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Africa achieved a modest increase in investment with investments up 10% to approximately $1.1 billion on clean energy in the last year; this is according to the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme, UNEP.

Against the background of an International Tobacco Growers Association meeting to discuss issues related to tobacco and marketing, in Salima, Malawi, the Africa Tobacco Control Regional Initiative (ATCRI) has urged the Malawian governments to take urgent action in protecting the lives of its citizens from tobacco health risks.

The Arusha based A to Z Mills plans to increase its Africa’s market share to 10 per cent by 2010.

The UN Environment Programme has said talks aimed at injecting new and more wide-ranging momentum into the international effort to combat climate change ended last Saturday in Copenhagen with a positive outcome, despite reservations by civil society organsations.

Ghana’s Ministry of Health and the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) has Friday announced a significant progress in eliminating trachoma.

The Stop TB Partnership today launched Images to Stop TB, a competition aimed at obtaining outstanding photos depicting prevention and treatment of TB and community activity to raise awareness about it. 

Egypt has plans to expand its irrigated area by at least one million hectares over the next 20 years and this could require an additional eight billion cubic meters of the controversial Nile water.