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In Brief: Staples, not export crops, key to tackling Africa’s poverty – report
18 January 2013
(IRIN
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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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Côte d’Ivoire's cotton sector on the up
24 December 2012
(IRIN
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Côte d’Ivoire's cotton industry is regaining momentum after being nearly decimated by a decade of political chaos and conflict. Farmers in the cotton-growing northern regions, which came under insurgent rule, are hopeful of returning to economic stability.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97117/Côte-d-Ivoire-s-cotton-sector-on-the-up
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Analysis: Côte d'Ivoire needs top-down reconciliation
20 December 2012
(IRIN
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Responsibility for reconciling Côte d'Ivoire’s divided society after years of conflict, rebellion and instability rests largely with its leaders, but long-running political rivalries and mutual suspicion are raising tensions and blocking efforts to heal rifts, say analysts.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97094/Analysis-Côte-d-Ivoire-needs-top-down-reconciliation
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MALI: Humanitarian impact of armed intervention
18 December 2012
(IRIN
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Over 700,000 people could be displaced if military intervention goes ahead next year in northern Mali, according to preliminary estimates by humanitarian agencies, who stress that the numbers are just approximations.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97076/MALI-Humanitarian-impact-of-armed-intervention
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WEST AFRICA: Defining piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
10 December 2012
(IRIN
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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
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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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COTE D'IVOIRE: Marital equality law sparks controversy
4 December 2012
(IRIN
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The adoption by Côte d'Ivoire’s parliament of a law on equality between legally married couples has sparked anger, especially among religious people. For them, this law will create more problems in the home than it will solve.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96960/COTE-D-IVOIRE-Marital-equality-law-sparks-controversy
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COTE D'IVOIRE: Government returns to the north
30 November 2012
(IRIN
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After almost a decade of rebel rule, northern Côte d'Ivoire is coming to terms with a new authority as the government of President Alassane Ouattara, who assumed power some 18 months ago, establishes its presence in a region which effectively split from the rest of the country.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96939/COTE-D-IVOIRE-Government-returns-to-the-north
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HEALTH: Breaking out of the cold chain
20 November 2012
(IRIN
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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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HIV/AIDS: Despite progress, HIV efforts fall short
20 November 2012
(IRIN
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Record progress in reducing the number of new HIV infections and lowering the numbers of people dying from AIDS-related causes indicate that the end of AIDS is "entirely feasible". But the epidemic is not over in any part of the world, and is gaining pace in some.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96830/HIV-AIDS-Despite-progress-HIV-efforts-fall-short
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