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$12b provided to over 100 countries by KFAED - PMUNITED NATIONS, Sept 26, : Kuwait Prime Minister H.H. Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said Thursday his country has achieved some of the Millennium Development Goals in fields of education and health ...
(Topix.net)Emir Hosts Iftar
The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani hosted an iftar banquet at St Regis Hotel in New York yesterday in honour of heads of the Arab and Islamic delegations taking part in the 63rd session of the UN ...
(Topix.net)Soldiers Who Died in Country Remembered
Tributes poured in yesterday for two Tanzanian soldiers who died during an African Union military operation to oust a renegade leader in the Comoros in June. (AllAfrica)
Concerns Over Possible Social Unrest
High food and fuel prices may push Comoros to the brink of "social unrest" says a senior UN official. (AllAfrica)
President Sambi hails Tanzania as liberator
President Ahmed Mohammed Abdallah Sambi of the Union of Comoros has said Comorians would forever remember the epic role Tanzania played in the struggle against separatist elements that threatened to tear his ...
(Topix.net)COMOROS: Concerns over possible social unrest
PORT LOUIS Friday, August 22, 2008 (IRIN) - High food and fuel prices may push Comoros to the brink of "social unrest" says a senior UN official. (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, August 21, 2008 (IRIN) - One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often. (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate change
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, August 05, 2008 (IRIN) - In developing countries, where survival is often a daily struggle, people cannot afford to wait for their government to bail them out. Many are living in the grip of climate change, coping with frequent droughts, heavy flooding, intense cyclones and other extreme weather events, and have found ways to adapt: (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse
JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week. (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 31, 2008 (IRIN) - The world can expect to become about 0.2°C warmer per decade for the next two decades, according to several scenarios prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols were kept constant at the levels they were in 2000, further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would still be expected. (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: How climate change works
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Climate change is complicated, but it doesn't have to be: (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: Calls to reduce taxes and controls on food aid
JOHANNESBURG Monday, July 28, 2008 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a call by the World Bank for a UN resolution to scrap taxes and export controls on food aid purchases, but experts say there is little chance of such a resolution being effected. (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part 2) - "the crisis of humanitarianism"
NEW YORK Friday, July 25, 2008 (IRIN) - The global humanitarian enterprise could lose touch with the needs of its beneficiaries because of political and security priorities, especially the “war on terrorâ€, according to a new report. (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part one) - "exponential complexity"
NEW YORK Thursday, July 24, 2008 (IRIN) - It's the year 2018. A massive crisis is devastating the Horn of Africa, combining drought, huge migrations, urban desperation and there's little in the way of safety nets. Meanwhile, a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault has hammered California. US government agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are already overstretched. (irinnews.org)
Comoros: Concerns Over Possible Social Unrest
High food and fuel prices may push Comoros to the brink of "social unrest" says a senior UN official.
(Topix.net)Comoros Island Demands Resignation of President Sambi
The President of the Comoros Islands, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi is coming under intense pressure after some Comorians demonstrated in the capital, Moroni, demanding his resignation.
(Topix.net)IMF Article IV reports assess economic conditions and policies.
An International Monetary Fund mission team, headed by Mr. Mbuyamu Matungulu, visited Moroni during July 25-August 8, 2008.
(Topix.net)Island state hit by fuel shortages puts faith in Iran
Our monthly turnover has fallen from 10 million Comoran francs to 200,000 Comoran francs, grumbled Ali Mliva, an insurance company official who criticised the permanent incapacity of the government to solve ...
(Topix.net)Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
(Topix.net)Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
(Topix.net)Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
(Topix.net)Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
(Topix.net)Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
(Topix.net)Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
(Topix.net)Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon
Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
(Topix.net)10 Bacar allies flee Comoros jail, head to Mayotte
The ten men from Bacar's inner circle escaped their jail Saturday night, hours after the former Anjouan president himself was expelled from the French island of Reunion to the west African state of Benin.
(Topix.net)SOUTHERN AFRICA: New money to mitigate disaster
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 24, 2008 (IRIN) - In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction and community resilience in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Homophobia fuelling the spread of HIV
LIMBÉ Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The persistent and increasing outbreaks of violence against members of the gay community in Africa are jeopardising efforts undertaken to combat HIV, both within this group and across the population as a whole, AIDS activists warned at a recent meeting in Limbé, Cameroon. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: USA must improve aid balance - Refugees International
DAKAR Friday, July 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Imbalances between US spending on defence, diplomacy and development are affecting the USA’s ability to stabilise fragile and conflict-prone African countries, the US-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) Refugees International concludes in a new report. (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: Could do better - tackling corruption in humanitarian intervention
NAIROBI Friday, July 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Humanitarian agencies should work harder and more closely together to minimise various forms of corruption that can affect the delivery of emergency aid and harm the reputation of agencies involved, according to a new report. (irinnews.org)
GLOBAL: Proposal for new US$10 billion disaster fund wins plaudits, criticism
NEW YORK Thursday, July 10, 2008 (IRIN) - A proposal in a recent UN report for a unified global mechanism for disaster relief and risk mitigation, with a US$10 billion budget, is receiving a mixed welcome, with praise for increased spending and prevention efforts, but concern over the idea of a one-stop shop. (irinnews.org)