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During a four-week period after birth called 'Omugwo'" the mother and the child are secluded and relieved from all other chores they are cared for by the grandmother of the new born. The new mother is given a stimulating hot soup made with dried fish meat yams plenty of…

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With only five years left until 2015 - the deadline to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has issued a call to action to address a goal that has been lagging behind - maternal health. Gerry Adams reports:

SG 1: We are here because too many women die around the world from pregnancy or childbirth-related injuries. We are here because one preventable maternal death is still too many.…

When I was in my country, we used to buy things by exchanging them with something else: clothes, furniture, etc.....it was really a helpful system for a lot of people. Nowadays this system no longer exists in my country, now it is all about money. But this week I managed to pay something I could not afford by using this system and I gave the person something else that he really needed, that way we are both happy and neither of us had to use money.

Angola moves to diversifying energy sources

1. Posted on Tuesday 8 september 2009

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   Andualem Sisay, AfricaNews reporter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia…

SUGAR CANE

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When you think of sugar you probably think of cakes and lollies - Yum! Not a bad first thought, but did you know that the sugar cane can be made into energy? When sugar cane is crushed to extract the juice, the left over pulp is called bagasse. Bagasse can be burnt and used to generate electricity in…

The Danish biotechnology company Novozymes A/S has said that it will work with Cetrel, one of South America's largest industrial waste-management companies, to turn sugar-cane waste into clean energy.

The research partnership is aimed at helping Brazilian sugar and ethanol production plants turn bagasse - the leafy residue that remains after sugar juice is squeezed from cane - into biogas using enzymes, Annegrethe Jakobsen, a Novozymes spokeswoman in Denmark, told Climate Wire…