Zambia| Last Updated 20/11/2009 21:52:00
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 | Low-price vaccine for children in developing world | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - GAVI Alliance, a Geneva-based public-private partnership
aimed at improving health in the worldâ?s poorest countries, has announced a fa
ll in price for one of the major combination vaccines, the pentavalent, which wi
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l enable GAVIâ?s partners to vaccinate millions of more children in the developi
ng world.
18/11/2009 full text... |
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| APEC â?dealâ? on Copenhagen ignores the world's most vulnerable - Greenpeace | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) â" Greenpeace, a global environmental activist group, on
Sunday slammed the â?dealâ? made at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC
) leaders meeting in Singapore to essentially relegate the Copenhagen UN Climate
Summit outcome to nothing but a political agreement: postponing decisions on the
legally binding agreement the world needs to an unclear future date.
15/11/2009 full text... |
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| Second all-Africa Carbon Forum to be held in Nairobi | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - In an effort to build on growing interest in the Kyoto P
rotocolâ?s clean development mechanism (CDM) in Africa, partners United Nations
agencies and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) have announc
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d they will organize a second all-Africa Carbon Forum in Nairobi, the Kenyn capi
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al, from 3â"5 March, 2010.
12/11/2009 full text... |
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| World leaders urged to salvage UN World Food summit | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Summit in Rome, Italy, sch
eduled for 16-18 November, could be a waste of time and money unless world leade
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s intervene now to salvage it, international agencies ActionAid and Oxfam said T
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ursday.
12/11/2009 full text... |
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| Report: 90 percent of Africans not protected by smoke-fee laws | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - With African nations poised to record the highest increa
se in the rate of tobacco use among
developing countries, nearly 90 percent of people on the continent remain witho
ut meaningful protection from secondhand
smoke, according to a new report released Wednesday.
11/11/2009 full text... |
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| 18 die in Zambia road crash | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - A tanker in the fleet of several others ferrying fuel fr
om the port of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania,
Tuesday collided with a bus on the Great North Road, northern Chinsali district
in Zambia, killing 18 people on the spot
and leaving 47 others with serious injuries.
11/11/2009 full text... |
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| Govts urged to deliver strong Copenhagen deal on climate change | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The last negotiating session before the historic United
Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December ended Frid
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y in Barcelona, Spain, with the top UN climate change official reiterating that
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openhagen must result in a strong international deal.
06/11/2009 full text... |
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| Zambia donates maize to Zimbabwe | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zambia Friday delivered 3,000 tonnes of maize to Zimba
bwe, part of a 9,000-tonne corn donation Lusaka has pledged to its southern neig
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bour to ease food shortages in the country.
06/11/2009 full text... |
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| HRW urges SADC leaders to press Mugabe's party to end abuses | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The three heads of state from the Southern African Devel
opment Community (SADC), who were scheduled to meet in Maputo, Mozambique, Thurs
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ay to discuss the deteriorating political situation in Zimbabwe, should press Pr
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sident Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party to end ongoing human rights abuses, Human R
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ghts Watch (HRW) said Wednesday.
04/11/2009 full text... |
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| PAP condemns Guinea's massacre, Niger's elections | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) at the weekend condemne
d the massacre witnessed
in Guinea on 29 September, where at 157 protesters calling on Guinea's military
ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara to
step down were allegedly shot dead by security forces.
01/11/2009 full text... |
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| Oxfam slams EU's finance proposal on climate change | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - European Union's suggestion of global public financing worth between 22-50 billion euros per year for developing countries to tackle climate change fell short of what is needed, international agency, Oxfam, said on Friday.
30/10/2009 full text... |
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| President Banda, Bagaza hold private talks | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambian President Rupiah Banda Thursday held a closed-do
or meeting with former president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
of Burundi at the state house in Lusaka, where they discussed various issues aff
ecting the Great Lakes Region, according to presidential
aide Dickson Jere.
30/10/2009 full text... |
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