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Gwynne Dyer: Use law to stop rape being an African problem
Last May, with considerable trepidation, I wrote an article about what seemed to be extraordinarily high rates of rape in Africa.
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6.6 million children under 5 died last year
Childhood death rates have halved since 1990 but an estimated 6.6 million children under the age of five died last year, the U.N. children's agency said.