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Africa gets tough on chemicals
Rwanda has implemented a long-delayed ban on the import and use of chlorofluorocarbon gases that damage the ozone layer.
Jeff Probst Chats About Survivor Gabon Premiere
Survivor's 17th season kicks off Thursday night in a place called Gabon, which is being billed as 'The Last Eden'.The handsomely dimpled Jeff Probst returns as the newly crowned Emmy winner of Best Reality Show ...
Lt.-Gen. Ian Khama Seretse Khama, Botswana's bachelo r president who is also a Paramount Chief of the BamaNgwato tribe, has been urge d to get married and let the country have a First Lady.
'Survivor' will shine spotlight on pristine Gabon
Editor's Note: Msnbc.com contributor Andy Dehnart traveled to the West African nation of Gabon this summer and interviewed "Survivor" cast, crew and others as the show was setting up for its new season.
Gabon, Burundi halt sales of Chinese milk products
Central African states Gabon and Burundi placed curbs on the sale of Chinese milk products after a contamination scandal which has killed four children in China.
CBS is using oil-rich Gabon as the home of its newest "Survivor" series. But there's a real-life survivor of the tiny African nation who won't be on the show - one who lived through torture and voodoo spells.
Gabon : Cadets and Junior Championships in the City of Lambarene
FIRST EDITION OF NATIONAL SEMIDETACHED CADETS AND JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE CITY OF LAMBARENE.
Chad, Sudan to renew ties, create joint peace force
S UDAN and Chad are to restore diplomatic relations, which broke off in May, according to mediators, paving the way to create a peacekeeping and security force on their common border.
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A turnover of 2.65 billion shares worth 50.3 billion nai ra in 44,357 deals was recorded at the close of trading this week on the floor o f the Nigerian Stock Exchange , in contrast to a total of 2.95 billion ...
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Investors on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange Friday placed 12.8 billion naira on 507.56 million shares in 7,295 deals.
Angola's long-time leader goes on and on...
Jose Eduardo dos Santos, a football lover who has become one of Africa's longest serving leaders, shows little sign of retiring as the country holds a landmark election.
Climate change: We need a clear way forward
By Philip Stevens The four-day first inter-ministerial conference on health and environment in Libreville, Gabon: "Health security through healthy environments" ended on August 30, 2008.
Africa: States Pledge to Defend Health From Environmental Harm
Catholic Information Service for Africa 2 September 2008 Libreville Health and environment ministers in Africa have resolved to build a strategic health and environment alliance to reduce environmental threats ...
AFRICA/GABON - The Libreville Declaration to face serious environmental problems behind the ...
"The African continent is rich in natural resources and has a potentially strong human resource base to sustain flourishing economies.
African ministers move to check environmental health hazards
A COALITION of health and environment ministers in Africa has adopted new strategies to check environmental threats to human health.
Officials Agree To Reduce Environmental Threats
Sunday, 31 August 2008, 3:54 pm Press Release: United Nations African health and environment ministers attending a United Nations-sponsored conference concluding today in Gabon have agreed to form an alliance ...
A British national whose identity was not revealed was nabbed in Limbe, 74 Kilometres from Douala, south-western Cameroon, in possessi o n of two giant tortoises, sources told PANA here Friday.
Roger Cohen: News good enough to bury
NEW YORK : I got an e-mail the other day from a friend at the New America Foundation, a Washington public policy institute, inviting me to participate in a panel on "whether the media can handle good news - ...
Large numbers killed in Chad clashes: rebels
The offensive launched by the ethnic-Zaghawa militia is part of the president of Chad's huge pre-arranged ethnic-cleansing plan, rebel spokesman Djede Koultou Gamar told AFP by phone from Libreville.
Nigerian Preparatory Committee to Celebrate 60th Anniversary of DPRK Formed
Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon, on August 14 on the occasion of the 48th ...