Positive news from South Africa
Stylish t-shirts designed by orphans in Africa to help feed orphansHow many t-shirts in your closet are feeding malnourished children? |
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Satellite Internet Accelerated Access For Africa And Middle EastRomania - New satellite internet access for Africa is now available due to the new satellite capacities allocated by Lamit Company, to all kind of users along the entire continent. |
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Executive pledges $100M to hospital for AIDS researchBoston, Massachusetts, USA - A businessman is pledging $100 million to create a new institute that will search for an AIDS vaccine. |
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South Africa to start wind power project: officialJohannesburg, South Africa - South Africa's state-run power utility Eskom plans to start operating wind turbines this year to boost the supply of electricity, a company spokesman said on Monday. |
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Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projectsUnited Nations - This holiday season, scores of projects aimed at improving the education of school children around the world are set to profit from an IKEA initiative to the tune of €5 million (almost $7 million), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today. |
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Rescued lions join African wildlife sanctuaryBethlehem, South Africa - The wide-eyed lion cub inched slowly to the edge of the wooden crate and stared around him. |
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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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Trapped S.African miners rescued after underground ordeal
Source: AFP, Thu October 04, 2007 |
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Over 2,000 trapped miners rescued in South AfricaCarletonville, South Africa - Over 2,000 of some 3,200 miners trapped about 2,200 meters underground at a South African gold mine since Wednesday have been rescued, gold mining company Harmony Gold said on Thursday. |
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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