Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, has been appointed to take over from Archbishop Desmond Tutu as Chair of The Elders with immediate effect. The decision was unanimously reached by the Elders at their latest biannual meeting in Ireland this week. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of
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German President Joachim Gauck Monday welcomed King Letsie III and Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso with full military honours at the Castle Bellevue in Berlin. The visit is the second leg of King Letsie’s two-week long three-nation visit to Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom. President Gauck and his partner, welcomed their guest on the steps
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Around 800 exhibitors from 35 countries representing nearly every branch of the water industry will be showcasing their products, services and solutions at Wasser Berlin International which kicks off at the exhibition grounds. The fair, 23 – 26 April 2013 expects some 30,000 trade visitors to attend, a third of whom from abroad. The 50th
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De 22 a 28 de Abril, os países africanos vão comemorar a terceira Semana Africana da Vacinação (SAV), uma iniciativa liderada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) e implementada pelos países da Região. Durante sete dias, todos os Estados-Membros da OMS na Região Africana – estados insulares, países sem costa marítima e países em regiões
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Record numbers of migrants from the Horn of Africa are crossing into Yemen, most of them on their way to find better opportunities in Saudi Arabia and other rich Gulf countries. But many do not make it any further. Seeking a new life, they end up unwitting victims of a smuggling racket designed to exploit
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—- Democracy is not a tea party A retired officer of the Ghana Armed Forces, Captain Budu Koomson, is reported to have believed that “prevailing conditions in the country make the staging of a coup d’état imminent” because of “the blatant abuse of state wealth by political operatives” and “the political stalemate in the society.”
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La collusion entre les responsables gouvernementaux, les vendeurs d’eau peu scrupuleux et les grands propriétaires agricoles est à l’origine de détournements des systèmes d’eau, de malversations et de l’absence de volonté pour faire adopter des lois destinées à protéger les sources d’eau de l’empiétement et de la pollution. Il ne s’agit là que de quelques
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A decision issued today by the Indian Supreme Court regarding the Novartis breakthrough medicine Glivec®(imatinib mesylate) provides clarification on Indian patent law and discourages innovative drug discovery essential to advancing medical science for patients. Novartis has never been granted an original patent for Glivec in India. The Court denied an appeal challenging the rejection of
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Parents and officials are going to great lengths to immunize children after militants imposed a ban on polio vaccinations in Pakistan’s restive North Waziristan Agency. Government officials are withholding money and identity documents from groups affiliated with the ban, and parents are travelling long distances to get their children vaccinated, in some cases smuggling the
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As a UN high-level panel completes worldwide consultations to pick development goals for 2015 and beyond, PlusNews consulted experts to see how HIV/AIDS might fit into this new agenda. The UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Prasada Rao, told IRIN countries have generally done well on Millennium Development Goal
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