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21 Dec 2012- 08:53 by Local Press Report WASHINGTON DC Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $100 million USD contingent loan to help Costa Rica cushion the impact that severe or catastrophic natural disasters could have on its public finances. Due
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Malawian President Joyce Banda reiterated this week that Malawi would not agree to share ownership of any part of Lake Malawi with any “other country,” referring to neighboring Tanzania.
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Malawi’s President Joyce Banda said this week that her government would not hold further talks with Tanzania over ownership of Lake Malawi until Tanzania addresses its recent actions on the disputed water body.
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With the two-year anniversary this month of the first cholera case in Haiti, deaths have significantly been reduced due to “Haitian-led, international supported efforts,” the United States Department of State said this week.
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27 Aug 2012- 09:59 by Local Press Report BEIJING Manila Bulletin China begun building sewage and waste disposal facilities on a disputed South China Sea (West Philippines Sea) island, state media said Monday, a move likely to stoke a growing territorial row with its neighbors. The report in the
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25 Jul 2012- 09:11 by Local Press Report WASHINGTON DC Export-Import Bank of the United States For the first time since 2008, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized a sovereign transaction- a $64.9 million USD, 12-year direct loan- to the Democratic Socialist
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Foreign investors, both public and private, have been snatching up relatively cheap land all over Africa, primarily for food production to be exported out of the most food-insecure continent in the world. However, these land grabs are not really about the land, but more about the freshwater that goes with it, according to a new report from GRAIN, an international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in moving toward community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.
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The World Bank Group on June 5 released its new Environment Strategy for 2012-2022, which aims to promote sustainable development that is environmentally and economically sound in order to achieve a “green, clean and resilient world for all.”
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31 May 2012- 09:57 by OOSKAnews Correspondent washington, dc, united states Deloitte, the global audit, consulting and risk management firm, has issued new recommendations for organizations on managing the water and energy nexus. In its report “No water, no energy. No energy, no water,” released
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25 May 2012- 09:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent WASHINGTON DC Friends of Nature (FON), a non-governmental environmental protection organization, and the Chongqing Green Volunteer Association’s public interest lawsuit, a first of its kind in China, began its court proceedings this week. The two NGOs
