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 IRIN  03/10/2008In July 2008, Kapoeta became the first town in Southern Sudan where all exit routes were fully cleared of mines. Demining work started in June 2005 and covered 283,000 sqkm. “Landmines [will] be a problem for Southern Sudan for many years to come,” David Gressly, the regional coordinator for [...] IRIN 03/10/2008Fighting between insurgents and Somali government forces backed by Ethiopian troops and AU peacekeepers has sparked another exodus of civilians from Mogadishu, a local human rights group said. “From 20 September, our figures show that 18,500 people have fled their homes due to the fighting and shelling,” Ali Sheikh [...] IRIN 26/09/2008Local government officials say cholera outbreaks across Katsina, Zamfara, Bauchi and Kano states in northern Nigeria have killed 97 people in the past two weeks, making it the worst outbreak in the north for several years, according to an official from National Primary Healthcare Agency (NPHA) in Abuja. More [...] IRIN 26/09/2008Alleged terrorist attacks on 14 September in Tourine in the northeast killed 11 soldiers and their civilian guide, confirmed Mauritania’s newly-installed defence ministry on 20 September. Analysts say the economy can ill-afford this additional blow in the face of donor sanction threats. The European Union (EU), US government and World [...] IRIN 26/09/2008With cervical cancer cases rising across Sub-Saharan Africa, and 80 percent of women diagnosed too late to stop the cancer’s deadly spread, the World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending screening and vaccination programmes throughout the region. “WHO is going to strongly advocate with donors and decision-makers to list cervical [...] IRIN 26/09/2008Nine West African countries shot up while nine others sank lower in the 2008 Transparency International (TI) ranking of perceptions of corruption in 180 countries. Of the 180 countries surveyed, eight West African countries placed in the bottom 20: Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, [...] IRIN 26/09/2008Guinea fell five spots in the 2008 ranking of perceptions of corruption released by the watchdog non-profit Transparency International (TI). Officials say Guinea’s deteriorating reputation for corruption can threaten city services, choke economic growth and increase drug trafficking. Guinea’s TI representative, Mamadou Taran Diallo, told IRIN Guinea is paralysed [...] IRIN 26/09/2008Thousands of young girls annually prepare for their initiation into a women’s secret association, Sande Society, which operates mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. As part of their initiation, young women take a vow of secrecy after weeks of training in the forest, promising not to not tell uninitiated [...] IRIN 26/09/2008For 17 years, the Sweden-based non-profit Eden Foundation has been working with hundreds of farmers in one of Niger’s most arid zones to disprove the reigning logic that the desert is a tough place to nurture plant- and human- life through its research and free seed distribution. Coordinator Josef Garvi [...] IRIN 26/09/2008Poor rains and rising rice prices have contributed to increasing malnutrition to alarming levels in at least three regions of Senegal. Following a rapid assessment in July 2008 by the UN and the Ministry of Health, the government has confirmed a malnutrition crisis in three of the five surveyed regions, [...] |
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