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Guantanamo Closure Recedes Into Distance
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's hopes of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility appear as far from being realised as ever in the wake of new legislation approved by Congress this week.
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Human Suffering Escalates in Cote d'Ivoire
Alexis Adele
ABIDJAN, Dec 23 (IPS) - For three days, 25-year-old Ousmane Traore attended the private clinic in the populous district of Abobo, north of Abidjan. Suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen as a result of the Ivorian opposition demonstrations, he was forced to leave the main hospital in Treichville, south of Abidjan, due to a lack of assistance.
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Cholera Forces Haiti to Face Sewage Dilemma
Correspondents
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Dec 23 (IPS) - The cholera crisis is forcing Haitian authorities to address an unpleasant and now life-threatening problem - untreated feces. The first infections likely came from cholera-infected feces in a river, and feces is a main vector of the vibrio cholera bacteria. But Haitian authorities have been slow to face the problem.
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Nepal: Education Shouldn't Be A Casualty in Emergencies
Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU, Dec 23 (IPS) - Nepal may be doing well in providing complete primary education to boys and girls, but has quite a bit of catching up to do when it comes to ensuring that their schooling does not become a casualty during disasters and emergencies.
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Justice at Last for Peasant Environmentalists in Mexico
Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Dec 23 (IPS) - "I feel I can breathe more deeply and look more towards the future. I feel at peace," Mexican peasant Rodolfo Montiel told IPS, from somewhere on the west coast of the United States.
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Festive season a nightmare for Kenya's Displaced
Miriam Gathigah
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 23 (IPS) - The Christmas season comes with joy and merrymaking in Kenya, where preparations for the festivities are underway as people crowd the street to shop for clothes and gifts. But even as the cheer spreads all around, the situation is different for the thousands of internally displaced Kenyans (IDP's) still living in various camps.
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Life Sentence for Videla Culminates "Year of Trials"
'Green' Schools Flourish in Porto Alegre
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