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The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Alhassan Bako Zaku, will lead dignitaries to the Africa Information Society Merit Award (AISMA), billed to hold in Lagos on Sunday, November 22, 2009.
'MEWE',an Italian -based NGO orphanage, organized its fourth annual edition of the orphanage's rural bicycle race competition on at Wawase in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District at Central Region.
A three-day United Nations summit on world food security opened in Rome today, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warning that on this day alone more than 17,000 children will die of hunger - one every five seconds, 6 million a year - even as the planet has more than enough food for all.
The first cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 have been confirmed in Somalia, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
Kenya will be the first country to have its nationals go through the pre-trial chamber process at the International Criminal Court.
The Somali Government and the African Union force in the country need more help on land to fight piracy in the waters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report released today.
The US Government will cooperate with the International Criminal Court to prosecute perpetrators of the post-election violence if a local mechanism fails. President Obama's special envoy on war crimes Stephen Rapp also said in Nairobi that the US would continue issuing visa bans.
Health officials have confirmed three cases of yellow fever in Côte d'Ivoire's northwest Denguélé region.
The United Nations-backed tribunal trying the worst acts committed during the decade-long brutal civil war in Sierra Leone today transferred its detention centre to the national prison service.
The United Nations is appealing for international aid to assist some 18,000 Chadian villagers who have returned to their homes in a resource-poor region of the strife-torn African country after fleeing inter-communal violence and a spill-over of the conflict from neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
Scientists from a leading Brazilian university will provide their expertise to FAO for its agricultural development programmes in Latin America and African countries under an agreement signed here today.
Community leaders in Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur, about 50 kilometres from El Fasher, have commended the timely intervention of the AU-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) in curtailing the recent clashes in the surrounding villages of Jabel Moskul and Jabelti.
In its seventh meeting scheduled to be held in Khartoum tomorrow, Monday 16 November, the Tripartite Mechanism on Darfur comprising officials from the African Union (AU), United Nations (UN) and Sudanese Government, will discuss a number of issues relevant to the future of the AU-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
A head of the next week's World Summit on Food Security, the FAO has called for a day-long worldwide hunger strike against chronic hunger.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf has called for increased input from the private sector to help fight hunger and ensure food security.
The United Nations-backed Global Fund has approved new grants worth $2.4 billion for projects aimed at fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in low-income countries over the next two years.
Somalia's Al-Shabaab militant group has accused United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) of distributing food in Somalia at harvesting season to undermine farmers.
Less than 24 hours, heads of state and government will reach a consensus on how to stamp out the ugly world monster-hunger-when they converge for the World Summit on Food Security under the directive of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations .
MEMBERS of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have tentatively approved new proposals to give special treatment to developing countries to help them meet trade standards on food safety and animal health, the WTO said on Friday.
FIFA President, Sepp Blatter has expressed satisfaction with the organization of the Under-17 World Cup, Nigeria 2009 despite the initial hiccups. At a press parley last Saturday, he said he was satisfied that Nigeria and Switzerland (his home country) the best teams in the competition, got to the finals and expressed happiness with the quality of play so far displayed. He was pleasantly surprised ...
FIFA President Sepp Blatter at the weekend insisted that as far as the world football governing body was concern, every player that participated in the Under-17 World Cup (Nigeria 2009) were within the stipulated age bracket.
The declaration agreed at the World Food Summit confirms the UN goal to halve hunger by 2015 but fails to come up with concrete financial commitments for increasing aid to agriculture or social protection, says ActionAid.
The following are the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's opening remarks as delivered before an audience at the World Food Summit hosted in Italy by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has called on delegates at the opening of the World Summit on Food Security to act decisively on the commitments made at such gatherings.
The following is the text of an address delivered before an audience by the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa at the World Summit on Food Security hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy.
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