DAKAR, 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.
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 IRIN  15/01/2010Unconventional health workers and new technologies will be a vital part of the ongoing effort to “virtually eliminate” mother-to-child transmission of HIV, says Michél Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS.
IRIN 13/01/2010CAIRO, 13 January 2010 (IRIN) – A 6 January drive-by shooting on a Coptic Christian congregation leaving midnight mass on their Christmas Eve in Nagaa Hammadi, southern Egypt, has focused attention on decades-old tensions between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
IRIN 21/10/2009DAKAR, 21 October 2009 (IRIN) – Yellow fever is a ticking time bomb, while measles has been eliminated three years ahead of schedule in parts of Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. These are among the highlights of the most recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, State of the World’s Vaccines [...] IRIN 21/10/2009BAMAKO, 21 October 2009 (IRIN) – When a storm hits in Togo, disaster relief items must be flown in from Brindisi, Italy, but that is just too far, according to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which is formalizing the region’s first government-operated humanitarian stockpile in Mali’s capital [...] IRIN 05/10/2009DOL-DOL, 5 October 2009 (IRIN) – Traditionally, life for women in pastoralist communities in the central Kenya region of Laikipia revolves around taking care of their children, leaving the men to provide for the family. However, a prolonged drought in the area, which has resulted in significant livestock deaths, has seen these roles [...] AfricaVision Online 24/09/200924 septembre 2009. – Le cargo Arctic Sea et le patrouilleur russe Ladny auraient déjà quitté les îles Canaries, a annoncé jeudi par téléphone un responsable de l’administration portuaire de Las Palmas (Espagne). IRIN 24/09/2009DAKAR, 24 September 2009 (IRIN) – Lawyers and rights activists are calling on the African Union’s human rights body to move its headquarters out of The Gambia after President Yahya Jammeh on national television threatened human rights defenders and said he would kill anyone collaborating with them.
Wikinews 21/09/2009The army of southern Sudan says more than 100 people were killed when a local tribe attacked a rival group in the southern state of Jonglei.
International Crisis Group 18/09/2009Chad is just the latest impoverished nation to discover that politics can turn the blessing of oil into a curse. Oil prices have hit record highs in recent years. Yet the living standards of the majority of the population have not risen to match the vast profits being made by the government. [...] |
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