For 70 minutes, the girls in the distinctive gold-and-green jersey of Brazil shut out the attacks by the visiting team. The bare feet of chubby-faced left back Njavwa Silungwe are lively in defence.

Civil society should call African parliaments to account on international trade negotiations as parliamentarians have in the past not been 'robust' enough in ensuring that such talks deliver on developmental priorities.

With the clock ticking away on the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Committee (UNFCCC) summit in Copenhagen in December, the fractiousness between the developed and the developing nations on who ought to do more to control climate change is getting increasingly strident.

Pauline Siembe, a Baka pygmy in South East Cameroon, comes out of her smoky hut licking her fingers after a meal of pounded yam and bush meat soup.

Following a strict global carbon budget is the only way to ride out climate change — and this is as much the responsibility of developing countries as it is of developed ones.

Four sculptures in human forms, made of concrete, will be submerged in November in the Mexican Caribbean - the first of 400 figures that will comprise the world's largest underwater museum.

In a country with more than 400 print media outlets, Indonesia’s first and only children’s newspaper is a breath of fresh air.

'Developed countries have failed to respect the Kyoto Protocol which compelled them to reduce latest 2008 emissions of greenhouse gases by five percent. There is therefore need for new engagements to be taken at the Copenhagen Summit.' Decisive words from Cameroon's minister for the environment, Pierre Hele.

In a rare meeting of minds, a parliamentarian, a civil servant and a trade unionist, all three from Africa, agreed that the current course of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of trade talks is detrimental to the interests of African countries.

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