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Environment

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:36:09 GMT

Ahead of this week's UN talks on climate change in Poznan, Poland, the need for governments to fast track agreements on global treaty and develop a strong negotiation text for the new climate treaty due in 2009 ...

Seabees Refurbish Primary School in Moroni

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:18:07 GMT

A crew of five Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, based out of Naval Base Ventura County, Calif., recently completed a project to refurbish the Ecole Primary School #2 in the town of Moroni , ...

Environment

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:10:52 GMT

Several million people are threatened by the rising water level of the Congo River as the country continues to experience downpours a nd more rain is forecast.

Comoros: Volcano Experts Gather for UN Meeting

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:19:11 GMT

Experts in vulcanology, natural resources and disaster prevention are gathering today in the Comoros for the start of a United Nations-sponsored conference examining how the Indian Ocean archipelago can better manage and promote the active volcano that dominates the main island in the chain.

INDIAN OCEAN: Climbing HIV figures show a changing picture

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:00:03 GMT

PORT LOUIS Friday, November 14, 2008 (IRIN) - Over 500 people from Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion Island, the Comoros and Seychelles attended the seventh conference on AIDS in Indian Ocean, and shared their growing concern over the impact of AIDS in their respective countries.

GLOBAL: Tight belts, tough choices for charities

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:00:01 GMT

NEW YORK Thursday, November 13, 2008 (IRIN) - Humanitarian organisations face tough choices if the global financial crisis affects their income, as some analysts predict. Although it is too soon to predict the full impact of the crisis on funding, some agencies told IRIN they were reviewing possible cutbacks and some have started tightening their belts.

GLOBAL: Emergency education gains ground

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:00:06 GMT

DAKAR Thursday, November 13, 2008 (IRIN) - Humanitarian policy-makers have endorsed internationally-agreed standards on rebuilding education sectors shattered by crises, in a move experts say shows that education is increasingly being regarded as life-saving.

OFFICIAL

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:09:36 GMT

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani with the new Polish and Spanish Ambassadors to Qatar Robert Rostek and Juan Jose Santos, respectively, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday.

GLOBAL: G20 "must stand by aid pledges"

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:50:12 GMT

NEW YORK Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Leaders of the top 20 industrial and big emerging-market countries will be asked to reaffirm their commitments to development assistance at the emergency summit on 15 November convened by President George W Bush to address the global financial crisis.

GLOBAL: Top UN official interviewed on global aid challenges

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:30:07 GMT

DUBAI Monday, November 10, 2008 (IRIN) - John Holmes, UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, has been in Dubai attending the inaugural Summit on the Global Agenda held by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) in partnership with the government of Dubai (7-9 November).

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Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:13:06 GMT

Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh has received the visiting s enior official of the International Monetary Fund Tsidi M Tsidikata, the p r o-government newspaper, Daily Observer, reported on Tuesday.

GLOBAL: Falling foul of the Fund

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:00:07 GMT

NAIROBI Tuesday, November 04, 2008 (IRIN) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed in 2001 for the purpose of setting up an innovative approach to providing finance to combat the three diseases that kill more than six million people worldwide every year.

AFRICA: Investment key to doubling rice production

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:30:06 GMT

NAIROBI Monday, November 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Greater investment to double rice production in Africa is needed to reduce food insecurity as well as improve livelihoods, specialists urged.

GLOBAL: UN chief calls for protection of migrants amid financial crisis

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:10:01 GMT

MANILA Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on countries battered by the financial crisis to keep their doors open to foreign workers, stressing that migration could be used to help lift them out of economic gloom.

GLOBAL: No room for complacency about bird flu - experts

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:10:05 GMT

SHARM EL SHEIKH Monday, October 27, 2008 (IRIN) - Some success has been achieved in reducing avian influenza outbreaks in poultry and humans, but the world must still be prepared to tackle an influenza pandemic, experts at an international conference in Egypt have said.

GLOBAL: Climate change may drown cities

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:00:02 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Friday, October 24, 2008 (IRIN) - People in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, prefer to commute in three-wheeled autorickshaws, taxis and buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG), in their bid to slow down global warming.

GLOBAL: Forced to flee

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:50:02 GMT

NAIROBI Thursday, October 23, 2008 (IRIN) - Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are forced to flee their homes to escape war or natural disasters. Displaced within their own country and having lost loved ones, livelihoods and belongings, they face terrible hardships.

Comoros: Cost of Democracy Thwarts Development

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:33:39 GMT

The expense of maintaining democracy in Comoros is proving such a burden that the government is contemplating wholesale changes, possibly fomenting the very divisions its complex governance system was designed ...

Comoros: Cost of Democracy Thwarts Development

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:07:10 GMT

AFRICA: Red Cross broadens its range of assistance

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:20:01 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (IRIN) - African governments are failing to make proper use of local Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, despite their capacity to provide much-needed broad humanitarian support, including funding and local volunteers, the agencies concluded at a conference this week.

COMOROS: Cost of democracy thwarts development

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:40:01 GMT

PORT LOUIS Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (IRIN) - The expense of maintaining democracy in Comoros is proving such a burden that the government is contemplating wholesale changes, possibly fomenting the very divisions its complex governance system was designed to thwart.

GLOBAL: Climate change's threat to water needs more study

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:50:01 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Models to predict the impact of climate change on potable water and the management of wastewater are needed to deal with the expected increase in water-related illnesses as result of global warming, says a new policy brief by the United Nations University (UNU).

ANGOLA-COMOROS: The economic future may be darker

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:09:54 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 16, 2008 (IRIN) - Africa's marginalisation in the global financial system will not spare it the repercussions of the market meltdown affecting the rest of the world, but how hard its economies will be hit is unclear.

AFRICA: ‘Sexually-transmitted grades’ kills quality education

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:39:57 GMT

DAKAR Friday, October 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers. From ‘Sexually Transmitted Grades’ to ‘BF’, or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual activities with teachers, this slang hints at the prevalence of exploitation in Africa’s learning environments.

GLOBAL: "Hot topic" - special journal issue on climate and migration reviewed

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:59:57 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article buffet on climate change and displacement, a “hot topic” according to Jean-Francois Durieux, a lecturer at the centre.

AFRICA: Call to ban cluster bombs

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:29:57 GMT

KAMPALA Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid calls for African countries to do more to ensure the weapons are banned.

$12b provided to over 100 countries by KFAED - PM

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:58:28 GMT

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26, : Kuwait Prime Minister H.H. Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said Thursday his country has achieved some of the Millennium Development Goals in fields of education and health ...

Emir Hosts Iftar

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:39:18 GMT

The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani hosted an iftar banquet at St Regis Hotel in New York yesterday in honour of heads of the Arab and Islamic delegations taking part in the 63rd session of the UN ...

SOUTHERN AFRICA: "Sunny and dry" is an unwelcome forecast

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:54:53 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, September 25, 2008 (IRIN) - At least six countries in Southern Africa could receive poor rainfall during the critical planting season starting next month, says an early forecast for the 2008/09 agricultural season.

GLOBAL: Leadership determines AIDS performance

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:44:53 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, September 25, 2008 (IRIN) - As South Africa prepared to swear in a new president on 25 September after the dramatic ousting of Thabo Mbeki four days before, attempts by commentators to summarise the former president's mixed legacy have not failed to mention his controversial stance on AIDS.

SOUTH AFRICA: Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:30:08 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when there is a threat of famine or food insecurity.

AFRICA: Humanitarian Air

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:50:10 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Friday, September 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Often the forgotten heroes of humanitarian assistance, pilots play a critical role in making sure that aid gets to where it is needed most around the world - and sometimes they pay the ultimate price.

Soldiers Who Died in Country Remembered

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:58:31 GMT

Tributes poured in yesterday for two Tanzanian soldiers who died during an African Union military operation to oust a renegade leader in the Comoros in June.

GLOBAL: Food wasted is water lost

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:19:54 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Friday, August 29, 2008 (IRIN) - To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria, Africa's largest body of water, according to a projection in a new policy brief. Lake Victoria's estimated volume is 2,750 km3.

President Sambi hails Tanzania as liberator

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:37:10 GMT

President Ahmed Mohammed Abdallah Sambi of the Union of Comoros has said Comorians would forever remember the epic role Tanzania played in the struggle against separatist elements that threatened to tear his ...

Comoros: Concerns Over Possible Social Unrest

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:04:16 GMT

High food and fuel prices may push Comoros to the brink of "social unrest" says a senior UN official.

SOUTHERN AFRICA: SADC meal planning

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:40:03 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Friday, August 22, 2008 (IRIN) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has announced it will go ahead with plans to set up a regional grain reserve, while urging member states not to impose export restrictions on maize as the region grapples with high food prices.

GLOBAL: Pressure on to reach emissions agreement

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:25:03 GMT

ACCRA Friday, August 22, 2008 (IRIN) - Industrialised and developing countries will be under intense pressure to agree on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets during week-long negotiations over future greenhouse gas emission targets which kicked off in the Ghana capital Accra on 21 August.

COMOROS: Concerns over possible social unrest

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:30:02 GMT

PORT LOUIS Friday, August 22, 2008 (IRIN) - High food and fuel prices may push Comoros to the brink of "social unrest" says a senior UN official.

GLOBAL: Cyclones, storms and hurricanes

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:55:02 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, August 21, 2008 (IRIN) - One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often.

Comoros Island Demands Resignation of President Sambi

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:29:35 GMT

The President of the Comoros Islands, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi is coming under intense pressure after some Comorians demonstrated in the capital, Moroni, demanding his resignation.

IMF Article IV reports assess economic conditions and policies.

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:22:11 GMT

An International Monetary Fund mission team, headed by Mr. Mbuyamu Matungulu, visited Moroni during July 25-August 8, 2008.

GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate change

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:55:04 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, August 05, 2008 (IRIN) - In developing countries, where survival is often a daily struggle, people cannot afford to wait for their government to bail them out. Many are living in the grip of climate change, coping with frequent droughts, heavy flooding, intense cyclones and other extreme weather events, and have found ways to adapt:

Island state hit by fuel shortages puts faith in Iran

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:03:58 GMT

Our monthly turnover has fallen from 10 million Comoran francs to 200,000 Comoran francs, grumbled Ali Mliva, an insurance company official who criticised the permanent incapacity of the government to solve ...

GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:40:00 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week.

GLOBAL: What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:45:13 GMT

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 31, 2008 (IRIN) - The world can expect to become about 0.2�C warmer per decade for the next two decades, according to several scenarios prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols were kept constant at the levels they were in 2000, further warming of about 0.1�C per decade would still be expected.