World Bank Announces Winners of Award for Outstanding Public Service
The World Bank today announced the three winners of the 2008 Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service: Kisan Baburao Hajare, a social...
Meeting Africa’s Urgent Development Needs
World Bank President’s Proposals Target Key Areas: Food, Minerals and Innovative FinancingThe World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick announced...
World Bank and Merck & Co., Inc., Announce US$50 Million Funding Initiative to Eliminate River Blindness in Africa
The World Bank and Merck & Co., Inc., announced an initiative to raise US$50 million to help eliminate river blindness, a leading cause of...
AFRICA: AFRICOM to focus on military, not humanitarian role
In a key briefing to Congress on 13 March, General William “Kip” Ward, head of the US Command for Africa, AFRICOM, devoted only 15 seconds of his...
Greenpeace and EREC invite renewable energy projects to start online Energy [R]evolution
Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) today invited renewable energy projects worldwide to upload their details into a new...