UN call to tackle landfill Africa
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12 dead in toxic e-waste scandal A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) meeting this week will discuss the growing threat from toxic electronic waste being dumped on developing countries.â¦
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NAIROBI : Much has been done to rid the world of landmines since a ban was born in 1997, but major challenges, many of them financial, must be overcome to wipe the devices off the planet, a conference in Nairobi heard.
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The United Nations is asking Europe to send more troops and military support to the world&#39;s hot spots, particularly in Africa.
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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.
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The new UN alliance's guidelines are to address one of the fastest-growing types of trash in the world -- e-waste -- which will soon reach 40 million metric tons annually, enough to fill a line of dump trucks stretching half way round the world.
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UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (KOH&#39;-fee AN&#39;-nan) is calling for &quot;an unprecedented global response&quot; to the tsunami that&#39;s killed at least 119 thousand people in south Asia.
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The world must act against natural disasters as well as climate change , the United Nations says.
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Live Earth concerts on Saturday meant to spur action to fight global warming must first tackle another environmental hazard -- mountains of trash and thousands of tonnes of greenhouse gases caused by the events.
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The UN children&#39;s agency Saturday called upon eastern and southern African nations, where more than eight million children live in dire poverty, to fight the boom in child trafficking on a war footing.
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A new U.N.-led alliance will work out  global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from  mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and  televisions, the group said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on world nations to make a long-term commitment to rebuilding lives and communities shattered by the south Asia tsunami disaster.
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The UN's food agency urges international help for nations struggling to dispose of stockpiles of unused pesticides.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan  urged leaders of Africa's resource-rich but blood-soaked Great  Lakes region on Friday to implement a peace plan that could  herald a "new era" for millions of Africans.
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The United Nations and the  African Union plan a meeting in Libya this month on how to  advance peace talks among rebel groups in violent Darfur where  2.5 million people are homeless, U.N. officials said on  Thursday.
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Africa is being damaged by greenhouse gas pollution from developed nations and must sell carbon credits to grow in a "green fashion," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit on Thursday.
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The United Nations and the African Union plan a meeting in Libya this month on how to advance peace talks among rebel groups in violent Darfur where 2.5 million people are homeless, U.N. officials said on Thursday.