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  • Calendar, May 9-10 9 May 2008 07:46 GMT
    ... group of Berkshire organizations joining together to achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goals in Burkina Faso by 2015, at 1:30 p.m., live worldwide broadcast from 2-6 p.m. Information: (413) 528-3360. ...

  • Maroc Telecom Q1 sales rise 13.9 percent on mobile services growth 9 May 2008 05:55 GMT
    ... 255 million dirhams 'mainly due to competition in the mobile market'. Onatel, based in Burkina Faso, saw a 7 percent increase in sales to 355 million dirhams, although Gabon Telecom's ...

  • African farmers face bleak future over land for biodiesel production 9 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... he said emotionally. Touhing on the global food crisis that led to unrests in Burkina Faso, Cote D’ivoire and Senegal, Mr. Ssuuna said a proper policy on agriculture tailored towards ...

  • Religious Seek More Funding in AIDS Fight 8 May 2008 22:45 GMT
    ... in the Hospital of St. Camilo of Ouagadougou, and a consultor for the Pontifical Council ... people who contract HIV every year in Burkina Faso, 10,000 are children infected during pregnancy, birth ...

  • High food prices hit Kenya amid warnings of shortages 8 May 2008 22:15 GMT
    ... food prices have risen by 50 percent, violent demonstrations have broken out in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire. Five people died in Somalia earlier this week when authorities cracked ...

  • Fresh Approach to Street Children 8 May 2008 21:46 GMT
    ... With an increased number of children living in the streets of urban areas in Burkina Faso, the government and several non-governmental organisations are coming up with new approaches to address ...

  • BURKINA FASO: Fresh approach to street children 8 May 2008 20:39 GMT
    ... Copyright © IRIN 2008. All rights reserved. This material comes to you via IRIN, the ...

  • Fighting AIDS: Religious Do 26% of Work With 5% of Money 8 May 2008 20:37 GMT
    ... Health Care Ministry, explained: "Of the 40,000 people who contract HIV every year in Burkina Faso, 10,000 are children infected during pregnancy, birth or from breastfeeding. "The treatment for preventing ...

  • Africa health experts discuss new vaccines for meningitis 8 May 2008 19:06 GMT
    ... weeks of 2008 recorded 123 cases of epidemic meningitis out of which 25 died. Burkina Faso recorded the highest of 7,779 out of which 761 died followed by Nigeria with ...

  • Hunger in Abundance 8 May 2008 18:42 GMT
    ... were killed in hunger protests in the last weeks. The starving rebel in Egypt, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Indonesia, Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Mozambique and Senegal. In Asian states like India, Pakistan, ...

  • Calendar, May 8-14 8 May 2008 17:27 GMT
    ... announcement of a consortium of partners to achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goals in Burkina Faso, Africa; "Walk for Water," from 9 to noon, Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great ...

  • Liberia: Taylor's Former Vice President, Moses Blah, to Testify Next Week [guest blog] 8 May 2008 14:39 GMT
    ... facilitating the Accused's ability to obtain arms and ammunition. Assistance of the President of Burkina Faso to the Accused from the late 1980's onward, including but not limited to providing ...

  • Taylor's Former Vice President, Moses Blah, to Testify Next Week 8 May 2008 14:37 GMT
    ... facilitating the Accused's ability to obtain arms and ammunition. Assistance of the President of Burkina Faso to the Accused from the late 1980's onward, including but not limited to providing ...

  • European Commission and West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) join efforts to tackle food crisis and boost regional integration 8 May 2008 14:11 GMT
    ... Monetary Union (Senegal, Benin, Togo, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau and Ivory Coast) agreed to ... the headquarters of the UEMOA Commission in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in order to find concrete ...

  • Pregnant Woman Dies During Bawku Curfew Hours 8 May 2008 12:52 GMT
    ... is mass fleeing of residents from the area, with some crossing over to neighbouring Burkina Faso and Togo, while others have escaped to Bolgatanga, Tamale and some parts of the ...

  • An Insatiable Global Hunger for Grain 8 May 2008 12:52 GMT
    ... used the materials allocated for this crop for sorghum and corn seedbeds. In neighbouring Burkina Faso , soya fields have advantageously replaced the cotton trees. Faced with a lack of ...

  • "Europe goes local": EU development cooperation staff visit schools on Europe Day 8 May 2008 11:00 GMT
    ... to find solutions to problems associated with development: how to help street children in Burkina Faso, how to combat deforestation in Kenya, or how to improve road transport in Niger. ...

  • EPAs must serve as a wake up call 8 May 2008 09:13 GMT
    ... domestic competitiveness." He cited an example where tomato farmers in Ghana resisted tomatoes from Burkina Faso from entering the country even though we talk of south-south trade and explained that ...

  • Jazz  8 May 2008 07:48 GMT
    ... the following track, Rencontre, brings together a Belgian saxophonist and rhythm players from Togo, Burkina Faso and Congo in the most experimental improvisations. All the soloists are assured and imaginative, ...

  • Mwinyi: The strategy now is to roll back malaria 8 May 2008 07:39 GMT
    ... disease should also be the same. Participants to the workshop come from Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Gambia, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda and the host ...

  • Palau President To Visit Israel, Taiwan, Germany 8 May 2008 07:07 GMT
    ... the inauguration are the king of Swaziland; the presidents of Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Burkina Faso, Sao Tome and Principe, Honduras, El Salvador and Paraguay; and the governors of the ...

  • EPAs must serve as a wake up call for Ghanaians - CEPA 8 May 2008 05:39 GMT
    ... domestic competitiveness.” He cited an example where tomato farmers in Ghana resisted tomatoes from Burkina Faso from entering the country even though we talk of south-south trade and explained that ...

  • Uganda: Global Initiative Rescues Country's Looming Water Crisis 8 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... world's poorest people. The $15m Global Water Initiative will work in 13 other countries: Burkina Faso, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, Nicaragua, Niger, Senegal and Tanzania. The ...

  • Food riots, anti-U.S. protests erupt in Somalia 8 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... to see riots over rising food prices, after others including Haiti, Egypt, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso. The Financial Times has a map of the civil unrest sparked by the food ...

  • Eradicating Malaria in Niger: A Progress Report Day 8 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... 25 commemorative activities in Tamou, a small town meeting place on the border with Burkina Faso, and a region where malaria is endemic. The UNICEF Resident Representative mentioned in his ...


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