KETOU, Benin, 17 May 2012 – Malaria strikes one of Lucia Bognonsa's children about twice a year.
When it does, she has a number of options: She can buy a remedy from the village herbalist. She can purchase tablets from unregistered ‘mobile pharmacists’, tradesmen who travel by bicycle or motorbike selling drugs. She can also take the child to a hospital 3 km away, where treatment is free. But her preferred choice is to call her neighbour, a 65-year old subsistence farmer.
Des jeunes volontaires de diverses spécialités subiront du lundi 7 au samedi 12 mai 2012 à Monrovia une formation à l’issue de laquelle ils seront déployés à travers le Libéria dans le cadre d’une initiative de la CEDEAO visant le renforcement de la paix, la reconstruction nationale et l’accélération du développement dans les Etats membres.
Project targets 700 poor communities and pilots a new safety net system
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2012 –The World Bank will support Benin’s effort to improve poor people’s access to basic services such as education, health, and water, roads and market infrastructure and mainstream the community-driven development approach for building such infrastructure. The Bank will also provide capacity-building and technical assistance to support Benin’s decentralization reforms and help the country to set up a new social safety net system.
The pioneer ECOWAS Volunteers made of young specialists in various fields of human endeavour are to receive a week-long induction training in Monrovia, Liberia from Monday, 7th May 2012 for their deployment in the country within the framework of regional initiative to strengthen peace-building, national reconstruction and accelerated development in Member States.
Overview of reported outbreaks in the WHO African Region
- Cholera
- Meningitis
Ongoing outbreaks
- Lassa Fever in Nigeria
- Typhoid in Zimbabwe
- Meningitis in Burkina Faso
- Cholera in Ghana
- Meningitis in Chad
- Cholera in Uganda
- Meningitis in Benin
- Nodding Syndrome in Uganda
Introduction
In this issue, a general overview of outbreaks that occurred within the WHO African Region between January and March 2012 is provided as well as a summary of ongoing outbreaks as reported by the Member States.
NEW YORK, 24 April 2012 – Over the past 20 years, adolescents have benefitted from progress in education and public health. Yet the needs of many adolescents are neglected with more than 1 million losing their lives each year and tens of millions more missing out on education, says a new UNICEF report today.
Traditionally, sanitation has not received the priority it deserves. It has not been widely recognized how good sanitation policies and practices can underpin socio-economic development and environmental protection. This study provides an estimation of economic impacts on populations without access to improved sanitation in order to provide information on the losses to society of the current sanitation situation.
Plus de 268.000 déplacés suite à la crise au nord Mali ; dont plus de 161.000 réfugiés au Niger, Burkina Faso, en Mauritanie et en Algérie.
Déficits céréalier et fourrager confirmés. La production pour les pays du Sahel enregistre une baisse de 3% par rapport à la moyenne quinquennale et de 26% par rapport à la production agricole 2010/2011.
Au 1er avril, la méningite a fait au moins 749 morts et affecté 8.667 personnes en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre, soit une létalité de 8,64%.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2012 – Eighteen African countries lose around US$5.5 billion every year due to poor sanitation, with annual economic losses between 1 percent and 2.5 percent of GDP, says a new report by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).
“The 18 African countries represented in this study account for 554 million people—that’s more than half of Africa’s population,” said WSP Manager Jaehyang So. “This is powerful evidence for Ministers that their countries will not be able to grow sustainably without addressing these costs.”
Bénin - Le profil migratoire du Bénin récemment publié par l'OIM montre une augmentation marquée du nombre de ressortissants béninois qui émigrent vers d'autres pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
D'après le rapport, la croissance démographique, la pauvreté, le chômage, l'augmentation du coût de la vie, les conditions climatiques difficiles et le déclin des ressources naturelles continuent de pousser de nombreux Béninois à migrer des zones rurales vers les zones urbaines, à l'intérieur de la région et au-delà.
DJOUGOU, Bénin, 3 avril 2012 - Kabirou Sayo a seulement 15 ans mais son histoire pourrait emplir un livre. « Cela s'est passé à la fin d'une journée d'école », dit-il quand on lui demande comment il est devenu victime de la traite des enfants. « J'ai rencontré un homme du nom de Baba qui faisait du trafic d'enfants. Il a essayé de m'expliquer quels étaient les avantages de partir pour le Nigéria ».
WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - Leaders of the world's industrial powers should commit to boost agriculture investments in poor countries and end hunger and malnutrition among the poor when they meet outside Washington in May, a group co-founded by anti-poverty campaigners and rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof said on Tuesday.
Summary: CHF 167,241 was allocated from IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Red Cross of Benin in delivering immediate assistance to some 5,000 beneficiaries and to replenish the existing disaster preparedness stock.
This document provides an overview of developments in the Mediterranean Basin and other regions of interest from 27 March—02 April, with hyperlinks to source material highlighted and underlined in the text. For more information on the topics below or other issues pertaining to the region, please contact the members of the Med Basin Team, or visit our website at www.cimicweb.org.
In Focus: Piracy and Armed Robbery in the Gulf of Guinea
