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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Fund for the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is giving US$26 million to west Africa’s Burkina Faso to boost its fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria; the money will be distributed by the United Nations Development Programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided that it will not use its international merger control powers to oppose Anglo American’s bid for complete control of South-African mining company Kumba Resources, having examined the two players’ overlap in zircon and titanium dioxide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPROVEMENTS to water supply systems of the south-western Finland region of Turku are expected to attract European Investment Bank (EIB) funding, with plans being developed to lend the Turku Region Water Ltd (TRW) Euro 50 million. The money would fund improved river water intake, pre-treatment and build a transmission pipeline of 100 kilometres, plus boosting groundwater recharge and secondary treatment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) wants the European Commission to call for changes to the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, allowing non-American companies to be sued in US courts for alleged human rights, labour and environmental offences committed in third countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) wants the European Commission to call for changes to the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, allowing non-American companies to be sued in US courts for alleged human rights, labour and environmental offences committed in third countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations secretary general Kofi Annan has welcomed an agreement between the (former US President) Clinton Foundation and four pharmaceutical companies in developing countries to halve the price of anti-retroviral drugs treating HIV/AIDS. Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, of Johannesburg, South Africa; Cipla of Mumbai, India; Ranbaxy Laboratories, of Delhi, India; and Matrix Laboratories of Hyderabad, India, will cut the annual cost of drugs for each infected person to as little as US$140.…

BY RICHARD HURST
JOHANNESBURG-based bulk materials handling and minerals processing specialist Osborn has been awarded a US$977,000 contract by Société des Mines du Liptako (SML) South Africa, which recently announced the start of the Samira Hill gold-mining project in Niger. Noel Bessler, sales manager at Osborn said: “Osborn’s participation in the project includes the refurbishment of an existing mill, the supply of proprietary screens, feeders and the plant’s conveyors”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…