Nigeria 'needs poverty billons'
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Nigeria needs up to $7bn a year to achieve the UN's poverty eradication goals by 2015, an official says.
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The government announced on Wednesday that it will provide three million pounds (4.4 million euros, 6.1 million dollars) worth of aid to Niger aimed at tackling the root causes of poverty and malnutrition in the west African nation.
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NEW YORK  - The African Union can quickly mobilize up to 5,000 troops to help end the looting and killing in western Sudan, but it needs hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the force and so far it's received just &#36;20 million, says Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Poverty in Burma is getting worse and many who need aid are not getting it, a senior UN official warns.
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Nigeria looks to cheap satellites and strategic investment in space technology to help fix some of its biggest earthly problems.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu warns that poverty in South Africa could explode into social unrest.
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Africa will miss key targets for reducing poverty by more than 100 years, says UK chancellor Gordon Brown.
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Nigeria&#39;s main trade union movement has urged people to stockpile food ahead of a looming general strike, officials said Thursday, less than 10 days after President Umaru Yar&#39;Adua took office.
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Proponents say the Ibrahim Prize will help improve the continent's crippling governance problem.
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Nigeria's top energy adviser says oil extraction partnerships with foreign firms should be reviewed.
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Aid to Africa needs to increase by at least 60% if poverty is to be cut, the World Bank said.
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Business & money: Â· Traders give thumbs down to $145bn aid packageÂ· Democrats say needs of poor have been ignored
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AGAIN, Nigeria walks the path of conflict that is not only unnecessary and avoidable, it is potentially harmful and disruptive to the nationâs social, economic and political stability.
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Britain's treasury chief on Thursday called for half a trillion dollars in new aid for poor nations, particularly in Africa, likening the initiative to the U.S. Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War ...
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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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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Red tape, corruption and a lack of public support for government policies are hampering investment in the poorest countries, a report from the World Bank revealed yesterday.