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(CNN) -- As a U.N.-backed conference on Africa's volatile Great Lakes region concludes on Friday, we offer a guide to the troubled area and its chances for lasting stability. Based around the ...

YPSILANTI, Michigan -- It might not be grabbing headlines around the globe, but tomorrow’s U.N. World Wetlands ... set of mammoth freshwater Great Lakes. The African Great Lakes in Eastern ...

She added: "With limited financial and human resources to deal with the enormous HIV/AIDS tasks we collectively face in the Great Lakes ... World Bank's Multi-country HIV/AIDS Programme (MAP) for ...

The Great Lakes ... in Africa, more than 20. The country has been marred in conflict since independence from Belgium in 1960. It was at the centre of what could be termed Africa's world war ...

It supports the largest freshwater fishery in the world, producing a million tons of fish annually, according to the African Great Lakes Informational platform. It's also estimated to support ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, together with Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, will visit the Great Lakes Region of Africa this week, with the purpose of promoting the implementation ...

The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution condemning militias and other armed groups destabilising central Africa's Great Lakes region. The vote followed a marathon debate in which ...