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| North Africa Environment - Nature | Economy - Development Giant Sahara sun power project kicks off afrol News - Untill now laughed upon as an environmentalist wet dream, Germany's main power companies now invest real money in a project that could change the face of the Sahara desert. A giant solar energy project in the desert is to provide Europe with 15% of its electricity needs. |
| Western Sahara Politics Sweden may recognise Western Sahara afrol News - The party congress of the Swedish Social Democratic Party has demanded that Sweden recognise Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara as the first country in Europe. The party is favourite to with the 2010 polls in Sweden. |
| Western Sahara Politics | Human rights | Society Abdelaziz calls on UN to protect Sahrawi afrol News - The Sahrawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz has urged the UN to assume its full responsibility to protect and secure release of Sahrawi activists detained in Moroccan prisons. |
| Algeria Economy - Development | Politics | Society Algeria signs defense agreement with Britain afrol News - Algerian authorities have signed a framework agreement with Great Britain in the defense sector to formalise and legalise relations between the two countries. |
| Egypt | World Politics | Economy - Development Egypt maintains recognition as a top global offshoring destination afrol News - Cairo has been recognised as one of the world's top ranking offshoring cities, ranking 7th in the latest 'Top 50 Emerging Outsourcing Cities' report conducted by Global Services-Tholons. |
| Tunisia Politics | Society Ben Ali gets fifth term in presidency afrol News - Tunisian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, has secured a fifth term after winning 89.62 percent of the votes in the 2009 presidential election over the weekend, the Interior Ministry has announced. |
| South Africa | Tunisia Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Politics SA and Tunisia get Swiss funding for clean energy projects afrol News - Two projects signed today will help boost energy efficiency in the South African industry in the face of economy-threatening energy shortages and promote environmentally-friendly production in Tunisia. |
Politics | Environment - Nature | Economy - Development DRC and Morocco elected to new forest financing programme afrol News - Signaling their commitment to a unique partnership to combat climate change through forest management, six developing countries will join five contributor countries on the newly elected governing body of the Forest Investment Program (FIP), a programme of the Strategic Climate Fund under the Climate Investment Funds of the multilateral development banks. |
| North Africa | World Politics | Economy - Development Sound policies help soften crisis impact afrol News - Oil exporters in the Middle East and North Africa have been directly hit by the global financial crisis through a sharp drop in oil prices and a drying up of capital inflows, but the blow has been softened by countercyclical government spending, according to the IMF’s new regional forecast. |
| Algeria | Western Sahara Politics | Human rights | Society New report documents abuse of Sahrawi refugees' rights in Algeria camps afrol News - A new study documents serious human rights and humanitarian crisis resulting from more than three decades of warehousing of Sahrawi refugees confined to desert camps near Tindouf, in southwestern Algeria. |
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