Sao Tome and Principe : News

[ANGOP]Luanda -The Prime Minister of Sao Tome and Principe, Gabriel Arcanjo da Costa said Monday in Luanda that "cooperation with Angola is fruitful and open a new era" in relations between the two States and peoples. (AllAfrica)

With less than three years before a 2015 deadline, the developing world is largely expected to miss one of the U.N.'s key Millennium Development Goals : halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has completed the first review under a three-year arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility for Sao Tome and Principe.

[ANGOP]Luanda -The reinforcement of cooperation between Angola and Sao Tome and Principe dominated the meeting held on Friday in Luanda between the Head of Executive, José Eduardo dos Santos, and the Prime Minister of Sao Tome, Gabriel Arcanjo (AllAfrica)

[ANGOP]Luanda -The reinforcement of cooperation between Angola and Sao Tome and Principe dominated the meeting held on Friday in Luanda between the Head of Executive, José Eduardo dos Santos, and the Prime Minister of Sao Tome, Gabriel Arcanjo da Costa. (AllAfrica)

[ANGOP]Luanda -Sao Tome and Principe Premier, Gabriel Costa, arrived Friday in Luanda for a 24-hour visit to Angola, meant to reinforce and increase the existing bilateral co-operation between the two states. (AllAfrica)

The reinforcement of cooperation between Angola and Sao Tome and Principe dominated the meeting held on Friday in Luanda between the Head of Executive, Jos Eduardo dos Santos, and the Prime Minister of Sao Tome, Gabriel Arcanjo da Costa.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association grant totaling US$5.5 million in support of the Government of Sao Tome and Principe 's Second-Governance and Competitiveness Development Policy Operation .

Cape Verde President honors leading citizen of the Ghanaian community in Cape Verde His Excelency the President of Cape Verde, Dr. Jorge Carlos Fonseca decided to distinguish Mr. Tony Parker Danso, a Ghanaian citizen with second-class medal of merit.

JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI 28 May 2013 (IRIN) - Although Africa’s economy has expanded rapidly in recent years, it has not kept pace with the growth of its youth population or their need for jobs. (irinnews.org)

PORT-AU-PRINCE 07 May 2010 (IRIN) - More than three months after the earthquake, aid workers say elderly people in Haiti are not receiving the attention they need. HelpAge International says special attention must be paid to older people - not just to their health needs but also to the unique contribution they could make to the relief effort and society. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR 08 April 2010 (IRIN) - In Africa government spending on health care, as a percentage of national expenses, rose just 0.3 percent from 2001 to 2007, while donor funding of the sector during the same period increased from 15.3 to 20.1 percent, according to a review of 52 African countries’ health spending by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR 25 March 2010 (IRIN) - The organizers of a week-long African Rice Congress in Bamako, capital of Mali, say African countries can decrease hunger and save millions of dollars if they wean themselves off rice imports and increase local production, but experts favour a "drastic" move away from rice to native grains. (irinnews.org)

TANZANIA is among twelve African countries to benefit from the decision by Brazil to cancel or restructure almost 900 dollars worth of debt.

The move is seen as an effort to boost economic ties between the world's seventh largest economy and the African continent.

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Cova da Moura, a poor district north-west of Lisbon, was built illegally in the late 1970s by African migrants Economic migrants from Africa have been coming to Portugal for more than 50 years but they have rarely encountered such challenging times.

JOHANNESBURG 19 June 2012 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has halved food rations to refugees living in camps in at least four African countries citing a funding shortfall. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 31 May 2012 (IRIN) - When night falls in the Dadaab refugee complex in eastern Kenya, nearly half a million refugees are plunged into darkness. The lack of light robs schoolchildren of the possibility of studying and provides perfect cover for thieves and rapists. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 15 May 2012 (IRIN) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report today, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG 19 January 2012 (IRIN) - Uganda's National Drug Authority recently arrested sales representatives of a company selling a drug that purports to cure HIV; the firm's owners are not licensed to sell medicine and are being sought by the police. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 18 October 2011 (IRIN) - Genetically modified (GM) food aid bound for Africa has long been a bone of contention among governments, scientists, activists, consumers and aid workers. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 21 April 2011 (IRIN) - A group of international academic institutions and an NGO backed by the European Union (EU) have launched Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come, or SUNRAY, to develop a nutrition agenda for Africa, with specific emphasis on the 34 sub-Saharan countries. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 08 April 2011 (IRIN) - What’s green, controversial, 15km wide, 7,775km long, cuts across 11 African countries and is designed to reduce livestock deaths and boost food security for millions of people? Nothing yet, but the Great Green Wall project, a pipe-dream for decades, was recently endorsed by a swathe of African states stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 06 January 2011 (IRIN) - The record prices of staple grains in 2008 made investment in agriculture an attractive proposition for countries exporting as well as importing food. The African Union (AU), with its mix of producers and buyers, has been steadily gearing up for self-sufficiency. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 24 November 2010 (IRIN) - Gay rights groups have hailed the results of the first study to show that an antiretroviral (ARV) drug can prevent HIV as an important step in the fight against HIV, but say that in countries that criminalize homosexuality, the breakthrough is unlikely to have a significant impact. (irinnews.org)

ADDIS ABABA 15 October 2010 (IRIN) - As rural Africa experiences an increasingly moody climate which will erode resilience, drive up hunger and threaten economic growth, it is time countries got serious about development, participants at the seventh African Development Forum in Addis Ababa were told. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 14 October 2010 (IRIN) - With its coffers running at least US$1 billion short, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is looking to the private sector to fill the funding gap. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 14 October 2010 (IRIN) - A new roadmap for curbing the global epidemic of tuberculosis aims to save five million lives between 2011 and 2015 and eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050 but comes with a price tag of US$47 billion, nearly half of which must still be found. (irinnews.org)

ADDIS ABABA 13 October 2010 (IRIN) - If African countries had had the capacity to do climate change projections, their data could have been fed into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) assessments for the continent, said Richard Odingo, former vice-chair of the IPCC at one of the discussions ahead of the Seventh African Development Forum. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 16 September 2010 (IRIN) - The proportion of women in sub-Saharan Africa who died because of pregnancy fell by more than a quarter between 1990 and 2008, according to estimates released on 15 September. (irinnews.org)