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The world-famous Dutch floral and houseplant auctions realized 4-billion Euros in 2008 - an increase of 0,25 percent. In the current economic climate, people spend more money on prettying up their houses with bright blooms and plants, and less on luxury.
Published Jan 5, 2009 by ■ Adriana Stuijt in Business
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Female farmer Mwanahuseni Hasani of Tanzania has lost her income when the younger of her two cows was stolen recently. The farmer had taken out a microloan through the Farm Friends organisation and is devastated by the theft of the heifer.
Published Dec 29, 2008 by ■ Adriana Stuijt in Business
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For the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 that lasted one-hundred days, former Rwandan Colonel Theoneste Bagosora has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Published Dec 18, 2008 by ■ Can Tran in World
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The number of Somalian pirates are growing - and their range has expanded from Somalian waters: they now are also hunting merchant vessels off the coasts of Tanzania and Kenya.
Published Dec 7, 2008 by ■ Adriana Stuijt in Business
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AMSTERDAM - Dutch labour MP Martijn van Dam has asked the world's major cellphone manufacturers to stop using the Congolese mineral coltan - to stop child-slavery.
Published Dec 4, 2008 by ■ Adriana Stuijt in Technology
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One of the most successful self-help projects in Tanzania is the Lease-A-Cow project with its 110 participating female farmers.
Published Dec 3, 2008 by ■ Adriana Stuijt in Environment
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A preventable disease kills nearly one million people worldwide, especially children under five and African countries, who don’t have anti-malaria medicines.
Published Sep 18, 2008 by ■ Chris V. Thangham in Health
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A team of Brigham Young University student engineers designed an innovative and cost-effective apparatus that enables poor East African women to turn abundant coconuts into valuable coconut oil.
Published Aug 29, 2008 by ■ Bob Ewing in Education
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Just three years after it was discovered, a new species of monkey is threatened with extinction according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which recently published the first-ever census of the endangered primate.
Published Aug 3, 2008 by ■ Bob Ewing in Environment
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Senseless killings continue to create havoc in the Albino community in some rural parts of Tanzania. Local authority has found yet another Albino person, brutally murdered last week and his body parts taken for apparent witchcraft purposes.
Published Jul 27, 2008 by ■ Khalid Magram in World
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