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DAKAR, 23 November 2009 (IRIN) - The world's first multi-country yellow fever vaccination campaign began on 23 November, with 12 million people targeted across Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The push comes as the killer mosquito-borne disease is resurging in some sub-Saharan African countries and vaccine stocks are running low. (IRIN)

MASERU, 23 November 2009 (IRIN) - Isolated mountain communities hard hit by HIV and AIDS in Lesotho have begun to reap benefits from the overhaul of nine healthcare clinics over the past four years. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 23 November 2009 (IRIN) - Both locals and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia's central town of Beletweyne are experiencing increased hardship with several changes in the town's administration, residents say. (IRIN)

MONROVIA, 23 November 2009 (IRIN) - In the Liberian capital Monrovia acute malnutrition is due not only to poverty and inadequate health and sanitation services but also to factors such as high teenage pregnancy and the war's damage to the social fabric, say health workers, who says the condition is partly "a social problem". (IRIN)

Harare — THE Industrial Development Corporation (Zimbabwe) has agreed on terms with the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa to finance existing and new projects in Zimbabwe. IDC ... (webremix.info)

South Africa will participate in the second Korea-Africa Forum which will explore ways to strengthen ties on development and cooperation between Korea and the African continent. (webremix.info)

THE Industrial Development Corporation (Zimbabwe) has agreed on terms with the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa to finance existing and new projects in Zimbabwe. (webremix.info)

JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2009 (IRIN) - South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations. (IRIN)

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and New Partnership for African Development partner to boost food security (webremix.info)

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and New Partnership for African Development partner to boost food security (webremix.info)

Conference Seeks to Make Early Childhood Development Priority in Africa (webremix.info)

A seminar held in Tunis on Thursday on women's soccer, was attended by Mr.Thierry Regenass, FIFA Associations Development Director, Mr. Cyril Loiseau Development Director in Africa, Director of FIFA Regional Football Development Office and of Goal project for North and Eastern Africa Mr. Taha Ismail, a FIFA official in charge of women's football and Mrs. Marion Daube, an expert in marketing and communication within FIFA. (webremix.info)

Wen encourages Chinese companies to contribute to Africa's development (webremix.info)

SENEGALESE President Abdoulaye Wade has asked leaders in Africa to desist from religious divisions for a better future. Wade said religion had divided people, thus hindering development. (webremix.info)

No one size fit all approach to development challenges in Africa - ERD (webremix.info)

BRAZZAVILLE, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. (IRIN)

DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Guineans and the international community are watching mediation efforts of Blaise Compaoré, as international investigators begin to probe the 28 September deadly military attack on civilians in the capital Conakry. The latest violence stunned even a nation with a long history of military repression of civilians – an era Guineans had hoped would pass with the death of 24-year leader Lansana Conté and arrival of Moussa Dadis Camara in December 2008. Here is a timeline of some events since independence from France in 1958. (IRIN)

MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served. (IRIN)

There is greater frankness today about development policy failures in Africa. It was reflected in President Barack Obama’s speech in Accra, Ghana on July 11 when he stated: "Development depends on good governance. That is the ingredient that has been missing in far too many places for far too long." (webremix.info)

The distinguishing feature of human development activity throughout history is the use of labour to make goods so that society can improve itself and transform its habitat. (webremix.info)

Dr Alhassan Zaku, Minister of Science and Technology, on Tuesday urged African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja, to conduct researches into issues that could solve Africa's development problems. (webremix.info)

Key players in Uganda's agricultural sector will meet on October 29, at Speke Resort Munyonyo to sign a compact on the comprehensive Africa agricultural development programme. (webremix.info)

Africa is changing faster than many realize, and there is definite momentum for economic reform and development in several African countries, says longtime investment banker Thomas Gibian. (webremix.info)

Investment Opportunity: Infrastructure (webremix.info)

Water is fast becoming a constraint to development in South Africa. (webremix.info)

HARARE, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instability. (IRIN)

BUJUMBURA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Next year's elections in Burundi, billed as a milestone on the country's long road to sustainable peace, could trigger more conflict because of a combination of widespread illegal weapons and well-organized youth wings of political parties, according to analysts. (IRIN)

HARGEISA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Aden Muhumed Hassan, 46, a divorced father of one, lost his hands 11 years ago after he accidentally picked up unexploded ordnance [UXO] planted during fighting between the Somali National Movement (SNM) and former President Siad Barre's army in Somaliland's liberation struggle between 1981 and 1991, and during the Ogaden war between Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Residents of a coastal town in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland saved the crew of a fishing boat when they foiled an attempt by pirates, who had captured the boat, to sail away. (IRIN)

MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services. On 19 November, World Toilet Day, NGOs are calling on the government to up its allocation, and on international donors to reprioritize funding to stamp out cholera and cut child mortality. (IRIN)