 |
Its your world. See it, read it, discuss it. |
World News - .geographical media - RSSSyndicated content powered by .geographical mediaRSS syndication makes it easy to receive content updates in My Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines, and other news readers. |
Current Feed ContentCAMBODIA: Rural sanitation in crisisPHNOM PENH Thursday, September 25, 2008 (IRIN) - At the rate rural communities are gaining access to sanitation, it will take Cambodia 150 years to achieve a government goal of universal coverage in 2025, specialists warned. According to a recent report by the World Bank-sponsored Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP), only 16 percent of rural Cambodians have access to toilets. In some areas, such as the southeastern Prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces, that number is only 2 percent, the WSP...498 Trees Planted in NBRThe Regional Youth Committee in North Bank Region, in collaboration with Concern Universal, last Saturday planted 498 trees in three communities in the North Bank Region. The Villages that carried out the exercise were Kerr Ardo, Kerr Katim Wolof and Maka Farafenni. In each of the villages 166 trees were planted. Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Polo Joof, Regional Youth chairperson in North Bank, said the reason for targeting these communities in Lower Badibu is based on statistical data which...The Big Read: Aimé Césaire : The quest for the restoration of African identityThere are two ways to lose oneself: by a walled segregation in the particular or by a dilution in the 'universal' — Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) Martinican poet, playwright, and politician, one of the most influential authors from the French-speaking Caribbean Aimé Césaire formulated, with Léopold Senghor and Léon Gontran Damas, the concept and movement of Négritude, defined as "affirmation that one is black and proud of it". Césaire's thoughts about restoring the cultural identity of black... |
