Environmentalists have thwarted plans to establish an oil palm plantation in the Tanoe forest wetlands of southern Cote d' Ivoire (Ivory Coast), reports AFP.
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United 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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Grenoble, France -
Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from falling raindrops into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other electronics devices.
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Hat Creek, California -
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
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Oslo, 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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Tiebissou, Ivory Coast -
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said the dismantling of a military buffer zone on Monday underlined the war in the West African nation was over and that the country was being reunited.
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Ivory Coast, Africa -
Chimpanzees learned to make and use stone tools on their own, rather than copying humans, new evidence suggests.
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Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast -
Major political and rebel leaders will hold talks in the Ivory Coast for the first time since a 2002 uprising.
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Abijan, Cote D'Ivoire -
Cote d'Ivoire's shaky peace process moved forward on Wednesday when four pro-government militia groups took a first step towards demobilisation by each handing in a token Kalashnikov rifle.
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Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast -
The army and rebels in Ivory Coast have agreed to begin disarming at the end of June, and to set up a new republican army with fighters from both sides.
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Source: Reuters, Tue April 17, 2007 