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African rhinos on path to recovery, WWF saysAfrica - After nearly disappearing from the planet, African white and black rhinos have made a healthy recovery, according to a wildlife advocacy group. |
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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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The ‘Bead For Life’ Home and Village ProjectOutside Kampala, Uganda - Where yesterday there was nothing but pasture, today a village of houses for 120 impoverished Ugandan families is taking shape. |
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Peace process improves humanitarian conditions in Northern Uganda – UNAdjumani, Uganda - The peace process in Northern Uganda has fostered improved conditions for beleaguered civilians there, according to a senior United Nations official, who called for continued efforts to bring stability to the region which has been torn by a violent rebellion for some two decades. |
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Ugandan rebels emerge from hidingSouthern Sudan - The first group of Ugandan LRA rebels reach an assembly point in southern Sudan - agreed under a truce. |
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Uganda rebels ‘leaving the bush’Kampala, Uganda - Lord's Resistance Army rebels start moving in compliance with a ceasefire agreement, Ugandan army officials say. |
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Uganda and LRA rebels sign truceKampala, Uganda - The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have signed a truce aimed at ending one of the most bitter wars in Africa. |
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US park donates rare rhino to UgandaKampala, Uganda - Two white rhinos took their first steps on African soil on Thursday, officials said, after being flown into the country from the United States to boost stocks. |
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Ugandan rebel peace talks beginUganda - Historic peace talks between Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and the government have started in Sudan. |
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