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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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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’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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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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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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» 19.11.2009 - Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority
» 19.11.2009 - Zim govt report compliance progress to clean its diamond trade
» 19.11.2009 - Spain doubles aid for Horn of Africa
» 19.11.2009 - Orascom to contest $6 mln tax bill
» 19.11.2009 - Preserve water sources - report
» 19.11.2009 - FAO chief regrets no measurable targets adopted to fight hunger
» 19.11.2009 - Gambian president withdraws from Commonwealth meeting
» 18.11.2009 - Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies
» 18.11.2009 - International commission on Guinea’s crackdown dispatched
» 18.11.2009 - Former priest acquitted on genocide
» 18.11.2009 - Nigerian fishermen flee Bakassi Peninsula
» 18.11.2009 - Security Council calls for protection of civilians
» 17.11.2009 - Countries in conflict greatly challenged by corruption
» 17.11.2009 - 12 million targeted for west African Yellow Fever vaccination
» 17.11.2009 - Suspected Somali pirates seize Korean tanker
» 17.11.2009 - Unblock foreign visits to Sahrawi activists, HRW
» 17.11.2009 - Media warns legislators against enacting anti-media law
» 16.11.2009 - $1 million boost for FAO’s food security work
» 16.11.2009 - Lower levies on trade – federation official calls
» 16.11.2009 - Increased Internet access to boost economic growth, forum
» 16.11.2009 - Minister urges Ugandans to control population growth
» 16.11.2009 - Prosecute police officers - Amnesty International
» 16.11.2009 - UN chief calls for support to fight diabetes
» 13.11.2009 - Conte’s son in drug trafficking charge
» 13.11.2009 - Chinese nationals targeted in Angola
» 13.11.2009 - Tuareg rebels repatriated to Niger
» 13.11.2009 - UNICEF appeals for concerted efforts to avert humanitarian crisis in S/Sudan
» 12.11.2009 - FAO calls for worldwide day-long hunger strike
» 12.11.2009 - Nine suspected Mungiki members killed
» 12.11.2009 - Somali judge shot dead
» 11.11.2009 - Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
» 11.11.2009 - Somali pirates seize SA bound cargo ship
» 11.11.2009 - Mandela Day adopted by general assembly
» 11.11.2009 - Djibouti forcibly repatriates Somali asylum seekers
» 11.11.2009 - ICRC appeals for release of two kidnapped staff
» 11.11.2009 - Tribal clashes uproot over 21,000
» 11.11.2009 - 50 million H1N1 vaccines donation for developing countries
» 10.11.2009 - China-Africa commitments applauded
» 10.11.2009 - Debt servicing burden increase for poor states
» 10.11.2009 - Former NPA chief denied bail
» 10.11.2009 - Algeria pushes for zero-tolerance on ransom payments to terrorists
» 10.11.2009 - UN envoy backs Congo’s fight against rebels
» 10.11.2009 - Uganda partners with media to fight HIV/AIDS
» 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 - AGRA and NEPAD partner to increase food security in Africa
» 09.11.2009 - Campaign against plundering of W/Sahara resources launched
» 09.11.2009 - Traffic jams weighs heavily on Kenya’s economy
» 09.11.2009 - ICC to investigate Kenya’s post election violence
» 06.11.2009 - Zimbabwe crisis solved, for now
» 06.11.2009 - Equatorial Guinea polls begin, with little hope of change
» 05.11.2009 - "Send Central African leaders to ICC"
» 03.11.2009 - Equatorial Guinea pardons putschists
» 02.11.2009 - Sierra Leone judge takes over Taylor case
» 30.10.2009 - Panic hits Kampala after bomb scare
» 30.10.2009 - Malawi president receives 2009 Drivers of Change Award
» 30.10.2009 - Zambia launches campaign to end gender-based violence
» 30.10.2009 - Last Burundian refugees repatriated
» 30.10.2009 - Anti kidnapping legislation passes second reading
» 30.10.2009 - Security Council extends sanctions on Ivory Coast
» 30.10.2009 - Assembly shop for efficient stoves launched in Darfur
» 30.10.2009 - Rescue operation for Zimbabwe's abused elephants announced
» 29.10.2009 - IMF warns Zimbabwe of increased external deficit
» 29.10.2009 - Ethiopia launches 2010 elections campaign
» 29.10.2009 - Embezzlement case against Africa trio overturned
» 29.10.2009 - Security Council calls for trying of Guinea's massacre
» 29.10.2009 - Remove death penalty on gays - Clergy
» 29.10.2009 - UN steps in to help in Angola/DRC refugee saga
» 29.10.2009 - Abdelaziz calls on UN to protect Sahrawi
» 29.10.2009 - Darfurian rebel died in detention, AI argues
» 28.10.2009 - Angola slams French ruling on arms deal
» 28.10.2009 - Zimbabwe turns away from UN human rights expert
» 28.10.2009 - Ivorian foes re-arming ahead of polls
» 28.10.2009 - Tanzanian farmers receive FAO's boost
» 28.10.2009 - SA racism case back in court
» 28.10.2009 - Tunis forum makes recommendations on protecting African remittances
» 27.10.2009 - IMF returns Senegal's bag of dollars gift to official
» 27.10.2009 - Gabon rejects nearly 300 migrants
» 27.10.2009 - Guinean killings were planned - HRW
» 27.10.2009 - Former ports chief jailed for 2 years
» 27.10.2009 - FAO commences work on international land-tenure governance guidelines
» 27.10.2009 - Envoy calls for world support of AU peacekeeping role
» 27.10.2009 - Kenya leads Africa rural connect in third round
» 26.10.2009 - SADC states highest ranked in prosperity index
» 26.10.2009 - Tribunal up-holds sentence for 3 former rebels
» 26.10.2009 - Kenya probes missing funds in resettlement programme
» 26.10.2009 - Ben Ali gets fifth term in presidency
» 26.10.2009 - HIV risk remains high in Sub-Saharan Africa, new report
» 26.10.2009 - Natron community vows to protect the lake
» 23.10.2009 - $480 million to help in Ethiopia's food security
» 23.10.2009 - Nigeria cracks a whip on cyber fraudsters
» 23.10.2009 - Uganda must pursue peace and unity - Mwesigwa
» 23.10.2009 - Court frees Kenyan sect leader
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