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Nelson Mandela was too busy with his new exercise regime to attend Friday’s parliamentary opening ceremonies, at which he is usually a regular fixture. • FULL STORY

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• Liberia's new president
Jan. 16: NBC's Ann Curry talks to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's new leader and Africa's first elected woman president.

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• African famine
Severe drought and ongoing conflict bring millions to the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa.

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US Cotton Subsidies Impact Farmers in West Africa

• Do subsidies support poverty?
Flip between images of American and African cotton growers to learn how trade policies impact each set of farmers.

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• Environment pressure
The surging population of sub-Saharan Africa continues to put intense pressure on the natural environment.

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• Kenyan Nobel Prize winner looks back

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• Famine in Niger: How you can help

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The fingers of malnourished one-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother at an emergency feeding clinic in the town of Tahoua in northwestern Niger

• Niger famine
Nearly a third of Niger's 11.3 million people risk starvation after drought and locust invasion wiped out crops last year.

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