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U.S. Provides Assistance to Burkina Faso for Meningitis Epidemic
Topix - Friday, April 13, 2007
p> The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development , will provide $450,000 through the U.S. Embassy in Ouagadougou to the UN Children's Fund for vaccines urgently needed to ... via PR-inside.com ... more
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Cosmetics au naturel w because they're worth a lot
Topix - Thursday, April 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"There's an increasing fear that certain ingredients can be harmful in the long term as potentially dangerous chemicals are linked with falling sperm counts, hormonal damage and cancers" The acquisition of Body Shop by the world's biggest cosmetic group marked a new trend in the industry... more
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BURKINA FASO: Tents needed to house homeless after devastating floods
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Thursday, August 31, 2006 (IRIN) - Officials in Burkina Fasoâ??s northern town of Gorom Gorom are seeking urgent solutions to help 6,000 people who lost their homes in flooding earlier this ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Flood waters bring threat of disease
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Thursday, September 14, 2006 (IRIN) - Severe flooding has affected nearly 20,000 people in western Burkina Faso according to government officials who fear outbreaks of cholera and ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Tents sent to help flood victims
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Monday, October 02, 2006 (IRIN) - United Nations agencies in Burkina Faso have provided the government with 1,000 tents to house victims of flooding from seasonal heavy ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Girls test scientific knowledge
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Tuesday, October 03, 2006 (IRIN) - Sadio Toure didnâ??t have a typical summer vacation. Even though the 18-year-old was on her school break, she delighted in finding herself in a classroom setting, learning to use a computer and attempting science experiments in a laboratory for the first ... more
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BURKINA FASO: French boost to cotton sector
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Tuesday, October 10, 2006 (IRIN) - France has stepped in to help boost Burkina Fasoâ??s beleaguered cotton sector in the face of low world prices for the commodity and growing malaise to produce ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Privatisation threatens small-scale miners
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Friday, October 13, 2006 (IRIN) - Over a decade ago, the western town of Poura reveled in a boom from a government-run industrial gold mine and became known as Petit ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Regional body calls time on dirty water
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Thursday, November 09, 2006 (IRIN) - Typhoid, cholera and other diseases carried in dirty water could be on the march in parched Burkina Faso after a regional body provided 2.5 billion CFA (US $4.8 million) to build 300 new ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Community programme bites back against malaria
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
OSSILCY Friday, December 01, 2006 (IRIN) - Zenabou Nikiema smiles gratefully as she breastfeeds her two-year-old son and recalls the night a high fever shook his body until he nearly fell ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Rally against impunity
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
AKAR Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (IRIN) - Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Fasoâ??s capital, Ouagadougou, on Wednesday to demand an end to impunity and mark the death of journalist Norbert Zongo, whose murder eight years ago led to constitutional changes that were supposed to improve human rights in the... more
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BURKINA FASO: Sahelian cotton farmers on their knees
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
INIENA Friday, December 22, 2006 (IRIN) - The head of a delegation from the main cotton buying company in Burkina Faso, Sofitex, recently met with some 200 local farmers under a mango tree in western Burkina Faso to explain to them that they should expect to get 150 CFA (US... more
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BURKINA FASO: Fragile democracy being tested
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Wednesday, December 27, 2006 (IRIN) - Clashes last week between the military and police in Burkina Fasoâ??s capital underlined the fragile state of democracy in that country, local analysts ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Arsenic poisoning wells
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Friday, December 29, 2006 (IRIN) - With signs that people are developing diseases linked to arsenic poisoning, the government said on Thursday that it had turned off pumps to 11 deep-water wells in areas in the north of Burkina Faso where water is particular scarce, adding that it may... more
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BURKINA FASO: With rising border tensions, local officials meet
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Friday, January 05, 2007 (IRIN) - With tensions rising between Niger and Burkina Faso as they accuse each other's security forces of crossing the border to rob and harass villagers, local officials in the area met recently to renew a call for a buffer ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Mass vaccination campaign as scores die of meningitis
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Wednesday, February 14, 2007 (IRIN) - Some 1,300 people have been infected with meningitis in Burkina Faso so far this year and 142 of them have died, according to the Ministry of ... more
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BURKINA FASO: Appeal for help to fight meningitis
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
UAGADOUGOU Saturday, February 24, 2007 (IRIN) - The government of Burkina Faso on Friday appealed to international donors for US $1.6 million to help finance efforts to combat a deadly meningitis ... more
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Dropping cotton prices shake Africa
Topix - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
p> OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, April 9 Four years of falling prices on the world market have West Africa 's all-important cotton industry on the brink of collapse. via Earth Times ... more
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Two Hawai'i soldiers killed in Iraq
Topix - Monday, April 09, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"I like to do anything that gets my mind off of what I do for a living. I like to joke around, sometimes too much, (I'm) really easy to get along with most of the time." The war in Iraq has claimed the lives... more
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Addis to host ILO's regional meeting on critical labor issues
Topix - Sunday, April 08, 2007
p> The 11th African Regional Meeting of the International Labor Organization will be held from April 24 to 27 in Addis Ababa, to initiate a first-ever 'Decade for Decent Work in Africa ' in line with the Millennium ... via Ethiopian Reporter ... more
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