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SOUTH AFRICA: Inner city blues - migrants in search of treatment

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Johannesburg, South Africa's largest and wealthiest city, has been attracting hopeful new residents since gold was discovered here more than a...

MALI: Still a long way to go to meet adult literacy targets

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Friday, April 18, 2008

In 2000 the Malian government signed up to UN Education for All goals to help 50 percent more adults become literate by 2015, but eight years on...

Man hits over D60,000 Jackpot

Thursday, April 17, 2008

One Mustapha Jammeh, a resident of Latri-Kunda, was last Friday presented with a checque for the amount of D60,424 (Sixty thousand, four hundred and...

Urgent changes needed in global farming practices to avoid environmental destruction

Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org

Thursday, April 17, 2008

World’s leading scientists condemn industrial farming methods and see no role for GE as a solution to soaring food prices and hunger crisis fears ...

NAMs discusses Draft NDM Bill 2008

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The National Disaster Management Committee under the Office of the Vice Presid_ent yesterday convened a one day sensitisation workshop for National...

RICE SHORTAGE

Monday, April 14, 2008

There is an impending rice crisis in the making world wide and the peoplesof Haiti, Bangladesh, Philippineshave already began feeling the pinch of...

SENEGAL: Dakar on less than $5 a day

Saturday, April 12, 2008

While driving a rusty old yellow taxi through Dakar’s potholed streets looking for customers, Abdou Ndoye told IRIN how he and his family of nine...

AFRICA: Climate change linked to spread of disease

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Climate change is emerging as a major threat to health and adding pressure on public health systems, especially in Africa, a senior UN official has...

Grasp This Great Opportunity

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

In his recently issued press release Tsidi M. Tsikata,Mission Chief for The Gambia with the International Monetary Fund, has laid out very...

Regional forum on the role of parliment in achieving MDGs underway

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

A five day regional forum on the role of Parliment in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) opened yesterday at the Paradise Suites...