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IRIN - Guinea
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GUINEA: Child malnutrition - moving beyond stop-gaps
DAKAR Thursday, February 25, 2010 (IRIN) - Nutrition experts in Guinea are studying options for treating moderately malnourished children, as funding shortages disrupt normal programmes using fortified flour.
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AFRICA: Finding the food crops of the future
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, February 24, 2010 (IRIN) - Temperatures seem set to soar to perilously high levels because of climate change. In another 40 years, would maize still be the staple food in Kenya, already hit by five failed rainy seasons? If not, what could people grow and eat? And if you could grow maize, how much water and fertilizer would it need?
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AFRICA: Early arrival of meningitis "alarming"
DAKAR Monday, February 22, 2010 (IRIN) - A meningitis epidemic has struck earlier than usual and is spreading across sub-Saharan Africa's "meningitis belt" from Senegal to Ethiopia, according to health ministries in the region. The disease occurs during the dry season, with most cases reported in mid-April.
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NIGER: Constitution crisis turned coup
NIAMEY Thursday, February 18, 2010 (IRIN) - Small vendors abandoned their stalls as the typical lunch hour break opened with gunfire at the presidential palace shortly after 1pm local time in Niger?s capital, Niamey. Firing continued intermittently with the military blocking all roads leading to the palace. Government helicopters were circling the city and fired in the afternoon, according to residents.
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GUINEA: Medical supplies, humanitarian flight blocked after clashes
DAKAR Monday, February 08, 2010 (IRIN) - Tensions following clashes in N?zérékoré, southeastern Guinea, are hampering the movement of some humanitarian workers and supplies, according to the UN.
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