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African nations can break dependence on food imports and produce enough to feed a growing population within a generation despite extra strains from climate change, a study said on Thursday.
Research into new crops resistant to heat, droughts or floods, better support for small-scale farmers and greater involvement by national leaders in setting policies in sectors from transport to education w
President Barack Obama will host a town hall meeting next month with African youth leaders as part of a U.S. celebration of 50 years of independence being marked this year by 17 African countries.
“In honor of Africa’s significant gains since 1960, its increasingly important voice on the world stage and in anticipation of the next 50 years of progress toward peace and prosperity, the United St
African countries are making the most overall progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. So says a new analysis by the London-based Overseas Development Institute and the U.N. Millennium Campaign. The report’s been released prior to the G8 and G20 summits at week’s end in Canada.
They say 11 of the 20 countries making the most absolute progress are among the poorest in Africa.
Benin has made significant gains in reducing poverty and expanding primary education, according to a statement by the Secretary-General of the United Nations on a visit to the West African nation. Ban Ki-moon pledged UN support for a range of challenges such as food security and the environment.
The country's efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - eight targets to slash po
15 June 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed the “tremendous progress” Sierra Leone has made in consolidating peace and development less than one decade after the end of the West African nation’s brutal civil war.
“Sierra Leone is one of the world’s most successful examples of post-conflict recovery, peacekeeping and peacebuilding,” Mr. Ban told reporters in the capital, Freetown,
HARARE, June 16 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's rival political leaders sat side-by-side and called for peace on Wednesday at the launch of a campaign to solicit public views on a new constitution, a long-delayed step toward a new general election.
President Robert Mugabe was forced to form a power-sharing government more than a year ago with his foe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, as well as anothe
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said today Africa should be represented on the UN Security Council, promising to back reforms when France takes the helm of the G8 and G20 groups of big economies next year.
Speaking at the launch of the 25th Africa-France summit, he said it was time for the world to make a place for Africa on the global stage to discuss international crises and reforms.
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A gay couple who were jailed in Malawi have been pardoned by President Bingu wa Mutharika.
Mr Mutharika, speaking as UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited Lilongwe, said he had ordered their immediate release.
All the top three figures in Zimbabwe's Government of National Unity sat together on a platform at the World Economic Forum's Africa meeting to pronounce their country open for business.
