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“I liked the country and I wanted to stay, but the country doesn’t want me,” says Joshua Bokombe, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose electrician’s shop was destroyed in the xenophobic violence. What hurts most is that he can no longer afford to send his children to school.

UN warns of rising tensions as refugees flood into cities

Mass movement to urban centres is huge problem for developing countries, says UN

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Jordanian women carry out mine clearance in the north of the country. Work such as this is restoring land for cultivation all round the world

The world is winning the landmine war

Sunday, 6 December 2009

David Randall: The fight to clear landmines gets little coverage, but it is changing millions of lives.

The US Secretary of State told Vogue magazine last month that Miliband is 'vibrant, vital, attractive and smart.' She added: 'Well, if you saw him it would be a big crush. He's really a good guy. And he's so young!'

Who said the special relationship was dead?

Saturday, 5 December 2009

George W. Bush and Tony Blair were "shoulder to shoulder" – but with David Miliband and Hillary Clinton, it is more a case of "eye to eye", as the world can see from these pictures taken yesterday as Nato foreign ministers convened in Brussels.

Obama's Nato allies to send 7,000 troops

Saturday, 5 December 2009

Barack Obama's Nato allies yesterday pledged about 7,000 additional troops as part of a fresh military surge in Afghanistan. The offers of additional troops were made at Nato headquarters amid strong pressure from Washington on the Alliance to help "turn the tide" against the Taliban.

Tony Blair and George Bush at the President's Crawford ranch in April 2002

UK 'suddenly' let in on Bush war plans

Saturday, 5 December 2009

US military leaders opened up after Blair met President at Texas ranch

Italy to provide 1,000 troops for Obama's surge in Afghanistan

Friday, 4 December 2009

Italy will send around 1,000 additional soldiers to Afghanistan as part of US President Barack Obama's planned troop increase, the Italian Defence Minister, Ignazio La Russa, said in an interview published yesterday.

US may come to regret its pledge to withdraw

Thursday, 3 December 2009

As Barack Obama's strategy is unveiled, Patrick Cockburn assesses its chances of success in the fight against the Taliban

European allies fail to meet Obama's demands

Thursday, 3 December 2009

America's European allies have signalled their ambivalence over President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy with troop commitments that fall well short of the 10,000 new soldiers sought by Washington.

President Obama before addressing cadets at the West Point Military Academy

Obama's pledge: they'll be home in three years

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Strict conditions attached as President dispatches more troops to Afghanistan

The Commonwealth Foundation agreed to switch funding from combating the pandemic to cultural activities in April

Anger as Commonwealth cuts funding for Aids fight

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Although 60 per cent of sufferers live in member countries, organisation has turned its back on the cause.

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