Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credit The Star | BANCO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - They inhabit a polluted part of Ivory Coast's main city with few jobs and a swelling population, but residents of Abidjan's slums have a rare respite: a stretch of pristine rainforest. The Maiombe forest is seen near Belize January 16, 2010. (REUTERS/Rafael Marchante...
Diamonds aren't forever Canada Dot Com | In Africa, resources are more apt to be a curse than a blessing. | Diamonds are the worst. Portable, valuable and easy to steal, they've brought only woes -- war, corruption, repression and gross inequality -- to the people of countries like Angola, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, the Congo and more. | Bu...
Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credit The Star | BANCO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - They inhabit a polluted part of Ivory Coast's main city with few jobs and a swelling population, but residents of Abidjan's slums have a rare respite: a stretch of pristine rainforest. The Maiombe forest is seen near ...
Two NGOs Organise Charity Show Peace FM Online Managements of Art for Global Justice and Of Rags, both NGOs, would organise "Sustainable Fashion Benefit Party' on education and sustainable development. | The event, scheduled for Friday July 16, at W.E. B. Du Bois Centre, in Accra would feature li...
China gives zero duty to Bangladesh, Nepal; Indian exporters hit The Times Of India BEIJING: China has decided to treat exports from Bangladesh and Nepal on the basis of zero duty giving exporters in these countries much better incentives to tap the Chinese market as compared to India. Another Asian nation to benefit from its zero t...
Diamonds aren't forever Canada Dot Com | In Africa, resources are more apt to be a curse than a blessing. | Diamonds are the worst. Portable, valuable and easy to steal, they've brought only woes -- war, corruption, repression and gross inequality -- to the people of countries like Angola...
LIBERIA: Water sector faces "deadly" financing gap IRINnews web | DAKAR, 28 June 2010 (IRIN) - Poor sanitation and bad hygiene cause the deaths of one in five Liberians, according to the , but despite NGO lobbying efforts to put clean water and sanitation high on donors’ and the government’s agenda, the sector still faces a "deadly financing gap" says NGO Oxfam. | Three out of four Liberians have no acc...
Liberian elephant rampages against timber company Breitbart JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH (AP) - Associated Press Writer MONROVIA, Liberia The unlikeliest of activists - a rampaging elephant that locals claimed was supernaturally possessed - has aired rural Liberians' frustrations with the country's profitable timber industry. | The elephant killed a logging worker in June when it charged onto the local company's pr...
