Burkina Faso
FOOD: Power to the people!
May 16, 2012
JOHANNESBURG 15 May 2012 (IRIN) – The UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report today, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all. …
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Tags: SAHEL: Aid efforts under strain as refugees numbers mount
May 4, 2012
DAKAR/OUAGADOUGOU 04 May 2012 (IRIN) – Sahelian governments and local and international aid groups are struggling to cope with both the continual arrivals of people fleeing the regions of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal in northern Mali, and the mounting number of hungry people across th…
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Farmers and forecasts
April 2, 2012
BINGERVILLE/DAKAR 02 April 2012 (IRIN) – Unpredictable rainfall in parts of Côte d’Ivoire cost some farmers over half of their harvest in 2011 producers told IRIN, but, armed with more knowledge about how to get weather reports and interpret them, they might still have been abl…
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SAHEL: Malian refugees risk being “forgotten”
March 28, 2012
DAKAR 28 March 2012 (IRIN) – Mali is facing its “worst humanitarian crisis for 20 years”, brought on by a combination of food insecurity affecting around three million, some 93,500 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Mali, whose whereabouts and status is uncertain,…
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WEST AFRICA: Giant anti-polio drive threatened by insecurity
March 24, 2012
DAKAR 23 March 2012 (IRIN) – Health volunteers, aid agency and health authority staff are trying to immunize 111.1 million children under five across 20 countries in West and Central Africa against polio. The four-day campaign started today, but instability in some of the target c…
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Analysis: Burkina Faso’s uneasy peace
March 12, 2012
OUAGADOUGOU 12 March 2012 (IRIN) – One year on from the start of several months of popular revolts in Burkina Faso, the situation has settled down, but the calm is fragile, say observers….
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HEALTH: Malaria stunts foetal growth
March 6, 2012
BANGKOK 06 March 2012 (IRIN) – Malaria infection during the earliest months of pregnancy stunts foetal growth even when the mothers do not have any malarial symptoms, according to a large-scale study conducted along the Thai-Burmese border….
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BURKINA FASO: Government wants more aid for Malian refugees
March 1, 2012
OUAGADOUGOU 29 February 2012 (IRIN) – With nearly 20,000 Malian refugees now in Burkina Faso, according to Burkina Minister of Communications Alain Traore, and up to 800 more crossing the border each day, the government says it urgently needs more help….
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MALI: Refugee, IDP numbers rise as fighting continues in north
February 25, 2012
DAKAR 24 February 2012 (IRIN) – Refugee numbers are rising daily in countries bordering Mali as fighting rages between the Malian army and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), which is fighting for greater autonomy for the Tuareg….
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BURKINA FASO-MALI: Thousands of Touaregs flee into Burkina Faso
February 10, 2012
OUAGADOUGOU 10 February 2012 (IRIN) – At least 8,000 Touaregs fleeing fighting in neighbouring Mali have found refuge in Burkina Faso, having arrived “in a dire humanitarian condition”, the government said yesterday….
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