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- Mauritania: Returning Refugees Say They Are Fitting in Well
- Africa: Investing in the Health of Continent’s Mothers
- The New Nation – Internet Edition

Mauritania: Returning Refugees Say They Are Fitting in Well
AllAfrica.com – Feb 25, 2008
Another returnee Binta Lero Sow living six kilometres north of the town of Rosso told IRIN "It is going well. We don’t need anything. "A total of 30000 Mauritanian refugees are still living in Senegal and Mali. Ethnic clashes in 1989 with Arab Moors living in neighbouring Senegal were behind the expulsion of black Mauritanians by the Arab-dominated government of former president Maaoua uld Sid’Ahmed Taya. To smooth the transition for the 102 black Mauritanians many were moved to areas where they already have family networks. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and various non-governmental organisations are providing tents at sites in and around the town of Rosso on the border with Senegal 180 km south of Nouakchott Mauritania’s capital. High hopesThe organisations will also provide food and medicine for three months after which time the government’s National Agency to Welcome and Repatriate Refugees (ANAIR) will take over the support.
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Africa: Investing in the Health of Continent’s Mothers
AllAfrica.com – Feb 25, 2008
And she adds "Even when attendants are present they may not always have the training skills or adequate equipment and facilities. "Health care on bicyclesDespite scarce resources some countries have been able to find ways to expand access to maternal health care. In Senegal the Ministry of Health and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) jointly fund the work of community health workers who bicycle to visit women in their villages. They are trained to monitor the health status of pregnant women refer the women to local health centres for prenatal checkups and ensure that they get to a centre where skilled attendants can assist with delivery. "These volunteers come from the populations they serve" says Dr. Suzzane Maiga-Konate UNFPA’s representative in Senegal. "Sensitive questions that people would never ask an outsider they ask them.
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The New Nation – Internet Edition
New Nation – The New Nation – Feb 25, 2008
The petitioners fear that the out-growers have been tricked: “These contracts serve to transfer control over production from the farmer to the company through a system of loans numerous extra charges and service payments and prices determined by the company. Under such a system of dependence farmers are likely to increase their indebtedness to the company until they may be obliged to hand over their land altogether. ” In West Africa jatropha is already being grown in Togo Ghana Senegal Mali Côte d?Ivoire and Niger. Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade has placed fuel crops at the heart of an agriculture renewal programme in his country. In Ghana one company is planning to plant one million hectares of jatropha with support of the government while in Benin another company has obtained permission to plant a quarter of a million hectares of biofuel crops. Farmers in Benin and in many other countries in the region have on the average no more than 1 hectare to grow there products and the biofuels are expected to make a serious dent into their food production. The petitioners therefore hold that the biofuel revolution is “geared to replace millions of hectares of local agricultural systems and the rural communities working in them with large plantations.