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Nigeria: Osunbor Calls for Repatriation of Stolen Benin ArtefactsGOVERNOR Oserheimen Osunbor of Edo State has called for the repatriation of the stolen Benin Artifacts, currently located at the various museums in Europe and America.
Source : AllAfrica | 13-Oct-2008 15:39
Team Hit Benin in Last Match
After failing in their bid to qualify for next year's World Junior basketball championship with a quarterfinal loss to Tunisia, Kenya still managed to hammer Benin 71-37.
Source : AllAfrica | 13-Oct-2008 14:26
MALI: When the world?s deserts flood
DAKAR Friday, October 10, 2008 (IRIN) - In August floods loosened the dry caked Sahelian earth in Gao, northern Mali, affecting more than 1,000 people, many of whom temporarily took refuge in area schools. While displaced families have since vacated schools in time for the beginning of the school year on 6 October, many families remain homeless, according to the Mali Red Cross.
Source : IRIN | 10-Oct-2008 20:14
AFRICA: ?Sexually-transmitted grades? kills quality education
DAKAR Friday, October 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers. From ?Sexually Transmitted Grades? to ?BF?, or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual activities with teachers, this slang hints at the prevalence of exploitation in Africa?s learning environments.
Source : irinnews.org | 10-Oct-2008 12:39
Benin: Blood Shortage Proves Deadly
Fear, a lack of blood donation supplies and ill-trained health staff have led to a dangerous blood shortage in Benin, said the head of the country's blood donor association.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 07:45
BENIN: Blood shortage proves deadly
COTONOU, 8 October 2008 - Fear, a lack of blood donation supplies and ill-trained health staff have led to a dangerous blood shortage in Benin, said the head of the country's blood donor association.
Source : Topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 23:58
BENIN: Blood shortage proves deadly
COTONOU Wednesday, October 08, 2008 (IRIN) - Fear, a lack of blood donation supplies and ill-trained health staff have led to a dangerous blood shortage in Benin, said the head of the country?s blood donor association.
Source : irinnews.org | 08-Oct-2008 19:59
FUFA to cater fully for Benin visit
THE Squirrels of Benin will have a comfortable stay in Kampala after soccer governing body FUFA confirmed they would fully abide by a memorandum of understanding made before Cranes lost 4-1 in Cotonou in June.
Source : Topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 02:54
AFRICA: Wiping out hunger? one fruit fly at a time
DAKAR Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (IRIN) - For years, farmers in one of Senegal?s most mango-rich zones, Keur Mbir Ndao, 80km east of the capital, were losing more than half their harvests. While some wrote it off to God?s wrath, researchers told them the cause was actually an Asian fruit fly, Bactrocera invadens, first discovered in Kenya in 2003.
Source : IRIN | 07-Oct-2008 21:00
Cranes Must Watch Deadly Omotoyosi
Razak Omotoyosi is one man Uganda Cranes defenders must keep a keen eye on when they face Benin in a must- win Africa/World Cup qualifier at Namboole on Sunday.
Source : AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2008 12:08
Stamps that throw light on winged beauties
Keen: Schoolchildren looking at the nests of birds displayed at an exhibition at Dr.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Oct-2008 22:43
Benin: Erosion-Inducing Coastal Sand Mining to Be Outlawed
Faced with rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused in part by coastal sand mining, carting away of free beach sand for commercial uses, the national government has begun a campaign to save its coastal sand by digging up sand inland, instead. But communities near these newly-created sand collection spots are fighting back.
Source : AllAfrica | 04-Oct-2008 08:47
BENIN: Erosion-inducing coastal sand mining to be outlawed
COTONOU, 3 October 2008 - Faced with rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused in part by coastal sand mining, carting away of free beach sand for commercial uses, the national government has begun a ...
Source : Topix.net | 03-Oct-2008 22:23
BENIN: Erosion-inducing coastal sand mining to be outlawed
COTONOU Friday, October 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Faced with rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused in part by coastal sand mining, carting away of free beach sand for commercial uses, the national government has begun a campaign to save its coastal sand by digging up sand inland, instead. But communities near these newly-created sand collection spots are fighting back.
Source : IRIN | 03-Oct-2008 19:29
Bobby Back for Cranes Duty
Cranes coach Bobby Williamson has returned to the country from Scotland where he had gone for a short break.
Source : AllAfrica | 02-Oct-2008 09:39
Benin: Cotonou's Overlooked Killer - Air Pollution
Health officials say air pollution in Benin's economic capital, Cotonou, is an often-overlooked, undiagnosed killer that is as much of a health threat as the country's leading cause of death, malaria.
Source : AllAfrica | 02-Oct-2008 08:58
Society
The Mozambican Education Ministry has admitted that there are serious problems of quality education provided by the country's school s , particularly in the initial years of primary education.
Source : Topix.net | 02-Oct-2008 07:06
BENIN: Cotonou?s overlooked killer: air pollution
COTONOU Wednesday, October 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Health officials say air pollution in Benin?s economic capital, Cotonou, is an often-overlooked, undiagnosed killer that is as much of a health threat as the country?s leading cause of death, malaria.
Source : irinnews.org | 01-Oct-2008 19:49
Corruption and the road to Accra
O NE of the problems of African countries is the great dissonance that exists between declared policy and policy implementation.
Source : Topix.net | 30-Sep-2008 06:46
GLOBAL: "Hot topic" - special journal issue on climate and migration reviewed
JOHANNESBURG Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article buffet on climate change and displacement, a ?hot topic? according to Jean-Francois Durieux, a lecturer at the centre.
Source : IRIN | 29-Sep-2008 17:59
AFRICA: Call to ban cluster bombs
KAMPALA Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid calls for African countries to do more to ensure the weapons are banned.
Source : IRIN | 29-Sep-2008 17:29
Culture
The first national show on traditional culinary arts in Benin will be held from 23 to 27 September in Cotonou, sources close to the mini s try of culture, handicrafts and tourism, organisers of the event, ...
Source : Topix.net | 28-Sep-2008 06:36
Culture
Congolese artist and painter, Rhdode Bath-Scheba Makoumbo u, will mount an exhibition of his works from 3 October to 15 November in Bilbao, Spain.
Source : Topix.net | 26-Sep-2008 06:29
GLOBAL: Leadership determines AIDS performance
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, September 25, 2008 (IRIN) - As South Africa prepared to swear in a new president on 25 September after the dramatic ousting of Thabo Mbeki four days before, attempts by commentators to summarise the former president's mixed legacy have not failed to mention his controversial stance on AIDS.
Source : IRIN | 25-Sep-2008 18:44
Cranes to Play Final CAF Tie On Saturday
Uganda Cranes will play their last 2010 World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifier against Benin on Saturday, October 11, a day earlier than planned.
Source : AllAfrica | 25-Sep-2008 10:31
I'll go back to teaching if ... says Dike
Alphonsus Dike, the Golden Eaglets coach who led the team to crumble Sunday against neighbouring Benin Republic in the African Youth Championship match has said that he would go back to his teaching profession ...
Source : Topix.net | 24-Sep-2008 06:19
WEST AFRICA: West Africa gets mixed report card in 2008 corruption index
DAKAR Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (IRIN) - Nine West African countries shot up while nine others sank lower in the 2008 Transparency International (TI) ranking of perceptions of corruption in 180 countries.
Source : IRIN | 23-Sep-2008 23:00
SOUTH AFRICA: Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when there is a threat of famine or food insecurity.
Source : irinnews.org | 23-Sep-2008 18:30
GLOBAL: What happens to aid money?
DAKAR Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (IRIN) - Tired of navigating the often-secretive donor funding world, a group of international non-profits have launched the Publish What You Fund (PWYF) campaign to encourage donors to reveal timely and accessible information about how they are spending their money.
Source : irinnews.org | 23-Sep-2008 17:20
Why we 're bringing the world to Nigeria - Frank Osodi
Frank Osodi, the creative hand at House of Bunor, is not an unfamiliar face in the Nigerian fashion industry.
Source : Topix.net | 22-Sep-2008 05:46
22-year-old Beninoise stabs man to death
Like every young lady, 22-year-old Ganiyat Osumare, a citizen of the Benin Republic but a Nigerian by birth, was full of hopes for a brighter future.
Source : Topix.net | 20-Sep-2008 05:34
AFRICA: Humanitarian Air
JOHANNESBURG Friday, September 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Often the forgotten heroes of humanitarian assistance, pilots play a critical role in making sure that aid gets to where it is needed most around the world - and sometimes they pay the ultimate price.
Source : IRIN | 19-Sep-2008 10:50
BENIN: Flesh-eating Buruli ulcer 'neglected disease' spreads
A tropical flesh-eating disease, Buruli ulcer, is spreading across West Africa and has infected at least 40,000 people leaving them with bloody infected wounds and swollen skin ulcers, which at their worst, ...
Source : Topix.net | 19-Sep-2008 03:59
BENIN: Flesh-eating Buruli ulcer ?neglected disease? spreads
COTONOU Thursday, September 18, 2008 (IRIN) - A tropical flesh-eating disease, Buruli ulcer, is spreading across West Africa and has infected at least 40,000 people leaving them with bloody infected wounds and swollen skin ulcers, which at their worst, require surgery or amputation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Source : irinnews.org | 18-Sep-2008 23:00
Benin: Govt Threatens Glo Operations
Globacom's record-breaking achievements since it launched its network in June in Benin Republic may be truncated by the failure of the Beninoise government to release the frequency it allocated to the Nigerian telecoms company over one and a half years ago.
Source : AllAfrica | 18-Sep-2008 12:46
West Africa: A life-changing highway
COTONOU, 17 September 2008 - If you live along the main highway linking Abidjan, CA te d'Ivoire's economic hub, with Lagos in Nigeria, it is almost impossible to ignore the many AIDS awareness messages along ...
Source : Topix.net | 18-Sep-2008 00:19
West Africa: A life-changing highway
COTONOU Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (IRIN) - If you live along the main highway linking Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's economic hub, with Lagos in Nigeria, it is almost impossible to ignore the many AIDS awareness messages along the route, travelled by 47 million people each year.
Source : irinnews.org | 17-Sep-2008 17:40
Under 17 - Galadima Blames NFF for Not Appointing Iroha
Former Nigeria Football Association chairman, Ibrahim Galadima yesterday lamented the defeat of Nigeria's Under 17 team by Benin Republic and blamed the football federation for not retaining Ben Iroha who, together with late Yomi Tella, won the championship in Korea.
Source : AllAfrica | 17-Sep-2008 10:50
BENIN: Awadjii Yekini, "I have nothing left to harvest this year"
Awadjii Yekin is a 30-year-old farmer in Gangbam, a village in Adjohoun, which is 60 kilometres east of Cotonou.
Source : Topix.net | 17-Sep-2008 03:13
Awadjii Yekini, 'I Have Nothing Left to Harvest This Year'
Awadjii Yekin is a 30-year-old farmer in Gangbam, a village in Adjohun, which is 60 kilometres east of Cotonou. He grew up following his father in the fields, until he came to work those fields himself.
Source : AllAfrica | 16-Sep-2008 11:04
Benin: Flooding Prompts Fears of Malnutrition, Disease
About 57,000 people in the Oueme river valley community of Adjohoun, 60km east of Cotonou, are threatened with malnutrition and water-born diseases because of river flooding, which has wiped out more than 25,000 hectares of crop land, killed about 30,000 animals, flooded 18,000 homes, and has displaced about 2,000 people according to local authorities.
Source : AllAfrica | 16-Sep-2008 07:27
BENIN: River flooding prompts fears of malnutrition, disease
ADJOHOUN, 15 September 2008 - About 57,000 people in the Oueme river valley community of Adjohoun, 60km east of Cotonou, are threatened with malnutrition and water-born diseases because of river flooding, which ...
Source : Topix.net | 16-Sep-2008 03:03
BENIN: Awadjii Yekini, ?I have nothing left to harvest this year?
ADJOHOUN Monday, September 15, 2008 (IRIN) - Awadjii Yekin is a 30-year-old farmer in Gangbam, a village in Adjohun, which is 60 kilometres east of Cotonou. He grew up following his father in the fields, until he came to work those fields himself. Normally, his five hectares of land produce enough to feed him, his wife and their two children. But in recent years, his worries grew with the rising river. This year, the annual river flooding was more massive than before, flooding his home in which he treads shoulder-deep in water. He says he has precariously set his house on piles of rock to buy more time, but that he fears, eventually, he cannot escape the water.
Source : irinnews.org | 15-Sep-2008 22:00
BENIN: River flooding prompts fears of malnutrition, disease
ADJOUHOUN Monday, September 15, 2008 (IRIN) - About 57,000 people in the east Cotonou river valley community of Adjohoun, 60km east of Cotonou are threatened with malnutrition and water-born diseases because of river flooding, which has wiped out more than 25,000 hectares of crop land, killed about 30,000 animals, flooded 18,000 homes, and has displaced about 2,000 people according to local authorities.
Source : irinnews.org | 15-Sep-2008 21:45
Environment
Mauritius has proclaimed the Blue Bay Marine Park, in the south of the island, as the second Ramsar Site of international importance, PANA reported.
Source : Topix.net | 14-Sep-2008 03:17
Culture
The 14th International Drama Festival of Mindelo in C ape Verde, kicked off Thursday, featuring several foreign delegations, including those from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Spain, Netherlands ...
Source : Topix.net | 12-Sep-2008 01:49