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| World | Africa Politics | Economy - Development Support NEPAD priorities, Ban tells development partners afrol News - The global food and energy crises and climate change, and coupled with the financial and economic crises, have eroded economic and social gains made in Africa over the past decade, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report, calling for a stronger partnership for Africa’s development. |
| Africa | World Politics | Environment - Nature | Economy - Development $700 million secured for Climate Action afrol News - Programmes for Climate Change Action have received a huge boost with almost US700 million secured to kick-start forest and renewables projects. |
| World | Africa Economy - Development | Health | Society Study reveals sub-standard malaria medicines in Africa afrol News - The first results from a large-scale study of key antimalarial medicines in ten Sub-Saharan African countries have revealed that a high percentage of medicines circulating on national markets are of substandard quality and thus may contribute to the growth of drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent form of malaria. |
| World | Africa Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Human rights | Society Funding to help countries improve land tenure afrol News - A new partnership between Finland and FAO is to assist countries to develop sustainable and affordable land administration systems to improve tenure security and land governance in both rural and urban areas. |
| Africa | World Politics | Economy - Development Capital flows to developing countries declining afrol News - Net capital flows to developing countries fell to $780 billion in 2008, reversing an upward trend that began in 2003 and peaked at $1,222 billion in 2007, according to a new report from the World Bank. |
| Africa | World Politics | Economy - Development | Society AU-WB project to promote peace in Africa afrol News - The African Union and the World Bank are combining efforts to promote innovative approaches to achieving long lasting peace, economic development, and security in conflict-affected countries through collaboration of two flagship projects: The African Year of Peace and Security and the World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development. |
| Africa | World Politics | Economy - Development | Society Equate each dollar spent to poverty fight, WB chief afrol News - The effects of the global food, fuel and economic crisis would be felt by Africa’s people for some time yet and it was important to persist with efforts to protect the most vulnerable while laying the foundations for future productivity and growth, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said yesterday. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Environment - Nature | Society "Green Fund" for climate change financing afrol News - The world must adopt a low-carbon model for growth as it rebuilds from the global economic crisis, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. |
| Africa | Ethiopia Economy - Development | Politics | Health | Society African leaders tackle malaria afrol News - African leaders have met on the sidelines of the AU meeting in Ethiopia to tackle the challenges facing the continent in the effort to meet the United Nations target of ensuring universal access to malaria control measures by the end of this year. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society BirdLife cares for wetlands afrol News - Today is World Wetlands Day and this year’s theme – Caring for wetlands: an answer to climate change – highlights the bonds between wetlands, biodiversity and climate change. “Caring for wetlands is part of the solution to climate change”, said Melanie Heath – Senior Advisor on Climate Change at BirdLife. “If we manage them well, wetland ecosystems and their biodiversity have a vital role to play in mitigating against, and adapting to, climate change”. |
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