UK backs African farmers in battle over imported produce

"The Department for International Development warned only last week that food miles alone do not determine the environmental damage of food and praised organic air freight as a "trade success story" for Africa."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2998915.ece

G8 global fund to fight aids, TB, and malaria

"The G8 decided that one way to get treatment to all those who need it would be to triple the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, so that by 2010 it could provide £3bn-£4bn for programmes delivering medical care. Next week in Berlin, members of the G8 will attend a meeting of the fund to deliver on that promise."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2174654,00.html

Mobiles for the 'world's poorest'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6986804.stm

"Nearly half a million people, described by the UN as "the poorest of the poor", will soon be able to make mobile calls.

As part of a UN programme to tackle poverty in rural Africa, 79 villages across 10 African countries will be hooked up to cellular networks."