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Nepal´s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said Maoist combatants will also be merged in new security organs and only some percentage of Maoist combatants will be integrated in the Nepal Army. In an exclusive interview with The Daily IIJ’s Rajneesh Bhandari, PM Nepal talked about the possibilities of using the Maoist Combatants as the border [...]

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The course director (Dieter Schneider) introduces Mr Friedrich Steinemann to the Participant. First, Mr Steinemann talks about the origins of ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) He said that ICRC was founded in 1859 to one battle: Solferino, one man:  Henry Durant and one vision. In 1863 the committee of Geneva was born and [...]

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The Global Peace Operations program strives to reach an in-depth understanding of the issues surrounding peacekeeping efforts around the world and to develop strategies for their increased success.  The program’s largest publication, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, is the most comprehensive report of its kind, examining more than fifty UN and non-UN peace [...]

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BY JAMES RATEMO IN NAIROBI So Michael Jackson is dead enh? But why? Well I know this is the question that played on many minds and lips.Kenya was not left behind. POLITICS that take centre stage in Kenyan Media and the Somalia crisis was shelved as the country went into mourning for a man who [...]

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A lot is being said about CNN relaying unverified videos of an Iranian woman Neda posted on you tube and twitter who was shot by Basij, a paramilitary allegedly sponsored by Iran government. The situation in Iran is so tense, Journalists for some international media houses have been expelled, the remaining have been ordered to [...]

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Le  Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) a ouvert ce lundi 22 juin 2009 deux semaines de cours dénommé « Integrated Peace Support Operations Course (IPSO)  à Accra au Ghana. Le but du cours est d’étudier la planification, la coordination et la conduite de niveau opérationnel des opérations intégrées de soutien de paix (PSO) afin d’améliorer  [...]

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Promises, Promises….Are they hard to keep? Elsy Melkonian, Syria It is one of the expressions we often use in our daily life without even thinking of its broad meaning and the fact that it keeps us with high expectations . What made me think of the word promise, or the impact it leaves on people, [...]

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A Multilateral Trade Official of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mr. Emmanuel Awuri has disclosed that Ghana is not ready to sign a comprehensive EPA with the EU by the June 30 deadline. “We have begun a review of the Interim EPA. We are identifying sensitive products to exempt from the free market access. [...]

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I like massage, especially foot massage very much. Being told that Thai massage is marvelous, I decided to try it when was there in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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Maputo – Most HIV positive pregnant women are not changing their sexual behaviors by moving to safer sexual practices a situation that is not helping stop the spread of the epidemic in the poor southern African country of Mozambique, a health worker said.

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