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BY RICHARD HURST
The former British colony of Sierra Leone has been a focus of a money laundering scandal since the September 11 attacks in the US, when it was uncovered (in the New York Times) that a senior member of the al Qaeda organisation, Ibrahim Bah, had been purchasing and stockpiling diamonds mined by the country’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL disasters cost the world US$60 billion in 2003, up from around US$55 billion the previous year, a Munich Re assessment for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed. The bulk of this year’s losses were caused by weather-related catastrophes, said UNEP, which is linking them with global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROTRACTED talks between the United States and the European Union (EU) over allowable oenological practices are continuing to drag on, with the European Commission proposing that US exporters should be allowed to sell wine made in ways banned in the EU for another year (until December 2004).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CEO of the Coca-Cola Company Douglas N. Daft has been appointed as co-chairman of a United States-European Union joint-body charged with making suggestions on removing barriers hindering trade. Mr Daft will co-chair the Transatlantic Business Dialogue for 2004-5 with Unilever chairman Niall FitzGerald.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada are resisting European Union (EU) calls to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) assessment of whether new laws restricting the sale of beef containing hormones has brought the EU into compliance with a WTO ruling on the issue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EGG prices in the United States are currently at a 20-year high, with some bakers associations claiming the wholesale price in some states has doubled in less than a year. Agricultural economists blame the lack of supply due to disease outbreaks in California, which saw thousands of egg-laying hens being destroyed.…

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 MONICA DOBIE
EGG prices in the United States are currently at a 20-year high, with some bakers associations claiming the wholesale price in some states has doubled in less than a year. Agricultural economists blame the lack of supply due to disease outbreaks in California, which saw thousands of egg-laying hens being destroyed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ETHIOPIA is to receive US$1.2 million’s worth of medicines from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to fight high rates of malaria infections in the country’s Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and ‘Southern Nations, Nationalities and People Regional’ states. This worst outbreak since 1998 is being compounded by serious malnutrition following a drought.…