Mauritania: Mauritania Shuts Border With Mali Over Ebola
[Deutsche Welle]Mauritania has closed its border with Mali after the country reported its first Ebola death near the frontier shared by the two countries. The WHO says more than 10,000 people have now been infected with the virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 26, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Mauritania closes border with Mali over Ebola fears
BAMAKO/NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania has closed its border with Mali to prevent the spread of Ebola, officials said on Saturday, highlighting fears of further contagion in West Africa after a girl from Guinea died of the disease in Mali this week. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Mauritania closes border with Mali over Ebola: officials
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania has closed its border with Mali after a case of Ebola was confirmed in western Mali near their shared frontier, two Mauritanian officials said on Saturday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Time to “Drop the Knife” for FMG in The Gambia
Circumcisers in the Gambia publicly declaring that they have abandoned the practice of FGM. Credit: Saikou Jammeh/IPSBy Saikou JammehBANJUL, Jul 13 2014 (IPS) Women’s rights activists in the Gambia are insisting that more than 30 years of campaigning to raise awareness should be sufficient to move the government to outlaw female genital mutilation (FMG).
The practice remains widespread in this tiny West African country of 1.8 million people, but rights activists believe that their campaign has now reached the tipping point.
Two years ago, GAMCOTRAP, an apolitical non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to the promo...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Saikou Jammeh Tags: Africa Editors' Choice Education Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Population Religion Women's Health Circumcision female genital mutilation FGM Gambia GAMCOTRAP Islam Ministry of Women’s Affairs Re Source Type: news
OPINION: Unleashing African Young People’s Potential
Girls attend school in South Africa. Healthy, educated young people can help break the cycle of poverty. Credit: UNFPABy Adebayo FayoyinJOHANNESBURG, Jul 10 2014 (IPS) An African proverb says “a child that we refuse to build today will end up selling the house that we may build tomorrow.”
The moral of this is clear. Unless we invest in our children and young people today, they might become a threat or a burden in the future.As the international community commemorates World Population Day on July 11, Africa’s growing youth population should be recognised as a ‘powerful force for change’ that requires greater inves...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 10, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Adebayo Fayoyin Tags: Africa Aid Democracy Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Featured Gender Global Governance Headlines Health IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Labour Population Poverty & MDGs Women & Economy Women's Health HIV/AIDS Source Type: news
Volunteers Map Fire-Affected Neighborhoods in Chile
When news of a major fire in Valparaíso, Chile made headlines on Monday, some people sent donations. Some people took to social media. And some people mapped.
Not wasting any time, digital volunteers gathered at the American Red Cross headquarters Monday morning, grabbed some caffeine and began to make a detailed map of neighborhoods affected by the fire.
The volunteers were in town attending a conference about OpenStreetMap—crowd-sourced mapping technology that’s been called the “Wikipedia of maps.” They congregated at the Red Cross building to work on individual projects, but when they heard that local Chilean m...
Source: Red Cross Chat - April 16, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jenelle Eli Tags: Introduction Mapping Uncategorized Volunteers chile fire South America Source Type: news
Gambia: Gamcotrap Engages Religious Leaders - As They Look Forward to Ending FGM
[Daily Observer]The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (Gancotrap) Thursday held a two-day regional dialogue for religious leaders from four West African countries, held at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi. The forum was held on the theme: 'Engaging religious leaders towards ending Female Genital Mutilation'. The participants were drawn from The Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea Conakry. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels | Nafeez Ahmed
From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon realityIf anyone had hoped that the Arab Spring and Occupy protests a few years back were one-off episodes that would soon give way to more stability, they have another thing coming. The hope was that ongoing economic recovery would return to pre-crash levels of growth, alleviating the grievances fueling the fires of civil unrest, stoked by years of recession. But this hasn't happened. And it won't.Instead the post-2008 crash era, including 2013 and early 2014, has seen a persistence and proliferatio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 1, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Nafeez Ahmed Tags: theguardian.com Blogposts Inflation World news Ukraine Food Protest Geology Peak oil Climate change Venezuela Environment Agriculture Science Source Type: news
Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels | Nafeez Ahmed
From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon realityIf anyone had hoped that the Arab Spring and Occupy protests a few years back were one-off episodes that would soon give way to more stability, they have another thing coming. The hope was that ongoing economic recovery would return to pre-crash levels of growth, alleviating the grievances fueling the fires of civil unrest, stoked by years of recession. But this hasn't happened. And it won't.Instead the post-2008 crash era, including 2013 and early 2014, has seen a persistence and proliferatio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 28, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Nafeez Ahmed Tags: Environment Science Geology Food Inflation Protest World news Agriculture Climate change Peak oil Venezuela Ukraine theguardian.com Blogposts Source Type: news
Tunisia: Review of Tunisia's Portfolio At Global Fund to Fight Aids
[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis -Minister of Health Mohamed Salah Ben Ammar met, on Monday in Tunis, with Mr. Mark Saalfeld, Fund Portfolio Manager at the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for Central, Africa, Djibouti, Jordan, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - February 12, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Satellite eye on Earth: January 2014 – in pictures
A milky blanket shrouds North America as it feels the Arctic chill, cloud bands form patterns over the red landmass of Mauritania and world's tallest peaks sit as tiny dots over soaring Himalayas in images captured from space last month (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 3, 2014 Category: Science Tags: theguardian.com Photography Nasa Satellites World news Mountains Editorial European Space Agency Environment Source Type: news
Mauritania: Quadruplets in the desert
MSF helps to deliver four babies in the Mauritanian desert. A story of an uncertain start to life in Mbera refugee camp. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - February 3, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nick Source Type: news
Dr Joanne Liu new international president of MSF
Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes Dr Joanne Liu as the new International President of the medical humanitarian organisation. Dr Liu was elected President during MSF’s International General Assembly in June 2013.
"Today’s challenges in MSF are many,” says Dr Liu. “With contexts continually evolving, how do we deliver lifesaving medical care to people suffering in conflict situations such as Afghanistan, Somalia or Syria? How can we keep patients and aid workers as safe as possible? We need to keep our patients’ needs at the core as we face these challenges.”
Ethiopia © MSFJoanne Liu at wo...
Source: MSF News - October 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: NEWS Press Release Frontpage Source Type: news
Montreal physician is new international president of MSF
Montreal physician Joanne Liu has been elected president of the international board of the humanitarian medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She will take up her position at MSF’s international office in Geneva in October.
Democratic Republic of Congo © MSFPhysician Joanne Liu is the new president of the international board of MSF.
Liu’s humanitarian career with MSF started in 1996, when she worked with Malian refugees in Mauritania. Since then, her work with MSF has taken her to humanitarian crisis situations around the world. She assisted victims of the earthquake and cholera epidemic in Hai...
Source: MSF News - July 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: NEWS Frontpage Source Type: news
[Video] Malian Refugees Find Safety, Health Risks in Mauritania Camp
(Source: MSF Multimedia)
Source: MSF Multimedia - April 18, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
