UN desertification budget setback
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The UN agrees a 10-year plan to tackle desertification but fails to reach an accord on the budget.
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Resources essential to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Sudan&#39;s remote western Darfur region will run dry unless international funding doubles, British-based charities say.
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Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land. Now, experts fear the war and its refugee crisis are making the environment even worse, leaving the land increasingly uninhabitable and intensifying tensions with no end to the drought in sight.
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The federal budget is on an unsustainable path, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.
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afrol News, 17 September - The desert locust crisis in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Niger is &quot;expected to deteriorate over the next few weeks,&quot; and there was a serious risk that the Maghreb countries would be reinvaded by swarms from October onwards, FAO
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Science & environment: . 'Ignorance, need and greed' depleting soil . Experts warn competition will lead to conflict.
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Imposing UN sanctions against Sudan to force the government to protect the endangered civilians of the war torn Darfur region could backfire with the government withdrawing its cooperation, a British minister said on Monday.
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By Douglas Fischer  President Bush's budget has been criticized for many shortcomings -- on education, global warming, alternate fuels.
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Despite some progress, sub-Saharan Africa is behind schedule on all its U.N. Millennium Development Goals, which include halving extreme poverty, halfway towards their target date, the world body reported on Wednesday.
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Desertification could drive tens of millions of people from their homes, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and central Asia, a U.N. study warned on Thursday.
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The World Food Programme scales back its projects in Darfur in Sudan because of worsening security.
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A UN official who branded the United States &quot;stingy&quot; with aid backed down yesterday as the Bush administration more than doubled its contribution to nations devastated by Sunday&#39;s tsunamis.
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BERLIN, Oct 23 (IPS) - Some of the ways in which the MDGs are being pushed  could actually limit development, says Inge Kaul, former director  of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Office of  Development Studies.
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The UN conference envoys of President Bushâs Administration along with some developing countries and oil producing nations have blocked a more resolute and committed effort to cap fossil fuel emissions such as coal and oil after reductions already
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The continent struggles to contain a locust swarm that a UN official says could be more dangerous than Darfur.
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By Victoria Sekitoleko  According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, more than 250 million people are directly affected by desertification. In addition, some one billion people in more than 100 countries are at risk.
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Science & environment: Â· Major projects cancelled because of uncertaintyÂ· Planning problems will stall wind-farm growth