NOUAKCHOTT, 29 January 2010 (IRIN) – A recent fatwa banning female genital mutilation/cutting in Mauritania will help reduce the practice only if religious leaders take the message to the people, scholars and anti-FGM/C activists say.
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 IRIN  28/01/2010DAKAR, 28 January 2010 (IRIN) – Governments, aid agencies and donors must join forces now to ensure that severe food insecurity in the Sahel does not lead to famine, says the European Commission humanitarian aid department (ECHO). Continue reading Act now to stem Sahel food crisis, donor says IRIN 28/01/2010DAKAR, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – Health experts hope the release of data showing the success of rotavirus vaccine will help compel policymakers to ensure all children will be immunized. Continue reading Rotavirus data must propel immunization – experts AfricaVision Online 27/01/2010A video tells the shocking end of a group of immigrants dismissed from Italy and brought back by force in the desert from the Libyan authorities. The rotting corpses lay abandoned in the sand, these people have not had the strength to walk (without stocks of water) for 80 miles that separated them from the nearest human settlement. Continue reading Shocking end of immigrants dismissed from Italy IRIN 27/01/2010DAKAR, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – The agro-pastoral areas of Diffa and Zinder in southern Niger are likely to see a rise in food shortages and malnutrition in the coming months, according to an assessment by the US-funded Famine Early Warning System. http://www.fews.net/niger/ Continue reading High food insecurity, malnutrition, predicted in Niger IRIN 27/01/2010KANO, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – Relief agencies are struggling to help the some 18,000 displaced people in 17 makeshift camps in and around the central Nigerian city of Jos. IRIN 27/01/2010MAN, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – In Cote d’Ivoire land disputes fuelled by the 2002 rebellion and subsequent fighting have yet to be resolved legislatively, leaving communities to seek their own solutions. IRIN 26/01/2010CAIRO, 26 January 2010 (IRIN) – The Egyptian government’s decision to cull all of the country’s 300,000 pigs in May 2009 is increasingly being viewed by experts and officials as a gross mistake as piles of organic waste the pigs once ate accumulate in Cairo’s streets, posing serious health hazards. Continue reading Pig-cull induced street rubbish a national scandal AfricaVision Online 26/01/2010The US government has suspended a five-year plan to fund Kenya’s education programs following fraud allegation in the east African state. Continue reading US government has suspended Kenya’s education aid AfricaVision Online 25/01/2010CAIRO, 25 January 2010 (IRIN) – Days after flash floods killed several people and forced hundreds of families out of their damaged homes in the Sinai Peninsula, government assistance is yet to arrive, survivors say. Continue reading Displaced flood victims still waiting for aid |
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