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Teenage girls to deliver over 70 million babies by 2030 — Report

If current trends are not checked, there will be more than 70 million babies born to teenage girls globally between now and 2030, a new report by Save the Children has found.

Publication Date: 
29/05/2019
Premium Times (Nigeria)
Tags:
Health, Infant mortality, Nigeria, India, UNICEF, Women, Health Care, Nutrition, Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Africa
Food Policy

WFP airlifts food to save lives in Zemio, Central African Republic

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an airlift operation to deliver life-saving food supplies to 18,000 people in Zemio, 1000 km East of the capital Bangui.

Publication Date: 
28/02/2019
Big News Network
Tags:
Food Security, Food Supply, Central African Republic, World Food Programme (WFP), Nutrition, Africa, Children, Malnutrition
Food Policy

Monitoring food security in countries with conflict situations

The situation in the eight places in the world with the highest number of people in need of emergency food support shows that the link between conflict and hunger remains all too persistent and deadly, according to a new report by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

Publication Date: 
28/01/2019
FAO
Tags:
Food Security, Conflicts, Malnutrition, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Congo, Chad, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen
Food Policy

Monitoring food security in countries with conflict situations

This report provides United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members with an overview of the magnitude, severity and drivers of acute food insecurity in eight countries and regions that have the world’s highest burden of people in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance as a result of protracted conflict combined with other fa

Publication Date: 
25/01/2019
FAO
Tags:
Food Security, Conflicts, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Nutrition
Wildlife

Fighting poachers in central Africa's secret Eden

In 1889, an intrepid, 20-year-old American called William Stamps Cherry made a solo voyage up the Congo's tributaries.

Publication Date: 
17/08/2018
New Times (Rwanda)
Tags:
Wildlife, Poaching, Elephant, Illegal Trade, Chad, Sudan, Central African Republic, Africa
People

Report: African nations often both source and destination for refugees

The UN Refugee Agency released its annual Global Trends study on Tuesday, a report that finds 68.5 million people had been driven from their homes across the world at the end of 2017, primarily bec

Publication Date: 
20/06/2018
Africa Times
Tags:
People, Refugees, Africa, Conflicts, Somalia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Burundi

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