SENEGAL: "Small revolution" in family planning
Photo: Nebedaay/FlickrSenegalese families are getting smaller, says UNDAKAR, 26 September 2011 (IRIN) - Talibouya Ka, Muslim leader (imam) of the Omar Kane mosque in the Medina neighbourhood of the...
View ArticleMozambique farmers' market at heart of fight against hunger
Wapsala collective's self-sufficiency drive aims to ease the chronic malnutrition that affects 44% of the under-fives In Mozambique porridge is a staple food. Wapsala agricultural collective urges...
View ArticleSENEGAL: Drought response slowed by election fever
Photo: Jane Labous/IRINFlocks of this size are a rare sight in drought-ridden northern Senegal (file photo)DAKAR, 10 February 2012 (IRIN) - While it is clear that Senegal was one of the eight Sahelian...
View ArticleSENEGAL: Change of direction in hunger response
Photo: Jane Labous/IRINPoor 2011 rains left the well empty in Mbar Toubab village in northern SenegalDAKAR, - One day after being sworn in on 2 April, Senegal’s new President Macky Sall reversed...
View ArticleSenegal reality TV show features prettiest sheep
In this Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 photo, Dogo Ndiaye displays ram Papis General for the panel of four judges, in the Fann area regional final of the Khar Bii competition, in Dakar, Senegal. In a nation...
View ArticleWFP distributes food vouchers in Senegal region
The UN World Food Programme launched the distribution of cash vouchers for the purchase of food in Senegal's Ziguinchor region, for people hit by poor harvests and high food prices. The first vouchers...
View ArticleDuring Senegal's School Recess, a Lesson in Malnutrition
This blog is part of a series organized by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction to call attention to the crisis in the Sahel, a region in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 18 million...
View ArticleSenegal Election Campaign Enters Final Days Ahead Of Tense Vote
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's presidential candidates prepared to hold their final rallies Friday, as a respected African statesman shuttled between the opposition and the government to broker a...
View ArticleBegging Ban Makes Life Harder For Poor Senegalese
Senegal's capital Dakar is a lively and colorful city with, until recently, an army of beggars on the streets — both children and adults. Many of the beggars in the metropolis have disappeared, at...
View ArticleReview: 'Sinister' an enjoyably edgy fright flick
Rebecca Blackwell - AP Photo In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 photo, prizewinning sheep breeder Ousmane Ndiaye gives hay to two of his most prized rams, including Billal, right, after feeding and...
View ArticleBaaba Maal: people in the Sahel region need food and water now
I didn't expect to witness a food crisis in the 21st century but people in Senegal are fighting to survive and not be forgotten Aissat Abduljub and Habiba Wellba, from Diadoud, show the failure of...
View ArticleAn open letter to Obama from the world's poorest countries
As president you have helped those who cause climate change more than those affected most by it. Helping the world's poorest adapt is now a matter of urgency, and it can be your great legacy A dry...
View ArticleHunger stalking children in Senegal
GOUDOUDE DIOBE, Senegal — It’s 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his...
View ArticleStarvation stalks 1 million children in Africa's Sahel region
Aliou Seyni Diallo, 2, collapses in tears recently after not eating since the day before, in the village of Goudoude Diobe, northeastern Senegal. A neighbor gave the boy a bowl of dry couscous to stop...
View ArticleFrom one bowl of rice a day to nothing: Hunger spreads, stalks 1M children...
GOUDOUDE DIOBE, Senegal - It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his...
View Article>Hunger returns to Africa, stalking 1M children
GOUDOUDE DIOBE, Senegal (AP) — It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his...
View ArticleSenegal's children wail for food that isn't coming
GOUDOUDE DIOBE, Senegal -- It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his...
View ArticleSenegal Food Shortage Threatens Over 1 Million Children
In this Tuesday, May 1, 2012, photo, 2-year-old Aliou Seyni Diallo eats dry couscous given to him by a neighbor, after he collapsed in tears of hunger in the village of Goudoude Diobe, in the Matam...
View ArticleHunger returns to Africa, stalking 1m children
In this Tuesday, May 1, 2012 photo, Maryam Sy and five of her nine children share a meager bowl of tamarind-flavored porridge, some of the only food they will get that day, in the village of Goudoude...
View ArticleAction must be taken now to prevent an ever-worsening cycle of hunger
In Goudoude Diobe, in the...
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