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Worm’s demise nearAtlanta, Georgia, USA - Health workers are on the verge of eradicating Guinea worm disease in what would be just the second time in history that a disease has been wiped from the planet, the Carter Center said Friday. |
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DEVELOPMENT: Signs of Hope for Ethiopia’s Children
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 13 (IPS) - Amid the hardship facing Ethiopia's children,
there are signs that conditions may be improving and that
children's lives are changing for the better.
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Ethiopia signs deal for largest wind farm in AfricaAddis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopia on Thursday signed a 220-million-euro (300 million dollar) deal with a French company for the construction of Africa's largest wind farm. |
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Looted Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia
After 70 years, the Axum obelisk has been painstakingly reconstructed on its native ground.
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Africa Wages War on Scourge of Plastic BagsNairobi, Kenya - They've become as much a symbol of Africa's landscape as the stereotypical lions and plains ... Discarded plastic bags -- in the billions -- flutter from thorn-bushes across the continent, and clog up cities from Cape Town to Casablanca. |
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In Ethiopia, elders dissolve a crisis the traditional wayAddis Ababa, Ethiopia - As the gray-haired man of letters strode into the posh restaurant in Ethiopia's capital recently, wearing his signature long, white yemiyakora tunic and black and white cap, patrons stood up and applauded. |
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UN fund backs water projects to help rural poor in Syria and EthiopiaRome, Italy - The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has announced the creation of two new programmes designed to improve irrigation for needy Ethiopian families and to overcome water shortages and create jobs in north-eastern Syria. |
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U.S. Sends Relief Supplies to EthiopiaGode, Ethiopia - The U.S. Air Force delivered food and relief supplies Friday to flood victims in eastern Ethiopia, where at least 80 people have died and tens of thousands have been left homeless. |
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Ethiopia unveils 3.3 million-year-old girl fossilAddis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopian scientists unveiled on Wednesday a 3.3 million-year-old fossil of a girl, which they believe is the most complete skeleton ever found. |
news from Africa
- South Africa to start wind power project: official
- Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projects
- Young people create new life and lush urban garden in former Kibera waste dump
- Malaria vaccine trials show promise
- Top UN official upbeat as many Member States commit to emergency relief fund
- Worm’s demise near
- Measles Deaths Worldwide Fall by 74 Percent
- Surf’s up in Angola now the war years are over
- Local boy, Ont. teen, link up to create safe water chains around world
- Christian the Lion (w/Video)
