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01 Jan 2003

Morocco + 37 others
Predicted freshwater stress and scarcity in Africa and the Middle East

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— Canadian International Development Agency
Data Sources: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations Environment Programme, Population Action International
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04 Dec 2002

Benin + 9 others
River blindness campaign ends; West Africans return to fertile farmlands

Report
— World Health Organization
4 December 2002 - OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO - On Friday, December 6, 2002, history will be made. This day officially marks the end of nearly 30 years of work to eliminate river blindness as a public health threat in West Africa. On this day in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, officials from the World Health Organization and others will recognize the achievement of thousands of people working together for a greater good.
These people - bankers, fly catchers, pilots, chief executives, community health workers and others - have prevented
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03 Dec 2002

Afghanistan + 24 others
UNICEF to pick up pace on girls' education

Report
— UN Children's Fund
Major Campaign to Get Girls into School in 25 Priority Countries
DAR ES SAALAM / GENEVA, 3 December 2002 - Declaring that "the education of girls is key to real progress in overcoming poverty," UNICEF today announced a major initiative to get girls into school in 25 priority countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Speaking to a meeting of African education ministers here, UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy announced the "25 by 2005" campaign to eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary

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03 Dec 2002

Benin + 12 others
West Africa: Food security prospects mixed

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— IRIN
ABIDJAN, 3 December (IRIN) - Food security prospects in West Africa as at November 2002, were varied with a mixed performance recorded in the cereal harvest in the Sahel sub-region, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday.
Below average food harvests were anticipated in Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Mauritania, while near average production was expected in Chad, the Gambia, Mali and Senegal. Above-average outputs were foreseen in Burkina Faso and Niger, FAO said.

"Following the first rains in June,

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27 Nov 2002

Côte d'Ivoire + 10 others
Populations évacuées et populations retournées

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Data Source:   réunion de Accra (17/10/2002)
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12 Nov 2002

Angola + 16 others
West Africa launches final assault on polio - 60 million African children to be vaccinated

Report
— World Health Organization
Aventis Pasteur donates 30 million doses of oral polio vaccine
New York/Geneva: With West African countries in the midst of vaccinating millions of children against polio, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, Aventis Pasteur, has donated 30 million doses of oral polio vaccine to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

This week, 16 West African countries are uniting to vaccinate all children under five within their borders.1 Immunization campaigns over the past two years have driven the number of polio-endemic countries in Africa to an all-time low. In 1999,

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17 Oct 2002

Côte d'Ivoire + 6 others
West Africa: Regional meeting discusses implications of Ivorian situation

Report
— IRIN
ACCRA, 17 October (IRIN) - A two-day emergency regional workshop to discuss the situation in Cote d'Ivoire, its humanitarian implications, potential impact on neighbouring countries, and the challenges ahead, opened on Thursday in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.
Addressing the participants - representatives of UN agencies, NGOs and other development partners - the UN Resident Coordinator in Ghana, Alfred Fawundu, said the situation in Cote d'Ivoire should act as a pointer to the vulnerability of the countries of the subregion. He
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30 Sep 2002

Angola + 42 others
Sub-Sahara Africa: Conflict Risk Assessment Report Sep 2002

Report
— Carleton University
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Prepared by: Caroline Delany and Sonja Varga*
With the generous support of the Canadian International Development Agency.
OVERVIEW

This report provides an indicators-based assessment of conflict risk in Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis crosses nine interrelated issue areas identified as underlying potential for conflict development: History of Armed Conflict; Governance and Political Instability; Militarization; Population Heterogeneity; Demographic Stress; Economic Performance; Human Development; Environmental Stress; and International Linkages.

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16 Aug 2002

Ghana + 10 others
Bulletin hebdomadaire d'information No. 137 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires (OCHA)
Réseaux d'Information Régionaux Intégré (IRIN)
(du 10 au 16 août 2002)

GHANA: Extension de l'état d'urgence dans un district du nord

Le parlement ghanéen a approuvé lundi une extension de quatre semaines de l'état d'urgence - incluant un couvre-feu de 21h à 5h du matin (heure locale/TU)- dans une région du nord dont le roi et 29 autres personnes ont été tués en mars, a rapporté la radio officielle lundi. C'est la quatrième prorogation depuis que l'état d'urgence a

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16 Aug 2002

Ghana + 10 others
IRIN-WA Weekly Roundup 137 covering the period 10 - 16 Aug 2002

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
GHANA: State of emergency extended in northern district

Ghana's parliament on Monday approved a four-week extension of a state of emergency - including a curfew from 21:00 to 05:00 (local time/GMT) - in a northern area whose king and 29 other people were killed in March. The extension was the fourth since the state of emergency was first imposed. The area it covers includes the town of Yendi, where the king of the Dagbon traditional area was killed on 27

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02 Aug 2002

Liberia + 16 others
IRIN-WA Weekly Roundup 135 covering the period 27 Jul - 2 Aug 2002

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
LIBERIA: Reconciliation meeting continues, political detainees still missing

A national reconciliation conference convened by Liberian President Charles Taylor continued this week even as human rights groups pressed the state for proof that three men held incommunicado on suspicion of working for the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) were still alive.

The conference, which opened on 27 July,

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02 Aug 2002

Liberia + 16 others
Bulletin hebdomadaire d'information No. 135 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires (OCHA)
Réseaux d'Information Régionaux Intégré (IRIN)
(du 27 juillet au 2 août 2002)

LIBERIA: La conférence de réconciliation continue, toujours sans nouvelles des prisonniers politiques

Une conférence de réconciliation nationale convoquée par le président libérien Charles Taylor s'est poursuivie cette semaine, tandis que les organisations des droits de l'homme exhortaient les pouvoirs publics à prouver que trois hommes détenus au secret car soupçonnés

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30 Jul 2002

Benin + 7 others
West Africa: US pledges training assistance to ECOMOG

Report
— IRIN
LAGOS, 30 July (IRIN) - The United States has promised to help train the Economic Community of West African States' (ECOWAS) regional peace-keeping force, ECOMOG. It has also said it would help ECOWAS set up military bases for the rapid deployment of troops in conflict areas.
ECOWAS said in a statement on Monday that Gen Carlton Fulford, deputy commander of the US European Command, made the pledges during a visit on Saturday to its secretariat in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

Fulford, who was received by ECOWAS Executive

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19 Jul 2002

Sierra Leone + 7 others
IRIN-WA Weekly Roundup 133 covering the period 13 - 19 Jul 2002

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
SIERRA LEONE: Calm returns to Freetown

Calm returned to Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, on Friday after clashes between rioting youths and Nigerian businessmen in the city centre on the previous day, sources told IRIN on Friday.

The disturbances started after the body of a Sierra Leonean businessman, Kortor Jan, was found in a guest house. Jan had allegedly been abducted by Nigerian fraudsters on Monday, the British

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19 Jul 2002

Benin + 7 others
Bulletin hebdomadaire d'information No. 133 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires (OCHA)
Réseaux d'Information Régionaux Intégré (IRIN)
(du 13 au 19 juillet 2002)

SIERRA LEONE: Le calme est rétabli à Freetown

Le calme est revenu vendredi à Freetown, la capitale de la Sierra Leone, à la suite des accrochages de la veille entre de jeunes émeutiers et des commerçants nigérians dans le centre-ville, ont confirmé des sources à IRIN vendredi.

Les troubles se sont produits après la découverte du corps d'un homme d'affaires sierra léonais Kortor Jan dans

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21 Jun 2002

Benin + 9 others
IRIN-WA Weekly Roundup 129 covering the period 15 - 21 Jun 2002

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
LIBERIA: Country poised for humanitarian disaster, WFP official says

Being "unsettled" country of the three that make up the Mano River Union, the World Food Programme West African Manager Manuel da Silva on Thursday warned that, unless the situation improves, Liberia could become a "big humanitarian disaster in two or three months."

Speaking in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, da Silva said the deteriorating situation had caused thousands of people

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21 Jun 2002

Benin + 9 others
Bulletin hebdomadaire d'information No. 129 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires (OCHA)
Réseaux d'Information Régionaux Intégré (IRIN)
(du 15 au 21 juin 2002)

LIBERIA: Le pays est au bord d'une catastrophe humanitaire, soutient un responsable du PAM

Etant le pays le plus « instable » des trois nations de l'Union du fleuve Mano, et à moins que la situation s'améliore, le Liberia risque de se convertir en une « grande catastrophe humanitaire dans deux ou trois mois », a averti jeudi Manuel da Silva, l'Administrateur du Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) en Afrique de l'Ouest.

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11 Jun 2002

Burkina Faso + 8 others
West Africa: Focus on efforts against child labour

Report
— IRIN
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
ABIDJAN, 11 June (IRIN) - Child labour has, in a relatively short span of time, grabbed international attention to the extent that on 12 June, the International Labour Organization is celebrating the first World Day Against Child Labour.

West Africa, already home to socio-political unrest, civil wars and economic difficulties, is coming to terms with this new scourge. Regional governments have doubled efforts to eradicate child labour and several initiatives are underway to fight the problem, especially

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22 May 2002

Angola + 15 others
UNHCR to expand sports programmes for refugee children

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
GENEVA -- UNHCR is expanding sports programmes for children living in refugee camps around the world to a total of 16 countries by the end of this year. New projects will be funded by three of UNHCR's main sports donors and will focus mainly on Asia and Africa.
Over the last six years, UNHCR has partnered with Olympic Aid, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Fédération Internationale de Volley-Ball to reach out, through sports, to an estimated 3.5 million refugee children in some 1,000 camps and settlements in Africa,

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