorial-PARIS — During the nail-biting four days of an election that many warned would be too close to call, Nigeria was in a collective state of high anxiety. Then, in a...

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Cover Your Eyes, Yemen Is Dying

Worldcrunch.com / RADIKAL ISTANBUL — Now that Saudi Arabia's attack on Yemen has the support of Turkey and a large part of the international community, feel free to be deaf and blind to what will...

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Mob-Run Fisheries And Pollution Imperil An Egyptian Lake

Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR KAFR AL-SHEIKH — Sheikh Hamada sits by the lake to eat his lunch and remembers times gone by. "In the old days, the water was so clear," he recalls. "You could throw...

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Somalis Fear Scapegoating After Kenya University Attack

Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE NAIROBI — When the Somalia-based terror group al-Shabaab slaughtered 148 people, including 142 students, in the Kenyan city of Garissa earlier this month, it resurrected bad...

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Libya, A Former Migrant Gold Mine Descends Into Chaos

Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE GARABULLI — Two unfinished houses on the sand, facing a Mediterranean sea in shades of grey. So this is where they left from. According to various Libyan sources, the vessel...

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Smart Cities International: Autobahn 2.0, Dakar Hub, Speeding Songs

Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE · TRANSLATED INTELLIGENCE

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Egypt's Written Word, Increasingly In English

Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -Essay- CAIRO — I was born in Egypt, raised in Egypt, went to a school with a curriculum that was in both English and Arabic, and yet I consider English my first language...

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From Wheat To Pasta: A Very Italian Solution To Ethiopian Poverty

Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA OROMIA — Here's the vision: Ethiopia is on its way to becoming one of the world's major producers of spaghetti and other types of pasta, helping the country pull itself out...

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A New Secular Party Challenges State Islam In Egypt

Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — A new political party, the Egyptian Secular Party (ESP), has been proposed to challenge what the founders see as the dominance of religious institutions over the...

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Smart Cities International: Cyber City Security, Russian Hub, Africa's NYC

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The Painful Lurch Toward The End Of Ebola In Guinea

Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE FORÉCARIAH — Assény Touré’s tightly drawn features bear testament to his harrowing ordeal. In December, after he was diagnosed with Ebola, this taciturn 30-year-old was...

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Abortion Rights In Morocco - What Does Islam Say?

Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE RABAT — Her voice is thick with emotion, the words flowing too fast. Aïcha (not her real name) finds it difficult to talk about herself, to tell her story. In 2012, the...

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Salafists In Tunisia Target Sufi, The Mystics Of Islam

Worldcrunch.com / L'OBS TUNIS — Finding the Saida Manoubia mausoleum is quite the challenge. The Sufi saint is hidden somewhere in the heights of Tunis, which prove impossible to navigate without the...

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The Last Seven Jews Of Egypt

Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Egyptian Jews are having to face the ugly truth that their community appears bound to vanish. As recently as 1947, Egypt's Jewish community numbered up to 80,000....

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In Gabon, Ecotourism Vs. Elephant Poachers

Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE MINKEBE — Seen from the helicopter, the canopy of Minkébé National Park, in northern Gabon, looks like a green carpet that stretches to the horizon. The immobile uniformity...

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Sustainable Tourism In Western Sahara Is Driven By The Wind

Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA DAKHLA — Located on the Atlantic coast, at the edge of the Sahara, it used to be called "Villa Cisneros" after the Spanish founded it in 1884. During the second half of the...

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Egypt's Sermonizing Media Appoints Itself Morality Police

Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -OpEd- CAIRO — Videos of a curly-haired woman pushing and yelling at a police officer at Cairo airport took social media by storm earlier this month. Yasmine al-Narsh, who...

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In Burundi, Where Anti-Government Protests Are Tamed With Guns

Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE BUJUMBURA — When she goes out alone of Burundi's capital, Valerie has started wearing trousers in case she has to run or is dragged to the ground. On this day, Bujumbura is...

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