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$12b provided to over 100 countries by KFAED - PMUNITED 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 ...
Source : Topix.net | 29-Sep-2008 04:58
Emir Hosts Iftar
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 ...
Source : Topix.net | 27-Sep-2008 04:39
Soldiers Who Died in Country Remembered
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.
Source : AllAfrica | 02-Sep-2008 11:58
President Sambi hails Tanzania as liberator
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 ...
Source : Topix.net | 26-Aug-2008 14:37
Comoros: Concerns Over Possible Social Unrest
High food and fuel prices may push Comoros to the brink of "social unrest" says a senior UN official.
Source : Topix.net | 23-Aug-2008 06:04
COMOROS: Concerns over possible social unrest
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.
Source : irinnews.org | 22-Aug-2008 15:30
GLOBAL: Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
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.
Source : irinnews.org | 22-Aug-2008 09:55
Comoros Island Demands Resignation of President Sambi
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.
Source : Topix.net | 15-Aug-2008 06:29
IMF Article IV reports assess economic conditions and policies.
An International Monetary Fund mission team, headed by Mr. Mbuyamu Matungulu, visited Moroni during July 25-August 8, 2008.
Source : Topix.net | 08-Aug-2008 19:22
GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate change
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:
Source : IRIN | 06-Aug-2008 15:55
Island state hit by fuel shortages puts faith in Iran
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 ...
Source : Topix.net | 06-Aug-2008 03:03
GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse
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.
Source : IRIN | 04-Aug-2008 17:40
GLOBAL: What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series
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.
Source : irinnews.org | 01-Aug-2008 13:45
Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
Source : Topix.net | 31-Jul-2008 00:00
GLOBAL: How climate change works
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Climate change is complicated, but it doesn't have to be:
Source : IRIN | 30-Jul-2008 11:10
Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
Source : Topix.net | 29-Jul-2008 20:43
GLOBAL: Calls to reduce taxes and controls on food aid
JOHANNESBURG Monday, July 28, 2008 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a call by the World Bank for a UN resolution to scrap taxes and export controls on food aid purchases, but experts say there is little chance of such a resolution being effected.
Source : IRIN | 28-Jul-2008 20:50
10 Bacar allies flee Comoros jail, head to Mayotte
The ten men from Bacar's inner circle escaped their jail Saturday night, hours after the former Anjouan president himself was expelled from the French island of Reunion to the west African state of Benin.
Source : Topix.net | 26-Jul-2008 14:34
GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part 2) - "the crisis of humanitarianism"
NEW YORK Friday, July 25, 2008 (IRIN) - The global humanitarian enterprise could lose touch with the needs of its beneficiaries because of political and security priorities, especially the ?war on terror?, according to a new report.
Source : irinnews.org | 25-Jul-2008 10:49
GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part one) - "exponential complexity"
NEW YORK Thursday, July 24, 2008 (IRIN) - It's the year 2018. A massive crisis is devastating the Horn of Africa, combining drought, huge migrations, urban desperation and there's little in the way of safety nets. Meanwhile, a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault has hammered California. US government agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are already overstretched.
Source : irinnews.org | 25-Jul-2008 10:19
New Money to Mitigate Disaster
In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction and community resilience in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros.
Source : AllAfrica | 24-Jul-2008 18:30
SOUTHERN AFRICA: New money to mitigate disaster
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 24, 2008 (IRIN) - In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction and community resilience in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros.
Source : irinnews.org | 24-Jul-2008 18:10
AFRICA: Homophobia fuelling the spread of HIV
LIMBÉ Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The persistent and increasing outbreaks of violence against members of the gay community in Africa are jeopardising efforts undertaken to combat HIV, both within this group and across the population as a whole, AIDS activists warned at a recent meeting in Limbé, Cameroon.
Source : irinnews.org | 23-Jul-2008 13:29
Ousted Comoros separatist in Benin, wants to stay
By Samuel Elijah Reuters Monday, July 21, 2008; 12:33 PM COTONOU - The deposed separatist leader of the breakaway Comorian island of Anjouan arrived in the West African country of Benin at the weekend and said ...
Source : Topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 19:52
GLOBAL: Could do better - tackling corruption in humanitarian intervention
NAIROBI Friday, July 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Humanitarian agencies should work harder and more closely together to minimise various forms of corruption that can affect the delivery of emergency aid and harm the reputation of agencies involved, according to a new report.
Source : irinnews.org | 18-Jul-2008 18:20
AFRICA: USA must improve aid balance - Refugees International
DAKAR Friday, July 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Imbalances between US spending on defence, diplomacy and development are affecting the USA?s ability to stabilise fragile and conflict-prone African countries, the US-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) Refugees International concludes in a new report.
Source : IRIN | 18-Jul-2008 11:50
Daily Appointments Schedule for July 15, 2008
SECRETARY OF STATE RICE: 9:00 a.m. Address the opening of the 2008 African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum.
Source : Topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 07:51
GLOBAL: Proposal for new US$10 billion disaster fund wins plaudits, criticism
NEW YORK Thursday, July 10, 2008 (IRIN) - A proposal in a recent UN report for a unified global mechanism for disaster relief and risk mitigation, with a US$10 billion budget, is receiving a mixed welcome, with praise for increased spending and prevention efforts, but concern over the idea of a one-stop shop.
Source : irinnews.org | 10-Jul-2008 15:34
GLOBAL: A dollar more for climate change adaptation, a dollar less for health
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, July 09, 2008 (IRIN) - The decision by the Group of Eight (G8) countries to divert money from their Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) funds to help poor countries adapt to climate change has been slammed. The eight industrialised countries have also come under fire for failing to fix short- and medium-term targets to cut dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, which scientists say are warming up the planet.
Source : irinnews.org | 09-Jul-2008 20:09
GLOBAL: Why everything costs more
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, July 08, 2008 (IRIN) - A rough guide to why food prices keep going up
Source : irinnews.org | 09-Jul-2008 14:14
GLOBAL: AIDS spending breaks records, but needs more focus
NAIROBI Tuesday, July 08, 2008 (IRIN) - HIV/AIDS funding to low- and middle-income countries reached a record level in 2007, according to a new report by UNAIDS.
Source : IRIN | 08-Jul-2008 21:30
AFRICA: IMF steps into food crisis
NEW YORK Monday, July 07, 2008 (IRIN) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is augmenting an existing facility and reshaping a second to help countries worst hit by the food and fuel price crisis, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Source : irinnews.org | 07-Jul-2008 16:50
Comoros regime tightens screw on 'un-Islamic' trends
The Comoros has in recent weeks launched a crackdown on "loose morals", prompting concern among women and intellectuals that the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago was poised to become a Sharia state.
Source : Topix.net | 07-Jul-2008 10:27
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Egyptian opposition icon and leading intellectual Abdel Wa hab Al Messeri passed away early Thursday after a long battle with illness, his f amily reported.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Jul-2008 07:11
GLOBAL: Balm to help ease way to climate change deal before G8?
JOHANNESBURG Friday, July 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Experts under the leadership of former UK prime minister Tony Blair have prepared a report described as a "useful balm applied at the right moment to tense muscles" in an attempt to crack a global deal on climate change in international talks ahead of the upcoming G8 summit in Japan, according to a global warming policy analyst.
Source : irinnews.org | 04-Jul-2008 18:09
Outbreak of Dengue and Chikungunya Fevers, Toamasina, Madagascar, 2006
Dengue type l or chikungunya viruses were detected in 38 of 55 patients sampled.
Source : Topix.net | 03-Jul-2008 07:09
Cautious Optimism After Calm Anjouan Elections
Results from the election on 29 June show that voters on the Comorian island of Anjouan have chosen their next president and observers hope a year of political turmoil will make way for calm and much needed development.
Source : AllAfrica | 02-Jul-2008 20:04
COMOROS: Cautious optimism after calm Anjouan elections
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, July 02, 2008 (IRIN) - Results from the election on 29 June show that voters on the Comorian island of Anjouan have chosen their next president and observers hope a year of political turmoil will make way for calm and much needed development.
Source : irinnews.org | 02-Jul-2008 18:59
GLOBAL: NGOs call for more funds, investment in agriculture
NEW YORK Wednesday, July 02, 2008 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community is to urge the G8 leaders to fully fund immediate emergency aid and to invest in longer-term agricultural development in poorer nations to tackle the global food crisis.
Source : IRIN | 02-Jul-2008 11:50
GLOBAL: US farm bill "too little, too late" for developing world
NEW YORK Tuesday, July 01, 2008 (IRIN) - New ground was broken in US attempts to break the link between foreign food aid and supporting its own farmers in a new farm bill, but for many, including the Bush-led administration, it was too little, too late.
Source : irinnews.org | 01-Jul-2008 17:20
Toybou wins Anjouan presidential election
Moroni - Moussa Toybou won the presidential election on the Comoros isle of Anjouan, a government minister announced on Monday, three months after renegade leader Mohamed Bacar was ousted.
Source : Topix.net | 01-Jul-2008 07:02
ZIMBABWE: SADC's big headache
JOHANNESBURG Monday, June 30, 2008 (IRIN) - If the Southern African Development Community (SADC) "wished to be taken seriously" it would have to declare Robert Mugabe's presidential claim illegitimate, a regional analyst told IRIN.
Source : IRIN | 30-Jun-2008 21:49
GLOBAL: Jury still out over food impact of Midwest floods
NEW YORK Friday, June 27, 2008 (IRIN) - The worst floods in the Midwest in 15 years have helped maize prices surge to unprecedented levels, leading to calls for Washington to release more conservation land for cultivation and to reduce minimum ethanol production requirements.
Source : irinnews.org | 27-Jun-2008 16:29
Exim Bank Subsidiary Launched
Comoros President Ahmed Abdullah Sambi has pledged to protect foreign investments in the islands. He said by attracting more investors into the islands, competition will grow and service delivery would improve to benefits the citizes, stimulate the economy and reduce poverty.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Jun-2008 13:20
SOUTHERN AFRICA: SADC calls for poll postponment
MBABANE Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe?s presidential run-off election scheduled for 27 June should be called off, regional leaders meeting in Swaziland said on Wednesday
Source : irinnews.org | 25-Jun-2008 21:39
Iranian President support broader Comoros ties
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Comorian counterpart Ahmad Abdullah Sambi called for expansion of ties in all fields, Iran Daily reported.
Source : Topix.net | 20-Jun-2008 08:41