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» Ghana-EU sign first voluntary agreement on legal timber exports
» Algeria-Egypt’s World Cup place explodes into a diplomatic war
» Malawi’s rural land development project gets additional funding
» Industrial development key to Africa’s integration in global economy
» Children’s rights still not assured, UNICEF
» Cambodia troops arrive in CAR
» UN-lawmakers' partnership can help the poor out of recession, Ban
» Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority
» Zim govt report compliance progress to clean its diamond trade
» Spain doubles aid for Horn of Africa
» Orascom to contest $6 mln tax bill
» Preserve water sources - report
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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.

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Algeria | Egypt
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Diplomacy | Economy | Law | People | War & Peace

Algeria-Egypt’s World Cup place explodes into a diplomatic war

afrol News, 20 November - The rivalry between the north Africa neighbours, Egypt and Algeria has heightened beyond the fight for a place in the 2010 soccer event in South Africa.

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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.

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Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Finance | Infrastructure | Law | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Trade

Industrial development key to Africa’s integration in global economy

afrol News, 20 November - 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.

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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.

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Central Africa | Central African Republic
Affairs | Cooperation | Law | People | Refugees - Displaced | Social Services | Violence | War & Peace

Cambodia troops arrive in CAR

afrol News, 20 November - The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia.

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Africa | World
Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Events | Law | People | Policy | Poverty | Social Services

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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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.

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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Law | Mining | People | Policy | Policy | Socio-economic | Trade | Violence

Zim govt report compliance progress to clean its diamond trade

afrol News, 19 November - The government of Zimbabwe has reported a breakthrough in the country’s diamond fields where the security forces had based.

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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.

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Algeria | Egypt
Affairs | Debt | Economy | Finance | Industry | Law | People | Policy | Telecom | Trade

Orascom to contest $6 mln tax bill

afrol News, 19 November - Egypt's Orascom Telecom has vowed to contest a $600 million tax bill issued by the Algerian tax authorities.

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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.

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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.

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Gambia
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Law | People | Policy | Violence | War & Peace

Gambian president withdraws from Commonwealth meeting

afrol News, 19 November - The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has backed out on attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting scheduled next week in Port of Spain, a government statement has said.

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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.

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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.

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Rwanda | Tanzania
Affairs | Crime | Ethnic | Law | People | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes

Former priest acquitted on genocide

afrol News, 18 November - The United Nations court has acquitted Former Catholic priest, Father Hormisdas Nsengimana, who was facing charges of the infamous Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Father Nsengimana, had been imprisoned for seven years since his 2002 arrest in Cameroon.

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Cameroon | Nigeria
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Diplomacy | Law | People | Poverty | Violence | War & Peace | Water

Nigerian fishermen flee Bakassi Peninsula

afrol News, 18 November - Hundreds of Nigerian fishermen have fled the Bakassi Peninsula as harassment and violent attacks by Cameroon’s gendarmes have increased, reports have said.

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Affairs | Crime | Law | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes

Security Council calls for protection of civilians

afrol News, 18 November - The Security Council has called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.

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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.

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West Africa
Affairs | Cooperation | Diseases | Events | Medicine | People | Policy | Policy | Social Services | Social services

12 million targeted for west African Yellow Fever vaccination

afrol News, 17 November - The largest-ever mass vaccination campaign protecting populations from the dangerously infectious yellow fever disease will begin next week across three West African countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced today.

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Somalia
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Crime | Economy | Law | People | Trade | War & Peace

Suspected Somali pirates seize Korean tanker

afrol News, 17 November - Alleged Somali pirates have seized a North Korean tanker with its 28 crew members, in waters off Somalia, the EU’s naval forces have reported in a statement.

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Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Ethnic | Law | People | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Socio-economic | War & Peace

Unblock foreign visits to Sahrawi activists, HRW

afrol News, 17 November - The international human rights body has accused Moroccan authorities of blocking "unauthorised" visits by foreigners to the homes of Sahrawi activists in Western Sahara.

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Nigeria
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy

Media warns legislators against enacting anti-media law

afrol News, 17 November - The Nigerian media has cautioned the National Assembly against enacting laws affecting practice of journalism in the country, expressing fear that a bill might pose an impediment to free flow of information.

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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.

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