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.
Moderate increase in consumer price inflation in 2011
Favourable weather conditions benefited crops
Agriculture contributes about 8 percent to GDP, reflecting the predominance of the petroleum industry. The main food crops are cassava and plantain, and the country also produces a small amount of maize (on average, approximately 33 000 tonnes per annum).
For many years, the countries of Central Africa have been suffering from the effects of epidemics and endemic diseases, as well as natural and man-made disasters. Conflicts have led to significant population displacements and put at further risk vulnerable groups that are already challenged to provide for themselves. Recently, the increasingly high cost of living has added a further burden to Central African populations.
Moderate increase in consumer price inflation in 2011
Favourable weather conditions benefited current crops
Agriculture contributes about 8 percent to GDP, reflecting the predominance of the petroleum industry. The main food crops are cassava and plantain, and the country also produces a small amount of maize (on average, approximately 33 000 tonnes per annum).
POINTE NOIRE, 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts.
"Trafficking in children is real," said Gabon's social affairs director-general, Mélanie Mbadinga Matsanga.
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La RDC, le Cameroun, le Congo-Brazzaville, le Gabon et la Guinée-Equatoriale doivent lutter ensemble contre le trafic d’enfants en Afrique centrale. C’est l’une des recommandations formulées par les représentants de ces pays, réunis du mercredi 18 au vendredi 20 janvier à Pointe noire, pour discuter de la traite des enfants.
Les soixante participants à cette réunion ont reconnu la gravité du trafic d’enfants dans leurs pays respectifs.
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is to leverage the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations starting on Saturday to pep up the fight against HIV/AIDS on the continent.
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said in a statement obtained by PANA here Friday that the 16-nation tournament, to be hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea 21 Jan-12 Feb., ''provides an exceptional opportunity to mobilize and re-energize Africans against AIDS as millions tune in and turn up to support their teams''.
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the fifteenth ordinary session of the Conference of Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), read by Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, in N’Djamena, 15 January:
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.
The Director-General made the following statement on 5 December 2011
I would like to express my sincere thanks to the governments of Gabon and Timor Leste for their generous contributions to UNESCO’s Multi-donor Emergency Fund. These gifts are votes of confidence for the Organization in its hour of need. They also send a clear message about the value of investments in education, the sciences, culture and communication – the building blocks of development.
Summary: CHF 96,960 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 17 January, 2011 to support the Gabonese Red Cross National Society (GRCS) in delivering assistance to some 203 families, i.e. 1,015 beneficiaries.
In early January 2011, the localities of Tchimbanga, Franceville, Mimongo and Dzenzele experienced serious torrential rains and violent winds, affecting 353 families, i.e. 1,765 people and killing 1.
This issue addresses disaster risk by highlighting the action undertaken by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and its partners to reduce the impacts of natural hazards in Africa.
Its content includes:
Africa agrees on a common position for Durban
International Day for Disaster Reduction 2011
Southern Africa launches DRR platform
SARCOF-15: Bridging gaps between climatologists and DRR experts
East African Community seeks common strategy to address DRR
10 novembre 2011 – Le Secrétaire général des Nations Unies Ban Ki-moon a envoyé jeudi une mission d'évaluation dans le golfe de Guinée pour étudier la menace de la piraterie dans cette région et pour formuler des recommandations sur la possibilité d'une intervention de l'ONU pour soutenir la lutte contre ce fléau.
