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A new treatment for river blindness or onchocerciasis?

The World Health Organisation, the WHO, has announced the launch of a study to perfect a new drug to combat onchocerciasis or “river blindness”.

• CHAN 2011: Qualifiers get under way

• Europe asked to guard against conflict-resources from Africa

• DRC: Prostitutes claim their rights

• Football: 2010 World Cup trials begin

• Congolese Groups Demand the Removal of Abusive Army Commander

• The importance of African Rain Forests to the world

• Women Around The World Urged To Come Together And’ Join Me On The Bridge’ On March 8th 2010

• Uganda elders seek LRA talks, officials reject efforts

• Haiti: Congo joins Senegal in rare poor-help-poor diplomacy

• Uganda: DRC, Kenya, Somalia experience eclipse of the sun

• Lord’s Resistance Army waves the white flag, after Christmas massacre

• Lord’s Resistance Army attacks DR Congo village and kills many

• DR Congo rebels training in Uganda

• DR Congo: UN warned of military support against Rwanda rebels

• Uganda-DR Congo: Soldiers torture and pillage mourners

• Snow-capped mountain in DRC and Uganda melting at an alarming rate

• DR Congo: International community overwhelmed by complexity of crisis

• DR Congo-The Hague: Warlords killed out of self defence

• Uganda: Escaped LRA fighters and abducted children return home

• Congolese sex workers attacked for infecting Ugandans with HIV/AIDs

• Southern Sudan: LRA rebels resume reign of fear, several people killed

• Uganda: LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony’s relatives live in fear

• Six African countries fare worst on The Global Hunger Index

• Angola, DRC and Congo deport illegal immigrants

• Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai hints on a possible pullout from inclusive government

• Men on Men rape cases in DR Congo: The ordeal of "bush wives"

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