KARACHI, Nov 18: Three women abandoned their children, eight in all, to their fate by placing them under the care of the Edhi Foundation on Tuesday.
Aged between five and 12 years, the children, some in tears, appeared scared and unaware of the reason that had forced their parents to leave them at the country’s largest [...]
President-elect Barack Obama made a promise to the one million people around the world who die from Malaria each year.
“When I am President,” he said, “We will set the goal of ending all deaths from Malaria by 2015. The United States will lead.”
Malaria is the leading cause of death for refugees. Refugee camps are often [...]
Some 16,000 African children will be vaccinated against malaria as part of a major medical trial aimed at combating the mosquito-borne disease, which kills about 1 million people annually.
Funded by GlaxoSmithKline PLC and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, the vaccine is expected to be at least 30% effective against mild cases of the disease [...]
10 November, Rome – The sudden death of South African singer and human rights activist Miriam Makeba, 76, has claimed the voice of one of FAO’s most dedicated advocates, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said today.
“For nearly a decade, FAO Goodwill Ambassador Miriam Makeba was a strong supporter of FAO’s fight to reduce hunger and improve [...]
“The purpose, I would urge all of you — as many of you as are willing to take it up — is to bring about a higher level of consciousness about our planet and the imminent danger and opportunity we face because of the radical transformation in the relationship between human beings and the Earth,” [...]
Malaria kills a child in the world every 30 seconds. It infects 350-500 million people each year killing 1 million, mostly children, in Africa.
Ninety percent of malaria deaths occur in Africa, where malaria accounts for about one in five of all childhood deaths. The disease also contributes greatly to anemia among children – a major [...]
Efthimios Mitropoulos, the UN International Maritime Organization chief, has called for the UN to authorize a force to quell the piratical activity in the Gulf of Aden. Preferring a larger UN mandate to a NATO force, he cited fears that international shippers could begin diverting shipments around the Cape of Good Hope rather than through [...]
Alamdar Khan, Master of Economics and e-Commerce and a MKFC-Trainee, with a team of his fellow students at KTH have been working on project under quite a long time.
The Aim of the project is:
To identify the possible reasons of the lack of using e-learning tools in three secondary schools in Stockholm and to make recommendation [...]
Shock and sorrow at Al-Baraka Schools after terrorist attack in Somaliland. The schools were not affected but the Somaliland President’s secretary died in the blast at the palace. He was a parent of one of the pupils at Al-Baraka Schools where the teachers take part in a long term MKFC Teacher Training education.
–We were shocked [...]
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