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All posts tagged "Africa"

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  S. Korea donates $11 million to African countries for job training

  PARIS (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye pledged Tuesday to provide more than US$11 million to 10 African countries over the next five years for vocational training, calling education a solution to ending violent extremism and “an integral...

  • Posted December 1, 2015
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  S. Korea pledges $600 mln to support growth in Africa

  SEJONG, May 29 (Yonhap) — South Korea has pledged US$600 million to support growth among African countries, the government said Friday. A related memorandum of understanding, signed Tuesday with the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Abidjan, the...

  • Posted May 29, 2015
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  S. Korean organization raises 4 mil. won for HIV/AIDS in Africa

  By John Redmond Little Travellers Korea raised 4 million won (About $4,000) at the Rubber Seoul club night, one of the biggest annual club nights of the year, near Hongik University in western Seoul, Saturday night, to...

  • Posted December 2, 2014
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  S. Korea to send gov’t officials to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will send government officials to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, joining global efforts to defeat the fatal virus, the defense ministry said Thursday. The ministry said it will send an advance team of 11...

  • Posted November 6, 2014
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  US to track everyone coming from Ebola nations

  ATLANTA (AP) — All travelers who come into the U.S. from three Ebola-stricken West African nations will now be monitored for three weeks, the latest step by federal officials to keep the disease from spreading into the...

  • Posted October 23, 2014
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  South Korea cancels more invitations to African guests

  By Kim Se-jeong Organizers and hosts of international events in South Korea are withdrawing invitations for guests from African countries, citing the Ebola epidemic in the region. Park Hyung-ju, an organizer of the International Congress of Mathematicians...

  • Posted August 7, 2014
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