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Saturday, 15 June, 2002, 12:06 GMT 13:06 UK Under the same sky By Mark Doyle BBC West Africa correspondent When we told our four-and-half-year-old son Alex that we were moving to London, he thought about it for a long time. The idea was difficult for him to grasp because, although he has been to England on visits, he has lived most of his life in West Africa. Alex thought hard about it, but then, remembering that he would travel on an airplane, he looked up at the sky and asked: "Daddy, is it the same sky all the way from...

ACCRA, Ghana, Sep 23, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Monday urged Africans to team up to fight poverty, saying boundary-less cooperation means boundless economic potential. "Through cooperation and collaborative efforts, termites have been able to pull down strong edifices," Clinton said. "Bees have been able to build houses for humans to tap heir honey from." Clinton, who is in Africa to promote efforts to fight AIDS and encourage economic development, was speaking to an assemblage of government ministers, traditional rulers and academics at the launch of Ghana President John Kufuor's Foundation for...