Twenty years ago, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development was created to help former communist countries after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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It also works with the World Food Organization and the Pan American Development Foundation to help Haitians,especially after the food shortage riots last year.

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The program's coordinator, Johnette Roberts, says teachers are evaluated before and after taking the summer professional development classes.

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"Canada is not leaving Afghanistan,". "Canada will be transitioning from a predominately military mission to a mission that will be a civilian humanitarian development mission after 2011.

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After difficult and lengthy negotiations, the Southern African Development Community's mediator, then-South African president Thabo Mbeki, shepherded the three leaders into concluding the agreement, which produced a government of national unity in February of this year.

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