Press Release No:2012/037/AFR

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2011 - The Board of the World Bank approved the third series of the WAAPP’s first phase on March 24, 2011 to include these six countries with a total financing of US$83.3 million. Liberia’s component of this funding includes a US$6 million credit, and an additional US$8 million grant from the Japan Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Technical Assistance (TA) Program to support the Rice Research and Productivity Development Program.

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

Early Warning Issues for October

Country Analysis: Liberia

PSC Retrospective - PSC's cooperation with the ICRC

Regional Analysis: Maghreb

PSC Retrospective: AU Solemn Declaration on A Common African Defence and Security Policy

PSC and Protection of Civilians by AU Missions: Towards Guidelines

PSC Spot Light: The African Union Commission Special Envoys

Important Forthcoming Dates

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Action Against Hunger launches campaign urging the former VP to help end childhood deaths from acute malnutrition

New York, NY - Action Against Hunger announces the U.S. launch of an international grassroots initiative calling on Al Gore to make his next film about global hunger-a crisis that kills one child every six seconds. The No Hunger initiative, which began in Madrid, has gathered more than 64,000 signatures for a petition that will be presented to the former Vice President and Nobel Laureate this December at the climate change conference in Copenhagen. Action Against

Au Niger, pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest, plus de 265 000 habitants des zones urbaines ont pu être desservis en eau salubre depuis 2005. À Madagascar (a), 1 800 écoles, dispensaires, routes, marchés et systèmes d'irrigation ont été reconstruits depuis les ravages provoqués par les cyclones dans la partie Nord de l'île en 2004. Au Nigéria (a), 600 programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté sont en cours à l'échelon local, et 14 États ont établi des programmes de lutte contre le VIH/SIDA.

Ce ne sont là que quelques-uns des programmes

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DAKAR, 5 December (IRIN) - The United Nations and relief NGOs in West Africa have jointly asked donors for US $309 million in aid for 2007 to keep humanitarian projects rolling in the region's 16 poorest countries.

The appeal is made annually and covers the requirements for the agriculture, food, water, health and human rights projects overseen by the UN and all its partners.

The Consolidated Annual Appeal (CAP) covers the needs of the West African region, where 250 million people live

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DAKAR, 9 January (IRIN) - West Africa, the world's poorest region, chalked up successes in 2005, with war-battered Liberia and Sierra Leone edging closer to lasting peace. But perennial problems such as corruption and unemployment could still scupper progress, and elsewhere in the region prospects remained bleak.

Liberia, Africa's oldest republic, became the first country on the continent to elect a female president, when Harvard-educated

UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
LIBERIA: Relief worker detained; reconciliation conference

A relief worker was detained this week in Liberia even as the country prepared for a peace conference on Saturday.

Nyeku Na, who works with a Liberian NGO, MERCI, had fled to Sierra Leone when rebels overran a refugee and IDP camp in western Liberia in June, abducting five nurses who work with the NGO. He was detained on Wednesday at the border on re-entering the country.

Up to Friday, there was no indication

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

NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires
I R I N pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest
Tel [225] 22 40 44 40
Fax [225] 22 40 44 35
E-mail: irin-wa@irin.ci

SIERRA LEONE: L'espérance de vie la plus basse du monde

Les Sierra-Léonais avaient l'espérance de vie la plus basse du monde en 1999, indiquent les statistiques publiées vendredi par l'institut allemand de recherche démographique. L'institut note que la durée de vie moyenne d'un Sierra-Léonais est d'à peine 37 ans, contre une moyenne de 65 au niveau mondial. A l'autre bout de l'échelle,