Informes

SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS - Niger: More than 24.000 people affected by floods - Guinea-Bissau: About 870 cholera cases recorded - Niger: MSF-F expelled from Maradi - Cameroon-Nigeria border: 12 persons killed in Bakassi - Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone: more than 1 ton…

- Regular rainfall during the months of June and July was spatially and temporally well distributed, promoting a smooth progression of the agricultural season. - The fact that the Government and its partners made free seed and…

FAITS MARQUANTS - Niger : Plus de 24.000 personnes affectées par les inondations - Guinée Bissau : Plus de 870 cas de cholera recensés - Niger : MSF-France expulsée de Maradi - Nigeria-Cameroun : 12 personnes tuées à Bakassi - Guinée Bissau : 2…

OUAGADOUGOU, 30 juillet 2008 (IRIN) - Les cas de fistule ne sont pas toujours signalés, selon les médecins du Burkina Faso, qui lancent actuellement un nouveau projet visant à opérer gratuitement les femmes souffrant de fistule. Selon les statistiques du…

DAKAR - Le Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations Unies (PAM) élargit ses opérations en Afrique de l'Ouest pour nourrir 1,4 million de personnes supplémentaires frappées par la hausse des prix en Guinée, en Mauritanie, au Sierra Leone, au Liberia,…

OUAGADOUGOU, 28 July 2008 (IRIN) - Doctors in Burkina Faso say fistula is being under-reported, and are launching a new project to offer free surgery to some of the affected women. According to the government's statistics, there were just 54…

Prices of many basic foods have skyrocketed in the last two years, leading to a major food crisis affecting millions of poor people throughout the world. The causes of the crisis are many and complex. An increasing demand for…

SUMMARY Overall yield prospects for sorghum and millet are good in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Guinea, Mali and Nigeria, where outputs of +5% to +9% above the 5 yr average are anticipated. However there are local differences within…

La Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge lance un appel de 21 millions de francs suisses (20,6 millions de dollars US/ € 13 millions / 8,5 milliards de francs CFA) afin de financer un nouveau programme…

Semi-arid Sahelian countries in the region known as Africa's meningitis belt are hit each year by meningitis outbreaks during the dry season from December to June. Every 10 to 12 years, the meningitis bacterium reaches peak epidemic levels in…