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Farm output will fall and poverty will rise, spelling ‘disaster’ for the Sylhet region if India’s proposed Tipaimukh dam and Fulertal barrage are built, maintain experts. 
“The dam will cause water flow to slow down while the barrage will ensure their full control of water resources,” former director general and chief engineer of Water Resources Planning [...]

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After a two week intensive training on peace-building and the media’s role in the de-escalation of conflict in their respective countries, the fifteen journalists that participated at the training program in Ghana have formed a network in order to promote and report on peace issues their respective countries. The organization is called West African Network [...]

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The sound of the rain was enhanced by the music of the army band. Senior political leaders of Nepal – President, Chief Justice and Chairman of the Constituent Assembly – were present in the ceremony. And the man of the day was the newly elected Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar Nepal.  PM Nepal was taking [...]

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Two former public officers of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service, SLBS were on Monday May 25 convicted by the High Court of Sierra Leone presided over by justice Nicholas Browne-Marke on one count of misappropriation of public funds contrary to section 12 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2000 (as amended).
ACC press release sated that the [...]

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Dear friends of the IIJ, dear alumni, dear colleagues,
We would like to turn your attention to a journalism competition that the Asian Development Bank Institute has initiated. The competition is called “2009 annual Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) competition” and journalists from developing Asia and the Pacific are invited to submit published articles written in [...]

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Maputo – Some four years ago a club to spread messages and raise awareness about HIV/ Aids was launched across Mozambique’s secondary schools to help change behavior through education and health.
The club, called REDES (Girls in Development, Education and Health), targetted just girls when it was started around 2005, but two years later a similar [...]

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Cross trading of securities on the three stock exchanges in West Africa are expected to begin in a year’s time, Mr. Ekow Afedzi, General Manager of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), has disclosed.
They include the GSE, the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the BRVM (the single stock exchange in La Cote d’ Voire that serves eight [...]

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German development cooperation covers a wide range of issues of development, served throughout the world at various levels of society. Some areas are the promotion of political stability and democracy, financial aid for development and poverty alleviation, technical cooperation, conflict resolution, and educational cooperation.

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A true condition for peaceful elections is the whole involvment of political parties , non gouvernmental organizations and women in electoral process. These components of the society are excpted to support the action of Army  Forces in the mission of ensuring security during 2010 election  in Togo .
“Togo is able to do better than in [...]

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Just near the famous Marina beach is Nochikuppam slum that houses 13 hundred huts where around 5 thousand people live below poverty level. Among them is 35 year old Nandani who sells fish to earn her living. The scorching heat of the summer makes her life more difficult as her husband can’t find fishes in [...]

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