Positive news from Gambia
Africa trade bust ‘biggest ever’Five African countries have worked with Interpol to arrest dozens of illegal traders and seize a tonne of ivory products. |
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Africa trade bust ‘biggest ever’
Five African countries have worked with Interpol to arrest dozens of illegal traders and seize a tonne of ivory products.
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Bednets pay off with plunge in malaria cases in GambiaBanjul, Gambia - The incidence of malaria in Gambia fell substantially in five years, mainly thanks to strategies protecting pregnant women and children, researchers said. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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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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Gates Foundation tackles a giant that preys on Africa’s childrenBagamoyo, Tanzania - On vaccination days, pharmacist Abel Mdemu unsnaps the padlock on the old Bagamoyo Hospital morgue after lunch. |
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Gambia Ratifies Protocols On Women’s RightsBanjul, Gambia - The Gambia has now ratified Articles 5,6,7 and 14 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. |
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WEST AFRICA: Tandja wins new ECOWAS mandateNiamey, Niger - President Mamadou Tandja of Niger has been re-elected chairman of the West African regional group ECOWAS at a summit where leaders pledged strides in bolstering peace across the world?s poorest region. |
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MRC study finds vaccine eliminates HIB disease in the GambiaLondon - A Medical Research Council (MRC) study results, announced online today in The Lancet, illustrate that a routine immunisation programme in The Gambia has been successful at eliminating the incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease. |
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