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09 January 2009 

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 Africa
  Miriam Makeba's Last CD Memorializes Her to Her Fans  Audio Clip Available
  Nigerian Entrepreneur Succeeds Despite Current Economic Downturn  Audio Clip Available
  Over 50,000 People Hire Smugglers to Cross Gulf of Aden in 2008  Audio Clip Available
  African Union Will Sanction Guinea Unless Elections are Held Quickly  Audio Clip Available
  UN Envoy Obasanjo Continues Congo Mediation Trip  Audio Clip Available
  Nigerian Opposition Says Ghana Polls Fine Example for Nigeria
  ECOWAS Security Council Meets Friday on Military Takeover in Guinea  Audio Clip Available
  Ethiopia Restricts Rights Defenders, Civil Society Groups,and Foreign Funded NGO's  Audio Clip Available
  Indicted Rwanda Diplomat Returns to France to Face Charges  Audio Clip Available
  Malawi Ex-President Muluzi Challenges Mutharika to Debate the Economy  Audio Clip Available
  US Announces International Anti-Piracy Force
  Ruling Party Dominates New Guinea-Bissau Government
  Study: Climate Change to Threaten Food for Half World's Population by 2100  Audio Clip Available
  Zimbabwe Opposition Sets Jan. 18 Meeting On Future of Power-Sharing  Audio Clip Available
  Renegade General Hopeful for Obasanjo's Mediation in DRC Conflict  Audio Clip Available
  Zimbabwe Activists Testify In Open Court On Abductions, Alleging Torture  Audio Clip Available
  Harare Municipal Authorities Dispute State-Media Report On Residential Rates  Audio Clip Available
  WFP Worker Killed in Somalia, Second in 3 Days
  Amnesty International Urges Human Rights Improvement in Ghana  Audio Clip Available
  Diplomatic Activity Builds to Halt Eastern Congo Clashes  Audio Clip Available
  Egypt Bids to Mediate Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire  Audio Clip Available
  DRC Suspected Ebola Cases Rise to 44  Audio Clip Available
  Africans Await Obama Inauguration with Mixed Expectations  Audio Clip Available
  Lawyers Want Charges Dropped Against Zimbabwe Activists  Audio Clip Available
  China Discusses Darfur Prosecution  Audio Clip Available
  Corruption Commission Submits Report as Activist Calls on President Sirleaf to Act Decisively  Audio Clip Available
  UN Says Deadly LRA Weekend Attacks  Imperil Northeastern Congo Population  Audio Clip Available
  Obasanjo to Meet DRC Rebel Leader Nkunda for Peace Talks  Audio Clip Available
  Somali Government Denies Ethiopian Troops Return  Audio Clip Available
  Scientists Cite China's Success in Controlling 'Snail Fever'
  Cholera Sweeps Away Families In Chipinge, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe  Audio Clip Available
  Prospects For Zimbabwe Unity Government In February Slim - Observers  Audio Clip Available
  Zimbabwe Government Postpones Return To School For Two Weeks  Audio Clip Available
  Zimbabwe Rights Defenders Name Alleged Abductors In Court Affidavit  Audio Clip Available
  Uganda Rejects Rebels' Cease-Fire Demand
  Ghana Inaugurates New President
  AU Denies Somali Militant Group's Abuse Claims  Audio Clip Available
  Darfur Women Warn of Reaction if ICC Indicts Bashir  Audio Clip Available
  DRC Province May Have More Than 40 Ebola Cases  Audio Clip Available
  Red Cross Boosting Aid to Somalia  Audio Clip Available