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 IRIN  17/06/2010HARGESIA – Children with disabilities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland are a forgotten lot, often not factored into the country’s education, livelihood and health policies, child rights activists said on 16 June, during a ceremony marking the Day of the African Child. Continue reading Disabled children in Somaliland must come first IRIN 17/06/2010N’DJAMENA – For decades, the government in Chad saw the environment as “the white man’s problem” said Minister of Environment, Hassan Térap. “For so long, it was a problem for rich countries, but now our land has been denuded, cattle are dying water is shrinking, it is our problem too,” the minister told IRIN. IRIN 16/06/2010HARGEISA – Khadra Osman Ismail collected tyre tubes, empty sacks, old clothes and boxes, then sat down to stitch together the new roof of her shelter in Hargeisa, capital of Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland. IRIN 16/06/2010N’DJAMENA – Nine years after an international NGO identified 249 communities in Chad living near landmines – putting at risk one in 10 people nationwide – the government is preparing to create the country’s first landmine map, including the never-before-surveyed northwest Tibesti region. IRIN 15/06/2010KINSHASA – Armed groups have caused severe suffering in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the years. Below are listed some that are active in the Kivu region. This information is gathered from various sources. IRIN 15/06/2010DAKAR – Logistical and funding constraints could cause shortages in the food aid pipeline from July onward, hampering distributions to some of Niger’s 7.8 million food-insecure people, say NGOs and the World Food Programme (WFP). More cash distributions could be the answer. IRIN 14/06/2010FITINÉ – Finding clean water is as difficult for people living on the islands in Lake Chad as it is for their neighbours along the shores. “Since 1963, the surface area of Lake Chad has decreased from approximately 25,000 sq km to 1,350 sq km,” according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). IRIN 14/06/2010ZIGUINCHOR – Girls’ safety hinges on families’ willingness to speak out about sexual violence, researchers in Senegal’s southern Casamance region said at the release of a study that reveals widespread violence against girls aged 10 to 13. IRIN 14/06/2010MAIDUGURI – Campaigns to distribute Vitamin A supplements to reduce high rates of child mortality and morbidity in northern Nigeria have had the unexpected side-effect of encouraging heavily stigmatized polio immunizations in the region. Continue reading Vitamin A handouts boost polio vaccine acceptance IRIN 14/06/2010MAO – In rural Chad cattle are currency, the down-payment on ceremonies, a savings plan during sickness and emergency food in lean times. So the loss of an estimated one-third of the country’s livestock to drought has been a disaster, with desperate pastoralists trying to make it until the next rains as best they can. |
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