WASHINGTON, January 6, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Media NoteOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCJanuary 5, 2014Coordinator Macon Phillips of the…
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Follow @{0}Meeting with government officials. Dozo hunters deny committing atrocities ABIDJAN, 3 January 2014 (IRIN) – Since fighting for Côte…
Follow @{0}More West African countries were seen to be highly corrupt in 2013DAKAR, 3 January 2014 (IRIN) – Poor public…
MAROUA, 27 December 2013 (IRIN) – The authorities in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, have set up tighter border controls in…
MINAWAO CAMP, 24 December 2013 (IRIN) – Only around 1,800 of the thousands of Nigerians forced to find refuge from…
Follow @{0}Life-saving: the sofosbuvir molecule has been approved in the US and Europe for the treatment of hepatitis CNew York,…
Follow @{0}Medical consultation. Local and international NGOs underscore need for collaboration to tackle humanitarian crisesDAKAR, 20 December 2013 (IRIN) -…
Follow @{0} Ivoirian refugees being repatriated home from Liberia ABIDJAN, 19 December 2013 (IRIN) – Fear of reprisal is preventing…
Follow @{0} Some 58,000 children have suffered severe malnutrition in northern Cameroon this year MAROUA, 18 December 2013 (IRIN) -…
Follow @{0} A mother and her malnourished twins at Mopti reference hospital in central Mali DAKAR, 13 December 2013 (IRIN)…
Follow @{0} A house despite in a previous bout of inter-communal violence in the north (file photo) DAKAR, 13 December…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Upon request of the Malian Government, IOM carried out last week…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Togo still needs to strengthen respect for human rights in the…
A new and more aggressive strain of HIV discovered in West Africa causes significantly faster progression to AIDS, researchers at Sweden’s Lund University said Thursday. The new strain of the virus that causes AIDS, called A3/02, is a fusion of the…
DAKAR, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) – Djité Sekou, 32, smokes as he passes his nights guarding one of the many…
MBERA/BASSIKOUNOU, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) – Since April, when the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) started biometric registration of the Malian…
MAIDUGURI, 15 November 2013 (IRIN) – As attacks by militant group Boko Haram (BH) continue to spread terror across northeastern…
BAMAKO, 14 November 2013 (IRIN) – Explosives experts are clearing Malian villages of weapons left over from the recent conflict.…
MBERA, 11 November 2013 (IRIN) – Nomadic or semi-nomadic populations often struggle when hemmed into refugee camps. They are…
DAKAR, 8 November 2013 (IRIN) – The delay of polls in Guinea-Bissau signals the likely extension of a transition period…