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Preparing for floods in West Africa
14 June 2013
(IRIN
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West African and Sahel countries are setting up measures to minimize flood damage as the annual rainy season approaches. The African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) in a seasonal weather outlook says near-average or above-average rainfall is likely over the western Sahel, which stretches across Mauritania, Senegal and western and central Niger.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98221/Preparing-for-floods-in-West-Africa
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Digital jobs offer skills, promise to Africa's unemployed youth
28 May 2013
(IRIN
),
Although Africa’s economy has expanded rapidly in recent years, it has not kept pace with the growth of its youth population or their need for jobs.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98114/Digital-jobs-offer-skills-promise-to-Africa-s-unemployed-youth
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The changing face of land disputes in Liberia
20 May 2013
(IRIN
),
The Liberia Land Commission, which was set up in 2009 to help settle land disputes between returning refugees and their neighbours, is making significant headway, say land experts, but non-conflict related land disputes are increasing, most of them as a result of weak land laws.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98070/The-changing-face-of-land-disputes-in-Liberia
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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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Bringing HIV/AIDS out into the open in Liberia
22 January 2013
(IRIN
),
Stigma, discrimination and difficulty in reaching health clinics has led over half of new HIV cases in Liberia to go untreated, says the National AIDS Control Programme of Liberia, which calls the situation “alarming”.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97307/Bringing-HIV-AIDS-out-into-the-open-in-Liberia
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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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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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LIBERIA: Call for tougher drug laws
7 December 2012
(IRIN
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Liberia's Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been trying to crack down on local drug dealers since the civil war ended but there are significant challenges due to weak laws and logistical problems.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96987/LIBERIA-Call-for-tougher-drug-laws
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BANGLADESH-KENYA: Our Lives - A survivors' guide to hard times
6 December 2012
(IRIN
),
Price Watch (Our lives)
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/96695/98/BANGLADESH-KENYA-Our-Lives-A-survivors-guide-to-hard-times
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Lorpu Kah – Single mum, Liberia
6 December 2012
(IRIN
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Lorpu Kah is a single mother to three sons living in Harper, Maryland County, a suburb of the capital Monrovia.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/96862/Lorpu-Kah-Single-mum-Liberia
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John Tamba – Teacher, Liberia
6 December 2012
(IRIN
),
John Tamba teaches mathematics at an elementary school in Paynesville, a Monrovia suburb. He supports four children and his wife with his salary and they live in a small two-room house.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/96863/John-Tamba-Teacher-Liberia
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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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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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GHANA-LIBERIA: Limbo for ex-Liberian refugees
3 October 2012
(IRIN
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Nathan Pajibo, like thousands of his fellow Liberians, has been living in Buduburam refugee camp near the Ghanaian capital Accra for over two decades after fleeing the civil war in 1990. In June 2012 he lost his refugee status alongside 11,000 Liberians across the region and the camp will soon be handed over to the district assembly, but lingering fear prevents Pajibo from returning.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96440/GHANA-LIBERIA-Limbo-for-ex-Liberian-refugees
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HEALTH: The "unfinished business" of lowering child mortality
13 September 2012
(IRIN
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In 1990, an estimated 12 million children around the world died under age five; by 2011, that figure had dropped to 6.9 million. The message, from a new report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), is that with greater commitment to child survival from governments and their partners, these figures can go lower still.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96300/HEALTH-The-unfinished-business-of-lowering-child-mortality
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LIBERIA: Out-of-court justice
23 August 2012
(IRIN
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"We don't get much sleep now because there are people calling night and day," says Jesco Davis, who represents the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), a local NGO partnering with the US-based Carter Center and helps Liberia's overwhelmed judiciary by resolving cases out of court and teaching citizens about their basic rights.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96156/LIBERIA-Out-of-court-justice
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SLIDESHOW: Liberian refugees’ future uncertain
24 July 2012
(IRIN
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Volatile western Côte d’Ivoire may not seem a likely place to seek refuge, but for nearly 20 years it has hosted tens of thousands of Liberian refugees who fled across the border during civil wars (1989-96 and 1999-2003) in their country.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95936/SLIDESHOW-Liberian-refugees-future-uncertain
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COTE D'IVOIRE-LIBERIA: “There is no way I could go back”
19 July 2012
(IRIN
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Like most of his fellow refugees in Grand Gedeh county in the far east of Liberia, “Da Tatouwa” is from the Guéré ethnic group, and fear of an "anti-Guéré genocide" made him flee his home town of Bloléquin in the far west of Côte d'Ivoire in March 2011, as forces loyal to incoming President Alassane Ouattara overran the region. "What we are still waiting for is for Ouattara to offer his own mea culpa [admission that it is his fault], to account for what his allies did to us… Then we might think about going back."
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95901/COTE-D-IVOIRE-LIBERIA-There-is-no-way-I-could-go-back
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SECURITY: Ammunition - the next round in arms trade control
9 July 2012
(IRIN
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For a couple of hundred dollars or less an arms dealer can illegally source a blank end user certificate with the required signatures and stamps - needed to transfer weapons across international borders - and “if no one checks its authenticity (often the case) he can ship his wares to the world’s hotspots with minimal risk, for maximum profit,” a report by the Small Arms Survey (SAS) said in 2008.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95831/SECURITY-Ammunition-the-next-round-in-arms-trade-control
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WEST AFRICA: Husbands worse threat to women than gunmen
3 July 2012
(IRIN
),
In conflict-hit West African countries, husbands often pose a greater threat to women’s lives than an armed assailant, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a recent report, but even in more stable countries, violence against women is hard to eradicate.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95788/WEST-AFRICA-Husbands-worse-threat-to-women-than-gunmen
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