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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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Refugees living in Zambia will receive continued assistance, UN official pledgesKala, Zambia - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has assured refugees from several African countries living in Zambia that his agency will continue to assist them in their efforts to either return to their homes, or to settle in local communities. |
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Zambian Tailor Wins Aids Award for Providing Orphans With Free School UniformsMboole, Zambia - Six years after a teenage Zambian tailor started using his only sewing machine to make free school uniforms for AIDS orphans, the organization he founded has become one of the first winners of a United Nations prize to honour community groups on the front line of the global fight against the pandemic. |
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ZAMBIA: Landmark judgment for women in customary marriagesLusaka, Zambia - A precedent setting ruling earlier this month by a local court in Zambia has given women married under customary law the right to a share of marital property in the event of a divorce or death of the husband. |
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US$35 Million for Major Malaria Effort in ZambiaZambia - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced today (19 May) it will spend US$35 million funding a new partnership that seeks to reduce deaths from malaria in Zambia by 75 per cent in three years. |
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news from Africa
- 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
- Amid global food crisis, UN helps boost farm production in Swaziland
- UN opens first zero emission community power centre in rural Kenya
- African ‘wall of trees’ gets underway
- PHOTOS: Ancient Egypt Town Found
- Security Council applauds Central African peace accord with rebel groups
- Central African government, rebels sign peace accord
- Space cameras to monitor forests
