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¤ Africa: In a Meningitis Hotbed, a New Vaccine at a Price Governments Can Afford
 In the worst times of Africa’s “meningitis belt,” the disease has killed more than 25,000 people and left thousands more deaf or retarded. | ¤ 85 Euros and a Bicycle
A priest from Burkina Faso inspired a Breton woman to set up an NGO to aid the girls of his village. | ¤ Guinea's Ruler Surfaces
Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, leader of Guinea's junta who has been getting medical treatment in Morocco, travels to Burkina Faso for continued care | ¤ In Burkina Faso, Rebellion Stirs
 In “Delwende” the African filmmaker S. Pierre Yameogo tackles social injustice in present-day Burkina Faso with grace, economy and exquisitely controlled anger. | ¤ Warning: Habits May Be Good for You
 Social scientists have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through relentless advertising. | ¤ South Africa Snubs U.S. Effort to Condemn Mugabe
 South Africa sent a low-level representative to a discussion on Zimbabwe led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. | ¤ Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger
 Global food prices are spiraling out of reach, sowing discontent and putting pressure on fragile governments. | ¤ Libya and Vietnam to Sit on Security Council
Libya and Vietnam, countries once shunned by West, are elected overwhelmingly to two-year terms on UN Security Council; General Assembly also selects Burkina Faso, Costa Rica and Croatia to powerful panel through secret balloting; photo | ¤ Ivory Coast Leader Signs Accord With Rebels
 The agreement was intended to end a political impasse that has divided and hobbled the country economically. | ¤ How Did Niger Become the Crisis of the Day?
Famine is whittling away populations across the region. So how did Niger become the crisis of the day? |
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¤ IN-DEPTH: Food and nutrition crisis in Niger and the Western Sahel
DAKAR Tuesday, August 31, 2010 (IRIN) - The West African Sahel is facing one of the worst food and nutrition crises in recent years. | ¤ SAHEL: Peanut pastes and milk powders to save children
DAKAR Friday, August 20, 2010 (IRIN) - Aid agencies in Niger and Chad have begun giving tens of thousands of malnourished children a product called Plumpy’doz to save them from sliding into often-fatal severe malnutrition. | ¤ AFRICA: Adaptation strategy hit parade
JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 09, 2010 (IRIN) - Crops that mature faster and are tolerant of more frequent and intense droughts top the list of how most countries adapt their food production to climate change, says a new paper. | ¤ Analysis: HIV generics under threat from tighter patenting rules
VIENNA Monday, August 02, 2010 (IRIN) - Most of the estimated 5.2 million people worldwide on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment are taking generic versions manufactured primarily in India, but tighter global intellectual property rights and trade rules could shut down "the pharmacy of the developing world". | ¤ Analysis: Unconditional money
JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 02, 2010 (IRIN) - A World Bank study that put money in the hands of girls and their parents in Malawi's poor southern region has caused ripples across the debate on cash transfers in academic and aid communities. | ¤ WEST AFRICA: Hail storms, record rains
DAKAR Monday, August 02, 2010 (IRIN) - The 2010 rainy season in West Africa has opened with hail storms in Guinea and the heaviest rain in 50 years in northern Chad. Floods have killed at least 80 people and destroyed bridges, homes, septic tanks, livestock, crops and food stocks; dams have broken, and wells and latrines have been submerged. | ¤ AFRICA: It's how you spend the money that saves lives
KAMPALA/JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, July 28, 2010 (IRIN) - Members of the African Union (AU) reaffirmed at the end of their meeting on 27 July in Kampala, Uganda, that they would strive to spend 15 percent of their national budgets on health, but at the end of the day it is about how "effectively and efficiently" you spend the money, not about how much. | ¤ AFRICA: Political will can solve malnutrition
KAMPALA Monday, July 26, 2010 (IRIN) - "Children don't vote," said Dr Robert Mwadime, of Uganda Action for Nutrition, at a session on the subject before the three-day African Union (AU) meeting opened in Kampala, Uganda. This means that political leaders in Africa often pay scant attention to the millions of children who die every year of malnutrition-related causes. Most of the audience nodded in agreement; many clapped. | ¤ BURKINA FASO: Boost for garden drip irrigation
OUAGADOUGOU Monday, July 26, 2010 (IRIN) - It is raining in Burkina Faso - flooding in some areas - but aid workers and rural families are preparing for the dry season, when water shortages tend to kill off home gardens. | ¤ How To: Protect your livelihood from wild animals
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 22, 2010 (IRIN) - People and wildlife have never been in greater competition for limited resources as human populations invade shrinking natural habitats in a fight for living space, food and water. In this vignette of a planet-wide battle, IRIN looks at how to keep elephants away from your crops and raiding monkeys out of your food stores. |
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