From the editors
Allegations of corruption and trafficking in gold and guns by the UN are met by an airy dismissal from within the world organisation. But the claims may not be dismissed so easily.
Read moreOn the From Our Own Correspondent page, click Listen: World Service edition. Also, watch Panorama this evening. + UN peacekeepers 'traded gold and guns with Congolese rebels' Related: [Media] [Corruption & Transparency] [United Nations] Image: United Nations
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Kenyan marathon champion Paul Tergat is to take part in a 15km race - "Running Side by Side for Peace" - in Nairobi on Sunday 27 April.
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The first World Malaria Day hears a call for action by UK civil society.
Read more+ A long way to go Related: [United Kingdom] [Malaria] Image: Red Cross bednets in Niger © International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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It's the usual story: big promises and grandiose plans for Africa - this time for the world's largest hydroelectric project. Then reality sets in: as discussions begin, the host country, Congo, isn't there.
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A "silent tsunami" unleashed by costlier food threatens 100 million people, the UN said on Tuesday, as UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Britain would seek changes to EU biofuels targets if it was shown that planting crops for fuel was driving up food prices.
Read more+ ODI evidence on WFP and Global Food Security to the International Development Committee Related: [United Kingdom] [Aid] [Food] Image: Gordon Brown
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A young British entrepreneur, a global health think-tank and an African medical research institute have teamed up to launch an initiative to raise money for the fight against malaria.
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As the New Economics Foundation cast doubts on London's promise of a legacy for the poor from the 2012 Olympics, Nepali soldiers were told to shoot if necessary to "protect" the Olympic torch from pro-Tibet demonstrators.
Read moreRelated: [Nepal] [Tibet] [United Kingdom] [Politics] Image: olimpiadi in Cina - da Olympicswatch.org
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Wherever you live, this year's Stop the Arms Trade Week (1-8 June) is a great opportunity to take coordinated local action against the weapons trade.
Read moreRelated: [United Kingdom] [Arms & Military] Image: Rifle © Oxfam Great Britain
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Campaigners dressed as pirates stage a demonstration against moves by UK-based multinational corporation BP to control the development, production and depletion of Iraqs oil reserves.
Read moreFrom: War on Want Related: [Iraq] [United Kingdom] [Energy] [Corporations] |
A new platform for information, knowledge and networking on gender and climate change is launched.
Read moreRelated: [Climate Change] [Gender] Image: Climate change rally, London
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War on Want, the London Mining Network and ActionAid demonstrated outside British mining giant Anglo American's AGM today. ActionAid challenged the company's board to drink water from villages close to platinum mines in the Limpopo region of South Africa. .
Read more+ Protest at Anglo American AGM From: War on Want, ActionAid International USA |
You can now zoom into displacement camps in Darfur, Chad, Iraq, Colombia and elsewhere in a new online programme unveiled by Google and the UN refugee agency.
Read moreRelated: [Refugees] [Internet] [United Nations] Image: Viewing refugees
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Make a short video about why US leadership is necessary to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and win $1,000.
Read moreFrom: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Related: [Media] [Nuclear Issues] Image: Nuclear weapons test, 1951 © Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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A change of government in Zimbabwe could mean a change in the status of thousands of refugees in Britain.
Read moreRelated: [United Kingdom] [Zimbabwe] [Refugees] |
Enter the OneWorld Citizen Journalism Awards. The winning report will be featured on OneWorlds unique syndication service on Yahoo! News.
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Simon Maxwell is to stand down as director of the Overseas Development Institute after more than 11 years in the post.
Read moreFrom: Overseas Development Institute Related: [United Kingdom] |
To mark Fossil Fools Day, World Development Movement campaigners juggled coal outside John Huttons office, wearing Hutton 'jester' masks and hats and urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take charge of his Secretary of State's rogue coal plans.
Read moreFrom: World Development Movement Related: [United Kingdom] [Energy] [Climate Change] |
President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party are about to announce victory in the parliamentary and presidential elections, according to Joseph Sithole in Harare.
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E.on announces the discovery of a new form of Carbon Capture and Storage: by capturing the CO2 before it is released into the atmosphere and piping it through natural spring water E.on says it can create carbonated drinking water that is bottled and sold in Italian restaurants under the brand name evE.on
Read moreRelated: [United Kingdom] [Climate Change] |
Join thousands of Stop Climate Chaos coalition campaigners for a Week of Action - 30 March to 5 April - to strengthen the UK Climate Change Bill.
Read moreRelated: [United Kingdom] [Climate Change] [Activism] Image: Climate change rally, London, 2006
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