Uhuru Kenyatta recently became the third African leader to sign up to the Giants Club, an initiative supported by The Independent that gathers heads of state, business leaders and elephant experts to pledge to secure a future for Africa's large mammals.
The pledge to secure or seal the border is a rallying cry, at times making the region resemble a political piñata rather than a place with an estimated fifteen million people who live along the crooked line.
Lenders usually require businesses to insure any property they pledge to secure loans.
SCAF, the Supreme Council of Armed Forces, has taken executive control of Egypt and pledged to secure a peaceful transition to democracy.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet SCAF, the Supreme Council of Armed Forces, has taken executive control of Egypt and pledged to secure a peaceful transition to democracy.
The two leaders also pledged to secure a deal cutting emissions from commercial air planes through the International Civil Aviation Organisation, which is based in Montreal.
China, Brazil and South Africa have joined India in rejecting a key OECD study stating that rich countries have already mobilised nearly two-thirds of the $100bn£67bnbn) pledged to secure a new climate deal.
On Tuesday, the Palestinian president and Israeli prime minister pledged to secure a peace treaty by the end of 2008, but the Maryland conference did nothing to dispel doubts about their ability to reach agreement on the tough core issues of the conflict in the face of powerful domestic opposition.
But his administration had already spent years orchestrating mass deportations, deepening the links between immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system, and pledging to secure an already-militarized border — thus lending credence to right-wing sentiment that immigrants are criminals or hostile foreign agents.
Industrial nations have pledged to secure $100 billion a year by 2020 in public and private financing to help poor countries cope with climate change, but have been vague about what they plan to do before then.
