Members of the African civil society delegations held a protest in the main hall of the COP15 summit today to support their negotiators' decision to hold up the climate summit talks, temporarily suspending the conference, over the sidelining of the Kyoto Protocol discussions, that were proceeding in parallel to the Long-Term Coope more »
africa.reuters.com — The world is on course to halve extreme poverty by 2015, but Africa will fall far short of the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
iht.com — The top American envoy for Africa called the violence in the Rift Valley of Kenya "clear ethnic cleansing" against the Kikuyu people and said the United States was reviewing all its aid to Kenya. The United States previously had said it would not threaten deep cuts to the more than $540 million in assistance it expected to provide to Kenya this year.
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