Positive news from Ghana
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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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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Bamboo bike quite the offshootSanta Cruz, California, USA - Funny where an idea will take you. Ten years ago, Luna the dog -- part pit bull and part Labrador retriever -- was gnawing on a piece of bamboo growing behind Craig Calfee's bicycle shop outside Santa Cruz. |
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Two thousand children withdrawn from Child labourGhana - The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) has said that through its implementing partners, it has withdrawn 2,000 children from various forms of child labour. |
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Ghana eradicating child labourAccra, Ghana - Kwabena spent seven years in Yeji, before being reunited with his family through the efforts of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which is working to end the child trafficking common throughout West Africa. |
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One-Legged Cyclist Transforms African NationKoforidua, Ghana - From a distance, he looks like any other cyclist - but Emmanuel Ofusu Yeboah races with one leg he was born with, and one made for him. |
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ILO institutes measures to eliminate child labourTolon, Ghana - The International Labour Organization (ILO), under its International Program on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), has instituted a scholarship programme for deprived girls in the Tolon/Kumbung and Savelugu/Nanton districts to complete their education to eliminate child labour in the Northern Region. |
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News from Africa
- Gorillas to Be Protected with New Congo National Park
- Fighting cancer with cell phones
- New monkey species discovered in Africa
- Madagascar Gets Biggest Lemur Park
- Libya election: High turnout in historic vote
- 10,000 sq mi of Congo rainforest declared World Heritage site
- Cashing in the American dream to help AIDS orphans, those who raise them
- Ten African nations pledge to transform their economies to take nature into account
- A small human rights victory as Egypt’s state of emergency ends
- Egyptians vote in landmark presidential election