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2 hrs ago | Corporate Social Responsibility News

South Africa Beats Deadline on Water, Sanitation

South Africa and Madagascar, two African nations participating in the Stockholm International Water Conference currently underway in the Swedish capital, provide a contrasting picture of where they stand -- or ...

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Related Topix: Africa

Wed Aug 20, 2008

People's Daily Online

Madagascar President determined to solve sanitation and water problem

President Marc Ravalomanana of Madagascar is the only president in the world who is attending the current World Water Week being held in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Related Topix: Marc Ravalomanana, Sweden, World News, Africa

Mon Aug 18, 2008

AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Fears At Talks As Europe Pushes for Free Trade in Services

Transnational corporations could be granted unfettered access to Kenya's banking and telecommunications sectors if trade talks taking place in Antananarivo, Madagascar, favour Europe.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya,

Sat Aug 16, 2008

Calgary Sun

Scientists gear up for Stockholm water conference

On the eve of an international water conference in Sweden, experts have urged officials to focus on the issue of poor sanitation in developing countries.

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Related Topix: Europe, Sweden, World News, Kings College, Marc Ravalomanana, Africa

Fri Aug 15, 2008

Environmental News Network

Top Experts from 140 Countries Join to Solve Growing Water Challenges

At a time when billions of people live without sustainable access to safe drinking water or suffer ill health due to poor sanitation, when worsening food crisis battles bioenergy for land and water resources, ...

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Related Topix: Marc Ravalomanana, Africa, World News

Wed Aug 13, 2008

Macsimum News

Dell claims to be 'carbon neutral'

The Austin Business Journal reports that Dell says it's now carbon neutral, thanks to energy reductions, use of wind and solar power and the financing of a forest preservation project in Madagascar.

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, World News, Africa, Laptops/Notebooks, CPU

Mon Aug 11, 2008

dotsub.com | lrakotom

Sexual workers from Madagascar fight for human rights and respect. | dotSUB

Testimonies from 2 Malagasy sexual workers at the AIDS 2008 conference about the project Fimizore. The association was one of the recipient of the UNAIDS RED RIBBON Award at the Mexico 2008 AIDS conference:

Produced by http://foko-madagascar.org

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Sun Aug 10, 2008

ZDNet

Dell throws down the green gauntlet, again. Fulfills carbon-neutrality pledge

When was the last time you heard about a high-tech company reaching a promised delivery date AHEAD of schedule? And, yet, that is exactly what Dell says it has done.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Wind Power, Round Rock, TX, World News, Africa

Thu Aug 07, 2008

The Argonaut

Naivasha Dean going to Madagascar on Honors Summer Research Fellowship to make film

As a daughter of humanitarians who grew up in several Third-World countries, Loyola Marymount University junior Naivasha Dean witnessed firsthand her parents' labor in working for just causes and now that she ...

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Related Topix: Marymount University, Loyola Marymount University, Africa, World News

Mon Aug 04, 2008

Los Angeles Loyolan

Honors Student Encourages Sustainable Change in Coffee Farming

As a daughter of humanitarians who grew up in several third-world countries, junior Naivasha Dean witnessed firsthand her parents' work in working for just causes.

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Related Topix: Africa, Agriculture

Sat Aug 02, 2008

globalvoicesonline.org | lrakotom

Madagascar to Hong Kong: "Give us the Emerald back"

This post is also available in: mg: Madagasikara tamin'i Hong Kong:"Avereno ny Emeraodanay"... Lova Rabary-Rakotondravony explains that the government of Madagascar has sent four delegates to Honk Kong to try ...

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Fri Aug 01, 2008

IRIN

MADAGASCAR: Balancing poor communities and conservation

Madagascar is entering uncharted waters in its bid to implement ambitious projects in partnership with poor local communities that will more than triple existing conservation areas.

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Related Topix: Marc Ravalomanana, Travel, Madagascar, World News, Ethnic, Madagascar Travel, Africa

Wed Jul 30, 2008

Science Daily

Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon

Alan Walker, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Penn State, and Research Associate in Anthropology Timothy Ryan, led the research.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Portland State University, Kalaheo, HI, Anthropology, Science,

Mon Jul 28, 2008

Science Daily

Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon

Alan Walker, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Penn State, and Research Associate in Anthropology Timothy Ryan, led the research.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Portland State University, Kalaheo, HI, Anthropology, Science,

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Madagascan opposition leader dies

Herizo Razafimahaleo, one of the main opposition leaders in Madagascar, has died in hospital in Antananarivo after an illness, his family announced Saturday.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Marc Ravalomanana

Fri Jul 25, 2008

GroundReport.com

French Ambassador Expelled from Madagascar Because he has Bad Luck?

Gildas Le Lidec, the French ambassador to Madagascar, astounded his audience at the July 14th celebration last week by announcing that he was leaving his post after only six months: Je regrette profondment que ...

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Related Topix: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, Marc Ravalomanana

Wed Jul 23, 2008

AllAfrica.com

Madagascar: Ambitious Family Planning Goals

Being an exhausted mother of 10 children by your early thirties is not unusual in rural Madagascar, but a movement is now underway to try and provide women with a contraceptive choice.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Marc Ravalomanana

Mon Jul 21, 2008

rising.globalvoicesonline.org | lrakotom

One Blogger's Determination to Help Baby Kamba in Madagascar

But what neither article mentions is the amazing background story of a determined 18-year-old blogger named Diana Chamia who first raised awareness about Kamba’s condition with her blog post “Help Me Help Them“. .

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Related Topix: World News, Blog News

NowPublic

Madagascar, the nature sanctuary

The world's fourth biggest island lies off the coast of Mozambique and has a culture and natural history that are unique, the result of the isolation it has experienced since it broke away from the continent ...

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Related Topix: Travel, Madagascar Travel, Africa, World News

Sun Jul 20, 2008

The Taipei Times

Search for missing men continues after one found

Immediately after their discovery, the bodies were sent to a hospital in Maroantsetra.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Travel, Madagascar Travel

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