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afrol News, 28 October - An international forum on remittances to Africa has endorsed a series of recommendations to reduce transfer costs and exploit the potential of remittances as a development tool in the continent.

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afrol News, 30 September - It seems that in recent months some of those fighting Somalia’s government are coming to understand the impact of the violence on the people of the struggling Horn of Africa nation, a senior United Nations official said today.

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» 21.05.2009 - Cape Verde wants emigrants back
» 18.05.2009 - Legislators pass dual citizenship bill
» 07.05.2009 - Study reveals emerging African immigrant market segment
» 08.10.2008 - US-Maryland man sentenced for holding Nigerian girl in forced labour
» 08.09.2008 - African immigrants arrested in Spain
» 29.07.2008 - Tunisian terror suspects' appeal rejected
» 17.07.2008 - Danes warn against trade with Western Sahara
» 06.06.2008 - Parents detained over daughters' FGM in Gambia
» 23.05.2008 - Morocco "winning Sahara propaganda war"
» 23.05.2008 - French-Angolan strained ties to improve
» 11.03.2008 - Palestine seeks AU support
» 11.03.2008 - Kenya leaders invite tourists
» 11.03.2008 - Taureg rebels free 22 hostages
» 20.02.2008 - EU renews Zimbabwe ban
» 20.02.2008 - Kenya faces further threats
» 20.02.2008 - Benin let-go CAR rebel leaders
» 20.02.2008 - Nigerian oil manager abducted
» 28.01.2008 - Kenya unrests disturb AU
» 19.11.2007 - Mbeki urges Africa-diaspora dialogue
» 24.10.2007 - Ethiopia diapora lured
» 19.10.2007 - Libya grabs UN seat
» 06.09.2007 - Somalis discuss emancipation
» 03.09.2007 - ECOWAS urges flexible EPA
» 24.08.2007 - Angola accepts root communities
» 26.06.2007 - Somaliland now centre for illegal female cutting
» 26.01.2007 - Singapore hangs two African "drug dealers"
» 06.11.2006 - Ghanaians abroad remit billions home
» 11.10.2006 - EU gauges Togolese democracy
» 04.04.2006 - Evicted Chagos islanders granted short visit home
» 25.11.2005 - Money sent by African migrants rivals aid
» 20.06.2005 - Equatorial Guinea "killers sent to Europe"
» 21.04.2005 - Disappeared Equatoguinean opposition leader "is alive"
» 17.03.2005 - Immigrants clash with Cape Verde govt
» 14.03.2005 - Exiled Equatoguineans protest Obiang regime
» 11.03.2005 - Ghana defends rights of illegal immigrants in Libya
» 31.01.2005 - Zimbabwe Diaspora to launch weekly newspaper
» 26.01.2005 - Students abduct Guinea-Bissau Ambassador in Russia
» 19.01.2005 - Somali MP in Netherlands defies death threats
» 17.01.2005 - Cape Verde to assist Diaspora in São Tomé
» 04.10.2004 - Ethiopian refugees "put to starve" in Norway
» 28.09.2004 - Burundi princess, top model seeks presidency
» 17.09.2004 - AU's human rights ruling against Eritrea documented
» 02.09.2004 - Equatoguinean opposition leader denies coup plot
» 12.07.2004 - Zimbabwe bid for Diaspora's money meets protest
» 11.11.2003 - Ethiopia wants skilled Diaspora to return
» 07.09.2003 - Exiled Equatoguinean 'govt' shows muscles
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