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African countries collectively lose $12 billion a year in economic growth due to factors such as malaria-related spending and sick workers unable to work.
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26-Apr-08 | 11:13 PM
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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Ikoyi Passport Control Office generated about 300 million niara from the issuance of e-passports, a new service for the country, between January and March 2008.
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16-Apr-08 | 11:40 PM
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Migrants from Sudan, Chad, Niger and Mali make it across the Sahara to Libya and Algeria. On this journey, conservative estimates put the number of dead at 1,079 people since 1996.
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29-Feb-08 | 1:26 PM
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In the course of 2007, some 1,861 migrants died trying to cross into Europe by sea, according to the Italian monitoring organization Fortress Europe. This is only a slight improvement upon 2006, when the number of known deaths was 2,088.
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29-Feb-08 | 1:10 PM
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Africans have been sneaking into Israel in increasing numbers during 2007 and 2008. More than 7,000 have entered the country illegally through Egypt in just a little over a year, including more than 2,000 by February 2008.
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28-Feb-08 | 5:32 PM
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In 2008, about 1,400 Falashmura, Ethiopians who claim Jewish ancestry despite conversion to Christianity over the years, received approval to move to Isreal after the High Courts of Justice ruled that the Isreali government cannot restrict immigration.
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28-Feb-08 | 4:22 PM
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Eritrea receives about 40 percent of its gross domestic product through remittances, whereas exports contribute about 4 percent to the G.D.P.
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18-Feb-08 | 11:39 AM
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Africans who immigrate to the United States contribute 40 times more wealth to the American economy than to the African economy. According to the United Nations, an African professional working in the United States contributes about $150,000 per year to i
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18-Feb-08 | 11:35 AM
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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has estimated that one highly trained African migrant between 25 and 35 years old, the age group into which most of the Africans going abroad fall, represents a cash value of $184,000 at 1997 prices.
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18-Feb-08 | 11:31 AM
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There are about 200 million potential immigrants in the world, out of which 10 million Africans in the diaspora are working for betterment.
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18-Feb-08 | 11:27 AM
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Finland adopted DNA testing for the purpose of uniting families in June 2000, one of the first countries in Europe to do so. (Kauppalehti, Jan. 24, 2008)


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24-Jan-08 | 3:26 PM
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Europe's capitals are the economic draws for as many as 300,000 people a year from Africa alone who try to enter clandestinely, a recent UN report found.

("Old Country, New Concerns: Immigration," Chicago Tribune, Jan. 14, 2008)

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Sierra Leone's amputees: Those left to beg

BY MATT RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

After a decade long war, many of Sierra Leone's war wounded still slog through life, depending on handouts for survival. These two companion stories contrast the life of one amputee who has made it to the U.S. with the lives of his counterparts - disabled people who are left struggling for survival in his native Sierra Leone.

[to companion story - Sierra Leone's amputees: A refugee in Chicago]

Photos: Matt Rusling

Surviving: Mohome Sankoh (middle)
lost his leg to a machete-wielding
female soldier when he was in his mid-teens.






Mohome Sankoh, 19, whose leg was hacked off during Sierra Leone's civil war by a female soldier wielding a machete, clutches a pair of crutches by the curb of one of Freetown's unpaved back streets. He begs - for food, money, anything - in front of a ramshackle block of kiosks. The stench of urine permeates the area, wrestling the nostrils in this most destitute of city blocks in one of Africa's poorest cities.
"What a me for do?' he says in his native Kreo, amid the furious honking of sweaty drivers whose beat up Mercedes and BMWs cram into a street built in pre-automotive era. Roughly translated, it means he can't change his lot.
More than five years after the war's end, one still doesn't have to look far to find living testaments to the conflict's unusual barbarity, where armed rebels hacked off the limbs of civilians as a warning to any would-be opposition. In a story that is so very African, the amputees have become an afterthought as the international community has redirected its gaze on the Dark Continent's latest hot spots. But still they linger on, many struggling for their daily survival.(More)
8-Jan-08 | 10:39 AM
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Sierra Leone's amputees: A refugee in Chicago

BY MATT RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

After a decade long war, many of Sierra Leone's war wounded still slog through life, depending on handouts for survival. These two companion stories contrast the life of one amputee who has made it to the U.S. with the lives of his counterparts - disabled people who are left struggling for survival in his native Sierra Leone.

[to companion story - Sierra Leone's amputees: Those left to beg]

Photos by Matt Rusling and Florent Blanc









On a basketball court in Rogers Park on the North side of Chicago, Victor Saidu, 32, looks up and takes a shot. Whoosh! Nothing but net. On any court in urban America, that would not elicit even a yawn - except that Saidu is shooting with two stubs where his hands used to be.

Saidu is a victim of the civil war in Sierra Leone, which was known for its particular brand of barbarity, perpetrated by the Revolutionary United Front, a rebel group that used amputation as a means to terrorize the public. The conflict, which ended in 2002, displaced two million people, or one third of the population.

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8-Jan-08 | 10:21 AM
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