Archive for June, 2010

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The blood diamond is making a comeback

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun30 10
JOHANNESBURG - Reform of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is becoming more urgent as controversy over Zimbabwe's ...
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Short-term gains of price controls outweighed in long term, say analysts

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun30 10
NAIROBI - If a new bill seeking price controls on maize, wheat and other essential commodities is implemented, it ...
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Freedom of movement to help pastoralist lifestyles

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun30 10
NAIROBI - Pastoralists across East Africa are set to benefit as the region's national borders are relaxed amid joint ...
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How a life-long madness built Somaliland’s first teaching hospital

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun30 10
HARGEISA - Edna Adan Ismail became interested in health in the 1950s, seeing her doctor father struggle to treat ...
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Thousands displaced by Darfur clashes

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun29 10
NAIROBI - Ongoing clashes between various armed groups in western Sudan have intensified since May, displacing 725 households from ...
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Acute child malnutrition increases by 5%

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
DAKAR - Nearly 17 percent of Niger’s children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 5 percent increase over the ...
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Poor health services hamper PMTCT progress

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
MBABANE - Swaziland has made remarkable progress in reducing HIV transmission from infected mothers to their babies, but health activists ...
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Measles back with a vengeance

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
JOHANNESBURG - "Out of sight, out of mind" explains why Southern Africa has been grappling with one of the biggest ...
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Diabetes cases to double by 2030

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
DAKAR - Without a major breakthrough in preventing and treating diabetes, the number of cases in sub-Saharan Africa is projected ...
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Please manage the food better

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
JOHANNESBURG - A new global architecture to govern food security is urgently needed to reduce the number of hungry ...

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