Wednesday, December 4, 2019
BLOG: The Sahel region in West Africa is one of the poorest parts of the world. Around 40 percent of the populations of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Senegal live on less than $1.90 a day. The Sahel also has one of the youngest and...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
BLOG: World leaders have a disappointing record when it comes to crises that take decades to unfold. Much greater investment in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s could have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars 20 years later, for...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019
The Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend project (SWEDD) project is financed by the World Bank and implemented by the governments of Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. It aims to empower women and...
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Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Humanitarian agencies are setting up innovative climate risk insurance policies to protect up to 1.3 million people in West Africa from catastrophic drought. The countries benefitting include Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and the Gambia. ...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal
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Sunday, March 31, 2019
BLOG: Les taux de mortalité infantile et maternelle au Mali sont parmi les plus élevés au monde. Selon l’UNICEF, le Mali se classe au neuvième rang des pays ayant les taux de mortalité infantile les plus élevés. Sur 1 000 bébés nés dans le pays en...
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Africa, Mali, Sierra Leone
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Friday, March 29, 2019
BLOG: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most pervasive form of violence globally, with one in three women physically or sexually abused by a partner in her lifetime (Devries et al. 2013). IPV has multiple malign consequences for the...
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Mali, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Africa, America, Asia
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019
In Mali, many agropastoral households in the central regions – Mopti and Ségou – have suffered from the impact of socio-political crisis in northern Mali. This has triggered tensions among local communities over scarce resources and adversely...