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). 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. 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/ 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 22/01/2010KANO, 22 January 2010 (IRIN) – In Kuru Karama village, 30km from Nigeria’s central city of Jos, only four of some 3,000 residents remain; the rest have fled or been killed, said village chief Umar Baza. Every home has been destroyed.
IRIN 21/01/2010DAR ES SALAAM, 21 January 2010 (IRIN) – At least 28,000 people are dependent on emergency food and other relief supplies in the central Tanzanian regions of Dodoma and Morogoro following floods, which also damaged transport infrastructure, according to officials.
IRIN 20/01/2010OUAGADOUGOU, 20 January 2010 (IRIN) – Disappointed by the failure of the Copenhagen talks to adequately help poor countries adapt to climate change, the Burkina Faso government and farmers are working to adjust farming techniques to changing weather patterns.
IRIN 20/01/2010NAIROBI, 20 January 2010 (IRIN) – At least 30 districts in central and eastern Kenya have reported cases of armyworm and bollworm infestation, raising concerns over damage to crops in affected areas after a prolonged drought.
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