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The September 11 terror attacks in the United States will have disastrous consequences for the daily lives of many Africans already resigned to poverty, disease and marginalization, warn experts across the continent.
"Necessarily, developing countries that are tied to developed countries will suffer," Ivorian Finance Minister Alain Bohoun Bouabre said in response to a pessimistic World Bank report issued Monday.
World Bank president James Wolfensohn warned of "another human toll that is largely unseen and one that will be felt in all parts of the developing world, especially Africa.
"We estimate that tens of thousands more children will die worldwide and some 10 million more people are likely to be living below the poverty ... |
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Sunday urged the United States to continue pursuing diplomatic efforts and avoid "indiscriminate bombing" in its efforts to fight global terrorism.
We need allies, precise intelligence, patience, persistence and determination, not indiscriminate bombing," the civil rights leader said in prepared statement.
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The September 11 terror attacks in the United States will have disastrous consequences for the daily lives of many Africans already resigned to poverty, disease and marginalization, warn experts across the continent.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki warned here Tuesday that the world should not focus so much on its anti-terrorism campaign as to forget about other crucial issues such as poverty.
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| (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair will issue a stark warning to Afghanistan's ruling Taliban party today, while the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan has apparently briefed the Pakistani president on evidence which the U.S. says links ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
The IMF said Monday it had approved a three-year, 37-million-dollar support program for Mongolia to ease poverty and bolster economic growth.
The agreement would allow Mongolia to draw five million dollars immediately, the ... |
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The economic impact of the September 11 terrorist assaults will plunge another 10 million people into poverty next year, the World Bank said in a report Monday.
"We have seen the human toll the recent attacks wrought in the US, with citizens from some 80 nations perishing in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania," said World Bank president James Wolfensohn.
"But there is another human toll that is largely unseen and one that will be felt in all parts of the developing world, especially Africa," he said in a statement.
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The fight against international terrorism and world poverty would be better fought if another round of multilateral trade negotiations were held, European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said Monday.
"The tragic events which the ... |
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