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Rising from a recent summit on Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) organized by a group of developing countries in Maldives to fine-tune their position at the next month's climate change meet in Copenhagen, zero carbon tolerance has been canvassed.
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.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has disclosed that Nigeria and the Republic of Ukraine would cooperate to stem the tide in illegal trading in small arms especially in the West African region.
OUTSPOKEN Roan Member of Parliament (MP) Chishimba Kambwili, who was a vocal opponent of Chinese investors, has been awarded a contract to supply goods and install some equipment at the re-opened Chinese-owned Luanshya Copper Mines.
The World Health Organization (WHO) initiated the 'Health for All by 2000' global campaign. While this slogan drew the world's attention to problems relating to global health, the failure to meet the target was seen by many as a testament to unfulfilled good intentions.
I want to bring the spotlight back to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) in 1995 ushered in a new era in terms of addressing women's empowerment and advancement. The inception of this platform carried with it a call for governments to accelerate their efforts towards addressing gender inequality.
Below is a statement prepared on the 12th of November, 2009, by member countries of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) approving of the Sharm El Sheikh Plan arrived at during the last meeting in Egypt.
The following is the plan put forward by member countries of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation on the 12th of November, 2009, pertaining to further economic ties between China and individual African countries.
China and Africa have agreed on a new plan of action for the next three years in a bid to strengthen cooperation. The Sharm el-Sheikh Action Plan 2010-2012, which was adopted together with the Sharm el-Sheikh Declaration, will focus on trade, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and social welfare among other issues. China and Africa approved the new measures at the recent fourth ...
Pristine Global Pvt has invested $100,000 to expand its business in Tanzania, Malawi and Senegal.
ZIMBABWE will early next year have the privilege of hosting one of the most decorated karate instructors in the world -- S. Srinivasan of India.
SA - which derecognised its apartheid-era ally as a sovereign state and opened diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China in 1998 -- should be more flexible in its dealings with Taiwan, Lin said last month.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its "State of the World Population 2009" report on the 18th of November. It chose to take up a politically delicate topic, the relationship between climate change, population stabilisation and the importance of gender.
88 teachers' trainers specializing in Mathematics and Science subjects are currently undertaking a ten-day training organized by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Kigali.
A nation enjoys unfettered rights over the oil and gas deposits situated within its borders or located beneath its Continental Shelf to the outer limit of its Exclusive Economic Zone, as determined in accordance with the Convention on the Continental Shelf held in Geneva, April 1958.
THE 2010 local organising committee yesterday furiously dismissed the Japanese football association's attempts to have the vuvuzela banned ahead of the World Cup next year.
Tunisia hosted on Tuesday, the Tunisia-Turkey Partnership forum on the mechanical industries and spare parts organized by the Turkish Embassy in Tunisia in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Foreign Trade and the Turkish exporters Committee.
Standard Chartered Bank has restated its support for bilateral trade between Africa and Asia, with the launch of the Nigerian- Malaysian Trade Corridor.
THREE Ugandan heart patients have successfully undergone open-heart-surgery in South Korea.
The Minister of Commerce and Industry Chief Achike Udenwa has inaugurated the National Planning Committee (NPC) on Nigeria's participation in World Expo 2010, in Shangai, China.
BRUSHING off accusations that its investment is denuding Africa of precious natural resources, China has pledged to help African countries overcome poverty and fight new threats like climate change, which scientists predict is likely to seriously affect the continent.
China and the United States (US) have signed a joint statement agreeing that the transition to a green and low-carbon economy is essential.
A SQUAD of 17 KCC FC players and three officials leave for a two-day BTV football tournament in Vietnam this morning.
Minister of Mines and Steel Development Mrs Diezani Alison - Madueke has said the Federal Government was prepared to partner Chinese firms that have shown interest in the development of Nigeria mining sector especially gold.
The Save Darfur Coalition, 44 Members of Congress, and 40,401 U.S. activists urge President Obama to make Sudan a priority and work to build a multilateral coalition when he meets with President Hu Jintao and other government officials on his first presidential visit to China.
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