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Politics | Society | Human rights Rights abusers want UN seats afrol News - A quarter of the countries vying for seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council have dismal human rights records that should disqualify them from membership, a joint report by Freedom House and UN Watch disclosed. |
Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights Equatorial Guinean leader tops Africa's media predators afrol News - President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of the oil-rich "Kuwait of Africa" has topped the Paris-based Reporters sans frontières (RSF) list of press predators in Africa. |
Economy - Development | Politics | Society New AU chief takes office afrol News - Dr. Jean Ping has officially replaced Alpha Oumar Konaré as the Chairman of the African Union Commission, the executive arm of the continental body. |
Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Environment - Nature Sahel nations lose 1.7m ha land afrol News - On average each year, Sahelian countries lost 1.7 million hectares of arable land to desertification, environmental experts told journalists. |
| World Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society Global food crisis: "silent tsunami" afrol News - The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has called for urgent action to tackle the "silent tsunami" of rising food prices that threatens the lives of more than 100 million with throughout the world. |
Politics | Economy - Development | Human rights | Society Africa's largest dam project in the offing afrol News - The World Energy Council (WEC) has organised a two-day meeting in London to discuss plans for the establishment of Africa's largest and most powerful hydroelectric dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| Ghana | World Labour | Politics | Economy - Development | Society Trade unions call for decent work afrol News - Trade ministers and heads of state meeting for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in the Ghanaian capital Accra have been urged to endorse a strong commitment on the interlinkage between trade and development. |
| Africa Economy - Development | Politics | Society African SMEs secure support afrol News - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have agreed to support entrepreneurs in Africa. |
| World | Africa Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Human rights | Society Food crisis concerns World Bank President afrol News - World Bank President has raised concern about a surge in food prices, fearing it could push 100 million people into deeper poverty. |
| Africa Politics | Economy - Development Africa to record high growth afrol News - On average, African economies are expected to record 6.2% growth in 2008, the annual Economic Report on Africa [ERA 2008] confirms amid concerns in laxity of the fight against extreme poverty and international support for development. |
Politics | Economy - Development | Environment - Nature Climate change threatens Africa afrol News - The development of better meteorological services are crucial for Africa's development and its fight against poverty, considering its vulnerability to climate change, variability and extreme weather events, a conference of finance and economy meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa was told. |
Politics | Economy - Development | Media | Human rights | Society Media stimulates development afrol News - African media has a very important role in stimulating the continent's development process, concurred the President of African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka. |
| Africa | Egypt Politics | Economy - Development | Health | Human rights | Society Habitat celebrates success afrol News - Habitat for Humanity Africa and the Middle East will be marking its record achievement: help provide decent and affordable housing to 50,000 families in the region. |
| Africa Economy - Development | Politics | Health | Society sub-Sahara tops urban growth afrol News - With 4.6% annual growth rate, sub-Saharan Africa has undoubtedly topped urban growth rate in the world, a report by Habitat for Humanity Africa and the Middle East revealed. |
| Africa | Tanzania Politics | Society | Human rights Palestine seeks AU support afrol News - Palestine has sought the support of the African Union to help end Israeli attacks on its innocent citizens in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in Palestine-occupied territories. |
| Africa Agriculture - Nutrition | Human rights African NGOs call for moratorium on biofuels African Future - Uproar is slowly spreading among African civil society organisations and scientists, fearing that the biofuel revolution will bring more food insecurity, higher food prices and hunger to the continent. A petition calling for a "moratorium on new agrofuel developments in Africa" has so far been signed by over 30 NGOs all over the continent. |
| Africa Politics | Human rights | Society | Media Africa needs value-based journalism afrol News - A three-month survey has revealed that Africa needs more responsible, ethical and value-based journalism to play a crucial role in enhancing freedom of the press. |
| Africa Politics | Society | Health US boosts Africa's malaria war afrol News - US President George Bush has said in line with a broader campaign to combat malaria in sub-Saharan African, the American government will provide over five million mosquito nets to the region. |
| Africa Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Health | Human rights First ladies fight for peace afrol News / IRIN - In a bid to support initiatives to restore and strengthen peace on the unrest-prone continent, wives of African heads of state or their representatives have formed a conflict-resolution group. |
| Africa Politics | Human rights | Society | Gender - Women | Health Renewed fight against FGM afrol News - A round table conference, aimed at addressing the age-old culture of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM), will be held in Geneva on Tuesday. |
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