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Items selected from the online resources at Deutsche Welle with African origination.
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DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
In this edition, there's a debate in Berlin over whether to ban touristic marketing of East German memorabilia. A Catholic church in Lower Saxony has invited carnival revelers to a …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
A few years ago, what's thought to be the world's largest coal deposits were discovered in north-western Mozambique. Tete Province is sitting on billions of tonnes of coal reserves. The …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
Along with the Amazon, the Congo Basin is of the world's "green lungs." Its millions of square kilometers of rain forest are important not just for the global climate, but …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
South Africa's most populous city is attracting more and more people on the search for work and a better life. Most of the migrants find housing in derelict buildings and …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
Currently close to 500 people are arriving at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan each day. The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR says over 63,000 individuals are crowded into a …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
With 260 days of sunshine a year, France's Côte d'Azur draws hordes of tourists. But it's also an attractive place for shady rulers to park their ill-got money. Many buy …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
A New Start for Mali: How German Troops are Helping. A Report by Gerlind Vollmer.
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
Flore Fowo from Cameroon is an auto mechanic and wants to work in Germany, but her qualifications aren't recognized here. So, in order to get a job, she's apprenticing at …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
The traditional Bavarian folk costume of dirndls and lederhosen is ubiquitous at the Munich Oktoberfest. Two sisters from Cameroon have recreated and internationalized the dirndl, using African fabrics.
DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English
On an island in the middle of the River Spree stand five imposing museums. They're filled with art treasures dating from antiquity to the 19th century, among them the famous …