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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.

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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.

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UN-lawmakers' partnership can help the poor out of recession, Ban

afrol News, 20 November - 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.

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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.

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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.

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» 17.11.2009 - IMF announces sale of tons of gold to Mauritius
» 17.11.2009 - 12 million targeted for west African Yellow Fever vaccination
» 16.11.2009 - $1 million boost for FAO’s food security work
» 16.11.2009 - Increased Internet access to boost economic growth, forum
» 16.11.2009 - UN chief calls for support to fight diabetes
» 12.11.2009 - FAO calls for worldwide day-long hunger strike
» 11.11.2009 - Mandela Day adopted by general assembly
» 10.11.2009 - China-Africa commitments applauded
» 10.11.2009 - Debt servicing burden increase for poor states
» 10.11.2009 - SA hotel industry warned of price inflation
» 10.11.2009 - UNODC chief blames shady trade on financial crisis
» 10.11.2009 - Mauritanian grassroots groups receive US funding
» 09.11.2009 - African mobile market continues to develop at a rapid rate
» 09.11.2009 - China injects $349 million into Ethiopia’s road link
» 09.11.2009 - Seven African states in Malaria trial
» 09.11.2009 - Traffic jams weighs heavily on Kenya’s economy
» 06.11.2009 - China to cement new role in Africa
» 30.10.2009 - Malawi president receives 2009 Drivers of Change Award
» 30.10.2009 - Assembly shop for efficient stoves launched in Darfur
» 30.10.2009 - Alliance plans to immunise 130 million children against Pneumonia
» 28.10.2009 - Tunis forum makes recommendations on protecting African remittances
» 27.10.2009 - Algeria signs defense agreement with Britain
» 27.10.2009 - FAO commences work on international land-tenure governance guidelines
» 27.10.2009 - Five new African states elected to ECOSOC
» 26.10.2009 - Report outlines ways to help developing nations transition to ‘green’ economy
» 23.10.2009 - Africa told to enhance actions to reduce disaster risk
» 22.10.2009 - UN pledges support to AU's refugees' treaty
» 22.10.2009 - Good governance is everyone’s responsibility, ECA official
» 21.10.2009 - SA local govt clouded by corruption
» 20.10.2009 - DRC and Morocco elected to new forest financing programme
» 20.10.2009 - Africa evaluates 15 years of population development ahead of MDGs deadline
» 19.10.2009 - Africa's climate change negotiators meet in Ethiopia
» 19.10.2009 - Cocoa livelihoods programme launched in Ghana
» 19.10.2009 - African countries conclude gender and climate change training
» 16.10.2009 - Arrest Al Bashir - ICC
» 15.10.2009 - Kibaki appeals for unity ahead of global summit
» 13.10.2009 - African governments urged to recommit to develop people
» 13.10.2009 - Conservation expert calls for protection of Africa's forest gardeners
» 12.10.2009 - World faces huge challenge to feed growing populations
» 09.10.2009 - South Africa hosts joint air symposium
» 09.10.2009 - Experts to discuss strategies for Africa’s integration agenda
» 08.10.2009 - Joint EAC-US military field training exercise in Uganda
» 08.10.2009 - PUMA unveils 2010 African football team kits
» 06.10.2009 - Africa still lagging behind in ICTs
» 06.10.2009 - Developing economies can lead world out of recession, Egypt's minister
» 06.10.2009 - Indian Ocean nations to test tsunami warning system
» 05.10.2009 - SADC leads Africa on governance barometer
» 05.10.2009 - SA optimistic of expanded trade with US
» 05.10.2009 - Food security crucial for Africa's development, AWEPA
» 01.10.2009 - AU lobbying Africa's position in the Americas
» 01.10.2009 - Brazzaville calls on US to support preservation of the Congo Basin
» 30.09.2009 - AfDB makes first trade finance disbursement
» 29.09.2009 - Cape Verde supports multilaterism in combating orgainsed crime
» 29.09.2009 - East African police chiefs eye closer ties with INTERPOL
» 28.09.2009 - FAO urges policy improvement to turn around Africa's fortunes
» 25.09.2009 - Fans warned of fraudulent World Cup tickets
» 25.09.2009 - Leaders call for UN support on Africa's development
» 25.09.2009 - Help out in central Africa, Ban appeals
» 24.09.2009 - Diageo commits more funding to West Africa's access to clean water
» 24.09.2009 - North African leaders call for wide-scale UN reform
» 24.09.2009 - Zuma calls for the overhaul of international economic arrangements
» 24.09.2009 - Museveni calls on Africa to wake up
» 23.09.2009 - UNESCO elects new chief
» 22.09.2009 - Ban calls for global collective action on climate change
» 18.09.2009 - SA’s first electric car on display
» 18.09.2009 - Tanzania’s president to participate in US-Africa Business Summit
» 18.09.2009 - International police to enhance collaboration on maritime piracy
» 18.09.2009 - University of Seychelles takes off
» 17.09.2009 - MCC signs $540 million compact with Senegal
» 16.09.2009 - 2009 African Banker Awards nominees announced
» 14.09.2009 - Eastern Africa to harmonise strategies to reach food security
» 08.09.2009 - New ‘Africa Also Smiles Poster’ campaign launched
» 07.09.2009 - SADC shifts Zim for special summit
» 07.09.2009 - New UN trained special police graduate in Liberia
» 03.09.2009 - African police chiefs to strengthen collaboration with INTERPOL
» 03.09.2009 - Bike collection to aid developing countries
» 01.09.2009 - EU signing with ESA a solid foundation, Ashton
» 26.08.2009 - Bringing technology and agronomic knowledge to African farmers
» 20.08.2009 - AU to promote trade and investment opportunities for Africa
» 14.08.2009 - Uganda well-positioned to steer East Africa, Zoellick
» 10.08.2009 - SA hosting International Statistics Institute 2009
» 28.07.2009 - Dow Jones wins SA tourism 2010 contract
» 05.06.2009 - World economic forum gets participation from five African leaders
» 05.06.2009 - Mahale Ecosystem research project launched
» 29.05.2009 - Law enforcement is 'missing link' in fight against maritime piracy, Interpol
» 29.05.2009 - MCC commemorates Africa Day
» 28.05.2009 - Financing smallholder farmers will grow Africa out of poverty, experts say
» 26.05.2009 - SADC discuss strategies of enhancing ground water resources to fight poverty
» 25.05.2009 - Is the journey to a united Africa achievable?
» 20.05.2009 - Cairo anti piracy summit brings hope to end the growing threat
» 18.05.2009 - Australia to donate 4250 Lapdesks to a Maputo school
» 15.05.2009 - EU grants €106 million to boost agriculture in developing countries
» 15.05.2009 - Angola commits $3.5 million to AfDB's recapitalisation
» 13.05.2009 - UN chief calls for support of small farmers
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