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BURKINA FASO: Mass vaccinations begin against meningitis

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IRIN

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Health authorities in Burkina Faso have launched a mass vaccination campaign in the capital, Ouagadougou, to combat a rapidly spreading meningitis...

BURKINA FASO: Meningitis vaccines approved for epidemic

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IRIN

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Burkina Faso is set to receive 3.3 million vaccines against bacterial meningitis to help stem an epidemic currently sweeping the country. The...

BURKINA FASO: Meningitis spreads amidst vaccine shortage

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IRIN

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Despite recent appeals for assistance, health authorities in Burkina Faso say they still lack vaccines to help stem a meningitis epidemic that has...

BURKINA FASO: Finding the words to talk about HIV

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IRIN

Monday, March 12, 2007

Burkinabe songstress Pyane Djire knows that the power of a song is in the story that it tells and as an HIV-positive woman, she is using her music to...

COTE D'IVOIRE: New peace agreement

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IRIN

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

President Laurent Gbagbo and New Forces rebel leader Guillaume Soro have signed a peace agreement for Côte d’Ivoire aimed at ending a more than...

WEST AFRICA: New meningitis vaccine could halve deaths

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IRIN

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Every year between December and June winds combined with seasonal respiratory infections trigger outbreaks of deadly meningitis throughout West...

COTE D IVOIRE: On the brink

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IRIN

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Cote d’Ivoire is on the “brink of disaster” and a lack of will among the country’s political classes to end the crisis that has divided the country...

Ecowas 57th Ordinary Session ends

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The Daily Observer Newspaper

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Susan Waffa Ogoo, the Secretary of State for Trade, Industry and Employment, responsible for integration recently returns home after she had attended...

BURKINA FASO: Fragile democracy being tested

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IRIN

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Clashes last week between the military and police in Burkina Faso’s capital underlined the fragile state of democracy in that country, local analysts...

BURKINA FASO: Rally against impunity

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IRIN

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, on Wednesday to demand an end to impunity and mark the death of journalist...

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