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Africa Recieves Billions To Combat Climate Change

First Posted: 03/18/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:35 PM ET

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BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) -- Six African countries will receive 1.1 billion dollars in grants or low-interest loans to help a switch to cleaner energy and cope with the impacts of climate change, the World Bank announced here on Thursday.

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BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) -- Six African countries will receive 1.1 billion dollars in grants or low-interest loans to help a switch to cleaner energy and cope with the impacts of climate change, the Wor...
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) -- Six African countries will receive 1.1 billion dollars in grants or low-interest loans to help a switch to cleaner energy and cope with the impacts of climate change, the Wor...
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BeFairNow
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04:09 AM on 11/06/2009
Being an optimist, I hope these grants and low-interest loans are going to work in Africa's favor, even though current global market forces suggest otherwise. Developed nations and our big businesses meddle constantly in Africa's affairs. With one hand we give aid and with the other we keep the countries that are wealthy in natural resources (most of them) that we enjoy consuming (oil, diamonds, etc.) unstable (encouraging tribal disputes, providing arms to both sides, etc.) so that no real development and the resulting increased regulation of big business's activities is possible. I say 'we' because we are all complicit if we use the oil and buy the diamonds. Margaret Thatcher's (former UK Prime Minister) son was convicted of participating in an attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, a small, oil-rich African nation, to install one that would give wealthy contractors easier access to its oil reserves. This episode made the news. How many go unreported? What we give in aid might seem like a huge amount but it doesn't even come close to what we take.
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09:01 PM on 11/05/2009
The idea of a politically united Africa, Pan-Africanism, has been around for over a hundred years. While the pan-african movement has been involved in anti-slavery and anti-colonial struggles and the fight against Apartheid South Africa, there has never been any significant movement towards a political unification. However, recent historical events, quite unexpectedly, may provide an impetus in this direction.

http://www.watchinghistory.com/2009/11/african-union.html
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UncleJimbo
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08:29 PM on 11/05/2009
Receives!
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ResidualSelfImage
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03:33 PM on 11/05/2009
Here is a documentary that cover The world Bank some.

Fall of the Republic;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU
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poomplet
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02:42 PM on 11/05/2009
Great, I'm sure NONE of that money will get stolen, misused and/or used for weapons..

Not a chance....
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