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[CAF] Ghana Assistant coach Kwesi Appiah blames ill-luck for their lone goal loss to Zambia in the semi final clash of the 2010 Orange Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday in Bata.

[AIM] Maputo - The known death toll from tropical depression "Dando" and cyclone "Funso", which hit southern and central Mozambique in January, has risen from 37 to 40, according to the government spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Alberto Nkutumula.

[IRIN] Lilongwe/Johannesburg - Malawi's maize-growing central and southern regions have not had good rains, prompting concerns about possible shortages of the staple in the coming months.

[IRIN] Musina - At the Beitbridge border post between Zimbabwe and South Africa, asylum-seekers from all over the continent used to jostle with Zimbabwean migrants to gain entry into a country widely perceived as a place of freedom and safety.

[allAfrica.com] The torment of Asamoah Gyan will be double after another vital penalty miss for Ghana and their resultant elimination from a major tournament.

[Health-e] Human rights and civil society groups will picket the Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, next week to call for the reinstatement of a South African journalist who was thrown out of Qatar after it was found that he has HIV.

[Health-e] South African recipients of money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) have pleaded with the health minister to intervene as they continue to wait for overdue funds.

[IPS] Nsjane - They survived floods and witnessed the horrific scenes of their houses, livestock, household items and gardens being swept away at the end of January.

[iMaverick] The current furore over Egypt's highly public effort to put a group of NGO staff members working at the International Republican Institute in Cairo (including the son of a US cabinet member)  on trial because they have been working on democracy issues and electoral training may actually belong at the feet of Ronald Reagan. What could the writer possibly mean?

[AIM] Maputo - The Japanese Deputy Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tadahiro Matsushita, has asked the Mozambican government to speed up the granting of a coal mining concession in the western province of Tete to the Nippon Steel Corporation.