Oxfam launches global ambassadors programme
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Oxfam launched its global ambassadors programme Tuesday, aimed at raising the charity&#39;s profile around the world and helping to lobby governments and international institutions.
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The World Food Programme has boosted the number of beneficiaries by 25 percent in an effort to stave off 'food insecurity.'
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair this week will put efforts to curb disease and poverty in Africa at the center of the agenda of the Group of Eight industrial nations next year.
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Rich nations need to do much more to overcome global poverty, Oxfam said in a report aimed at influencing Britain's turn at the helm of the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations.
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African leaders will launch a  global fund to help people in poor countries buy mobile phones  and Internet access as a step out of poverty and into economic  growth, the president of Senegal said on Wednesday.
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Oxfam have put together a downloadable album featuring the likes of David Gray, REM, Badly Drawn Boy, Ash and Faithless to raise money for Sudan, but Mac users cannot contribute.
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The first affordable combination anti-malarial drug tailored for children will soon be available across Africa, potentially saving millions of lives, the nonprofit organization and the pharmaceuticals giant who worked to develop it said Thursday.
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The World Health Organization launched a new global effort on Monday to find a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 500 million people each year, and the donors to pay for it.
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Nigeria has launched fresh efforts to stamp out polio as part of a campaign that aims to immunise more than 80 million children in 23 African states.
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The British aid organisation Oxfam has announced the closure of two of its offices in Sudan&#039;s war-torn western region of Darfur following the abduction of a Sudanese employee.
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More than one million euros is being paid each month to banking giant HSBC for them to process European Union aid to impoverished Palestinians and key workers, British aid agency Oxfam has claimed.
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Nairobi - About 80 million children in 23 countries will start receiving vaccinations on Friday in the largest polio immunisation campaign ever in Africa, the World Health Organisation said.
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LONDON - Oxfam is launching its first downloadable music album with songs from REM, Ash, David Gray and Faithless to raise money for refugees in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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A global emergency fund set up to get aid to disaster zones more quickly has received "exceptionally poor support" from some of the richest donors, aid agency Oxfam said on Friday.
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Nigeria&#39;s president has kicked off a massive effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations. President Olusegun Obsanajo led officials from across the region Saturday in giving
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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UK charities launch an appeal for donations to save lives in Darfur and neighbouring regions.