Extreme measures that women take to get enviable curves

When absenteeism in parliament goes to extreme
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Thank God we have advanced technology in form of television sets to help us witness live what is going on in the current budget parliamentary sessions. One of the attention attracting spectacle to behold is hundreds of empty red covered seats when House ...

I am currently volunteering at Mpapa Health Centre in a rural area of Tanzania. I have now delivered over 25 beautiful babies and am always busy caring for patients who come walking from villages miles and miles away to receive treatment that most of us would have from our own medicine cabinet.

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Extreme care needed in these four days of 'storm'
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THE torrential rains currently falling over the Tanzanian coast but most telling and with devastating results in Dar es Salaam Region and its hinterland is not some 'wet and wild' park fun scenario. It is the real thing – and a life-threatening one at that. According ...
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At least 10 dead in Dar es...

It is a ritual supposed to keep women “pure”, but an increased understanding of the severe health risks of extreme forms of female genital mutilation appears to be slowly rolling back its prevalence in Somalia’s northwest.

When Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan branded Boko Haram “al Qaeda in West Africa”, it was sure to turn up the alarm among Western policy-makers, if its kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls was not enough.

The World Bank says that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015.

The BBC's Mike Wooldridge reports from Uganda on the progress of the Millennium Village project.

Breaking down this sell-off, among the most extreme and rare Wall Street has ever seen  CNBC