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/ 18 January 2010
Guinea’s exiled leader has appealed for peace and
reconciliation, urging his countrymen to put aside differences and set the stage for elections.
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/ 17 January 2010
African diplomats have descended on Burkina Faso to ensure a deal is sealed calling for Guinea’s injured leader to step down.
When Frank Alain Kabore — the manager of a wildlife concession in Burkina Faso — looks back, he recalls that days used to go by without him seeing an elephant in the reserve, a decade ago. Today, he comes across one every 100m. It’s an environmental success story in this West African country that may yet return to haunt it.
It is an article of faith in development circles that assisting girls to complete their education — and postponing the age at which they have children — benefits both the girls and the communities they live in. This truth is proving difficult to entrench in Burkina Faso, however, where early marriages are often the norm.
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/ 16 February 2004
Health workers in Burkina Faso have called for a more open discussion of issues related to sexuality and abortion. This follows the release of a report by the Demographic Research and Study Unit, which found that up to 8 000 illegal abortions take place each year in the country’s capital, Ouagadougou.
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/ 21 October 2003
Radical solutions are being sought for the crisis in African universities, including new sources of funding to supplement government efforts. Representatives of sub-Saharan African countries, who met recently in Ghana, said state funding no longer responds to Africa’s needs to train professionals, especially in science and technical subjects.