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The launch of the African Union had created an opportunity to build a "solid partnership" across the continent, to promote peace and combat poverty and AIDS, the OAU secretary general said here Monday.
Salim Ahmed Salim, speaking at the opening of a summit that brings together for the first time the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and African civil society, said the African Union marked a "new era" for the continent.
The 53-nation continental body came into being on May 26 and is due within about a year to replace the OAU, founded in 1963.
The pan-African body is loosely based on the European Union, and is due eventually to consist of an executive, a central bank, a monetary fund, a parliament and a court of ... |
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| TOKYO |
International donors including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund should change their approach to helping Cambodia because their efforts have had little impact on grinding poverty, the country's opposition leader said Monday.
"Donors must revise their approach to Cambodia because international assistance fails to reduce poverty," former finance minister Sam ... |
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| TEHRAN |
| Conservative candidate Ahmad Tavakoli, who arrived second in Iran's presidential election in Iran, congratulated President Mohammad Khatami on his re-election Sunday, but added he would continue his fight against poverty and official ... |
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by Dan ben Amir
Mr. Yacov Edri - mayor of the Or Akiva settlement that
is situated in the central part of Israel, have organized a
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| MADRAS, India |
Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said here Friday that India and arch rival Pakistan should put aside their differences and focus on fighting poverty.
"When the entire world has come to realize the importance of ... |
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| BELGRADE |
Almost one million people living in Serbia are poor, earning only 55 dollars per month, a tenfold increase over a decade ago, a survey presented Friday showed.
Another million -- out of a total population of eight million -- ... |
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| UNITED NATIONS |
Poverty, war and AIDS threaten to undermine a decade of progress in the health and education of children, the United Nations children's fund UNICEF said in a report released Thursday.
Prepared for a three-day extraordinary session of the UN General Assembly, to start September 19, the report said that "on balance, there has been net progress" since the 1990 world summit on children.
It said 63 countries had attained the summit goal of reducing mortality rates among children under the age of five by one-third, and it noted that "worldwide there are ... |
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| MANILA |
Britain and the Asian Development Bankapproved the establishment of a 20-million-pound (27.6-million-dollar) fund aimed at reducing poverty in India, the ADB said here Thursday.
The fund would go towards financing technical ... |
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