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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 1919 the [...]

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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 “touched [...]

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Africa joins the rest of the world to mourn the sudden death of the King of Pop – Michael Jackson. Reports reaching AfricaNews editorial desk indicate that Jackson’s death was the major news item featured on most radio and television stations across Africa and on the front pages of top newspapers.

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Social networking websites are fast becoming the backbones of the new media. Twitter has over the years proven to be a “good” source of news from locals and not only feeds from mainstream media houses. The skirmishes surrounding the just held elections in Iran has whipped up a lot of interest in the use of [...]

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The unfolding situation in Iran following the June 12 election has brought to the fore various ethical issues on the practice of journalism.
The ban on international media and restrictions for domestic media has forced journalists to rely on mostly unverified sources of information.  And rightly so. They must do this if they are to fulfill [...]

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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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Statistical data cannot be reliable and useful if the possible users are not aware of, and confident in the methods used to produce them. This challenge must be won especially by producers, the statisticians. In this sense, a workshop is in progress in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, since Monday June 22.
“Statistics that are not used, are [...]

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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  l’efficacité [...]

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