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| Africa | World Society | Human rights | Economy - Development | Health | Politics Children's advocacy organisation gets a boost afrol News - Global Action for Children has today received half a million dollars grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to assist African governments to meet 15 percent commitment of the national budget to health. |
| Africa | Libya Politics | Environment - Nature | Economy - Development Africa commits to water development to fight hunger afrol News - The pan-African ministerial conference which ended in Libya yesterday has pledged to promote water development throughout the continent and to fully exploit Africa's agricultural and hydroenergy potential as key to eradicating hunger and poverty. |
| Africa | Libya Agriculture - Nutrition | Environment - Nature | Politics | Economy - Development Africa summit discuss massive hydro scheme for food and energy security afrol News - The African ministerial summit on water resources and management is expected to agree on the the creation of a “rapid action fund” to revive local agricultural production in case of crisis, particularly in low-income countries heavily reliant on food imports. |
| Africa | World Politics | Economy - Development OPEC to cut supply to counter price decline afrol News - The oil producing countries have decided to reduce oil output quota to counter the oil pricing downtrend, Algerian Energy and Mining Minister and Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Counties President Chakib Khelil has announced today. |
| Africa | Somalia Society | Agriculture - Nutrition | Politics | Economy - Development | Human rights UN hails EU support to curb piracy on food aid afrol News - The United Nations food agency has said the European Union move to escort and protect food aid against piracy is a long term solution to save lives of ordinary people in the war torn Somalia. |
| Africa | World Agriculture - Nutrition | Politics | Economy - Development Sub-Saharan Africa doing well to combat hunger, but...! afrol News - One in three people in sub-Saharan Africa, or 236 million (2007), are chronically hungry, making the figure the highest proportion of undernourished people in the total population, according to the newly released report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). |
| Africa Science - Education | Environment - Nature African urban ecology under-studied afrol News - African cities are growing faster than anywhere else in the world. But the ecological impact of their growth is poorly studies, whether it comes to urban ecology or the hinterland's environment. |
| Africa Health | Science - Education African tests show malaria vaccine may come in 2011 afrol News - Results published yesterday in the 'New England Journal of Medicine' revealed that tests of a malaria vaccine made in Kenya and Tanzania showed it provided both infants and young children with significant protection against the mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine could hit the market by 2011. |
| Africa Health | Gay - Lesbian African gays unite to demand AIDS treatment afrol News - A group of homosexual activist groups from more than 25 African countries has united, demanding an urgent response to the HIV pandemic affecting their communities. In some countries, the HIV prevalence among gays is more than 20 times higher than among the population average. |
| Africa Economy - Development | Science - Education Africa, Europe deepen higher education links afrol News - The European Union (EU), in cooperation with African universities, is looking at ways to deepen European-African higher education cooperation, also wanting to make it easier for African students to go to Europe. |
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