UN Calls On Creditors To Cancel Africa&#39;s Multi-Billion Dollar Debt
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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, is calling on creditors to cancel sub-Saharan Africa&#39;s multibillion-dollar debt.
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French President Jacques Chirac told his government to push for the Paris Club of creditor nations to put a moratorium on debt payments owed by countries hit by tsunamis in southeast Asia.
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A leading aid group has warned that millions of Africans are at risk of starving due to misspent emergency assistance by Western governments.
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The U.N. Security Council called on Wednesday for more funds for a hard-pressed African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia and asked the U.N. secretary-general to keep planning for a U.N. force there.
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THE Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his entourage, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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AFRICAN leaders appealed to the United Nations Security Council yesterday to impose sanctions on the Burundian rebel group that claimed responsibility for the massacre of at least 160 refugees at a UN camp in Burundi.
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President Laurent Gbagbo has called on the United Nations to name and impose sanctions on countries that helped rebels wage a civil war
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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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UNITED NATIONS -- The Bush administration is pressing the United Nations to reward Sudan with a major package of international debt relief and reconstruction funds if the Islamic state signs a peace deal ending a brutal, 20-year civil war with the Christian-backed Sudan People's Liberation Army in southern Sudan by the end of the year.
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The International Monetary Fund will look into using its huge gold reserves to help finance debt relief for the world's poorest countries on the urging of the Group of Seven rich nations, ministers said on Saturday.
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DROWNING IN DEBT: African nations say debt incurred by past generations is keeping them poor and unable to cope with pressing needs, such as the AIDS epidemic.
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Britain is planning a new effort to help poor countries reduce their huge debts by offering to pay off 10 percent of the total owed to international agencies and challenging
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The US has written off on Friday all of its $4.1bn in Iraqi debt and called on other nations to follow suit. At a ceremony in Washington to mark the move, US Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed the move
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The United Nations appealed to  the world's prosperous nations on Thursday for $3.9 billion in  donations next year to address humanitarian emergencies  touching 27 million people in 29 countries, with most of the  money targeted at Africa.
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BRITAIN is to write off its share of debts owed by the worldâs poorest countries to the World Bank, Chancellor Gordon Brown will announce tomorrow.
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Hundreds of thousands of Africans are at risk of disease, amid devastating floods, the UN warns.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania  - African leaders appealed to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to impose sanctions on the Burundian rebel group that claimed responsibility for the weekend massacre of at least 160 refugees at a UN camp in ...