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.
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.
Prices of rice, the main food staple, have been increasing steadily since 2007
A below average crop was gathered in 2011
Harvesting of the 2011 cereal and pulses crops was completed in December.
Due to erratic precipitation during the cropping season and an early cessation of rainfall in September, the conditions of the maize crop, the only cereal grown, have been poor in most islands.
Brazzaville/Dakar, 21 March 2012 -- Health Ministries, UN agencies and communities are uniting with tens of thousands of volunteer immunizers over four days to go door-to-door and hut to hut for a vaccination campaign against polio in 20 African countries starting on 23 March.
La campagne contre la polio en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre entre dans sa phase décisive
Brazzaville/Dakar, 21 mars 2012 - Les ministères de la santé, les agences onusiennes et les communautés s'unissent avec des dizaines de milliers de vaccinateurs bénévoles pendant quatre jours pour mener, de porte-à-porte et de case en case, une campagne de vaccination contre la polio dans 20 pays africains à partir du 23 mars.
Les ministres en charge des Affaires humanitaires des Etats membres de la Cedeao ont examiné et adopté la politique humanitaire de l’organisation ainsi que son plan d’action à l’issue de la rencontre ministérielle tenue le vendredi 9 mars 2012 à Cotonou, au Bénin.
Ministers in charge of Humanitarian Affairs in West Africa have adopted the ECOWAS Humanitarian Policy and Action Plan at their meeting that ended on Friday, 9th March, 2012 in Cotonou, Benin Republic.
The Ministers validated the draft report from an experts meeting that preceded the ministerial session.
Dans les pays du Sahel et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest, la production céréalière provisoire se chiffre à 54 914 000 tonnes en 2011/2012, contre 60 411 000 tonnes en 2010/2011, soit une baisse de 9% par rapport à l’année passée. Les baisses de production enregistrées dans les pays, notamment ceux du Sahel, varient entre 15 % et 52 % par rapport à l’année dernière et entre 9% à 38% par rapport à la moyenne des cinq dernières années. Le Tchad et la Mauritanie accusent plus de 50 % de chute de production par rapport à 2010/2011.
A l’invitation du CILSS s’est tenue le 02 mars 2012 à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), sous la présidence de Dr Abdoulaye COMBARY, Ministre Délégué à l’Agriculture du Burkina Faso, la réunion des Ministres assurant la tutelle des structures en charge de la gestion des stocks nationaux de sécurité alimentaire au Sahel et en Afrique de l’Ouest.
L’objectif de la réunion était d’adopter le cadre de coopération des structures en charge de la gestion des stocks nationaux de sécurité alimentaire au Sahel et en Afrique de l’Ouest.
The Sahel Regional Representation’s priorities are aligned to IFRC’s Strategy 2020 and are responsive to the humanitarian challenges in the region. With climate change, the region is increasingly prone to floods, drought and other effects of weather. As a further consequence, epidemics, malaria, food crisis, lack of shelter and poor access to water and sanitation have followed. In particular, food security is a priority programme component in the Sahel region. Several National Societies are implementing food security projects as part of the Africa Food Security Initiative.
Participants at the 10th annual ECOWAS, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) seminar have called on West African countries to appoint focal points in the relevant ministries and agencies for the effective coordination and implementation of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in the region.
The three-day seminar, which ended 23rd February 2012, also urged Member States to implement the ECOWAS Plan of Action on humanitarian affairs.
UNICEF has contracted two DARA consultants to carry out an evaluation of its capacity development initiatives on emergency preparedness and response (EPR) and Conflict/Disaster Risk Reduction (C/DRR) in the education sector, and its impact on institutionalisation efforts in 24 countries in the West and Central Africa region (WCAR).
WHO/AFRO welcome preliminary results of malaria vaccine trials
The World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa has welcomed the announcement that trials of a malaria candidate vaccine show promising results by providing protection against clinical malaria in children.
The results were announced at the Global Malaria Forum hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, USA and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
