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OUAGADOUGOU, 26 July 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.
DAKAR, 27 July 2010 (IRIN) - As the humanitarian “system” becomes more complex, with new actors and overlapping mandates, different definitions of humanitarian aid, and ever-more ambitious goals, humanitarian aid watchdog Development Initiatives outlines some of the needs, responses and funding trends over the past decade in its 2010 Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report.
DAKAR, 28 July 2010 (IRIN) - More than two million Guineans do not have enough to eat, basic health services are a shambles and the country is in a fragile transition from decades of military rule, yet most aid donors do not see Guinea as an "emergency".
ABIDJAN, 30 July 2010 (IRIN) - Ivorian health officials are vaccinating people against yellow fever in Abidjan, the commercial capital, and two other major cities, after the disease killed two people and struck nine others in recent weeks.