Africa

Effort larger than the Marshall Plan, says PEPFAR head Washington - A U.S. program that supports millions of HIV/AIDS sufferers in Africa through critical drug therapy has "impacted more people and taken them away from certain death than...

In this article: AIDS, Barack Obama, World AIDS Day, HIV, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Johannesburg, and U.S.

Leading discount tour operator offers an array of tour options for travelers hoping to experience the majesty of Africa JENKINTOWN, Pa. - Friendly Planet Travel has just made all of Africa's splendors affordable for vacationers in six...

In this article: Pyramids, Petra, Nile, Egypt, Morocco, and Giza

...of new ways of interpreting Scripture that allow equal rights for gays and lesbians, and that the new frontiers of Christian power are Africa and Asia. Hard data on the views of mainline Protestants in these areas isn't known, but...

In this article: Episcopal Church, Christianity, Homophobia, Methodist, Anglican, and Asia

* India Reliance's Q3 fuel exports up 34 pct vs Q2 * Exports to U.S. up 88 pct, Europe down 13 pct * Exports jump 57 pct to Africa, takes over No. 2 spot By Nidhi Verma Giant Indian refiner Reliance exported a third more fuel during...

In this article: Reliance Industries, Europe, Middle East, United States, International Energy Agency, Asia, Jamnagar, Iran, and Carbon

The number of people in Africa has passed the one billion mark, the UN Population Fund says in a report. UNPF's Executive Director Thoraya Obeid told the BBC that the annual figures showed the continent's population had doubled in the...

In this article: BBC, Uganda, and Nigeria

Studies suggest Africa is bearing the brunt of climate change African leaders meeting in Ethiopia say they have agreed on an amount of money to demand as compensation for the impact of climate change. However, they say they are keeping...

In this article: Climate change, Addis Ababa, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon, United Nations, Meles Zenawi, Copenhagen, Ethiopia, and Denmark

...by the WHO for U.N.-wide use. Yellow fever infects 206,000 people a year and kills an estimated 30,000, mainly in tropical parts of Africa and the Americas where it has never been wiped out. Some 160 million people could still be at...

In this article: Yellow fever, U.N., Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Fever, World Health Organization, and Sanofi-Aventis

...idea that 53 small African countries thought they could compete with China, India, Europe and the US was a "fallacy". Trade within Africa accounts for just 4-5% of the continent's international trade, something that is "not viable". The...

In this article: Mobile Systems International, Celtel, Jakaya Kikwete, Europe, Dar es Salaam, and Nairobi

...to decide what kind of partnership they want with India, said a senior Indian academic. "It is up to Africa and its nations to decide what kind of help they want from India," said Ajay Dubey, chairperson of the Centre for West Asian and...

In this article: China, India, Japan, Democracy, Peking University, and Jawaharlal Nehru University

...the environmental damage caused by widespread fertilizer use and drying up of water tables -- to argue Africa should look before it leaps. Furthermore, says Mariam Myatt of the Johannesburg-based African Center for Biosafety, if...

In this article: Maize, Ethiopia, FAO, Standard Bank, Bill Gates, and Microsoft