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<title>New fund to bring malaria rates to zero, rolled out</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192021969</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  300 people dying of malaria every day, Uganda is one of the countries that will  ...  the high level meeting convened by the UN Secretary General-Ban Ki-Moon to renew commitments to  ...  require $5.3bn in 2009 worldwide ($2.2bn for Africa) and $6.2bn worldwide in 2010 ($2.86bn for  ...
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<title>Piracy off the Horn of Africa is becoming worse</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192021129</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:55 GMT</pubDate>
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... Piracy off the Horn of Africa is becoming worse Piracy off the Horn  ...  of Somalia. The ship was heading for Kenya loaded with 33 Soviet-designed T-72 battle tanks,  ...  number using the Straits of Malacca. A United Nations Security Council resolution in June gave permission  ...
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<title>UN chief says dangers hamper increased peacekeeping in Darfur, food delivery in Somalia</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192018952</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:49 GMT</pubDate>
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... (AP) _ The beleaguered peacekeeping force in Sudan&apos;s violence-wracked Darfur region cannot be significantly strengthened  ...  by the end of this year. The African Union-U.N. force known as UNAMID in Darfur  ...
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<title>| USAID denies funding to international abortion group</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192017781</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the USAID decision will cut back MSIs population control programs in a number of African countries, including Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. MSI claimed that the lack of funding would leave African women few options besides  ...
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<title>USAID denies funding to international abortion group</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192015146</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the USAID decision will cut back MSIs population control programs in a number of African countries, including Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. MSI claimed that the lack of funding would leave African women few options besides  ...
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<title>UN chief sees obstacles to helping Darfur, Somalia</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192013218</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  chief sees obstacles to helping Darfur, Somalia UNITED NATIONS - The beleaguered peacekeeping force in Sudan&apos;s violence-wracked region cannot be significantly strengthened this  ...  three months. The force relies heavily on African troops, which has insisted on, and has  ...
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<title>Darfur: UN Peacekeepers Ambushed During Patrol</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192008198</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 03:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  group of peacekeepers serving with the joint United Nations-African Union operation in Darfur were ambushed this  ...  patrol in the south of the war-torn Sudanese region. UN spokesperson Michele Montas told journalists  ...
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<title>UN poised to tackle some of today&apos;s most pressing challenges &apos; Ban</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192005501</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 03:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of peace and security, including work in Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Myanmar, the Middle East, Sri  ...  Myanmar, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, northern Uganda, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Western Sahara. The past  ...
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<title>UN lacked mandate&apos; to prevent camp deaths</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192004843</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and danger in Kalma camp. KALMA CAMP, SUDAN // Khadija Khamis has the bullet that  ...  in 2003 when Arab nomads clashed with African villagers over land and water. The Sudanese  ...  is the same. Peacekeepers from the joint United Nations-African Union mission, known as Unamid, could do  ...
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<title>Peacekeeper killed</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192004258</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by dozens of armed bandits in the Sudanese region of Darfur, a UN official has said. The Nigerian peacekeeper died  ...  the number of attacks against the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, our correspondent  ...
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<title>UN peacekeeper killed in Darfur ambush</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191999223</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:45 GMT</pubDate>
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... KHARTOUM: A Nigerian UN peacekeeper was killed when up to 60  ...  to 60 gunmen ambushed a patrol in Sudans war-torn western region of Darfur, a UN  ...  gunmen ambushed a patrol from the joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission north of Nyala, the  ...
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<title>Firms create green jobs&apos; as they move to cut emissions</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191991597</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 01:56 GMT</pubDate>
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... The East African Breweries plant in Ruaraka. The company has  ...  development is forthcoming in developing nations like Kenya, says the report. Locally, Pan-African Paper Mills  ...
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<title>&apos;Deadly dozen&apos; reports diseases worsened by climate change</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191991082</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 01:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  seen in large die-offs of lions in East Africa due to canine distemper. Climate factors fostered  ...  in southern Africa through the consumption of un-pasteurized milk. Human forms of tuberculosis can also  ...
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<title>Darfur: Ban outlines timetable towards full deployment of peacekeeping force</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191990276</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 01:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  deployment of peacekeeping force The severely stretched United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, which has  ...  Darfur, an impoverished, arid region in western Sudan that has been the centre of fierce  ...
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<title>UN chief worries about Somali pirates, food aid</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191988621</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 01:34 GMT</pubDate>
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... UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. chief said Tuesday  ...  the high seas off the Horn of Africa nation&apos;s coastline. A U.S. task force helps  ...  he worried about prospects of peace in Sudan, with the African Union-U.N. peacekeeping mission stretched  ...
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