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African migrants pay high prices to send money home
27 February 2013
(IRIN
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New data from the World Bank has revealed that African migrants pay more to send money home to their families than any other migrant group in the world.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97557/African-migrants-pay-high-prices-to-send-money-home
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In Brief: Staples, not export crops, key to tackling Africa’s poverty – report
18 January 2013
(IRIN
),
Africa could reduce its poverty levels faster by focusing more on the production of staples rather than export crops, according to a study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97278/In-Brief-Staples-not-export-crops-key-to-tackling-Africa-s-poverty-report
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TOGO: Focus on hepatitis
13 December 2012
(IRIN
),
The spread of viral hepatitis in Togo, where there is little awareness of the disease and most people discover by chance that they are infected, is causing concern, says the Save Africa from Hepatitis Society (ASADH), which is working with the Health Ministry to combat the disease.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97042/TOGO-Focus-on-hepatitis
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WEST AFRICA: Defining piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
10 December 2012
(IRIN
),
In July last year President Boni Yayi of Benin sent a worried letter to the UN secretary-general. His country was being threatened by the activities of pirates, who were scaring shipping away from the ports on which his country's revenues depend. He wanted international help of the kind which had been deployed against piracy off the coast of Somalia.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97004/WEST-AFRICA-Defining-piracy-in-the-Gulf-of-Guinea
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IDPs: African IDP Convention comes into force
6 December 2012
(IRIN
),
The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 2009, also known as the Kampala Convention, came into force on 6 December; it is the world’s first legally binding instrument to cater specifically to people displaced within their own countries.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96984/IDPs-African-IDP-Convention-comes-into-force
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HEALTH: Breaking out of the cold chain
20 November 2012
(IRIN
),
Health workers currently immunizing thousands of children and young adults against Meningitis A in Benin are currently doing so without having to spend days preparing ice packs and sourcing generators and fridges to load on trucks because the vaccine has now won approval for being kept at up to 40 degrees Celsius for as long as four days.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96827/HEALTH-Breaking-out-of-the-cold-chain
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TOGO: Simmering discontent ahead of polls
24 October 2012
(IRIN
),
A recent wave of protests by Togolese opposition groups and a heavy-handed clampdown by security forces have set the scene for a tense struggle for reforms in a country that has been ruled for 45 years by a father and his son.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96625/TOGO-Simmering-discontent-ahead-of-polls
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NIGER: Agencies scramble to repair schools after floods
26 September 2012
(IRIN
),
The government of Niger and aid agencies are scrambling to clean and repair thousands of schools that were damaged in the flooding from rains in July and August, which displaced over 500,000 people and killed over 80, in an effort to return children to school as soon as possible.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96395/NIGER-Agencies-scramble-to-repair-schools-after-floods
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TOGO: Disease, death stalk cramped prisons
5 September 2012
(IRIN
),
Togo’s 12 prisons - many of them dilapidated - hold more than twice their designed capacity. The congestion, as well as inadequate food, medical care and poor hygiene have led to diseases and deaths.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96248/TOGO-Disease-death-stalk-cramped-prisons
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AFRICA: Donor fatigue forces WFP to cut refugee rations
19 June 2012
(IRIN
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has halved food rations to refugees living in camps in at least four African countries citing a funding shortfall.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95597/AFRICA-Donor-fatigue-forces-WFP-to-cut-refugee-rations
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TOGO: Relieving disabled children from crippling customs
19 June 2012
(IRIN
),
Out of fear, shame and strong traditional beliefs, disabled children in Togo are often ridiculed, hidden indoors for years and neglected, cutting them off from normal life and worsening their plight.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95683/TOGO-Relieving-disabled-children-from-crippling-customs
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REFUGEES: Moving out of the shadows
31 May 2012
(IRIN
),
When night falls in the Dadaab refugee complex in eastern Kenya, nearly half a million refugees are plunged into darkness. The lack of light robs schoolchildren of the possibility of studying and provides perfect cover for thieves and rapists.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95558/REFUGEES-Moving-out-of-the-shadows
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FOOD: Power to the people!
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.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95459/FOOD-Power-to-the-people
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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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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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HEALTH: Yaws treatment study prompts WHO review
11 January 2012
(IRIN
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Findings that a one-time oral treatment to cure yaws, a neglected tropical disease, is as effective as the currently recommended penicillin injection have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a meeting on how the disease may be wiped out.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94621/HEALTH-Yaws-treatment-study-prompts-WHO-review
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WEST AFRICA: Call for more coordinated approach to child protection
4 January 2012
(IRIN
),
A new report on child migration in West Africa says thousands of children are being sold, exchanged or transported out of their communities each year in violation of internationally-recognized rights of the child, and calls on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to persuade governments to better protect these children.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94582/WEST-AFRICA-Call-for-more-coordinated-approach-to-child-protection
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BENIN-TOGO: Joining forces to fight piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
29 November 2011
(IRIN
),
West African states are pledging to work together to fight the piracy spreading across the Gulf of Guinea, where it is damaging local economies and starting to impact on the region’s trade, according to the United Nations.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94333/BENIN-TOGO-Joining-forces-to-fight-piracy-in-the-Gulf-of-Guinea
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AFRICA: Sub-Saharan sanitation targets “two centuries away”
18 November 2011
(IRIN
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It will take two centuries for sub-Saharan Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, according to NGO WaterAid, which calls on national leaders to commit 3.5 percent of their annual budget to the sector.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94241/AFRICA-Sub-Saharan-sanitation-targets-two-centuries-away
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FOOD: Rumpus over GM food aid
18 October 2011
(IRIN
),
Genetically modified (GM) food aid bound for Africa has long been a bone of contention among governments, scientists, activists, consumers and aid workers.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93991/FOOD-Rumpus-over-GM-food-aid
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