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Asia accounts for 88 percent of all malaria cases and most of the 46,000 annual deaths occurring outside Africa, a new report shows Friday as experts demand more urgency in fighting the deadly disease..

• 03 ноября 2012, 12:12

Israel has turned back dozens of African asylum-seekers, mostly Eritreans, trying enter the country from Egypt, Human Rights Watch and two other NGOs said on Sunday.

• 29 октября 2012, 14:37

Kazakhstan's Astana rally raid team is going to participate in two continental races at the same time.

• 18 октября 2012, 12:41

A huge vaccination campaign to protect 50 million people against meningitis has been launched in seven African countries.

• 05 октября 2012, 16:43

The global mortality rate for young children has been nearly halved in the past two decades, but Africa and South Asia have not kept pace.

• 13 сентября 2012, 17:54

A group of 68 illegal immigrants, including three minors, arrived Sunday at a tiny, uninhabited Spanish island located very close to Morocco.

• 03 сентября 2012, 14:58

China, Vietnam and Thailand are among the worst offenders in fuelling a global black market that is seeing record numbers of elephants and rhinos killed in Africa.

• 24 июля 2012, 11:43

President Hu Jintao said Thursday China would offer $20 billion in new loans to Africa, as he delivered a speech to a Beijing forum on co-operation with the resource-rich continent.

• 19 июля 2012, 14:23

The institute released the project of sweet potato in Uganda and Mozambique. And now IFPRI is focused on Zambia and Southern Asian countries.

• 24 октября 2011, 10:53

It was developed by the University of California and the International Rice Research Center in the Philippines. Other crops are under research.

• 23 октября 2011, 11:39

Kazakhstan managed to raise over $350 million for food, humanitarian and economic aid to African countries suffering from famine: Kazakh Parliament Speaker.

• 19 октября 2011, 13:32

Secretary Clinton made a statement on World Food Day. Food security is a foreign policy priority for the United States.

• 17 октября 2011, 10:36

About 1000 people gathered for the ceremony, which was held in Iowa State Capitol.

• 15 октября 2011, 11:57

Final declaration of Istanbul meeting called OIC member-states to render financial aid to Somalia and other needy African countries during Ramadan.

• 09 августа 2011, 13:00

The list of 20 most dangerous countries of the world in terms of the possibility of terrorist attacks is led by Somali.

• 04 августа 2011, 16:02

A Zimbabwean man upstaged 15 others to win the Mr Ugly title at a weekend pageant, a local newspaper reported Monday.

• 31 мая 2011, 15:51