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¤ In Brief: Lake Chad's water woes
FITINÉ Monday, June 14, 2010 (IRIN) - Finding clean water is as difficult for people living on the islands in Lake Chad as it is for their neighbours along the shores. "Since 1963, the surface area of Lake Chad has decreased from approximately 25,000 sq km to 1,350 sq km," according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). | ¤ AFRICA: Go-ahead for IDP convention
NAIROBI Friday, June 11, 2010 (IRIN) - African Union members have adopted plans to implement the Kampala convention on the protection of internally displaced people, including increasing their contributions to refugee and IDP funding and accelerating the convention’s ratification, signature and domestication, the AU said. | ¤ In Brief: What will we eat when climate change strikes?
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, June 09, 2010 (IRIN) - Diversify food sources; go local, suggests renowned agriculturalist and development expert Hans Herren in the latest news publication by the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN). | ¤ In Brief: Starved for Attention
JOHANNESBURG Friday, June 04, 2010 (IRIN) - Don't wait for severely malnourished children to turn up at therapeutic feeding centres in a developing country, rather prevent this by providing them with nutritious food aid, international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) told donors and governments this week. | ¤ CHAD: X-raying the desert for water
GOZ BEIDA Thursday, June 03, 2010 (IRIN) - Geologists are using technology known as magnetic resonance sounding (MRS) to take "x-rays" of the ground to find new water sources in eastern Chad, where more than 300,000 refugees from neighbouring countries have arrived in recent years. | ¤ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: LRA still blocking access to thousands of IDPs
NAIROBI Thursday, May 27, 2010 (IRIN) - Thousands of people displaced from their homes in the Central African Republic (CAR) cannot be reached by aid workers because of insecurity caused by the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and other armed militias, a UN official said. | ¤ CHAD-CAR: Aid agencies prepare for MINURCAT exit
DAKAR Thursday, May 27, 2010 (IRIN) - Humanitarian officials will look to the Chad government to protect civilians and secure aid operations after the UN Security Council decided on 25 May to withdraw some 3,000 UN peacekeepers from the country's volatile east. | ¤ AFRICA: Local rice is nice
ADDIS ABABA Friday, May 21, 2010 (IRIN) - "Local is best" for Africa, said a leading rice research centre as it announced on 21 May that it would focus on improving an indigenous species more than 3,500 years old to feed the continent's rice consumers. | ¤ WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA: Ending the silence on violence in schools
DAKAR Thursday, May 20, 2010 (IRIN) - Bullying, sexual violence and corporal punishment are still rife in West and Central African schools, according to an 18 May report which calls on governments to harmonize laws on child protection and education, and impose stricter standards on schools to reduce violence. | ¤ AFRICA: Ten countries desperately seeking doctors
NAIROBI Wednesday, May 19, 2010 (IRIN) - Shortages of medical staff have been identified as one of the major impediments to achieving the health-related UN Millennium Development Goals. For example, one of the poorest countries in the world, Mozambique, has just 548 doctors for a population of more than 22 million, according to the UN World Health Organization. |
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