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  Eleven Countries Make 'Global Survival Pact'

  By Katherine Gustafson | Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:19 PM ET

  most at risk from global warming, according to Voice of America. The participating countries are Kiribati, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Barbados and Bhutan, reports Act on Copenhagen.In a welcome address, Maldivian Environment Minister Mohamed Aslam said, "The countrie Read More

  More like this in: Climate change, Global Warming, Emissions, Kenya, Vietnam, Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Glaciers, Bhutan
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  Medicine in Action on Kilimanjaro

  By John Casey | Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:00 PM ET

  screened 533 women for cervical cancer, and performed more than 100 surgical procedures during eight medical missions."The group's first mission to Tanzania took along six health-care volunteers who hailed from New York, Florida and California. They worked in Africa with another group o Read More

  More like this in: New York, California, Africa, Cancer, Hope, Florida, HIV / AIDS, Pregnancy, Third World and Developing Countries, Childbirth, Women's Health
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  MicroEnsure Opens Kenyan Office

  By John Casey | Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:33 PM ET

  the world's first insurance company that serves the needs of the poor, is opening a new office in Kenya after its ongoing success in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, India and the Philippines, according to an article in africanewsbreak.com The company's goal is to reach sustainability fo Read More

  More like this in: Africa, Sustainability, Philanthropy, Kenya, Grants, insurance, Uganda, Ghana, Microfinance, NGO, Melinda Gates
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  A First: Ice Caps Linked to Carbon Dioxide

  By David Bois | Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:25 PM ET

  atmospheric chemistry dipped and stayed below a critical threshold. As reported by PhysOrg.com, the team located marine sedimentary rock samples in Tanzania that spanned the time prior to, during and following the formation of the ice caps. The chemistry of the micro-fossils extracted from thos Read More

  More like this in: Science, Nature, Atmosphere, Antarctica, Arctic, Fossils, Science, Environment, Innovation & Discovery, Physical Sciences
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  Jacking Shirts

  By David Jenison | Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  the right.Says the singer on his website, "AICT Tanners High School is an all girl boarding school that is trying to encourage female education in Tanzania. This small village happens to have one of Tanzania’s few, widely scattered public schools. Kids from long distances are sent there fo Read More

  More like this in: Jack Johnson, Music, Schools, TreeHugger, Uniforms, World, Entertainment, Africa, Music
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  In Africa, Let There be Health!

  By Katherine Gustafson | Wed Aug 5, 2009 9:00 PM ET

  In Rwanda: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, a Boston-based NGO called Partners In Health and the Rwandan Ministry of Health.In Tanzania and Ghana: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the Swiss Tropical Institute, the University of Ghana, the Ifakara Healt Read More

  More like this in: Boston, Ghana, Columbia University, Rwanda, Zambia, Harvard University, Partners In Health, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, University of Alabama
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  Extreme Philanthropy

  By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:00 AM ET

  occurred this month, was a trek up Mt. Kilimanjaro combined with a stint building clean-water systems and fixing up a school for AIDS orphans in Tanzania. Where will the next tour take the intrepid and generous adventurers? Will you be one of them? If you want to be, contact Paul at Roadmonke Read More

  More like this in: The New York Times, Twitter, Africa, Philanthropy, AIDS, Vietnam, Volunteerism, Mount Kilimanjaro
• Poll Power

  By Jimmy Langman | Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:08 PM ET

  Obama’s speeches are most viewed around the world. Obama’s June 4 speech to the Muslim world at Cairo? Along with the US and Egypt, Nigeria and Tanzania were the most interested in viewing the speech. His March 19 message to the Iranian people, which has been seen by nearly 610,00 people, wa Read More

  More like this in: Barack Obama, Technology, Europe, YouTube, White House, Politics, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria, Capitalism
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  Put Your Thinking Caps On

  By Katherine Gustafson | Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:24 AM ET

  Africa. So we can expect a lot of well-researched ideas to emerge in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. In August, TTI will turn its attention to Latin America and Sout Read More

  More like this in: Africa, Asia, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF), Rwanda, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal
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  Sleeping With Elephants

  By Richard Bangs | Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:00 AM ET

  its bright sweep across the southern sky.Much of the conversation is about how to deal with African wildlife encountered unexpectedly. Unlike Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and other popular wildlife viewing destinations, Zambia allows "walking safaris," -- a concept invented by the late Norma Read More

  More like this in: Travel, Africa, Kenya, South Africa, Conversation, Elephants, Zambia, Zimbabwe, PBS, Richard Bangs, Mozambique