the picture of courage: remembering steven biko

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T-shirts imprinted with Biko's distinctive face have become a must-have fashion accessory amongst young South Africans.
For some that is a sign that post-apartheid youth culture still embraces Biko's message of racial pride and African unity.

But graphic designer Mugabe Thugwana is not so sure: "I don't think young people know enough about Biko." .....click here to read more

ending conflict: how meeting human needs can save wildlife

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In the space of a month, nine gorillas - more than 1% of the known population of these charismatic relatives of ours - were wiped out. All were from the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Virunga National Park.......Living at the epicentre of the bloodiest conflict since the Second World War, the mountain gorillas share their habitat with heavily armed militia..........wild meat comes into contact with hungry gunmen, species are slaughtered for food, or for trophies to be traded for cash and weapons.

But these deaths were repulsive for the fact that the gorilla corpses served no use to the killers........On the contrary, it is the very presence of mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park that threatens them, for the animals draw attention to an area that unscrupulous people would rather have us forget.......

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the plight of the refugee

MOHAMMARA, Lebanon - The last militant stronghold of a Palestinian refugee camp devastated by more than three months of fighting between Islamic fighters and Lebanese soldiers fell to the army on Sunday, security officials said.....
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return to rwanda

Rwandan returns to find new hope
The BBC's Zoe Murphy meets a Rwandan genocide survivor, whose emotional personal film of his return home shows for the first time in the UK.
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