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Gunmen fire on Nigeria cattle market, 56 dead: nurse Thursday, 3 May 2012

MAIDUGURI/ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen set off explosives and fired on a cattle market in remote northeastern Nigeria overnight, killing at least 56 people, a nurse who received bodies in the local hospital said on Thursday.  Full Article

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Africa insight: Cancer in Africa

Clinical oncologists Dr. Joel Yarney (R) and Dr. Clement Edusa look at a scan of a cancer patient on a computer screen at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, April 24, 2012. Most of Africa's around 2,000 languages have no word for cancer. The common perception in both developing and developed countries is that it's a disease of the wealthy world, where high-fat, processed-food diets, alcohol, smoking and sedentary lifestyles fuel tumour growth. Yet there are an estimated one million new cancer cases sub-Saharan Africa will see this year - a number predicted to double to 2 million a year in the next decade. Picture taken April 24, 2012. To match Insight CANCER-AFRICA/GHANA REUTERS/Olivier Asselin
Cancer in Africa: Fighting a nameless enemy

In Emanuel Adu's language, Twi, people call the skin cancer that is invading his cheek and nose "sasabro". It means a disease that eats away at you.  Full Article 

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