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BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAVING no central government has proved no hindrance to Somalia making advances in public health, said United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Somali health organisations reported its last case in 2002 and are organising a major immunisation campaign.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries should create their own domestic strategies to reverse the loss of highly skilled citizens to developed countries, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development has recommended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERYONE knows commercial fraud costs business millions and millions of dollars and euros, but no one really knows how much. The United Nations is going to investigate, following a successful international seminar staged in Vienna. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUNDBREAKING legal watchdog has started its first investigations into whether governments are abiding by the international Aarhus Convention on environmental decision-making and information dissemination. This convention compliance committee can rule on breaches, telling governments they need to release information or consult more widely on proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEED to help developing countries acquire the software and technical know-how to interpret space imagery that boosts the environmental management of their territories has been examined at an international conference in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. This regional workshop on the use of space technology for natural resources management, environmental monitoring and disaster management, staged by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the European Space Agency and the Sudanese government, heard an appeal from Tanzania for assistance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers is backing the creation of harmonised rules for the type approval of non-road mobile machinery engines (and tractors) manufactured in Europe, as regards their net power, net torque and specific fuel consumption.…

Keith Nuthall
BOOMING west African oil state Equatorial Guinea is to pump US$3.7 million into a four-year airport and air traffic control improvement project. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is helping prepare the plan, which will ensure airports meet international standards, restructure the civil aviation authority, strengthen ATC, improve documentation handling, assess staff and upgrade skills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been asked to pressure Serbia & Montenegro into restarting effective cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia. A letter from court president Judge Theodor Meron has attacked “extremely serious” persistent failures to help the court, such as failing to execute arrest warrants.…

Keith Nuthall
THE CONTROVERSIAL agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to American authorities has been formally approved by the EU Council of Ministers, ignoring a legal challenge to the deal launched by the European Parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representative has claimed more than 95 per cent of US imports from sub-Saharan African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) eligible countries now enter America duty free. Exports rose by 55 per cent to US$14 billion from 2002 to 2003, mainly through higher oil sales.…