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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)

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)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Most IDPs in Africa have been forced out of their homes by conflict, either between government forces and armed opponents or between communities. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - The objectives of the Convention (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say. (irinnews.org)

YAOUNDE Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Cholera has killed at least 51 people in the past few weeks in northern Cameroon, where health experts say safe water and proper sanitation are sorely lacking, according to health officials. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Designed to be safe havens in times of disaster, health facilities are vulnerable to upheaval when catastrophe strikes, according to the UN, which is focusing on hospital safety for International Day for Disaster Reduction. (irinnews.org)

BANGKOK Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa faces a double burden of obesity and hunger as millions take up increasingly sedentary lives in cities and the global financial crisis hits rural populations’ food security, nutritionists warn. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - When an earthquake strikes a town, or a building is levelled by an explosion, news footage invariably shows search and rescue teams trawling through the rubble looking for survivors. But what does it take to rescue people trapped under tons of concrete? (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - A landmine survivor in Senegal’s Casamance region on 6 October used the recent report, ‘Voices from the Ground’, based on a survey of mine victims worldwide, to remind aid agencies, Senegal’s anti-mine agency and the media of victims’ needs and governments’ responsibilities. (irinnews.org)

BANGKOK Monday, October 05, 2009 (IRIN) - Most migrants do not move from developing to developed countries, and when they do, rather than hurting host economies, they benefit them, according to a new report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, October 01, 2009 (IRIN) - According to (yet another) new climate change report, this time from development think-tank CGD, these are the 20 cities where the most people will be at the greatest risk from sea level rise and storm surges in the developing world. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Wednesday, August 05, 2009 (IRIN) - The US should rethink subsidies for American farmers and relax stringent market rules, among other measures, to encourage trade in agricultural commodities from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), says an advocacy group. (irinnews.org)

Getting energy to every home and satisfying industrial needs remain capital to the New Deal regime.

At the invitation of His Excellency Paul BIYA, President of the Republic of Cameroon, His Excellency Idriss Deby Itno, President of the Republic of Chad begins an official visit to Cameroon from today 28th October 2009.

David Mola, CEO, Mola Solaire Internationale, Germany, Guest of Honour at JERSIC 2009. (AllAfrica)

Jean Paul Fouda, member of an Association of Cameroon Engineers and Computer Scientists based in Germany. (AllAfrica)

The calibre of foreign-based Cameroon researchers makes their involvement in upgrading scientific research in the country imperative. (AllAfrica)

For the past 27 years, President Biya has made good governance a priority for fighting poverty. (AllAfrica)

Another anniversary moment for the New Deal government of President Paul Biya has arrived with November 6 manifestations marking a transition to the second Republic in Cameroon in 1982. (AllAfrica)

Getting energy to every home and satisfying industrial needs remain capital to the New Deal regime. (AllAfrica)

The outlook of our major urban agglomerations has changed radically within the New Deal period. Douala and Yaounde are good examples (AllAfrica)

Bakweri indigenes in Yaounde have been told to maintain peace, uplift the culture of the Bakweri people and be the ambassadors of the Fako people. (AllAfrica)

Christians of the SS Peter and Paul Anglophone sociological Parish, Simbock in Yaounde have started mobilisation ahead of a grand harvest set for December 6, 2009. (AllAfrica)

Overloading, acts of vandalism, encroachment and accidents have been identified as some negative factors responsible for the rapid deterioration of our road network. (AllAfrica)

Mezam Division in the North West Region has executed 98 Public Investment Budget projects out of 114 projects granted the Division. (AllAfrica)

Some twenty two (22) staff members who have distinguished themselves in the taxation service in the North West Region have been rewarded. The 22 who were congratulated for professional competence, assiduity respect for hierarchy and discipline received certificates from the hands of the Regional Chief of Taxes for the North West Gana Joseph. (AllAfrica)

Officials are acquainting themselves with modern techniques of establishing education partnership in a five-day workshop in Kribi in the South Region. (AllAfrica)

The Minister-Deputy Secretary General at the Presidency, Pr. Peter Agbor Tabi, yesterday officially opened the office in Yaounde. (AllAfrica)

Senior officials of a Chinese firm, SINOSTEEL, which is carrying out the project, visited the mining sites on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

Javier Puyol yesterday had a farewell discussion with the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Prof. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle. (AllAfrica)