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NIGER-NIGERIA: Border on high-alert for bird flu

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Niger’s Ministry of Livestock is intensifying its bird surveillance along the 1,500-kilometre border with northern Nigeria after a recent resurgence...

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KENYA: Livestock disease, high prices fuelling food insecurity

africa » kenya » lodwar

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Recurrent outbreaks of the viral livestock disease peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which affects goats and sheep, are exacerbating poor food...

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AELP ‘Quest’ team training wraps-up

africa » gambia » jenio

Friday, May 23, 2008

A five-day ‘Quest’ team training workshop, organized by the Africa Emergency Locust Project, The Gambia, on Tuesday concluded at the Agricultural...

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MADAGASCAR: Rift Valley Fever hits island

africa » madagascar

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Rift Valley Fever (RVF) has infected more than 400 people inMadagascar, with at least 17 fatalities, according to the Ministry of Health(MoH). "An...

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KENYA: Water crisis as dry conditions persist in the north

africa » kenya » isiolo

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Serious shortages ofwater and pasture for livestock are being experienced in the northern Kenyandistricts of Isiolo, Mandera and Wajir as dry...

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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Beefing up for a revolution

africa » south africa » johannesburg

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

African farmers,particularly those in southern Africa, can benefit from the global boom in thedemand for meat says new research that suggests several...

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KENYA: Making ends meet in post-election Samburu

africa » kenya » isiolo

IRIN

Monday, April 14, 2008

Joseph Letresh had considered himself lucky because he was employed as atraditional dancer at a tourist hotel in the Samburu game reserve,...

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MAURITANIA: Struggling to cope in pre-harvest “lean season”

africa » mauritania » nouakchott

IRIN

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Ali Sambadga showed IRIN the contents of his village grain bank - there are just two tonnes of maize left to help thousands of villagers stave off...

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SOMALIA: Plea for help as drought ravages Puntland

africa » somalia » puntland

IRIN

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland in northeastern Somalia have appealed for international aid as parts of the region are...

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Illiasa inaugurates literacy school

africa » gambia » illiassa

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Illiasa Village in the North Bank Region (NBR), recently inaugurated a D250,000 adult literacy school for women sponsored by Withinton Girls School...

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