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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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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.

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Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices

afrol News, 11 November - 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.

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Western Sahara
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Campaign against plundering of W/Sahara resources launched

afrol News, 9 November - The pro-Saharawi network, Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has launched a campaign to sign letters to the EU Commissioner for Fisheries, asking EU to immediately stop the plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara by Morocco.

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Kenya
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Traffic jams weighs heavily on Kenya’s economy

afrol News, 9 November - Kenya’s Cabinet minister, Robinson Githae, says traffic jams cost the East Africa’s bread basket about Sh29 billion (US$389,9 million) annually.

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» 30.10.2009 - Rescue operation for Zimbabwe's abused elephants announced
» 26.10.2009 - Report outlines ways to help developing nations transition to ‘green’ economy
» 26.10.2009 - Natron community vows to protect the lake
» 23.10.2009 - Africa told to enhance actions to reduce disaster risk
» 23.10.2009 - ITU approves new universal mobile phone charger
» 21.10.2009 - Ghana and Burkina Faso urged to develop strategies on use of Volta River
» 20.10.2009 - SA and Tunisia get Swiss funding for clean energy projects
» 20.10.2009 - DRC and Morocco elected to new forest financing programme
» 19.10.2009 - Africa's climate change negotiators meet in Ethiopia
» 19.10.2009 - African countries conclude gender and climate change training
» 16.10.2009 - SA teams up with neighbours for a clean environment
» 16.10.2009 - Shrinking of Lake Chad could spell regional catastrophe
» 15.10.2009 - Kibaki appeals for unity ahead of global summit
» 13.10.2009 - Conservation expert calls for protection of Africa's forest gardeners
» 08.10.2009 - Environmentalists condemn Mozambique's planned damming of Zambezi
» 08.10.2009 - Uganda set new sights to reach safe water targets
» 07.10.2009 - Uganda commits to reforestation
» 06.10.2009 - Indian Ocean nations to test tsunami warning system
» 02.10.2009 - West African biodiversity corridor high on Abidjan meeting
» 01.10.2009 - Brazzaville calls on US to support preservation of the Congo Basin
» 30.09.2009 - Climate change could induce more food dependency on Africa, FAO paper
» 29.09.2009 - Zimbabwean communities educated about owls
» 25.09.2009 - Leaders call for UN support on Africa's development
» 23.09.2009 - Malagasy NGOs unite against plunder of natural resources
» 22.09.2009 - Ban calls for global collective action on climate change
» 21.09.2009 - Four African states part of the Bern Convention's 30 years
» 18.09.2009 - SA’s first electric car on display
» 16.09.2009 - North America hailed for plan to regulate greenhouse
» 09.09.2009 - Kenya launches appeal to save Mau forest
» 08.09.2009 - Norway announces euro 350 support for developing countries
» 04.09.2009 - International call to learn to love vultures - or lose them
» 01.09.2009 - Treaty to eliminate illegal fishing penned
» 01.09.2009 - African states make rankings for low sulfur diesel limits
» 26.08.2009 - Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
» 24.08.2009 - African ministers building one voice towards climate change summit
» 05.08.2009 - Former border agent sentenced on Tanzanian Leopard Tortoises case
» 30.07.2009 - Angola gets UN support to boost access to water
» 28.07.2009 - Six African countries targeted in UN’s cleaner cooling project
» 19.06.2009 - Uganda could be a dessert in 40 years
» 05.06.2009 - Epic rescue for endangered elephants in Malawi resumes
» 04.06.2009 - European bank withdraws funding from Ethiopia’s dam
» 27.05.2009 - Madagascar selected to benefit from conservation fund
» 26.05.2009 - Sierra Leone smallholder farmers get WFP boost
» 26.05.2009 - SADC discuss strategies of enhancing ground water resources to fight poverty
» 21.05.2009 - Congo Basin forest management "successful"
» 14.05.2009 - UN report urges for reforms to avert food crisis in Africa
» 05.05.2009 - Green revolution must empower farmers, Migiro asserts
» 30.04.2009 - Kenya wildlife on rapid decrease
» 29.04.2009 - Two African projects named winners of climate grants
» 27.04.2009 - Kenya's Ivory smugglers makes guilty plea
» 20.04.2009 - Uganda celebrates big earnings from gorilla tourism
» 16.04.2009 - Kigali to improve water treatment and management
» 06.04.2009 - Tunisia launches energy saving programme
» 30.03.2009 - Two new sea rescue centres opened in SADC region
» 23.02.2009 - Burundi calls for protection of Nile River
» 19.02.2009 - Cameroon creates park to conserve threatened species
» 22.01.2009 - Ghana develops policy to conserve river basins
» 14.11.2008 - SA wildlife paradise "endangered"
» 27.10.2008 - Conservationists cry foul of Southern Africa ivory auction
» 23.10.2008 - Two jailed for toxic dumping, but oil company sparred
» 21.10.2008 - Massive African ivory sales increase poaching fears
» 08.10.2008 - Whales, dolphins and manatees win protection off West Africa waters
» 16.09.2008 - Blanket ban on bushmeat disastrous
» 03.09.2008 - Battle of flamingo dam - scientists axed
» 20.08.2008 - Namibia sanctions ivory trade
» 07.08.2008 - Two indicted for smuggling leopards hides and skull
» 16.07.2008 - China gets a share in Africa’s ivory stockpiles
» 17.06.2008 - Madagascar gets US$ 20M to protect nature
» 02.05.2008 - Niger River to be rescued
» 03.04.2008 - Climate change threatens Africa
» 28.11.2007 - Cameroon gorilla saga over
» 31.10.2007 - Conservationists applaud Uganda
» 19.10.2007 - Uganda conserves habitat
» 29.06.2007 - South Africa fails to get World Heritage listing
» 04.06.2007 - Most African countries fear renewed ivory trade
» 09.03.2007 - Congo joins regional effort to save forests
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique plans more dams on the Zambezi
» 23.11.2006 - India gives West Africa US$ 250m to develop biofuels
» 06.11.2006 - Brazil, India join Senegal in biofuel production
» 10.10.2006 - Oil sector in Guinea-Bissau to avoid pollution scandals
» 06.10.2006 - Botswana, US sign 'Debt-for-Nature' agreement
» 11.04.2006 - Cameroon "should involve locals" to control logging
» 23.02.2006 - Tanzania endorses 64 conservation projects
» 20.02.2006 - As oil starts flowing, Mauritania discovers environment
» 22.06.2005 - Cameroon, Togo, Gambia "bought by whaling nations"
» 13.06.2005 - Africa wildlife conservation "is a bargain"
» 05.05.2005 - Environmentalist attack new Mauritius highway
» 14.03.2005 - Sudan named "new world hub of ivory trade"
» 07.02.2005 - Landmark Congo Basin conservation treaty signed
» 07.02.2005 - Africa's protected areas face funding shortfall
» 03.02.2005 - Brazzaville summit addresses Congo Basin's forests
» 27.01.2005 - Gabon most environmentally sustainable in Africa
» 21.01.2005 - Madagascar to curb illegal logging
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