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Analysis: Scrapping user fees "just the first step"
24 September 2009
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Donor-backed user fees for health services were supposed to decentralise primary healthcare and provide revenue for essential drugs: instead, advocacy groups charge, they have ended up killing the poor in the developing world.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86281/Analysis-Scrapping-user-fees-just-the-first-step
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WEST AFRICA: Urban surge feeds flooding
14 September 2009
(IRIN
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Mamadou Ndiaye wades across his flooded house as his children bail out dirty water bucket by bucket. He and his family are among many thousands of Senegalese whose homes have been under water for days.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86143/WEST-AFRICA-Urban-surge-feeds-flooding
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WEST AFRICA: "Serious trouble" looms if rains continue
11 September 2009
(IRIN
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Relentless rain in parts of West Africa has worsened flooding, leading governments and aid agencies to step up emergency response efforts.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86121/WEST-AFRICA-Serious-trouble-looms-if-rains-continue
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WEST AFRICA: Synopsis of flood damage
11 September 2009
(IRIN
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The 2009 rainy season in West Africa, with several weeks to go, has caused extensive flooding, affecting hundreds of thousands of people and killing 160, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Here is a synopsis of flood impact and responses in several West African countries.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86122/WEST-AFRICA-Synopsis-of-flood-damage
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AFRICA: Condoms - the hole truth
10 September 2009
(IRIN
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Having a condom split during sex is not much fun, but the idea that millions of condoms may be faulty before they are opened is the stuff nightmares are made of.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86096/AFRICA-Condoms-the-hole-truth
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AFRICA: Trying to work from the same weather page
8 September 2009
(IRIN
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Climate scientists describe Africa as an information "black hole". The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) notes that there are only 744 weather stations, but only a quarter of them are of international standard; at least 3,000, evenly spaced across the continent, are needed, with another 1,000 in densely populated areas; ideally, Africa should have at least 10,000 stations.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86055/AFRICA-Trying-to-work-from-the-same-weather-page
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HEALTH: Climate change - burden or opportunity?
8 September 2009
(IRIN
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Despite an international resolution to avoid environmental health hazards, the medical community - already overburdened with health challenges - has remained largely outside the climate change dialogue, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) climate change specialist.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86062/HEALTH-Climate-change-burden-or-opportunity
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WEST AFRICA: Seasonal rains, seasonal misery
31 August 2009
(IRIN
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Across West Africa residents are crossing streets in canoes, carrying babies overhead in suitcases and navigating waist-high water to find shelter as seasonal rains bring severe flooding throughout the region.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85942/WEST-AFRICA-Seasonal-rains-seasonal-misery
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AFRICA: Trees "vital for food security"
28 August 2009
(IRIN
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Countries tackling food insecurity and climate change adaptation can greatly benefit from agroforestry - integrating fleshy plants and trees into their farming systems, environmental specialists say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85898/AFRICA-Trees-vital-for-food-security
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GUINEA: "Yesterday was better than today"
24 August 2009
(IRIN
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A young girl hangs on Lamine's* shoulder, whispers to him and lingers until he gently tells her to go back to playing with her friends. "You see that?" he says, throwing up his hands. "My daughter's hungry and I don't even have 1,000 Guinean francs (20 US cents) to give her." Guineans lived with economic hardship during the previous regime, but some say that now added to it are fear of the junta that took power eight months ago and an atmosphere of utter uncertainty.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85834/GUINEA-Yesterday-was-better-than-today
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