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Support NEPAD priorities, Ban tells development partners

afrol News - The global food and energy crises and climate change, and coupled with the financial and economic crises, have eroded economic and social gains made in Africa over the past decade, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report, calling for a stronger partnership for Africa’s development.

Africa | World
Politics | Environment - Nature | Economy - Development
$700 million secured for Climate Action

afrol News - Programmes for Climate Change Action have received a huge boost with almost US700 million secured to kick-start forest and renewables projects.

World | Africa
Economy - Development | Health | Society
Study reveals sub-standard malaria medicines in Africa

afrol News - The first results from a large-scale study of key antimalarial medicines in ten Sub-Saharan African countries have revealed that a high percentage of medicines circulating on national markets are of substandard quality and thus may contribute to the growth of drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent form of malaria.

World | Africa
Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Human rights | Society
Funding to help countries improve land tenure

afrol News - A new partnership between Finland and FAO is to assist countries to develop sustainable and affordable land administration systems to improve tenure security and land governance in both rural and urban areas.

Africa | World
Politics | Economy - Development
Capital flows to developing countries declining

afrol News - Net capital flows to developing countries fell to $780 billion in 2008, reversing an upward trend that began in 2003 and peaked at $1,222 billion in 2007, according to a new report from the World Bank.

Africa | World
Politics | Economy - Development | Society
AU-WB project to promote peace in Africa

afrol News - The African Union and the World Bank are combining efforts to promote innovative approaches to achieving long lasting peace, economic development, and security in conflict-affected countries through collaboration of two flagship projects: The African Year of Peace and Security and the World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development.

Africa | World
Politics | Economy - Development | Society
Equate each dollar spent to poverty fight, WB chief

afrol News - The effects of the global food, fuel and economic crisis would be felt by Africa’s people for some time yet and it was important to persist with efforts to protect the most vulnerable while laying the foundations for future productivity and growth, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said yesterday.

Sudan | World
Politics | Society | Human rights
UN-AU mission rejects Darfur accusations

afrol News - The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Darfur region today rejected what it called “unfounded allegations” levelled by the Sudanese military’s spokesperson that it is collaborating with the rebel group known as the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).

Western Sahara | World
Politics | Human rights | Society
New talks on Western Sahara in US

afrol News - The parties in the dispute over the status of Western Sahara, where fighting broke out between Morocco and the Frente Polisario after Spain’s colonial administration ended in 1976, have agreed to a United Nations proposal to hold their next set of informal talks next week in the United States.

Africa | World
Economy - Development | Politics | Environment - Nature | Society
"Green Fund" for climate change financing

afrol News - The world must adopt a low-carbon model for growth as it rebuilds from the global economic crisis, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Nigeria | World
Politics | Economy - Development | Society
UK to return £43 million stolen funds

afrol News - The British government has announced that it would return the £43 million embezzled by corrupt Nigerian government officials to off-shore accounts.

Africa | Ethiopia
Economy - Development | Politics | Health | Society
African leaders tackle malaria

afrol News - African leaders have met on the sidelines of the AU meeting in Ethiopia to tackle the challenges facing the continent in the effort to meet the United Nations target of ensuring universal access to malaria control measures by the end of this year.

Africa | World
Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
BirdLife cares for wetlands

afrol News - Today is World Wetlands Day and this year’s theme – Caring for wetlands: an answer to climate change – highlights the bonds between wetlands, biodiversity and climate change. “Caring for wetlands is part of the solution to climate change”, said Melanie Heath – Senior Advisor on Climate Change at BirdLife. “If we manage them well, wetland ecosystems and their biodiversity have a vital role to play in mitigating against, and adapting to, climate change”.

Africa
Gender - Women | Human rights | Society
Leaders called to support campaign against gender violence

afrol News - The African leadership has been called upon to give new impetus to the UN Secretary General’s campaign to end the violence suffered by women on the continent, which he called the “unsung heroines” of development in the region.

Africa
Economy - Development | Society
Ban pledges to mobilise support for Africa’s development

afrol News - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pledged to mobilise support to tackle the critical challenges threatening peace and prosperity across Africa, including extreme poverty, economic and social well-being, and the ravages of climate change.

Africa | South Africa
Politics | Society
SA arms supporting rogue states, opposition

afrol News - The South African government has been accused of supporting rogue and dictatorships across the African continent because of the lack of control in its arms deals.

Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights
Underdevelopment pose serious threat to Africa, Ban

afrol News - As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prepares to attend the African Union (AU) summit this weekend in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, he stressed that the gathering comes at a crucial time for the continent with national polls looming in Sudan and both climate change and under-development posing serious threats to progress.

Africa | World
Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
‘Agriculture makes good business sense’ – IFAD

afrol News - As business, government and private sector leaders gather in the Swiss town of Davos this week for the World Economic Forum, global food security and poverty will be among the key challenges they will need to tackle.

Africa
Agriculture - Nutrition
‘Agriculture makes good business sense’ – IFAD

afrol News - As business, government and private sector leaders gather in the Swiss town of Davos this week for the World Economic Forum, global food security and poverty will be among the key challenges they will need to tackle. The power and potential of 500 million smallholder farms will be brought to discussion tables by Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The United Nations rural poverty agency has been invited to the Davos Forum for the first time.

Africa | World
Politics | Health | Society
UN health official refutes accusations of inflating risk of H1N1

afrol News - The top United Nations flu official has rejected allegations that the World Health Organisation (WHO) exaggerated the severity of the H1N1 influenza pandemic under pressure from business interests.

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