Salafist violence and artisanal mining: Evidence from Burkina Faso - Brugger F, Zongo T.
Armed groups have expanded their presence in the Sahel over the last decade, including in areas with intensive artisanal gold mining. Our understanding of how their presence changes the governance of artisanal mining sites, how it differs from agriculture ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Mali, Burkina Faso Warn Against Military Intervention in Niger
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Source: Reuters: Health - July 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
More Than 40,000 Near Death as Militants Block Towns in Northeast Burkina Faso
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Source: Reuters: Health - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Burkina Faso became the 'world's most neglected displacement crisis'
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Source: NPR Health and Science - July 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gabriel Spitzer Source Type: news
Prevalence and correlates of adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: a population-based study in Burkina Faso - Ebalu TI, Kearns JC, Ouermi L, Bountogo M, Si é A, Bärnighausen T, Harling G.
Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) are a growing concern among youth in sub-Saharan Africa, but their prevalence and correlates in this region are poorly understood. We therefore examined self-reported SITBs in a population-representative sample... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Nigeria: Anthrax Outbreak - Nigeria's Health Ministry Issues Alert, Asks Hajj Pilgrims to Shun 'Ponmo', Bushmeat
[Premium Times] The ministry said Anthrax has been discovered in some West African countries, including Ghana, Burkina Faso and Togo. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 15, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Of the Sahel and the Merchants of Death
Fake or substandard antimalarial medicines kill as many as 267,000 sub-Saharan Africans every year. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPS By Baher KamalMADRID, Jun 2 2023 (IPS) There is a tangled trafficking web that has been woven across the Sahel, which spans almost 6.000 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and is home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
This is how several international specialised bodies, mainly the United Nations, depict the aggravated situation in this already highly fragile African re...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
New Mosquito Species Could Derail Fight Against Malaria
Stagnant water in one of Nairobi’s residential areas. Credit: Wilson Odhiambo/IPSBy Wilson OdhiamboNAIROBI, May 8 2023 (IPS) ‘Urban’ Kenya has been alerted because new mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, threatens to derail decades of effort made in the fight against malaria.
According to a report by experts from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), the species was first noted during routine mosquito surveillance in Saku and Laisamis villages in Marsabit County. The report states that, unlike the traditional mosquito vector, the Anopheles stephensi can adapt to man-made habitats that include plastic cont...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wilson Odhiambo Tags: Africa Climate Change Development & Aid Environment Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Source Type: news
Burkina Faso expels reporters from two French newspapers
Burkina Faso has expelled correspondents from Le Monde and Liberation, the newspapers said on Sunday, the latest move the junta running the west African country has taken against French media. Burkina Faso, which witnessed two coups last year, is battling a jihadist insurgency that spilled over…#burkinafaso #lemondeandliberation #westafrican #jihadist #sophiedouce #liberation #agnesfaivre #lemonde #alqaida #northafrica (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Oral Azithromycin During Labor Fails to Stop Neonatal Sepsis, Death
(MedPage Today) -- Giving azithromycin to mothers during labor did not reduce the incidence of neonatal sepsis or mortality, a randomized trial conducted in Gambia and Burkina Faso found.
Of nearly 12,000 live births in the two West African nations... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 7, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Research Uncovers Cheaper Diagnostic Tools For Chronic Hepatitis B in Africa
This study adds guidance as to when such earlier diagnosis may be attained.
“However, research is one thing, health systems strengthening another. Studies like this one add to the impetus and arm the policymakers to make the right decisions,” he says.
But he urges communities to take charge of these findings instead of leaving action in the hands of “sometimes incapacitated policymakers’ hands.”
“The question should be, what is the community saying about findings such as these? If we wait for policymakers to decide when they are going to invest in hepatitis B interventions, we will wait for the rest of our ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Charles Mpaka Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Malawi Source Type: news
Africa's largest film festival offers hope amid years of strife in Burkina Faso
Most film festivals can be counted on to provide entertainment, laced with some introspection. The weeklong FESPACO that opens Saturday in violence-torn Burkina Faso’s capital goes beyond that to also offer hope, and a symbol of endurance: In years of political strife and Islamic extremist…#burkinafasos #islamic #westafrican #maimounandiaye #ouagadougou #burkinafasossahel #african #nigeria #ivorycoast #africa (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A decades-long ethnic conflict in Ghana is at risk of escalation from foreign fighters
Ghana has so far avoided the wave of Islamist violence that has destabilized neighboring countries in West Africa. But the situation in Bawku threatens to mark the point at which jihadists finally breached the borders of what has arguably been the region’s most stable country. If true, that would…#ghana #islamist #westafrica #bawku #islamic #alqaeda #mali #burkinafaso #burkina #amaduhamza (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cleantech Qotto embarks on growth plan backed by $8M funding
Qotto, a solar kits provider with operations in Burkina Faso and Benin, has raised $8 million in a Series A equity-debt round led by the IBL group, a billion-dollar conglomerate headquartered in Mauritius with business interests in a number of sectors including energy, financial services,…#burkinafaso #ibl #mauritius #feiogef #cordaid #ivorycoast #sunking #africa #subsaharanafrica #westafrica (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Burkina Faso: MSF Workers Killed in Attack - Work Suspended in Boucle du Mouhoun
[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the murder of two of its employees in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, in northwestern Burkina Faso. The organisation is suspending its medical activities in the Boucle du Mouhoun region. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 9, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
