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Guinea: Opposition Presents Demands to CompaoreA 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.
(Topix.net)Guinea pledges to cooperate with UN inquiry
Guinea's isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into last month's massacre of opposition demonstrators, the UN official leading the probe said.
(Topix.net)Guinea's leader misses deadline
Guinea's military leader Capt Moussa Dadis Camara has postponed an announcement on whether he will stand in next year's presidential election.
(Topix.net)Country profile: Burkina Faso
A poor country even by West African standards, landlocked Burkina Faso has suffered from recurring droughts, matched in number only by the military coups it has endured, especially during the 1980s.
(Topix.net)Africa for Clean Sources of Energy
Ouagadougou, Oct 13 African heads of State advocate the development of solar, hydraulic, and wind energy to cope with energy needs in the next 20 years.
(Topix.net)AFRICA: Shining the spotlight on the displaced
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Forty years after the rights of Africa’s refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent’s leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Africa's IDP situation at a glance:
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa hosts at least 11 million of the world's 25 million conflict-affected IDPs. Millions more are displaced annually by natural disasters. (irinnews.org)