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Liya Kebede on the silver screen with Waris Dirie

After the catwalk comes the silver screen. Liya Kebede depicts Waris Dirie in Desert Flower, a biopic directed by Sherry Hormann about the former Somali supermodel and anti female genital mutilation campaigner. The film marks a promising debut for Liya Kebede, an Ethiopian supermodel. Beautiful, talented and altruistic: three words that describe Liya Kebede to perfection.

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• Tanzania: 20th ordinary meeting of the EAC Council of Ministers to begin Friday 19 March in Arusha

• Sudan: UNAMID JSR meets with Sudanese Vice President, full support pledged

• Sudan: ICRC confirms that kidnapped staff member is free at last

• EAC to hold workshop on regional armed forces HIV/AIDS prevention and control

• Somalia: Al-Shabaab Detains Media Director Overnight

• International panel engages EAC on agricultural innovation

• Announcing 1st Money-Prized Essay Contest & Application to our 2010 Educational Festival

• Kenya: African youth leaders call on governments to involve youth

• Sudan: More Sudanese Political Parties Sign Electoral Code of Conduct

• Sudan: 150 000 homes to get FAO seeds

• Uganda: Baganda mourn kings’ burnt tombs block President’s visit

• Spearheading a Grass-Roots Movement for Change in Kenya

• Somalia: Moderate Islamist group joins AU forces against Al-Shabab

• Kenya: African Youth leaders meet to discuss democracy

• Ugandan President invites critics to take him to ICC

• No U.S. desire to "Americanize the conflict in Somalia"

• Somalia: Mogadishu residents asked to flee

• CHAN 2011: Qualifiers get under way

• LRA leader Kony "will be hanged in Uganda" says Museveni

• EAC heads of prisons/correctional services hold inaugural meeting in Arusha

• Somalia: Al-Shabaab, UN officials accused of aid grab

• Ugandan businesses to manufacture goods from Sudan

• Sudan sanctions: "UN Security Council has failed"

• Sudanese to access web freely despite sanctions

• Half a million Ugandans at risk of landslides

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