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Yar'Adua, Compaore Discuss Guinean CrisisPRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua Monday met with the President of Burkina Faso, Mr. Blaise Compaore, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. (AllAfrica)
Upper East, Burkina Faso to Fight Smuggling, Highway Robbery
Upper East Region and the Central South Region of Burkina Faso will collaborate to fight smuggling, movement of small arms, drug trafficking and highway robbery. (AllAfrica)
Guinea Military Threatens Problems if Current Leader is Forced Out
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara At mediation talks in neighboring Burkina Faso, Guinea's ruling military says there is no way their current leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, will relinquish his role in a transitional government.
(Topix.net)Burkina Faso leader resisting overtures
Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore posing with Taiwan's Minister of Foreign Affairs James CF Huang in July 2007 during the laying of the first foundation stone of an hospital, in Ouagadougou China's push for political influence and access to the mineral wealth of the African continent has been resisted by some countries such as Burkina Faso ...
(Topix.net)Country Has Lowest Internet Usage
Burundi has one of the lowest internet usage in the world with only 0.7% of the total population of 8million people connected. This ranks Burundi 11th from bottom, the worst being East Timor, an island nation in the East Indies with 0.1% and a population of 1.1 million people. In the western world, the usage in some countries goes as high as 82% in the Netherlands and 74% in the USA and Japan. Needless to say, these countries are very highly developed. (AllAfrica)
France offers copies of 500 African films after Burkina Faso deluge
OUGADOUGU: French state organization Culturesfrance offered 500 copies of African films to Ouagadougou's film institute Friday, after the Burkina Faso capital was flooded by torrential rains.
(Topix.net)Guinea: Opposition Presents Demands to Compaore
A coalition of Guinean opposition leaders has presented President Blaise Compaor of Burkina Faso a set of proposals they believe will end the political crisis precipitated by a military takeover in Guinea last December, reports Sidwaya from Ouagadougou.
(Topix.net)Opposition Presents Demands to Compaoré
A coalition of Guinean opposition leaders has presented President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso a set of proposals they believe will end the political crisis precipitated by a military takeover in Guinea last December, reports Sidwaya from Ouagadougou. (AllAfrica)
Compaore Chairs Inter-Guinean Dialogue
Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore has chaired the first day of mediation talks in Ouagadougou between Guinea's military junta and other political groups.
(Topix.net)AFRICA: Turning to traditional medicines in fight against malaria
NAIROBI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference www.mimalaria.org/pamc in Nairobi. Many poor communities, especially in rural settings, cannot afford modern malarial drugs and many people die due to inaccessibility of treatment. (irinnews.org)
WEST AFRICA: Agricultural aid “bypasses governments”, says NGO
DAKAR Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Donors have promised US$40 billion in aid to agriculture in developing countries since the Rome “food summit” in 2008, but in some countries the bulk of this aid is uncoordinated, shortsighted and does not support government priorities, says NGO Oxfam. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: AU pushes the envelope on "climate migrants"
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change. (irinnews.org)
Analysis: African IDP convention fills a void in humanitarian law
KAMPALA Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is a comprehensive document that will, if ratified, fill a void in international humanitarian law, say experts. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Electronic records can streamline health care
NAIROBI Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Replacing manual data with electronic health records would significantly improve the quality of care and enable African HIV treatment programmes to be scaled up more efficiently, say the authors of a new article on the subject. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Digesting a "mouthful" of climate change
MIDRAND Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: IDP convention - now the hard work begins
KAMPALA Monday, October 26, 2009 (IRIN) - Seventeen countries signed the African Union convention on internally displaced persons (IDPs) after years of preparation culminated in a week of meetings in the Ugandan capital but a lot more hard work remains before it becomes effective, according to observers. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Climate change could worsen displacement - UN
KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Talking about forced displacement
KAMPALA Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs. (irinnews.org)
Ivory Coast's old foes 'rearming'
Former foes from Ivory Coast's 2002 civil war are rearming in defiance of an arms embargo, UN experts say.
(Topix.net)New Farming Technique Brings Trees Back to the Sahel
Yacouba Savadogo is a farmer, community leader and natural resource innovator from the village of Gourma, in the Yatenga Province of Burkina Faso. Yacouba began to experiment with planting pits and contour stone bunds (small dikes) in order to produce more sorghum and millet on his degraded land in 1979 after observing other farmers use similar techniques through an Oxfam program. By digging deeper pits and adding manure, he brought land back into production. After trees grew spontaneously in the pits, he began to protect them. His barren land was steadily turned into a forest with diverse, useful tree species. For many years, Yacouba has organized events to exchange seeds and ideas, and to train other farmers. [This introduction reprinted from Oxfam America's: "The Other Green Revolution: How Farmers Reclaimed the Desert to Create an Agricultural Future for Africa".] AllAfrica talked to Yacouba Savadodo, who spoke through a translator. (AllAfrica)
Burkina Faso: New Farming Technique Brings Trees Back to the Sahel
Yacouba Savadogo is a farmer, community leader and natural resource innovator from the village of Gourma, in the Yatenga Province of Burkina Faso.
(Topix.net)Burkina Faso President visits Sudan for talks on Darfur
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore today started a two-day official visit to Sudan where he will hold talks with the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir on Darfur conflict The visit is part of the distinguished relations between the two countries and tends to coordinate between the two sides in the issues of mutual concern," said Haydar ...
(Topix.net)Ghana: IGP, Ceps Boss Should Bring Their Men to Book
The issue of corruption has become so pervasive in the Ghanaian society to the extent that it is now perceived in certain quarters as a pedestrian and banal subject which does not deserve any discussion.
(Topix.net)Conakry residents begin silent protest
Conakry - Many residents of Conakry and other Guinean towns stayed at home on Wednesday in a quiet protest at the army's massacre of opposition demonstrators exactly a month earlier.
(Topix.net)Ivorian parties continuing to rearm despite embargo, says UN report
Blue helmet inspecting weapons collected from Ivorian militias 27 October 2009 – Both sides in Cote d'Ivoire, which has been divided for more than seven years between the Government-controlled south and the rebel Forces Nouvelles-held north, are violating the arms embargo imposed on the country, according to a new United Nations report.
(Topix.net)Daily animal picture: Feeding time for the holy crocodile
A man feeds a chicken to a crocodile in the sacred marsh of Sabou near Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
(Topix.net)Guinea opposition to meet mediator
The opposition to Guinea's junta plans to meet the mediator in the country's political crisis, Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore, on November 2, an opposition member said.
(Topix.net)C te d'Ivoire: UN envoy appeals for November presidential elections to keep on track
The top United Nations envoy to the Cote d'Ivoire today called on the West African nation to build on momentum towards holding its much-delayed presidential elections, slated for the end of next month.
(Topix.net)Country and Burkina Faso Should Strategise Utilisation of Volta River
Mr Albert Abongo, Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing (MWRWH), on Tuesday stressed the need to strategise on the utilisation of the Volta River between Ghana and Burkina Faso for their mutual benefit and socio-economic development. (AllAfrica)
WEST AFRICA: Humanitarian stockpile takes shape – on paper
BAMAKO Wednesday, October 21, 2009 (IRIN) - When a storm hits in Togo, disaster relief items must be flown in from Brindisi, Italy, but that is just too far, according to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which is formalizing the region’s first government-operated humanitarian stockpile in Mali’s capital Bamako. (irinnews.org)
Africa: Africa to Present $65 Billion Bill At U.N. Global Warming Meeting
Two months to the United Nations' climate summit, African leaders have drawn up a $65 billion dollar budget to deal with the effects of environment change.
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