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Afrikkalaista lasta punnitaan
09/29/2006 Ei riitä, että Afrikan kehitysapu tuplataan. Suurin osa avusta olisi jatkossa jaettava poliittisesti riippumattomasti monenkeskisten toimijoiden kautta, suositetaan Unctadin tuoreessa raportissa. Mallia avun jakamiseen pitäisi ottaa esimerkiksi Euroopan jälleenrakennukseen 1940-1950 -luvuilla suunnatusta Marshall-avusta.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [International Cooperation]
Image: Afrikkalaista lasta punnitaan © American Refugee Committee
09/29/2006 UN troops are making a difference, but with an expanded force and mandate they will be able to bring greater stability to the Congo in the critical post-election period, a refugee group said Wednesday.
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From: Refugees International
Related: [Democratic Republic of the Congo]
09/29/2006 Halima Abdulsalami was 18 and suffering from a debilitating and isolating condition known as obstetric fistula until she learned, from a radio drama, that help was available.
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From: Population Media Center
Related: [Nigeria]
Children at Nthombimbi Primary School, Zambia, a community school with no roof
09/28/2006 "As a people, we stand for development and a chance to build a nation that our children will take over from in peace and prosperity," said the Times of Zambia on the eve of the most contested elections the nation has ever experienced.
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From: allAfrica.com
Related: [Zambia]
Image: Children at Nthombimbi Primary School, Zambia, a community school with no roof © United Nations Children's Fund
09/27/2006 TORONTO, Sep 27 (IPS) - Boreal forests provide 250 billion dollars a year in ecosystem services like reducing atmospheric carbon and water filtration, but which have gone unacknowledged by governments and industry, experts say.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related: [Asia and the Pacific] [Europe] [Latin America and the Caribbean] [Northern America]
Murchison Falls
09/26/2006 Another dividend of peace: eco-tourism and conservation are getting a boost in Uganda this month.
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From: allAfrica.com
Related: [Uganda]
Image: Murchison Falls © Uganda Wildlife Authority / allAfrica.com
Sudanin lapsia
09/26/2006 "Olen käynyt monilla syrjäseuduilla Tansaniassa ja Keniassa, mutta missään ei ole ollut niin köyhää kuin Etelä-Sudanissa. Siellä ei ole mitään", kokenut kehitysyhteistyöntekijä Harri Porvali sanoo. Viime vuoden lopulla hän lähti Kirkon Ulkomaanavun lähettämänä tutkimaan uuden hankkeen mahdollisuuksia Mabanin alueella Etelä-Sudanissa.
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From: Kirkon Ulkomaanapu
Related: [Sudan] [Development] [Poverty] [Conflict]
Image: Sudanin lapsia
Zimbabwean trade union leader Wellington Chibebe in hospital.
09/25/2006 Global labor representatives rallied Friday in support of Zimbabwean colleagues who were arrested and tortured earlier this month.
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From: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Related: [Zimbabwe]
Image: Zimbabwean trade union leader Wellington Chibebe in hospital. © International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
09/25/2006 Nigeria has received a 200-million-dollar soft loan to popularise Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the rural areas.
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Related: [Nigeria] [ICT] [Civil Society] [Governance]
09/23/2006 Unusual film double for Black History Month at the ICA in London on 1 October: The Lion Mountains: A Journey Through Sierra Leone, in which a 25-year-old Jamaican English man looks at the country’s past and present to understand how the country fell into civil war; and Black Survivors of the Holocaust, on the World War 2 concentration camp experience of Black Germans. Both films are followed by Q&A sessions.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related: [Sierra Leone] [Germany]
Sudan's president Omer al-Bashir.
09/22/2006 Amnesty International has warned the international community not to become complacent now that the African Union has proposed and Sudan has accepted an extension of the current peacekeeping mission in Darfur.
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From: Amnesty International USA
Related: [Sudan]
Image: Sudan's president Omer al-Bashir. © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
ZCTU:n puheenjohtaja Matombo
09/22/2006 Zimbabwen ammattiyhdistysliikkeen johtoa ja kymmeniä aktiiveja vastaan nostetut syytteet on peruttava ja ay-liikkeen vaino lopetettava, vaatii ay-liikkeen suurin kansainvälinen kattojärjestö VAKL presidentti Robert Mugabelle osoittamassaan kirjeessä. Zimbabwen ammatillisen keskusjärjestön ZCTU:n johto toipuu parhaillaan sairaalassa vammoista, joita se sai poliisin pidätysselleissä 13. syyskuuta tehtyjen joukkopidätysten yhteydessä.
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From: Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus
Related: [Zimbabwe] [Labor] [Human Rights] [Civil Rights]
Image: ZCTU:n puheenjohtaja Matombo
09/21/2006 A judge has thrown out a corruption case against former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma, a contender for the country's top job.
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Related: [South Africa]
Presidentti Mwanawasa
09/21/2006 Sambian vaalit, jotka on määrä pitää 28. syyskuuta, lähestyvät. Vaalit ovat maan neljännet monipuoluevaalit vuoden 1991 jälkeen, jolloin maassa 27 vuotta jatkunut yhden puolueen valta päättyi. Politiikan analyytikot uskovat, että maan istuva presidentti Levy Mwanawasa tulee taistelemaan tiukasti vaalivoitosta, joka veisi hänet toiselle ja viimeiselle kaudelle.
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From: OneWorld Africa
Related: [Zambia] [Politics] [Democracy]
Image: Presidentti Mwanawasa © Zamnet
09/21/2006 Ilmaiseen koulutukseen panostaminen kannattaa, vaikka lyhyellä aikavälillä se lisää valtion menoja. Koulutetut nuoret haluavat hyvän koulutuksen myös omille lapsilleen, arvioi Maailmanpankin vuosiraportti. Kenia on ymmärtänyt nuorisoon liittyvän potentiaalin ja suunnannut esimerkillisesti voimavaroja nuoriin.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Kenya] [Development] [Education] [Youth]
09/21/2006 Pauli Aalto-Setälä luovutti Merkitystalous-kirjansa kirjailijapalkkion, 7450 euroa, Kirkon Ulkomaanavulle Kongon naisten hyväksi tehtävään työhön.
”Mitä olet ajatellut tärkeiden asioiden hyväksi tehdä?” kysyy kirjailija, toimitusjohtaja Pauli Aalto-Setälä Merkitystalous-kirjansa kannessa. Teoksessa pohditaan, millaista maailmaa olemme tekemässä ja millaisten asioiden vuoksi olemme valmiit toimimaan.
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From: Kirkon Ulkomaanapu
Related: [Democratic Republic of the Congo] [International Cooperation]
'Botswana Diamonds, Bushman Despair' campaign by Survival International
09/20/2006 "We know you are a famous and respected man, and that if you speak up for us many people will listen. We just want to go home, and hunt and gather and live in peace like we have always done." Botswana's Busmen people have appealed to the star of a new movie, "The Blood Diamond."
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From: Survival International
Related: [Botswana]
Image: 'Botswana Diamonds, Bushman Despair' campaign by Survival International
Some 20,000-30,000 people were in New York's Central Park Saturday to support peace in Darfur.
09/19/2006 Iraq and Darfur are the hot-button issues bringing regular people onto the streets and into the headlines this week while a renewed effort to "Make Poverty History" is gearing up to demand governments attack the root causes of strife and deprivation around the world.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Iraq] [Sudan] [United States]
Image: Some 20,000-30,000 people were in New York's Central Park Saturday to support peace in Darfur. © Liana Grey / Independent Media Center
09/19/2006 Zambia's general election, set for 28 September, is expected to be a bitter and closely contested affair. Political analysts believe the country's fourth multiparty poll since it emerged from 27 years of one-party rule in 1991 will be a hard-fought contest for the incumbent, President Levy Mwanawasa of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD), who is seeking a second and final term of office.

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Related: [Zambia] [Southern Africa]
09/19/2006 Suomen Live Aid - köyhien hyväksi - tapahtuma järjestetään jo toista kertaa Helsingissä. Konsertin tuotto ohjataan muun muassa Suomen Punaisen Ristin kautta Afrikan aids-orvoille. Monipuolinen ja näyttävä kaarti eri ikäisiä kotimaisia rokkareita ja bändejä nousee jälleen lavalle hyvän asian puolesta! Tapahtumapaikka on Kulttuuriareena Gloria.
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From: Punainen Risti
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