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¤ Officials Still Arguing Over Leader for Somalia
Islamists are threatening to walk out of a power-sharing agreement as the transitional Parliament was pushing ahead to select the new president without their input. | ¤ Location Gives Tiny State Prime Access to Big Riches
 If there was ever an example of location, location, location, it’s Djibouti. But tensions with neighboring Eritrea are threatening the tiny nation’s big economic dreams. | ¤ A Conflict’s Buffer Zone: Rocks, and Inches
 Soldiers from two of Africa’s tiniest nations are squaring off over uninhabited sand near some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. | ¤ Aid Workers With Guns
 In Africa, the United States fights terrorism with humanitarianism. | ¤ Obama Gets a Warm Welcome in Kenya
 Thousands of people lined the streets to greet the freshman senator, whose father was a goat herder in Kenya. | ¤ The Signs Say Somaliland, but the World Says Somalia
 Somaliland, on the northern edge of Somalia, has fought and campaigned for years to be recognized as an independent nation. | ¤ Djibouti Toll Rises
Death toll from overloaded boat that sank in Red Sea rises to 109 people; victims died about 100 yards from dock in Djibouti as wooden boat was steaming on religious pilgrimage to town of Tadjoura; boat was carrying three times number of passengers for which it was built | ¤ 10 Dead Off Africa in Crash of Copters
Ten United States service members died when a pair of Marine helicopters crashed Friday off the coast of Africa. | ¤ No Casualty Report in U.S. Africa Crash
All 12 crew members from two United States military helicopters that crashed off Djibouti on Friday have been accounted for, the military said. | ¤ Djibouti's Leader Wins Uncontested Vote
The incumbent, Ismail Omar Guelleh, won Djibouti's presidential election in an uncontested race. |
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¤ DJIBOUTI: Running low on water, pasture and food
NAIROBI Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (IRIN) - The main rainy season in Djibouti has been poor, prompting fears that some pastoralist households could face serious food shortages in the coming months. | ¤ AFRICA: Vaccination key to stemming rotavirus, say experts
DAKAR Tuesday, December 08, 2009 (IRIN) - African health experts are calling on governments to vaccinate all children against rotavirus, to end an “unacceptable” yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily. | ¤ In Brief: All I want for Xmas ...is a bag of manure
NAIROBI Thursday, November 26, 2009 (IRIN) - From the first goat sales about five years ago, creative NGO fundraisers have expanded a range of animal and farm-related "gifts" for sale online to benefit developing countries. | ¤ MIDDLE EAST/ASIA: Crunching the swine flu numbers
DUBAI Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (IRIN) - More people have died from H1N1 influenza in Iran than in any of the 22 countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region, according to WHO’s 14 November update. | ¤ In Brief: World hunger increases despite growth in food production
DUSHANBE Thursday, November 12, 2009 (IRIN) - Even as world food production grows, hunger is on the rise in many poor countries, according to the Global Crop Prospects and Food Situation report for November, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 12 November. | ¤ In Brief: Cash does not always mean quality food aid
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 11, 2009 (IRIN) - A move by donor countries to provide aid agencies with cash, allowing them the flexibility to source cheaper or more appropriate food in the region or beneficiary country and save on transport and warehousing costs, is not addressing nutritional needs, according to a new report. | ¤ AFRICA: Turning to traditional medicines in fight against malaria
NAIROBI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference www.mimalaria.org/pamc in Nairobi. Many poor communities, especially in rural settings, cannot afford modern malarial drugs and many people die due to inaccessibility of treatment. | ¤ AFRICA: AU pushes the envelope on "climate migrants"
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change. | ¤ Analysis: African IDP convention fills a void in humanitarian law
KAMPALA Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is a comprehensive document that will, if ratified, fill a void in international humanitarian law, say experts. | ¤ AFRICA: Electronic records can streamline health care
NAIROBI Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Replacing manual data with electronic health records would significantly improve the quality of care and enable African HIV treatment programmes to be scaled up more efficiently, say the authors of a new article on the subject. |
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