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Grammy Award-nominated musician Kenna organizes Summit on the Summit
Bience Gawanas, commissioner for social affairs says these harmful cultural practices include female genital mutilation and child brides
Australian FM Stephen Smith says that although Canberra had ignored Africa before, it was time to take relations to new level
The report from the BBC World Service Trust and the British Council, set out to learn about public understanding of climate change
Officials use music, football to boost awareness of preventing malaria, which kills one million Africans each year
United States established US Africa Command, or AFRICOM, in 2007
But, bad news is that efforts to provide good sanitation to hundreds of millions of people are lagging behind
Peace and Security Council Chairman Ramtane Lamamra says Mamadou Tandja should be freed on humanitarian and reconciliation reasons
Nicolas Sarkozy is calling for rich nations to contribute more to fighting deforestation, particularly in Africa and Latin America
At the Table Campaign targets June summit in Canada
Players from 120 countries already participating in EVOKE, designed to get young people involved in finding solutions to urgent needs
Annual report seeks to balance intellectual safeguards for drug companies against poor countries’ wider needs for generic drugs
VOA spoke to ministers, aid workers, and campaigners about importance of keeping HIV/AIDS on global agenda
Last July, fiber optic cable went live off Kenyan coast, putting Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda on information superhighway
