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Niger
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MSF ordered to halt operations in Niger

afrol News, 25 July - Niger government has ordered medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres to discontinue its work in south of West African state on suspicion of having connections with Tuareg rebels, MSF reported yesterday.

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Congo Kinshasa
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DRC stabilisation plan to be assessed

afrol News, 24 July - Top United Nations official and Congolese minister are planning to review implementation of security and stabilisation plan for eastern DR Congo. The plan will also include improvements to roads, police stations and other priority infrastructural projects.

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Kenya
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Kenyan forces accused of blocking aid

afrol News, 21 July - An international humanitarian agency has accused Kenyan security forces today for blocking aid workers in the country's remote Mt Elgon district, where conflict between armed forces and militia has severely affected civilians.

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Somalia
Society | Agriculture - Nutrition | Human rights | Politics

Deteriorating security worrying in Somalia

afrol News, 15 July - United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia today expressed grave concern at the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the country after two Somali aid workers were killed on Friday, while UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported that one of its transport agents was shot dead on Sunday.

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Egypt
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Egypt gives priority to water and sanitary schemes

afrol News, 14 July - Egyptian government is planning to spend over LE 5.5 billion on water and sanitary drainage schemes to provide purified water for all its towns and villages, as part of programme to extend sanitary drainage network to cover the rest of country.

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» 12.06.2008 - Piracy threatens Somali food emergency shipments
» 10.06.2008 - U.N. cuts Sudan's aid flights
» 10.06.2008 - APRM reviews Cameroon
» 06.06.2008 - Cameroon aided to developed returned Bakassi
» 26.11.2007 - Mozambique: Respecting sex work
» 24.08.2007 - Angola attains high economic growth
» 24.08.2007 - Mugabe pressurised on reforms
» 24.08.2007 - Illegal Liberians’ deportation contested
» 24.08.2007 - ‘Nutrition no substitute for ARV’
» 23.08.2007 - Senegal invites third mobile operator
» 22.08.2007 - Liberia’s post-war challenges exposed
» 11.06.2007 - Safe abortions may soon be legal in Mozambique
» 07.06.2007 - 2 million Zimbabwe children get polio vaccine
» 04.06.2007 - Month-old general strike threatens Chadians
» 11.04.2007 - Mali finds no good way to boost health services
» 04.04.2007 - Demolition worries Cameroonians
» 02.04.2007 - More aid for Lesotho's numerous orphans
» 28.03.2007 - PM tells Guineans to "be patient"
» 28.03.2007 - Somali govt starts issuing new e-passports
» 27.03.2007 - Swaziland addresses heavy-drinking reputation
» 09.03.2007 - Kenya's tourist coast attracts youths, sex workers
» 08.03.2007 - Mali govt to "beat malaria this year"
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique Minister spying on lazy workers
» 22.02.2007 - Risky business of informal cross-border trade
» 02.01.2007 - Mbeki invites South Africans to tackle challenges
» 08.12.2006 - Doom awaits African beggars
» 07.12.2006 - Health continue to hinder Africa's progress
» 23.11.2006 - West Africans parents "tricked into child trafficking"
» 20.11.2006 - Morocco economy grows, welfare not
» 10.11.2006 - Not wanted: rich, African nations
» 09.11.2006 - Swaziland's parliament goes on 'strike'
» 07.11.2006 - Zimbabwe women preach love to demand change
» 06.11.2006 - Eritrea expels more aid agencies
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 10.10.2006 - 50% of South African children go to bed hungry
» 04.10.2006 - 87% of young Saharawis want to emigrate
» 19.06.2006 - Generous herdsmen of Niger honoured by UNESCO
» 02.06.2006 - Kenya announces free AIDS, malaria drugs
» 04.04.2006 - Health workers turn back on Nigeria
» 03.04.2006 - Niger battles malaria
» 30.03.2006 - Angola slammed over forced evictions
» 08.09.2005 - Human development report shocks South Africa
» 18.03.2005 - Child mortality up by 50% in Zimbabwe
» 16.02.2005 - Egypt houses up to 1 million stateless children
» 11.02.2005 - San eviction trial goes on in Botswana
» 06.12.2004 - South Africa ends race rating of blood donors
» 01.12.2004 - Impact of AIDS on South Africa's elderly underrated
» 30.11.2004 - Germans to build cheap housing in Ethiopia
» 18.11.2004 - "Zambia not hindered from hiring teachers," IMF
» 15.10.2004 - 7.3 million vaccinated against measles in Madagascar
» 06.10.2004 - Namibia discusses pension, gift for outgoing President
» 14.09.2004 - Uganda, Nigeria to regulate traditional healers
» 09.09.2004 - Traditional healers recognised by South African lawmakers
» 01.09.2004 - Strife brings poverty and recession to Côte d'Ivoire
» 26.08.2004 - Public services collapsed in rebel-held parts of Côte d'Ivoire
» 26.08.2004 - Ghanaian King fronts work for disabled
» 01.07.2004 - Sierra Leone re-establishes water supply
» 18.05.2004 - Support for São Tomé's social sectors
» 03.02.2004 - Frustration over South African AIDS budget cuts
» 02.02.2004 - Water tariffs to rise in South Africa
» 29.01.2004 - Public health law approved in Cape Verde
» 23.01.2004 - Some 80% of Somalis now illiterate
» 22.01.2004 - Kenyan, Tanzanian "financiers of terrorism" named
» 07.01.2004 - South African govt admits existence of more than 200 living deads
» 03.11.2003 - Senegalese artists, business unite against AIDS
» 19.07.2003 - Angola approves new social protection act
» 24.06.2003 - Efforts to improve Angola's social services

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