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United States Government said yesterday it had so far spent $1.5 billion to combat HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. The amount, it said, was part of $18.8 billion global expenditure on the disease.
Dominion Petroleum, one of the four firms exploring for oil in Uganda, has said a group of "quality" global oil giants are interested in taking up a share of its oil block in the western region.
Thirty-one-year-old Chouchou Namegabe is revolutionizing journalism in her native country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the face of a patriarchal countrywide mindset, a small amount of funding, and even death threats to herself and her team.
Due to inconsistent regulations and an uncompetitive business environment, private investment in the developing countries of Northern Africa and the Middle East is not at a healthy level. As a result, growth is suffering in the region, diminishing jobs and reducing income for those who need it most.
Climate change, the economic crisis, and conflict are pushing more and more of the world's poor into further suffering. Yet donor countries are doing far too little to prepare for and prevent the ramifications of natural disasters, conflict, and other situations which are crippling the developing world, according to the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) released this month by the Development ...
Considering that 80 percent of West African countries live near the coastline, the increasing erosion of said coast poses critical problems for the homes and livelihoods of locals. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched a project to reverse diminishment of the coast due to climate change, called the Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Zones ...
Four million mothers, newborns, and children in sub-Saharan Africa could be saved each year if adequate health care was made available, according to a report released this week by the African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI).
Achieving sustainability in child health and education continues to be a challenge for national governments and development experts alike. Despite the fact that billions of dollars have been spent through a variety of programs in recent years, success has been mixed throughout the global South. One Childhood, however, offers simple and effective ways by which Eritrea has been investing in its ...
Lack of access to multi-lingual scholarly journals hinders development in the Arab world, according to Muna AbuSulayman, Secretary General of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Kingdom Foundation, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, and Yale 2009 World Fellow.
Vibrant images of smiling children playing games and holding hands, may not be what conjures for most when they consider the approximate 400,000 children from Mozambique orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
Despite a taboo against homosexuality in Kenya, the government has decided to acknowledge the existence of men who have sex with men, in an effort to curb new HIV infections in the country. A survey of gay attitudes and behaviors in the Kenyan cities of Nairobi, Kisumu, and Mombasa will be conducted in early 2010 with the help of the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ...
Despite international efforts to halt the trade of ivory, the criminalized industry is once again flourishing on multiple continents, according to a new report released by the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS). The findings of the report signal a threat to reverse valuable gains achieved in the elimination of elephant poaching over the last two decades.
When the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released its Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard on 28 October 2009, a stark situation was brought to the world's attention: despite the availability of safe, earth-friendly palm oil options, Western companies were not meeting commitments to purchase those alternatives.
In a Wednesday presentation on the "Intersection of Energy and the Economy," Elizabeth Cheney of Shell outlined three energy realities: the demand for energy will double by 2050, "easy energy," or fossil fuels, is gone, and emission stress and carbon solutions are a priority.
The connection between environmental changes and human health is too often overlooked, but should not be undermined as it stands to take form in various, and potentially ruinous manners, according to Dr. Samuel Myers, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a research fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
The United States Agency for International Development commemorated 16 days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) with its development partners at a ceremony organized on the premises of Pathfinder International here in Addis yesterday. The Day was also an experience sharing occasion.
Botswana entered into a bilateral agreement with the United States to beam anti-government messages into Zimbabwe and recently completed the upgrading of a transmitter to scale up the pirate broadcasts, it has emerged.
Attorney General Amos Wako is now accusing authorities in the United States of refusing to cooperate in investigations into the Anglo-Leasing contracts scandal.
The following testimony by Former Coordinator of the UN Panel of Experts on Sudan Enrico Carisch is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following is a testimony by President and Chief Executive Officer of Humanity United Randy Newcomb is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following is a testimony by Co-Founder of the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress John Prendergast is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following testimony by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Jonathan Scott Gration is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The Minister of Finance, Augustine Nganfuan has announced in Monrovia that an international investment group, the Hamsah Investments Limited and Wall Capital Limited has sued the Liberian Government in a British High Court in London for a Summary Judgment to enforce a 2002 New York judgment for over US$ 20million.
Oceangoing ships are responsible for moving at least 80 percent of all commerce worldwide, so maritime pirates are a threat to everyone, especially those who are starving in Somalia and East Africa and rely on ships to deliver emergency shipments of food aid.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton highlighted the continued threat HIV/AIDS poses to the world in a special event at the White House, calling HIV/AIDS "the defining health challenge of our time."
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