"Buying from Africa for Africa" An International Trade Centre success story

Consider that in the United Nations system, agencies spend more than USD 9 billions on goods and services every year, of which 60 % is destined for humanitarian relief or development assistance to African countries. How-ever, according to the Inter-Agency Procurement Services Agency, just 10% of total UN procurement in 2003 was supplied from African...

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“Nuclear energy for dummies” by Dr Howard Hornfeld

Now that many environmental groups are beginning to realize that nuclear energy is no longer the scare that it was some years ago (see, for example, the Tribune de Gen?ve, 16 January 2007, p. 7), maybe it’s time to understand what nuclear energy is, and in particular where the future of this technology lies. Energy...

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