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Smart move, Qantas: tag team check-in
Sullivan :: MO :: USA | about 12 hours ago
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Qantas is about to overhaul its domestic check-in at City Flyer ports across Australia in a bid to reduce waiting time. The airline's top-tier frequent flyers will receive smart cards that will act as a personal boarding pass. It will be linked to a permanent...
Tags: Qantas Club, Africa, frequent flyers, Sullivan
Couple's love story started in Africa
Cotonou :: Benin | about 15 hours ago
Credibility Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger. Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, was there to help with vaccination activities, using her experience as a nurse. Emmanuel, a native of the city of Cotonou in Benin,...
Tags: Benin, Emmanuel Gbevegnon, Japan, Eriko Hidaka, Africa, taking care, Niger, Cotonou, Economic Community of West African States, Eriko Imai
Sand dams voted best solution in water crisis debate
Bedford :: United Kingdom | about 23 hours ago
Credibility A 400-year-old water -saving technique that could save millions of people from drought last night won the ringing endorsement of an audience at the Geographical Society in London. When seasonal rains fall, water collects behind the dam. The sand acts...
Tags: sand dams, Simon Maddrell, Africa, United Kingdom, Bedford, Dam, Oxfam
Africa: Continents Leaders Tackle Plight of Their Victims
Kampala :: Uganda | 1 day ago
Credibility Continents Leaders Tackle Plight of Their Victims Agnes Asiimwe 3 November 2009 Kampala — Five heads of state, ministers and delegates from across the African continent met in Kampala last week for a special summit to deal with forced displacement in...
Tags: African, Uganda, Kampala, Ishmael, Africa, Norman Fisher-Jones, Population, Human rights abuses, Displaced person, Internally displaced person, War Conflict, Forced migration, Persecution, Demography, Social Issues
Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 1 day ago
Credibility Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price...
Tags: Dr. Robert Zeigler, Africa, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Economy of Asia, Peak oil, world food price crisis, Food security, Famine, Environment, Food politics, Humanitarian aid, Poverty
Law introduced to curb mineral trade that fuels war and rape
Brazzaville :: Congo | 1 day ago
Credibility Exploring philanthropy, non-profits and socially motivated business, from the Gates Foundation to your donation...Now mobile phones and other technology products are being targeted for containing minerals sold by armed groups engaged in war and rape in...
Tags: Democratic Republic of Congo, mobile phones, armed group, Africa, mineral trade, Jim McDermott, Congo, Brazzaville, African countries, French-speaking countries, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tantalite, Columbite, Conflict minerals, Coltan, African Union member states
200 million children's growth stunted, report says
Sanaa :: Yemen | 1 day ago
Credibility Almost 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth, according to a new U.N. report. But surprisingly, in the Middle East, wealthier countries have more of a problem than some poorer nations.
Tags: UNICEF, U.N., Arnold Timmer, Middle East, stunted prevalence, Yemeni, Africa, Asia, Yemen, Sanaa
Africa: Winners and Losers In Corruption Stakes
Gaborone :: Botswana | 1 day ago
Credibility Winners and Losers In Corruption Stakes John Allen and Adiel Ismail 19 November 2009 Cape Town — Botswana continues to be seen as Africa’s least corrupt, and Somalia as the continent’s – and the world’s – most corrupt country, according to a new survey...
One hand on the Cup
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 day ago
Credibility Africa could not have asked for better representation when the continent hosts its first football World Cup next year. With the exception of the reigning African champions, Egypt, Africa’s top-ranked teams have qualified for South Africa. World number...
Tags: world cup, South Africa, Cape Town, Cￃﾴte d'Ivoire national football team, Ghana national football team, Africa, Nigeria, Didier Drogba, Football in Nigeria, Football in Ghana, Nigeria national football team, allnews, Football (soccer) terminology, Soccer in Canada, Group of death, FIFA World Cup, Rugby World Cup, Rugby League World Cup
Fossil hunters unearth galloping, dinosaur-eating crocodiles in Sahara
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Todd Marshall/National Geographic Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that "galloped" on land and patrolled the broad rivers that coursed through north Africa one hundred million years ago. The skeletons of five creatures...
Tags: Sahara Desert, Saharan, ancient crocodiles, Africa, crocodiles species, McGill University in Montreal, Washington, Crocs, fashion, Crocodile, Dune, Crocodiles, Crocodylidae, Boulder County Colorado, Environment, Paul Sereno, Dinosaur, Sarcosuchus, Suchomimus, Baryonyx, Anatosuchus, Reptiles, Crocodilia
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