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Current Feed Content35 Trained in Disease Identification and Basic Livestock Treatment35veterinary auxiliaries recently concluded a five-day capacity building workshopon their roles in veterinary practices at the Basse Veterinary Camp in theUpper River Region. In hisclosing remarks, Dr. Abdou Ceesay, the programme co-ordinator, urged theparticipants to put all they had learned to good use. He said that they shouldnow be aware how to identify certain types of diseases in livestock andadminister basic treatments for same before the intervention of veterinarypersonnel. He said that...COTE D'IVOIRE: Army rejects UN accusations of arms embargo violationsThe national army inCote d’Ivoire has rejected an UN accusation that it is engaging in militarytraining exercises which violates the conditions of a UN arms embargo. “We are engaged in the peace process which is underway,” a senior military official, on condition of anonymity because he wasspeaking without authorisation told IRIN on 14 April. “Permitting our men toreceive military training would be like preparing for war, something whichwould be absolutely wrong.” An arms embargo was imposed...CHAD: Dead body of EUFOR soldier found in SudanThe corpse of a soldier from the European Union force recently deployed in Chad, whose vehicle strayed across the border into Sudan on 3 March, has been found. “European authorities have informed the local EU Representative in Khartoum that remains discovered near the Chadian border are believed to be that of a French member of the European Peacekeeping Force who has been missing since 3 March,” according to a statement issued by European Force (EUFOR) spokesman in the Chadian capital...MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: New hope for long-suffering Mauritanian refugeesThis village seems typical of villages in northern Senegal - with thatched huts, women cooking on outdoor fires, children playing and men sitting under trees drinking sweet tea. Yet few of the Mauritanians living here call it home. It is a refugee camp, and at best an artificial reality - an earnest attempt by a people, driven out of their homes nearly 20 years ago, to make a life in an unknown land. Despite their lack of connection to Senegal, refugees say their home is not in Mauritania...SUDAN: Unrecognised IDPs complain of falling through the cracksDisplaced people living in squalid shelters on the fringes of an official displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region lack relief services as the official camp is full. Efforts by a visiting British official this week to persuade local authorities to open a new site to accommodate the overflow of Al Salaam camp near El Fasher, capital of North Dafur state, failed. Dozens of displaced families said they came here about 14 months ago from villages in North Darfur, fleeing renewed fighting... |
