Father Ernest Sugule, who ministers to the village, tells me that many children in his diocese have seen family members killed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, the Ugandan rebel group led by Joseph Kony, one of Africa’s most wanted terrorists. Sugule is the founder of a group ...
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Senior government ministers and British sporting heroes will be on hand to extol the capital’s virtues when the 12-member International Olympic Committee (IOC) team visits this week to assess the London 2012 bid. Although much of their four-day visit is expected to be spent in the exclusive...
The free healthcare policy was finally decreed on March 2, 2016, at the Council of Ministers of the new government, just four months after the first free elections, but eight years after the first pilot projects organised by NGOs. The then Minister of Health would have preferred a two-stag...
I do see this potential in countries like Ethiopia and Djibouti. They already have a strong connection with China and ambitious, long-term economic plans. Unfortunately, many other countries on the continent don’t have those same success factors, especially landlocked ones with very poor ...
Before a single confirmed case of Covid-19 in sub-Saharan Africa, Mr Nkengasong convened an emergency two-day meeting of health ministers in Addis Ababa. “I have never been this serious in my life,” he said. “They came from Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa. Everybody was there...
(2015) assessed the nitrogen boundary for Finland and Ethiopia. However, to date there is little consistency in the approaches these studies use. Moreover, most of these studies have focused more on practical considerations rather than theoretical ones. In this paper, we propose a more systematic...
Technology AG closed its South African operations. Another plant that made wind turbines shut down. International firms such as ACWA and Enel SpA have maintained efforts to build their portfolios elsewhere, bidding for renewables deals throughout the continent in nations including Morocco and Ethiopia....
Several governments wish to allot many of the "idle" lands within their countries and in order that agribusiness implementers may acquire them. For instance, in July, 2009 the government of Ethiopia allocated 1.6 million hectares of land, extendable to 2.7 million, for investment in commercial ...
In Nepal, the Terai Arc Landscape initiative has helped wildlife to bounce back. Muna Thapa These seven initiatives have now been recognized asUN World Restoration Flagships. Last week in Nairobi, in anassembly of the world’s environment ministers, restoration featured prominently in discussions of...