Positive news from Senegal
Cherry-flavored malaria drug launched for kidsDakar, Senegal - Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is launching a new cherry-flavored malaria drug that it says children will be less likely to spit out. |
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Photos: From London to Timbuktu—in a flying carLondon, England, UK - British adventurer and pilot Neil Laughton poses in his Parajet Skycar in London on Tuesday. |
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A ‘miracle tree’ that could feed sub-Saharan AfricaFrench Guinea, West Africa - As a child growing up in India, I greeted the appearance of one particular vegetable on my plate with exaggerated distaste: tender seedpods from the moringa tree, locally known as "drumsticks." |
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Sudan And Chad Sign Peace AgreementDakar, Senegal - The Presidents of Chad, Idriss Deby, and of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, signed a new peace agreement in Dakar on Thursday night, intended to put an end to years of hostilities, fed by each government accusing the other of supporting rebel forces in its territory. |
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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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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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Chimps Use Caves to Beat the Heat, Scientists FindSenegal - The same chimps that were recently found to hunt with sharpened sticks have been seen using caves as "summer homes" in a discovery that has surprised scientists. |
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Ford Foundation gives $30M for TrustAfricaDakar, Senegal - The Ford Foundation on Tuesday launched an independent, African-led nonprofit that aims to give Africans greater opportunity to solve the continent's problems themselves. |
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CHAD-SUDAN: Both sides express readiness to talk as tensions lingerDakar, Senegal - Sudan joined Chad on Tuesday in offering to open talks to defuse mounting tension along their joint border, but the two sides still appeared far apart. |
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