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Charlie Gillett, who presents the BBC World of Music programme, says there is nobody to compare to her, as she was popular in West Africa - after living in exile in Guinea - and East Africa - she recorded a version of the Swahili song Malaika, as well as her home in South Africa.
BBC: Mandela mourns icon Miriam Makeba
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Third and last workshop of a project covering 3 countries in West Africa (Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal), the workshop to be held in Banjul will validate the results of several case studies on the social movement of women and violence against women carried out following the "Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats" (SWOT) method.
UNESCO: All Events | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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The High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas (Amazonia, the Congo forests of Central Africa, the Miombo-Mopane Woodlands of Southern Africa, the island of New Guinea, and the North American Deserts) are similar to the Hotspots in that they have very high levels of diversity and endemism, but unlike the Hotspots they are still largely intact.
FORBES: Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises, Part Two