Ghana
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Cooperation | Development | Economy | Events | Finance | Industry | Law | Management | People | Policy | Policy | Trade
Ghana-EU sign first voluntary agreement on legal timber exports
afrol News, 20 November - Ghana will sign the historic agreement with the European Union, aimed at ensuring that only legally harvested timber from the West African country is exported to the EU market. Read more
|
Malawi
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Finance | Infrastructure | Land rights | People | Poverty | Social Services | Socio-economic
Malawi’s rural land development project gets additional funding
afrol News, 20 November - The World Bank has granted Malawi US$10 million for the Community-Based Rural Land Development Project (CBRLDP). The additional grant will also extend the project for another two years, the bank said. Read more
|
World
Affairs | Affairs | Children | Children | Cooperation | Events | Policy | Policy | Social Services
Children’s rights still not assured, UNICEF
afrol News, 20 November - 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. Read more
|
Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Economy | Events | Finance | Food Security | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Trade
Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority
afrol News, 19 November - 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. Read more
|
World
Affairs | Development | Economy | Macroeconomy | Policy | Policy | Trade
Concluding Doha Round could boost recovery, WB
afrol News, 19 November - 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. Read more
|
Horn of Africa
Development | Disasters | Famine | Finance | Food Security | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services
Spain doubles aid for Horn of Africa
afrol News, 19 November - The World Food Programme (WFP) has today received a boost for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain. Read more
|
Africa
Affairs | Conservation | Cooperation | Management | People | Policy | Policy | Social Services | Water
Preserve water sources - report
afrol News, 19 November - Africa has been urged to adopt urgent measures to preserve the continents fresh water resources as climate change threatens water sources. Read more
|
Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Events | Food Security | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services
FAO chief regrets no measurable targets adopted to fight hunger
afrol News, 19 November - 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. Read more
|
World
Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Finance | Policy
World Bank adopts transparency policy
afrol News, 18 November - 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. Read more
|
Egypt
Cooperation | Development | Development | Diseases | History | History | Humanistic sciences | People | Policy | Science
Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies
afrol News, 18 November - A cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and his research team from Cairo, Milwaukee, and Mission Viejo, Calif., have detected the hardening of the arteries in 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies, indicating that heart disease is not just a condition found in modern humans. Read more
|
Guinea
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Elections | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Violence | War & Peace
International commission on Guinea’s crackdown dispatched
afrol News, 18 November - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today with the members of the International Commission of Inquiry set up to probe September’s violent crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea, ahead of the team’s visit to the country next week. Read more
|
Africa | World
Affairs | Corruption | Economy | Law | People | Policy | Trade
Countries in conflict greatly challenged by corruption
afrol News, 17 November - 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. Read more
|
Comoros
Affairs | Debt | Economy | Finance | Macroeconomy | Policy
Comoros must strengthen donor and debt position, IMF
afrol News, 17 November - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has welcomed the Comoros participation in Paris Club debt restructuring negotiations to be held on 19 November, saying the country needs to consolidate its financial position to fill in the fiscal gap in the next financial year. Read more
|
Africa | World
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Economy | Events | Finance | Food Security | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services
$1 million boost for FAO’s food security work
afrol News, 16 November - 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. Read more
|
» 16.11.2009 - Lower levies on trade – federation official calls
» 16.11.2009 - Increased Internet access to boost economic growth, forum
» 16.11.2009 - Ethiopia govt dismisses capture claims
» 16.11.2009 - Minister urges Ugandans to control population growth
» 16.11.2009 - UN chief calls for support to fight diabetes
|
about afrol News
| news
| countries
| archive
| services
| feed back
| español