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 ADDIS ABABA, 14 Sep 2005 (AFP) — Around 2,000 Eritrean refugees have fled alleged repression into neighbouring Ethiopia since January, bringing their population in camps there to nearly 10,000, the UN food agency said Tuesday. Between 200 and 300 refugees have been arriving in Ethiopia every month, said the World Food Programme representative here, Lisetta Trebbi. Most of the refugees are aged between 18 and 30 and are fleeing compulsory national service, political repression and economic problems, she told AFP. They are currently housed at a camp — home to a total of 9,600 refugees — about 60 kilometres from the border. |
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 MOROCCO, 14 Sep 2005 (CHINA) -?senior Chinese official said yesterday that top legislator Wu Bangguo's attendance at a parliament speakers' gathering at the UN and his visit to Morocco were of great significance and have achieved fruitful results.
Cao Weizhou, deputy secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), said the 2nd World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), was an important international meeting on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the UN.
Some 150 parliament speakers from over 140 countries attended it at the UN headquarters in New York on September 7-9, said Cao, who accompanied Wu, NPC Standing Committee chairman, on his tour. |
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 JOHANNESBURG, 14 Sep 2005?(Reuters) - An aerial survey shows what was once the world's largest hippo population in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being poached to extinction, conservationist group WWF International said. "Hippos are being killed by soldiers and local militia, as well as local poachers. Hippos can be bought for around $50, and hippo canine teeth often end up as part of the illegal ivory trade," the WWF said in a statement. The hippo population in Congo's Virunga National Park in the vast country's far east numbered 29,000 in 1974. However, a decade of conflict in the region has taken its toll of wildlife including Virunga's once abundant hippopotamus population. |
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?  Huambo, 14 Sep 2005 (STANDARD) - Three years after the end of one of Africa’s longest wars, the United Nations says half of Angola’s children are malnourished and in some areas the growth of over 50 per cent is seriously stunted. In the hospital in Huambo, one of the areas most affected by two and a half decades of fighting, children lie listless in the malnutrition recovery unit and nearby tuberculosis sanatorium — hunger having left them vulnerable to disease. "I had no milk in my breasts," 39-year-old Evalina Chilombo told Reuters, cradling her month-old daughter, Adelina, as she sat on a bed in an overcrowded ward. "The child was very weak so I brought her here." |
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 JOHANNESBURG, 13 Sep 2005 (IRIN) - Although several of the world's regions have made significant progress in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), sub-Saharan Africa remains the exception, appearing to move backward rather than forward. World leaders gather this week in New York to review progress on tackling world poverty and meeting the MDGs, but evidence of continuing food insecurity, deepening poverty, disturbingly high child and maternal mortality, and growing numbers of people living in slums across the continent suggest that Africa - without immediate significant international support - is unlikely to meet most of the targets by 2015. The MDGs include a 50 percent reduction in poverty and hunger, universal primary education, reducing child mortality by two-thirds, cutting back maternal mortality by three-quarters, the promotion of gender equality, and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. |
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 NOUAKCHOTT, 13 Sep 2005 (IRIN) - Jubilant mobs rushed the airport and lined the streets of the Mauritanian capital on Monday to greet 30 former dissidents returning from exile, days after the country’s new military rulers called a sweeping amnesty for those imprisoned or banished by ex-President Maaouya Ould Taya. Countless flight delays did not deter the supporters, who walked or drove through the streets of Nouakchott to the blare of car horns until midnight. Police officers were posted throughout the airport and the city to keep order. The former opposition leaders and rebel army officers are the first of scores expected to return to Mauritania in the coming days and weeks. Among the arrivals were Mohamed Ould Cheikhna and Mohamed Ould Saleck, leading members of the “Knights of Change,” which allegedly carried out coup attempts in 2003 and 2004. “It is very difficult to express in words the joy we feel,” Ould Saleck told IRIN at the Nouakchott airport. “I am here to participate in the reconstruction of our country.” |
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