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His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims was today received by President Mwai Kibaki at State House, Nairobi. The two leaders held wide-ranging discussions covering the implementation of previously articulated and new expansion plans for the agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Kenya specifically and Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean region more generally. These include investments of US$ 40 million in the health sector and US$ 30 million in the education sector.

Il était le demi-frère d'Ali Khan, mais sa vie aura été d'une plus grande discrétion. Si le prince Sadruddin a défrayé la chronique lors de son premier mariage avec le mannequin Nina Dyer en ao-t 1957, il ne fut ensuite plus question de lui dans les pages mondaines. Car l'homme, très vite, donna à sa vie une orientation sérieuse, profonde, loin des flashs des paparazzi.

The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, today suggested that the Aga Khan Foundation extend its projects in social, education and health sectors beyond Maharashtra and Gujarat.
The President made this suggestion to Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Ismaili Khoja community, who called on him at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Official sources said Mr. Kalam suggested that the foundation also take up work in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The sources said the Aga Khan briefed the President on the foundation's activities in India.

Il était le demi-frère d'Ali Khan, mais sa vie aura été d'une plus grande discrétion. Si le prince Sadruddin a défrayé la chronique lors de son premier mariage avec le mannequin Nina Dyer en ao-t 1957, il ne fut ensuite plus question de lui dans les pages mondaines. Car l'homme, très vite, donna à sa vie une orientation sérieuse, profonde, loin des flashs des paparazzi.Entré en 1958 à l'Unesco, il devient en 1965, haut commissaire aux réfugiés, fonction qu'il occupera jusqu'en 1977.

Le prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, figure emblématique de l'action humanitaire internationale, n'est plus. Avec la sécheresse d'une dépêche d'agence, la nouvelle a parcouru, ici et là, la presse internationale, confirmée à Genève par la fondation Bellerive que le prince avait fondée comme pour perpétuer sa vision d'un monde meilleur fait d'humanitaire et de protection de l'environnement.

The Aga Khan Development Network will soon establish an Aids resource centre in East Africa.
The centre will assist staff members and communities in health, education and commercial sectors in addressing the Aids pandemic, the Aga Khan Foundation (East Africa) regional chief executive officer, Mr Arif Necky, said yesterday.

Speaking in Nairobi, Mr Necky said the network would involve rural communities, especially in the Coast Province, schools, staff and their families in the programme.

Noted international sales company Goffs Bloodstock Sales Ltd. is set to pass most of the $6,090,641 windfall received from the National Roads Authority on to its shareholders, the company announced on Wednesday.
The shareholders, who include the Aga Khan, will also receive a dividend of 7 1/2 cents per share next month as a result of Goffs?s increasing pretax profits by 182% to $8,494,842 in the year to March 31, Racing Post reports.

SAMIRA THOMASBy her privileged address off Vancouver's leafy south Granville Street, you might guess that Samira Thomas, 14, spends her holidays at camp -- someplace pricey and safe. In fact, the Grade 9 student has passed most summers since she was four in the world's most deprived -- and least safe -- places. With her Ismaili Muslim parents, Samira has 'vacationed' in Tanzania and Pakistan, helping people see life more clearly -- literally. The trips are a project of her ophthalmologist dad and optometrist mom, who work with local agencies to give free eye clinics.

Canada will convert around 2 billion dollars of debt into fresh aid for education promotion in Pakistan which would translate into around 100 million dollars for education.
This was announced by outgoing Canadian High Commissioner in Pakistan, Mrs Margaret Huber, at a reception arranged for her under the aegis of the English Speaking Union at a local hotel Monday evening.

President Bashar Assad received here Saturday Ismaelite Moslems Spiritual Leader, Prince Karim Agha Khan. Talks during the meeting dealt with the situation in the Middle Asia and with efforts that the Islamic states have to exert as to distinguish the Islam from the extremist aspects which were attributed to it. The Prince briefed President Assad on the projects which Agha Khan foundation intends to implement in Syria. Agha Khan viewed that Syria is an example to the joint living between all religions.

Verso la metà degli anni?80, alcuni esponenti di comunità islamiche delle regioni costiere del Kenya lanciarono una richiesta di assistenza per migliorare lo scarso livello di successo scolastico dei loro giovani. La Fondazione Aga Khan (in seguito denominata AKF) rispose per prima, finanziando delle ricerche che evidenziarono come il problema dell?insuccesso scolastico era da attribuirsi fondamentalmente alla mancanza di un?adeguata preparazione dei bambini per affrontare la scuola di base.

The 79th meeting of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Promotion and Development Company of Bangladesh Limited (IPDC) was held in the city recently. AFM Sarwar Kamal, Secretary, Ministry of Industries, presided over the meeting.
IPDC's Directors and alternates from the Government of Bangladesh (GOB), International Finance Corporation (IFC), Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), German Investment and Development Company (DEG) and Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) attended the meeting.

His Highness the Aga Khan, founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), today visited Muzaffarabad, capital of Azad Jammu, and Kashmir and Balakot, North West Frontier Province, areas severely affected by the 8 October earthquake.

The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) has purchased 100 per cent of the shares in Maputo's best known hotel, the Polana.
Previously the hotel was 55 percent owned by a foreign consortium headed by the South African Kairos Hotels group, and 45 per cent by Mozambican companies - the national airline, LAM, the private financial investment company, SOCIEF, and the state- owned National Tourism Company, ENT.

The new owners signed the deeds of purchase in Maputo on Wednesday.

The hotel helps fill a shortage of guest accommodation in the city The Afghan capital, Kabul, has a new, international standard five-star hotel, the first to be built since the fall of the Taleban four years ago. President Hamid Karzai opened the Serena hotel, which has been built around the remains of another hotel badly damaged by fighting.
It is hoped that it will help attract more business people to invest in the poverty-stricken country and in the longer term attract wealthy tourists.

His Highness the Aga Khan today launched a landmark cultural centre here marking a milestone in the 1300 year history of the Ismaili Muslim community in Central Asia.
The Ismaili Centre, Dushanbe, when completed, will be comparable in scope and standing to existing major centres in London, Vancouver and Lisbon and those at advanced planning stages in Toronto and Dubai.

Recalling how Canada welcomed thousands of dispossessed Ismaili Muslims from Uganda in the 1970s, the Aga Khan expressed his gratitude yesterday by holding a foundation ceremony for a distinctive new building on Sussex Drive.

The new building, designed by world-renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, will be the Aga Khan's first official representational building in the world. It will be known as the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat.

The Aga Khan University (AKU) in collaboration with the University of Alabama (UAB) at Birmingham, USA, has been awarded a grant from the Fogarty International Centre of the United States National Institute of Health, to co-develop research training courses in Karachi and abroad for Pakistani health professionals wishing to advance their expertise in occupational and environmental health.

The meeting of the president of Kyrgyz Republic Askar Akaev with prince Karim Aga Khan IV has taken place in the State residence 'Ala - Archa'. A. Akaev has warmly greeted the honored guest and has assured that Kyrgyzstan attaches rather great value to close cooperation with the Aga Khan Organization on development. During the meeting questions of the further development of cooperation of Kyrgyzstan with the Organization have been discussed. A.

[Presenter] As we have reported, Prince [Karim] Aga Khan IV is currently paying an official visit to Bishkek. Today he met Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev. Following that meeting, he held another one at the Kyrgyz parliament's Legislative Assembly [upper house]. Our correspondent, Inga Sikorskaya, reports.