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17 Sep 2008

 

EU backs more food aid for Europe's poor

EUROPE

The European Commission backed a plan on Wednesday to pour more cash into an EU scheme to feed millions of poor people across Europe. The plan was drafted after radical policy changes ended the...

 

 

11 Sep 2008

 

UN agencies back EU plan for Africa food aid fund

AFRICA

Three major U.N. agencies threw their weight on Wednesday behind an EU plan to use 1 billion euros to help African farmers, urging lawmakers to approve the measure quickly and let the cash start...

 

 

09 Sep 2008

 

Russia agrees troops pullout from Georgia

EUROPE

Russia agreed on Monday to completely withdraw its troops from Georgia's heartland within a month, but there was no commitment to scale back its military presence in two Georgian separatist...

 

 

08 Sep 2008

 

Sarkozy in Russia to seek new Georgia peace deal

EUROPE

French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Russia on Monday to seek a lasting peace deal for Georgia that will persuade Russia to pull its troops out of positions deep inside the ex-Soviet state....

 

 

18 Aug 2008

 

EU aid chief wants Mauritania aid frozen

MAURITANIA

The European Union aid chief wants the bloc to suspend its development aid to Mauritania and freeze the bloc's single biggest fishing deal over the political unrest in the African country, a...

 

 

SA: Swanson-Jacobs: National Victim Empowerment Conference (18/08/2008)

Topics

Keynote address by Deputy Minister of Social Development, Dr Jean Swanson Jacobs at the opening of the Victim Empowerment Programme Conference, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre, Durban

 

 

18 Jul 2008

 

UN: Ban: Remarks to General Assembly Meeting on the Global Food and Energy Crisis (18/07/2008)

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Remarks to General Assembly Meeting on the Global Food and Energy Crisis

 

 

17 Jul 2008

 

EU faces revolt over Africa aid, fish funds

EUROPEAN UNION

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso faced a revolt on Thursday by many European Union governments over his plan to use about 1 billion euros in unspent farm funds to help African...

 

 

15 Jul 2008

 

Libya urges EU to revise illegal immigration rules

LIBYA

Libya called on the European Union to revise new rules against illegal immigration on Monday, saying it would urge African Union members to take action if the EU stuck by measures that treated...