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| Africa Economy - Development | Politics | Society Industrial development key to Africa’s integration in global economy afrol News - The head of the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has warned that Africa must overcome the obstacles to boosting industrial production and gaining a larger share of world trade to benefit from the global economy. |
| World Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights | Society Children’s rights still not assured, UNICEF afrol News - Despite considerable progress over the past 20 years in improving the lot of the world’s children, including a 28 percent drop in annual mortality of those under five from 12.5 million to an estimated 8.8 million, their rights are still far from assured, according to a new United Nations report issued today. |
| Africa | World Politics | Economy - Development | Society UN-lawmakers' partnership can help the poor out of recession, Ban afrol News - National parliaments are key allies of the United Nations in its efforts to haul the world’s most vulnerable people out of the global economic crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an international gathering of lawmakers in New York. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority afrol News - On the final day of the World Summit on Food Security, the head of the UN’s rural poverty agency said he was pleased to see how developing countries are increasingly deepening their commitments to food security through investment in agriculture. |
| World Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development Concluding Doha Round could boost recovery, WB afrol News - Countries can contribute to a more robust recovery from the global recession by rapidly concluding the Doha Development Round (DDA), which could bring up to US$160 billion in gains, according to new World Bank research. |
| Africa Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Society Preserve water sources - report afrol News - Africa has been urged to adopt urgent measures to preserve the continents fresh water resources as climate change threatens water sources. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society FAO chief regrets no measurable targets adopted to fight hunger afrol News - The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome yesterday with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet. |
| World Economy - Development | Politics World Bank adopts transparency policy afrol News - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors have approved the new policy on access to information which positions the Bank as a transparency leader among international institutions. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Society Countries in conflict greatly challenged by corruption afrol News - As the world economy begins to register a tentative recovery and some nations continue to wrestle with ongoing conflict and insecurity, it is clear that no region of the world is immune to the perils of corruption, according to Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), a measure of domestic, public sector corruption released today. |
Politics | Human rights | Society Unblock foreign visits to Sahrawi activists, HRW afrol News - The international human rights body has accused Moroccan authorities of blocking "unauthorised" visits by foreigners to the homes of Sahrawi activists in Western Sahara. |
| Africa | World Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development | Society $1 million boost for FAO’s food security work afrol News - The United Nations efforts to strengthen agriculture and enhance food security received a boost, ahead of a major summit beginning today, thanks to new initiatives with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and a leading Brazilian university. |
| Morocco | World Politics | Economy - Development | Society Lower levies on trade – federation official calls afrol News - The president of the Marmara Business Life Associations Federation (MARÝFED) Ahmet Ciðer has appealed for reduction of customs duties saying high levies hamper trade between Turkey and Morocco. The levies reportedly go up to 30 percent on industrial goods. |
| Egypt | World Economy - Development | Politics | Technology | Society Increased Internet access to boost economic growth, forum afrol News - Business leaders to the UN-linked Internet Governance Forum (IGF), taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, send a strong message yesterday, saying the future of the Internet is everyone's concern and could boost economic growth. |
| World Economy - Development | Health | Society UN chief calls for support to fight diabetes afrol News - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for greater support to developing countries in preventing diabetes, which kills at least one million people every year, and in increasing access to health care. |
| Angola | World Society Chinese nationals targeted in Angola afrol News - The recent escalation of violent attacks targeting Chinese construction workers in Angola could sour relation between two countries, said Eddie Zhang, head of Shanghai Urban Construction Group. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics Transforming African infrastructure require additional $31 billion a year afrol News - A study recently conducted in 24 African countries shows that the poor state of infrastructure in Sub Saharan Africa - its electricity, water, roads, and information and communications technology (ICT) - cuts national economic growth by 2 percentage points every year and reduces business productivity by as much as 40 percent. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Politics | Society FAO calls for worldwide day-long hunger strike afrol News - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has called for a day-long, worldwide hunger strike, against chronic hunger, on the eve of next week’s World Summit on Food Security. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Environment - Nature | Human rights | Society Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices afrol News - Millions of people in dozens of poor countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid, despite good global cereal harvests this year. This due to stubbornly high food prices, the United Nations agricultural agency warned in a report released yesterday. |
| South Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Society Mandela Day adopted by general assembly afrol News - South African bodies and institutions have loudly welcome the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s decision to declare 18 July as Nelson Mandela International Day. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Health | Society 50 million H1N1 vaccines donation for developing countries afrol News - A giant pharmaceutical company is slated to donate 50 million doses of the pandemic H1N1 vaccine to the United Nations public health arm, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced today. |
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