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Latest Africa-focused news stories from the United Nations and UN agencies
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Briefing: Restive northern Kenya sees shifting power, risks
GARISSA-NAIROBI, 17 May 2013 (IRIN) - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years. -
Finding local solutions in a regional food crisis
DORI, Burkina Faso, 17 May 2013 - After 35 days at Dori Hospital, 15 of them in a coma, 2-year-old Mariama now weighs 6.5 kilograms and is on the road to recovery. When she arrived, she weighed just five kilograms and was suffering from severe malnutrition with complications. Over the last two years, this referral hospital in the hot and dry north of Burkina Faso has seen a steady flow of such cases, as a large-scale nutrition crisis across nine countries of the Sahel region has left more than a million children at risk for or suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
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Cape Town's asylum seekers struggle to get documented
CAPE TOWN, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - When Jean Baptiste*, a medical student from Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), arrived in South Africa in September 2012, he headed straight for Cape Town, where he knew he would be able to stay with his brother. No one at the border told him that it was no longer possible to apply for asylum in Cape Town. -
Pastoralism’s economic contributions are significant but overlooked
NAIROBI, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - Pastoralism is often regarded as an antiquated practice ill-suited to the modern economy, yet trade between pastoral communities in Africa - much of it informal and illegal - generated an estimated US$1 billion each year, according to a new book published by the Futures Agriculture Consortium. -
Rio embraces multilingualism
Reaching people in their own language is a UN priority, one that the UN Information Centre (UNIC) Rio De Janeiro lives by. That is why UNIC spends much time translating UN messages into Portuguese, so the people of Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries can learn and benefit from what the UN has to offer.
For example, UNIC and the Coordination of the Brazilian Post-2015 Campaign translated into Portuguese the website "MY World 2015" and logo, which was...
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Making decent work a reality for domestic workers in Africa
The ILO is organising a Knowledge Sharing Forum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 28-30 May 2013 to share good practices, practical initiatives and new policies to promote decent work for domestic workers in Africa.
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Observance of the International Day of Families 2013
UNIC Lagos, in collaboration with the NGO – Women’s Board Educational Co-operation Society (NGO in Consultative Status with the ECOSOC of the UN, working for the development of the Nigerian woman), organized an NGO/Media Forum on Wednesday 15 May on the Preparations of the twentieth anniversary of the Year of the Family and the Observance of the International Day of Families 2013.
The forum was held to create awareness of this anniversary and spread the importance...
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Call for oil revenues to improve living standards in Congo
BRAZZAVILLE, 15 May 2013 (IRIN) - Congo, which is heavily dependent on revenue from the oil industry, has been declared as “conforming to” a global standard that aims to ensure transparency of payments for natural resources; NGOs hope the announcement will improve the lives of the poor. -
Briefing at Cosmos City Secondary School
On 19 April 2013, Cosmo City Secondary School in Johannesburg hosted UNIC Pretoria for a briefing on the UN. This event was lead by the UNIC Librarian.
The 8 Goals for Africa video was screened to grade 12 students followed by the UN4U video. The Librarian gave an overview of the work of the UN and the Millennium Development Goals. The students were engaged in the discussion session which provoked interesting questions on poverty in general and what the UN was doing...
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Girls receive a visit from a different man every night, a ‘new husband’: Saran Keïta Diakité
Saran Keïta Diakité is a lawyer in Mali and President of the Malian branch of the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security (Réseau Paix et Sécurité des Femmes de l’Espace CEDEAO). As the Donor Conference on Mali starts in Brussels, in her own words she speaks about the atrocities occurring in her country, which has been plagued by political instability and the proliferation of armed groups that have uprooted more than 415,000 people since a military coup d’état in March 2012. She also talks about the work of her NGO, supported by UN Women, to assist survivors of violence, provide access...
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