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MALI: People trapped, aid stalled, refugees waiting
11 April 2012
(IRIN
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One week after the regions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu in northern Mali were captured by rebel and Islamist groups, many Malians are trapped and have limited access to food and other basic necessities, while aid operations remain largely suspended.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95274/MALI-People-trapped-aid-stalled-refugees-waiting
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Farmers and forecasts
2 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 able to boost their output, say agricultural specialists.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95214/CLIMATE-CHANGE-Farmers-and-forecasts
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MAURITANIA: “Nothing left but dust and sand”
29 March 2012
(IRIN
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Hunger has come again to the Sahel. “Since yesterday I have only drunk water,” said Houley Dia, 60, a widow who lives in Houdallah, a village of the Fula ethnic group in southern Mauritania on the border with Senegal. “I have lived through hard times before - no rain, animal diseases, locust swarms - but this year is worse than ever,” she told IRIN.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95198/MAURITANIA-Nothing-left-but-dust-and-sand
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SAHEL: Malian refugees risk being “forgotten”
28 March 2012
(IRIN
),
Mali is facing its “worst humanitarian crisis for 20 years” due to a combination of food insecurity affecting around three million people, and conflict-induced displacement in the north.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95183/SAHEL-Malian-refugees-risk-being-forgotten
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WEST AFRICA: Giant anti-polio drive threatened by insecurity
23 March 2012
(IRIN
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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 countries could hamper the effort.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95145/WEST-AFRICA-Giant-anti-polio-drive-threatened-by-insecurity
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MALI: Refugee, IDP numbers rise as fighting continues in north
24 February 2012
(IRIN
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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.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94944/MALI-Refugee-IDP-numbers-rise-as-fighting-continues-in-north
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SAHEL: Donors learning funding lessons - slowly
6 February 2012
(IRIN
),
This year donors are stepping up more quickly to meet Sahel’s humanitarian needs compared to 2010, when they were slow to respond. However, they are still at fault for taking a quick-fix approach rather than addressing long-term disaster prevention and resilience needs, say aid groups.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94799/SAHEL-Donors-learning-funding-lessons-slowly
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SAHEL: Displaced Malians burden food-insecure hosts
6 February 2012
(IRIN
),
Some 12,000 Malians have fled fighting in the towns of Ménaka and Anderamboucane in northern Mali and reached already food-insecure villages around Tillabéri in western Niger, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Niger’s capital, Niamey.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94803/SAHEL-Displaced-Malians-burden-food-insecure-hosts
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AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012
12 January 2012
(IRIN
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The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and encourage peace and security.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94630/AFRICA-AU-wants-peace-security-and-bigger-global-role-in-2012
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SAHEL: Act now to avoid another crisis, say aid agencies
14 December 2011
(IRIN
),
Aid agencies are warning donors to act now to avert another drought-related food crisis in the Sahel that could mean over 11 million people sink into further food insecurity, poverty or malnutrition.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94466/SAHEL-Act-now-to-avoid-another-crisis-say-aid-agencies
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