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  • November 6
  • IRIN Mauritania: Malnutrition Has No Season in Nouakchott

    At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout the year.

  • November 4
  • West Cape News South Africa: Food Security Crucial to Avoid Hunger Catastrophe

    One in four South African children under five-years-old suffers from moderate or severe malnutrition, and ongoing climate change as a result of global warming is most certainly going to increase this number as food insecurity becomes more pervasive.

  • IRIN Mauritania: Malnutrition Has No Season in Nouakchott

    At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout the year.

  • Daily Observer Gambia: WB Nutrition Specialist, Gambian Author Meet VP

    Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, vice president and minister of Women's Affairs, last Friday, in separate but similar engagements, received in audience the senior nutrition specialist of the World Bank for Africa region, Menno Mulder Sibanda; and Yahya Ceesay, author of a book entilted: 'Women are nation builders'.

  • November 2
  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Good Nutrition - Key to Healthy Mothers, Kids

    The importance of proper nutrition for reproductive mothers and their babies has been re-emphasised as it brings about healthy and long life.

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  • October 27
  • Public Agenda Ghana: More Educated Ghanaians Eat Fatty and Junk Foods

    Many educated Ghanaians are patronizing usually unhealthy and fatty junk foods that have been packaged and made more attractive to their own detriment.

  • This Day Nigeria: Dietitians Want Functional Poverty Alleviation Programme

    A cross section of Dietitians in Enugu, have observed with dismay the resurgence of severe malnutrition among children under the age of five in the country..

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: In Jos, 'Gwote' is a Delicacy [analysis]

    Every town has one popular delicacy that helps to define it. For Jos, capital of Plateau state, Gwote may be the meal of choice.

  • Daily Observer Gambia: Improved Food Safety Increases Food Supply-FAO Boss

    Dr. Babagana Ahmadu, the FAO representative in The Gambia, has said that improving the safety of the food produced and consumed in The Gambia will not only reduce the negative health effects of unsafe food, but will also help to increase the supply of available food, as the food that is produced will remain consumable longer and will increase opportunities for export of food and agricultural ...

  • October 23
  • New Vision East Africa: 20 Million People At Risk of Famine [opinion]

    IN the 50 years since the era of independence began, Africa has come a long way. Our freedom is enshrined in law. Embassies of African nations operate around the world but we are not fully free and cannot be until we end the chronic hunger that afflicts nearly 220 million Africans every day.




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