Southern Africa: UN aid agencies on alert for potential floods

pambazuka Friday, March 12, 2010 4:55:00 PM CET | info

2010-03-12 The United Nations is gathering supplies for some 130,000 people in southern Africa on alert for potential evacuation from flood-risk zones following weeks of torrential rains in northern Mozambique and neighbouring Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe....

West Africa: Farmers receive boost from UN organic food exporting initiative

pambazuka Friday, March 12, 2010 4:55:00 PM CET | info

2010-03-12 Some 5,000 West African farmers are reaping the rewards from a United Nations scheme aimed at helping them export produce to the growing organic food market in the industrialized world. The $2.4 million UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) project has helped farmers in Burkina.......

Ministers call for advancement of science and technology for African socio-economic development

africanpressorganization Friday, March 12, 2010 4:39:00 PM CET | info

CAIRO, Egypt, March 12, 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — African Ministers of Science and Technology met at their fourth Ministerial Session on 10 March 2010, in Cairo, Egypt....

Nigeria: LG Chief's Wife Flags Off Immunisation Campaign

allafrica Friday, March 12, 2010 4:27:00 PM CET | info

The wife of Oji River Local Government Area Chairman in Enugu State, Mrs Njideka Onuzulike has flagged-off the second round of the 2010 National Immunization in Ehuhe autonomous community in Achi of the council....

Congo-Kinshasa: UN Agency Begins Airlifting Food Aid for Refugees Uprooted From Country

allafrica Friday, March 12, 2010 4:27:00 PM CET | info

The United Nations today started to airlift urgent food aid for tens of thousands of people who have fled ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and are seeking refuge in neighbouring Republic of Congo (ROC)....

Somalia: UN Expressed Concern Over Saftey of Thousands Fleeing Latest Fighting

allafrica Friday, March 12, 2010 4:27:00 PM CET | info

The United Nations refugee agency today expressed its deep concern for the safety of more than 8,000 people trapped in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, by clashes which have uprooted more than 100,000 people since the start of the year....

Tanzania: Pregnant teens forced out of school

pambazuka Friday, March 12, 2010 3:55:00 PM CET | info

2010-03-12 Pregnancy is the leading cause of dropouts for school girls in Tanzania. And a national law forbidding young mothers to return to school after giving birth did not make it any easier for them to continue their education. But thanks to pressure from the United Nations Children Fund.......

Somalia: Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin No. 10, 5 - 12 Mar 2010

reliefWeb-latestUpdates Friday, March 12, 2010 3:38:00 PM CET | info

UNOCHA Somalia, Ngecha Rd. (off Lower Kabete Rd). P.O Box 28832, 00200, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: +254 20 4002400, Website: http://ochaonline.un.org/Somalia Key Overall Developments...

Réfugiés congolais : le PAM établit un pont aérien

reliefWeb-latestUpdates Friday, March 12, 2010 3:38:00 PM CET | info

Depuis octobre dernier, plus de 120 000 congolais ont fui les violents combats en RDC et ont traversé le fleuve pour se réfugier en République du Congo (Brazzaville) et en République Centrafricaine....

Joint Inter-Agency IDP Profiling Service

reliefWeb-latestUpdates Friday, March 12, 2010 3:38:00 PM CET | info

In order to assist more internally displaced people better the UN, the Danish Refugee Council and the Norwegian Refugee Council have in close collaboration worked towards collecting knowledge and methods on IDP profiling. The effort has now resulted in the Joint Inter-Agency Profiling Service....

NIGER: Un besoin urgent d'agir pour éviter une catastrophe

reliefWeb-latestUpdates Friday, March 12, 2010 3:38:00 PM CET | info

L'accès à la nourriture, plutôt que sa disponibilité, semble devoir être le principal problème en 2010, d'après l'organisation américaine de surveillance de la famine, FEWS NET....

Mogadishu mayor urges people to leave amid heavy fighting

earthtimes Friday, March 12, 2010 3:36:00 PM CET | info

Mogadishu/Geneva - The mayor of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday urged civilians to flee as heavy fighting continued between government forces and Islamist insurgents. The fighting began Wednesday afternoon when insurgents pushing to topple the......

UNESCO''s Director-General wraps up visit to quake-stricken Haiti

kuna-en Friday, March 12, 2010 3:34:00 PM CET | info

PARIS, March 12 (KUNA) -- Director-General of UNESCO Irena Bokova has concluded her visit to the quake-stricken Haiti to express UNESCO's solidarity with the victims of the devastating quake. "I have come to express UNESCOs solidarity with Haiti," said Bokova, on the first day of her 48-hour official visit to Port-au Prince....

Côte d’Ivoire / L’ONUCI informe des jeunes filles sur le genre, les droits et les devoirs

africanpressorganization Friday, March 12, 2010 3:07:00 PM CET | info

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, 12 mars 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Dans le cadre de la célébration de la Journée Internationale de la Femme, l’Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d’Ivoire (ONUCI) a organisé jeudi, 11 mars, au Jardin botanique de [....

President Kikwete calls for interconnectivity of railways across regional blocs

africanpressorganization Friday, March 12, 2010 3:07:00 PM CET | info

ARUSHA, Tanzania, March 12, 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The President of the United Republic of Tanzania His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has described rail networks as a lynchpin in regional integration.......

Gambia / Formulation of a human rights strategy for Africa under discussion at Banjul meeting

africanpressorganization Friday, March 12, 2010 3:07:00 PM CET | info

BANJUL, Gambia, March 12, 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Africa has developed many human rights institutions, charters and protocols and there has been notable progress in observance of human rights on the continent....

Somalia - Thousands fleeing deadly clashes in Mogadishu

alertnet Friday, March 12, 2010 2:33:00 PM CET | info

UNHCR is extremely worried about the worsening situation for the civilian population in Somalia which is, once again, exposed to relentless and indiscriminate fighting in Mogadishu and elsewhere in the country. We estimate that since the beginning of the year more than 100,000 Somali civilians have.......

Niger: More Needed to Avoid Catastrophe

allafrica Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27:00 PM CET | info

A severe food and malnutrition crisis is looming in Niger, according to aid agencies....

Burundi: 155,000 Burundian refugees granted Tanzanian citizenship

pambazuka Friday, March 12, 2010 2:10:00 PM CET | info

2010-03-12 About 155,000 Burundian refugees, seeking Tanzanian citizenship, have had their requests granted, according to a communiqué from the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), published on Thursday in Bujumbura, the Burundi capital....

Russian ecologists 'trashing' 2014 Sochi Olympics - deputy PM

rian-en Friday, March 12, 2010 2:08:00 PM CET | info

A Russian deputy prime minister said the country's environmentalists are aiming to "trash" the 2014 Olympics in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi instead of taking "a constructive stance."...

■ Khaibasen attends behaviour change t...

newera Friday, March 12, 2010 1:46:00 PM CET | info

KEETMANSHOOP – Khaibasen is a Community Action Forum (CAF) in Keetmanshoop, who focuses on youth and adult youth. They have been in existence for the past five years. Members of the CAF have recently attended training on behaviour change communication which was organised by NAWALIFE Trust, a.......

■ PRÉ-vue [discourse’s-analysis] TRI-v...

newera Friday, March 12, 2010 1:46:00 PM CET | info

March 21, 1990, a nation was born from underneath the rubbles of oppression and a yoke of subjugation to be “forever free, sovereign and independent”. Twenty years down the line, the newborn baby nation has grown to be ‘a visionary nation on the move’ from adolescence to becoming a mature nation....

Ecuador: New Funding Allows IOM to Continue Emergency Assistance to Colombians in Search of International Protection

reliefWeb-latestUpdates Friday, March 12, 2010 1:36:00 PM CET | info

New funding from the U.S. Department of State Bureau for Population , Refugees and Migration (PRM) will allow IOM to provide shelter, medical assistance, food and non-food items and education support for up to 2,000 Colombians who cross into Ecuador in search of international protection....