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Somalia once again polio-free, declares UN health agency
In what is being described as a major victory in the global fight against polio, the United Nations health agency announced today that the disease has been eradicated in strife-torn Somalia thanks to the efforts of some 10,000 volunteers and health workers across the Horn of Africa nation.
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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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Somalia Allows U.N. Humanitarian FlightsMogadishu, Somalia - Shortly after wresting control of Somalia's capital from Islamic militants, the U.N.-backed transitional government Thursday approved the immediate resumption of humanitarian flights. |
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AU to send 8,000 troops to Somalia
The African Union agrees to send 8,000 peacekeepers to Somalia despite opposition from the Islamic courts.
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Rains Fall on Somalia, Easing Threat of FamineSomalia - The start of the rainy season in Somalia in late April may have averted a moderate famine in the poverty-stricken and chaotic northeastern African nation, a UN office said on Wednesday. |
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