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Chinese investment in African countries comes with few strings attached – which is exactly what concerns civil society organisations
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Mugabe blocks foreign humanitarian aid because NGO's might influence how population votes. The gov't distributes the food itself.
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People across Africa have taken to the streets in recent months to demand that their most basic need be met: access to food. The various states in which these protests have taken place, however, have reacted swiftly and brutally.
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The World Bank's flagship effort to promote business-led economic growth is ideologically stilted and of little practical use, says the lending agency's in-house watchdog.
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PARIS, Jun 13 (IPS) - The proposal by the Paris-based International Energy Agency for more than 1,400 nuclear power plants to be built over the next 40 years is unfeasible, environmental activists say. The International Energy Agency (IEA) the energy agency of the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), the official think tank of the 30 most industrialised countries, released a report Jun. 6 on 'Energy Technology Perspectives' in the face of climate change and falling oil reserves. The IEA called for an "energy revolution", and urged investments worth 45 billion dollars for the next 40 years in wind energy and nuclear power plants.
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Tension in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations on industrial goods reached such an extreme that the diplomat leading the talks on cutting tariffs, Canadian ambassador Don Stephenson, decided this week to suspend the discussions.
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An environmental organisation, a private company and an international bank signed an agreement Thursday in the capital of Spain to promote, install, manage and sell power plants fuelled by renewable energy sources. The first of these will be a photovoltaic power plant using solar energy, with a nominal capacity of 600 kilowatts (kW), which will produce over one million kW-hours per year, supplying enough electricity for 300 homes, Miguel Ángel Hernández, the Ecologists in Action (EEA) representative on the board of the project, told IPS.
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A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result of the occupation at above 655,000.
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Cluster bombs should be outlawed in most of the world thanks to an agreement formally endorsed by over 100 governments in Dublin
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