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Climate change killing trees across the Sahel, says study
Trees throughout Africa's Sahel region — vital to peoples' livelihoods — are dying as a result of long-term drought linked to climate change, according to a study.
Cluster bombs banned
The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), which seeks to ban the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of these weapons, has been ratified and will enter into force on 1 August 2010.
WEST AFRICA: Can organic cotton save the industry?
Fuel and fertiliser price hikes, insect infestations and chemical damage to soil have led some cotton farmers in West Africa to produce organic cotton. But the international recession has blunted demand for the new crop, according to an industry trade group.
Light on Burkina-Faso’s countryside
Electricity has not yet reached all countrysides. In Burkina Faso, the electrification rate is only 10 %. To give a larger number of people access to electricity, the World Energy Fund and the Réseau des Caisses Populaires du Burkina-Faso have
Africa is connected !
In 2003, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched the ADEN project in 11 Sub-Saharan African countries. In 2007, 42 ADEN centres located in the areas which needed them the most were connected and 16 new centres should be opened
Fertilizing the desert
The agricultural engineer, Philippe Ouaki Di Giorno developed the “Polyter” in the 1990s It is a small granule which acts as a water reservoir and vegetal food supply and it facilitates the growth of plant and trees « on any
Agroecology
Since the 1980s, the engineer Pierre Rabhi has been developing agroecology in very poor rural areas in Burkina Faso. This technique improves the soil’s productivity. A natural compost made with manure, clay, organic material and bones covered with straw [...]
More girls at school!
Since 2002, Unicef has set up a schooling program for girls in 25 priority countries. In Afghanistan, since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, more than 3 million children have gone (back) to school. Remedial lessons have been made