Action Center Development
NIGER: More needed to avoid catastrophe
NIAMEY/ZINDER Thursday, March 11, 2010 (IRIN) - A severe food and malnutrition crisis is looming in Niger, according to aid agencies. More than 20,000 under-five children are being treated for malnutrition nationwide and at least another 200,000 are at risk of severe malnutrition, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Egypt: Africa Could Join High-Speed Science Network
African science ministers are hoping to extend a high-speed fibre optic network - currently linking Egypt to the northern hemisphere - to other countries in Africa.
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HAITI: US remittances keep the homeland afloat
NEW YORK Thursday, March 11, 2010 (IRIN) - Haiti's economy depends on the estimated US$1.5 billion a year in remittances sent home by its million-strong diaspora. Dilip Ratha, lead economist at the World Bank, said the figure could be even higher, accounting for perhaps half the national income.
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Powerful Cyclone Batters Fiji
Thousands evacuated to emergency shelters as Cyclone Tomas rips through South Pacific.
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Nigeria: Dirty Toilets Worry Patients At Maitama Hospital
Out patients who are asked to get samples of their stools and urine for laboratory tests at Maitama General Hospital have complained about the unhygienic state of the hospital's toilets, which are located close to the mortuary.
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NIGERIA: Thousands flee violence in northeast
MAIDUGURI Wednesday, July 29, 2009 (IRIN) - Government emergency management teams in Nigeria are distributing blankets and water to thousands of people displaced from the northeastern city of Maiduguri following clashes between an armed group calling for strict Islamic rule and Nigerian security forces.
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GLOBAL: Urban poor and hungry burgeoning unnoticed
JOHANNESBURG Monday, July 13, 2009 (IRIN) - The number of poor and food-insecure people in developing countries is increasing more quickly in urban areas than in rural areas, and could be dropping off the policy radar, says new research by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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