Africa not on target to meet U.N. goals
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Not a single country in sub-Saharan Africa is on target to meet U.N. goals of cutting extreme poverty by half, ensuring universal primary education, and stemming the AIDS pandemic by 2015, a new U.N. report said Wednesday.
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Days before a U.N. deadline for  Sudan to disarm and prosecute those responsible for violence in  the country's Darfur region, nations are looking to the African  Union rather than any U.N. sanctions to curb further killing.
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The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
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African governments are failing to act to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Kenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai says.
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The World Bank and IMF are poorly suited   to lead the flow of aid to Africa, which would be more   effective if it was distributed in line with a nation's needs,   not competing donor interests, a U.N. agency said.
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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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The U.N. Security Council  threatened on Tuesday to step up measures against armies and  groups using child soldiers but made no firm pledge to impose  sanctions requested by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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African leaders have vowed to speed up the economic and political integration of their continent to pursue the goal of a United States of Africa, but they also agreed to study more closely how to achieve it.
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African leaders struggled on Tuesday to avoid a damaging split over moves to unite the continent under one federal government.
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African leaders have signed a UN-backed peace framework for the Great Lakes region, but quickly admitted it might be difficult to implement amid ethnic violence, poverty and political mistrust.
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A global effort to fight poverty with better population management that UN officials once hoped could &quot;change the world&quot; has made limited progress after one decade, a new UN study said yesterday.
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The World Bank and IMF are poorly suited  to lead the flow of aid to Africa, which would be more  effective if it was distributed in line with a nation's needs,  not competing donor interests, a U.N. agency said.
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There is little hope of peace in Sudan unless it addresses environmental damage, a UN study finds.
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world population growth and ensure women&#39;s rights could be missed without greater resources and political will, a UN report says.
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Global anti-tobacco efforts aimed at avoiding tens of millions of preventable deaths have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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A UN conference on natural disasters adopts a plan to minimise casualties,  but fails to set specific targets.
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Africa's debt must be completely written off if the continent is to have a chance of meeting international goals on reducing poverty, a United Nations body argued on Thursday.