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US Transfers Guantanamo Bay Detainee to Switzerland
The Department of Justice has announced that a detainee has been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Government of Switzerland for resettlement in Switzerland. The Swiss Government, with the support of the Canton of Geneva,...
Denmark Helps Fund Water And Sanitation Projects in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has received some 40 billion CFA francs from Denmark for the water and sanitation sector, the Economy and Finance Ministry has told APA. The current access rate to clean water in Burkina Faso is 61 per cent, with 40,000 wells and boreholes,...
Kenyan Leader Appeals for Support to Upgrade United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi
President Mwai Kibaki has appealed to world leaders to support the strengthening of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) headquarters based in Nairobi. Addressing the high-level segment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Kenyan Prime Minister Challenges African Nations to Diversity Their Sources of Energy
Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga has called on African countries to diversify their sources of energy because of the high cost of fossil oil and the unreliability of hydro- power due to climatic changes. Odinga said that after the energy crisis of...
Africa to Request $50bn to Offset Impact of Climate Change
Africa will make a requisition for $50 billion as compensation for carbon emissions from developed countries at the ongoing climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sources said on Tuesday in Abuja that Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, would...
U.K. Energy Minister Signs Agreement with 8 Other Countries to Develop Offshore Wind Grid
Nine countries including the UK have signed up to develop an integrated offshore grid in the North and Irish Seas. In the margins of the Energy Council meeting in Brussels, Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt signed the agreement along with ministers...
Fifteen Countries to be Represented At the International Film Festival of Marrakech
Fifteen films representing fifteen nationalities will participate in the International Film Festival of Marrakech (FIFM), Morocco, scheduled to take place 4-12 December, organizers said on Saturday.
African Leaders to Meet on Climate Change in Ethiopia
The second meeting of the Committee of Ten African Heads of States and Government on Climate Change (CAHOSCC) will be held on Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The CAHOSCC are Algeria, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda...
