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UN opens first zero emission community power centre in rural Kenya
The first power-generating centre using environmentally friendly hydro and solar power has been inaugurated in a Kenyan village 150 kilometres north east of Nairobi by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
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Kenya leaders thrash out reforms after power-sharing pact
NAIROBI (AFP) -
Kenya's
rival camps on Friday began to tackle details of reforms
after a power-sharing deal signed by President Mwai Kibaki
and opposition leader Raila Odinga to end a bloody two-month crisis.
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Kenyan rivals agree plan to end turmoil: Annan
NAIROBI (AFP) - The parties of Kenya's feuding leaders agreed a joint roadmap Friday to end unrest that has claimed nearly 1,000 lives since last month's disputed presidential elections, former UN chief Kofi Annan said.
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Boost for Africa’s depleted soils
A $180m five-year project to revive the depleted soils of sub-Saharan Africa is launched in Nairobi.
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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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Fish can fight malaria mosquitoesNairobi - Kenyan researchers have hailed a humble fish as the latest weapon in the battle to curb the spread of malaria. |
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Lions Making a Comeback on Kenya RanchesNear Mount Kilimanjaro, Southern Kenya - Conservation efforts on a ranch in southern Kenya have led to an "extremely encouraging" rebound in the lion population there, an African predator expert said. |
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UN campaign to plant billion trees in 2007 hits target seven months earlyUnited Nations - The campaign by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to plant a billion trees worldwide this year has met its goal seven months early after Senegal unveiled a pledge today to plant 20 million trees. |
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Ban on Ivory Proposed in AfricaNairobi, Kenya - The hope is a 20-year ban would protect the continent's elephants from extinction. |
news from Africa
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- A ‘miracle tree’ that could feed sub-Saharan Africa
- Egypt desert tourists freed after three-day ordeal
- Looted Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia
- Ghana, EU clinch deal to crackdown on illicit timber trade
- Ghana’s grass-roots bid to save country’s last forests
- Italy apologises to Libya for colonial era damage
- Little robin from Gabon is world’s newest species
- Human rights outlook in Togo is improving, UN and African experts say
- Congo Basin passes 1 million ha milestone in swing to sustainable forestry
