04/24/2013 15:04 GMT

NOUAKCHOTT, 24 avr 2013 (AFP) - Vingt millions de personnes vivant au Sahel, dont 4,3 millions au Mali, connaissent une situation alimentaire "grave", a affirmé mercredi à Nouakchott le président de la Fédération internationale des sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR).

"Quelque 20 millions de personnes dans tout le Sahel font encore face à des pénuries (alimentaires) graves" a dit le président de la FICR, le Japonais Tadateru Konoé, à l'ouverture d'une réunion du Groupe Sahel plus.

L'Afrique de l’Ouest peut être divisée en trois zones agro-écologiques ou en trois bassins commerciaux (bassins de l’ouest, bassin du centre, bassin de l’est). Les deux sont importants pour l'interprétation du comportement et de la dynamique du marché.

N°: 104/2013

La réunion des experts de la CEDEAO sur l'éducation des filles et des autres groupes vulnérables s’est achevée ce vendredi 19 avril 2013 à Banjul sur d’importantes recommandations dont la mise en œuvre devrait aider grandement à une meilleure promotion de la scolarisation des membres de ces catégories sociales marginalisées.

ECOWAS and its partners have achieved another milestone in their stride towards the elimination of malaria in the region with the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of a biolarvicides factory in Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria’s south eastern Rivers State.

The President of the ECOWAS Commission His Excellency Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo and Nigeria’s Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, who represented President His Excellency Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, unveiled the plaque at a well-attended ceremony on Thursday 11th April 2013.

3 April 2013 – Civil society members, academics and intergovernmental organizations today gathered at a United Nations meeting in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss new threats to human rights in West Africa.

The meeting, called the ‘dialogue tree’ after a concept borrowed from African traditions, focused on initiating a discussion among key human rights stakeholders as the sub-region faces new threats to human rights and stability due to the crisis in Mali.

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25 February 2013 - While transnational organized crime markets and the vast profits they generate clearly continue to fuel instability and hinder development in West Africa, solid information about these markets is hard to come by. A new UNODC report, Transnational Organized Crime in West Africa: a Threat Assessment, sheds some light on some of the key crime issues that affect the region and provides recommendations for the international community to tackle these problems.

N°: 017/2013

22 January 2013 [Praia - Cape Verde]

The ECOWAS Commission has presented a cheque of US$190,000 to the Government of Cape Verde in support of victims of the unprecedented flood disaster which caused severe losses of property and displacement of people on the country’s Boa Vista Island in 2012.

A simulated tsunami will strike the western and eastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the North East Atlantic shoreline on 27 and 28 November, to test the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System for the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas. The exercise, named NEAMWave12, is organized under the umbrella of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).