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• G-8 leaders face demands on climate, oil, Africa
RUSUTSU, Japan - The world's top industrialized nations face pressing financial and environmental troubles at their annual summit Monday, confronted with demands they reinvigorate the stumbling world economy, push ahead languishing climate change ...
• Does the rest of Africa get off light?
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Africa." But while he has been singled out for condemnation by the West, leaders ...
• Fascinating places with bad reputations
One of several countries that bills itself as the "Cradle of Mankind," this landlocked nation in northern Africa is naturally a big draw for archaeology buffs.
• New book uses food to explore Mandela's life
Rural women were flown in to prepare dishes from Mandela's native southeastern region of South Africa, and lamb on the spit was grilled to the exacting standards of George Bizos, the Greek-South African lawyer celebrated for defending anti-apartheid ...
• Post 9/11 dragnet turns up surprises
In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials ...

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• Regional: Africa: Science and Environment  (85)

» Basel Convention Regional Centre Pretoria - Aims to assist in building the legal, institutional and technological capacity of English-speaking African countries, enabling the management of hazardous waste in an environmentally sound manner as provided in the Basel Convention.
» Tunis International Centre for Environmental Technologies - Presents the Centre's missions (training, technical assistance to industry, laboratory analyses, research and development and ecotechnology transfer, documentation) and major issues of the Tunisian environmental policy.