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NEA Sues Man for Dumping Refuse in Street

Sunday, August 03, 2008

The National Environment Agency (NEA) Wednesday dragged one Momadou Sailou Jallow to the Municipal Court at the Kanifing Municipal Council for...

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NIGERIA: Calabar - Why so clean?

africa » nigeria » calabar

IRIN

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Of the many towns and cities on the African continent Calabar must be one of the cleanest.“We are proud of the environment in which we live,” said...

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KENYA: UN honours Red Cross chief

africa » kenya » nairobi

IRIN

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) secretary-general Abbas Gullet has been given the UN in Kenya Person of the Year 2007 award for his work in reforming...

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NIGER: MSF ordered out of north after third hijacking

africa » niger

IRIN

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Nigerien authorities have ordered the French aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières to stop working in northern Niger after three of its vehicles were...

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WWF works with UN refugee agency to protect Congo's Virunga National Park

africa » kenya » nairobi

WWF

Friday, September 28, 2007

WWF is working closely with UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, to prevent encroachment into the World Heritage-listed Virunga National Park by displaced...

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SOMALIA: Government halts IDP evictions

africa » somalia

IRIN

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The Somali government has stopped evicting internally displaced persons (IDPs) from government buildings, in a bid to stem displacement in the...

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CHAD: Floods block aid to displaced families and refugees

africa » chad

IRIN

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Flooding in eastern Chad has “seriously hampered” aid agencies’ assistance to tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians,...

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BURUNDI: Congolese asylum seekers moved to transit site

africa » burundi » bujumbura

IRIN

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Hundreds of asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo who had been camping in a playground in front of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR)...

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LIBERIA: National disaster relief agency inoperable for years

africa » liberia » monrovia

IRIN

Friday, September 14, 2007

Liberian officials say the government must reinstate its agency responsible for responding to natural disasters, which has been defunct since the...

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Point Boss Off To Taiwan

africa » gambia » banjul

The Point

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Mr Pap Saine, the Managing Director and Co-publisher of The Point newspaper, left Banjul early Friday morning to attend the Taiwan Africa Summit at...

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