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South Africa Beats Deadline on Water, SanitationSouth Africa and Madagascar, two African nations participating in the Stockholm International Water Conference currently underway in the Swedish capital, provide a contrasting picture of where they stand -- or ...
(Topix.net)Madagascar President determined to solve sanitation and water problem
President Marc Ravalomanana of Madagascar is the only president in the world who is attending the current World Water Week being held in Stockholm, Sweden.
(Topix.net)Kenya: Fears At Talks As Europe Pushes for Free Trade in Services
Transnational corporations could be granted unfettered access to Kenya's banking and telecommunications sectors if trade talks taking place in Antananarivo, Madagascar, favour Europe.
(Topix.net)Scientists gear up for Stockholm water conference
On the eve of an international water conference in Sweden, experts have urged officials to focus on the issue of poor sanitation in developing countries.
(Topix.net)Top Experts from 140 Countries Join to Solve Growing Water Challenges
At a time when billions of people live without sustainable access to safe drinking water or suffer ill health due to poor sanitation, when worsening food crisis battles bioenergy for land and water resources, ...
(Topix.net)Dell claims to be 'carbon neutral'
The Austin Business Journal reports that Dell says it's now carbon neutral, thanks to energy reductions, use of wind and solar power and the financing of a forest preservation project in Madagascar.
(Topix.net)Sexual workers from Madagascar fight for human rights and respect. | dotSUB
Testimonies from 2 Malagasy sexual workers at the AIDS 2008 conference about the project Fimizore. The association was one of the recipient of the UNAIDS RED RIBBON Award at the Mexico 2008 AIDS conference:
Produced by http://foko-madagascar.org (Topix.net)Dell throws down the green gauntlet, again. Fulfills carbon-neutrality pledge
When was the last time you heard about a high-tech company reaching a promised delivery date AHEAD of schedule? And, yet, that is exactly what Dell says it has done.
(Topix.net)Ruggers to Learn Semifinal Rival Today
The reward for hard work is an opportunity to do more. Consequently, the Uganda Rugby Cranes 32-22 win over Madagascar presents them with a place in the 2010 Africa Cup and 2011 Rugby World Cup (RWC) semi-final draw to be conducted today (Friday) in Durban, South Africa. (AllAfrica)
Naivasha Dean going to Madagascar on Honors Summer Research Fellowship to make film
As a daughter of humanitarians who grew up in several Third-World countries, Loyola Marymount University junior Naivasha Dean witnessed firsthand her parents' labor in working for just causes and now that she ...
(Topix.net)Honors Student Encourages Sustainable Change in Coffee Farming
As a daughter of humanitarians who grew up in several third-world countries, junior Naivasha Dean witnessed firsthand her parents' work in working for just causes.
(Topix.net)Dobela Praises Cranes
"It was a thriller in Manila." Those were the words coaching director David Dobela used to describe the Rugby Cranes 32-22 victory over Madagascar's Markis in a 2011 Rugby World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup qualifier played Saturday. (AllAfrica)
Cranes Stifle Markis to Storm Next Phase
No one said that it was going to be a walk in the park and indeed it wasn't. The Uganda Rugby Cranes were made to toil for a 32-22 win over the Markis from Madagascar's to advance to the semi-finals of the 2010 CAR Africa Cup and the group stage of the 2011 World Cup qualifiers at Kampala RFC yesterday evening. (AllAfrica)
Country Beats Madagascar
IT turned out to be a lot closer than everyone had thought - and at times looked like the martial contests it had been likened to - but at the end the home team prevailed. (AllAfrica)
Win Or Bust for Rugby Cranes
All the pre-match talk and hype will vanish in the thin air when the Uganda Rugby Cranes race on to the Kampala Rugby Football Club turf for their 2010 Africa Cup and 2011 World Cup qualifier against Madagascar today. (AllAfrica)
Madagascar to Hong Kong: "Give us the Emerald back"
This post is also available in: mg: Madagasikara tamin'i Hong Kong:"Avereno ny Emeraodanay"... Lova Rabary-Rakotondravony explains that the government of Madagascar has sent four delegates to Honk Kong to try ...
(Topix.net)Balancing Poor Communities And Conservation
Madagascar is entering uncharted waters in its bid to implement ambitious projects in partnership with poor local communities that will more than triple existing conservation areas. (AllAfrica)
Unicef Chief Launches Tetanus Campaign
The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has launched a tetanus campaign in rural Madagascar, one of the few countries in the world that has not yet eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus. (AllAfrica)
MADAGASCAR: Balancing poor communities and conservation
TOLIARA Friday, August 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Madagascar is entering uncharted waters in its bid to implement ambitious projects in partnership with poor local communities that will more than triple existing conservation areas. (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 terror”, 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)
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)
MADAGASCAR: Balancing poor communities and conservation
Madagascar is entering uncharted waters in its bid to implement ambitious projects in partnership with poor local communities that will more than triple existing conservation areas.
(Topix.net)World Cup Place Still a Long Way
NOTHING major will happen if the Rugby Cranes (as expected) beat the Makis from Madagascar in a 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifier and Africa Cup game at Kampala Rugby Club on Saturday. (AllAfrica)
Rugby Cranes Plot Madagascar Demise
THE Kampala club pitch is favourable to the Rugby Cranes who will be up against Madagascar in the 2011 World Cup qualifier/CAR cup this Saturday, according to the coaching director David Dobela. (AllAfrica)
Markis Determined to Upstage Rugby Cranes
Rugby Cranes opponents for this Saturday's 2010 Africa Cup and 2011 World Cup qualifier, the Markis from Madagascar are talking big. (AllAfrica)
Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon
Alan Walker, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Penn State, and Research Associate in Anthropology Timothy Ryan, led the research.
(Topix.net)Country Making Progress in Post-Cyclone Recovery
The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has lauded the Government and people of Madagascar for the progress made so far with recovery and reconstruction following the deadly cyclone that battered the Indian Ocean island nation in February. (AllAfrica)