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U.N.: African Development Progressing

Friday, October 13, 2006 9:08:52 PM
By EDWARD HARRIS

A herd of elephants walk with Mt. Kilimanjaro in the background in this Sunday, May 21, 2006 file picture in the Amboseli game park in Kenya. Africa's two highest mountains will lose their ice within 25 to 50 years, a local environmental group said Thursday Oct 12, 2006. Ice will disappear from Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain and Mt. Kenya, which is Africa's second highest if deforestation and industrial pollution is not stopped, said Fredrick Njau of the Kenyan Green Belt Movement.Mt. Kilimanjaro has already lost 82 percent of its ice cover over 80 years, said Njau Mt. Kenya, one of the few places near the equator with permanent glaciers, has lost 92 percent of its ice over the past 100 years. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The international community should deliver on promises to help Africa, while leaders there must make improvements if a development partnership for the world's poorest continent is to succeed, a U.N. report said Thursday.

A report card for the New Partnership for Africa's Development — an African-designed development program linking help from rich countries with better governance in Africa — said the partnership was "making progress."

But overseas "pledges and commitments made to Africa should be delivered in a timely manner and at a much faster pace," the report said without citing specific examples of tardy delivery.


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