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New York - AIDS, the disease which in Africa kills ten times more people than war, will be in the spotlight here today as the United Nations Security Council begins its first ever meeting on a health issue. In another first, an American vice president, Al Gore, will chair the meeting, designed to focus attention on African issues.
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[A]mid this gallery of wildlife, Africa faces tremendouschallenges. Extreme poverty, the highest human population growth rates in the world, limited economic opportunities, and rapidly changing political systems combine to create tremendous pressure on both people and natural resources. To face these challenges, the Wildlife Conservation Society has worked for decades with Africa’s governments, institutions and people to preserve its natural heritage for both wildlife and humans.
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To transform these conditions and empower the people of Africa to meet their basic needs on a sustainable basis, The Hunger Project has pioneered its epicenter strategy. This strategy is a unified, people-centered approach that has proven effective in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Senegal and Uganda - and has been recently launched in Ethiopia and Mozambique.
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The U.S. is on track to increase total assistance to Africa to $8.7 billion by 2010, double the level of assistance in 2004. In addition, the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), launched in 2005, is adding to PEPFAR's efforts to combat disease in Africa and is estimated to have already reached 25 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa to help in the fight against malaria.
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The domestication of cattle in Africa precedes agriculture and seems to have existed alongside hunter-gathering cultures. It is speculated that by 6000 BC cattle were already domesticated in North Africa.[16] In the Sahara-Nile complex, people domesticated many animals including the pack ass, and a small screw horned goat which was common from Algeria to Nubia.
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The Christian Science Monitor reports on the Lighting Africa initiative in an article "New move to bring electricity to Africa". Russell Sturm, of IFC, said, "The impact would be huge. Globally, there are 1.7 billion people who lack reliable access to electrical services."
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