Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Responding to the impacts of COVID-19 in Western and Central Africa, the World Bank has supported the rapid...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
BLOG: The Sahel region in West Africa is one of the poorest parts of the world. Around 40 percent of the populations of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Senegal live on less than $1.90 a day. The Sahel also has one of the youngest and...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
BLOG: World leaders have a disappointing record when it comes to crises that take decades to unfold. Much greater investment in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s could have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars 20 years later, for...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
A meeting is currently going on (November 12 to 13) among over 25 experts from the ministries of economic planning, finance, social development, health, youth and gender in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The objective of the meeting is to discuss...
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Africa, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019
The Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend project (SWEDD) project is financed by the World Bank and implemented by the governments of Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. It aims to empower women and...
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Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger
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Friday, August 23, 2019
A robust flow of refugees and returnees from the Central African Republic to Chad has increased pressure on host communities, often leading to clashes over access to limited livelihood resources. To address this issue, the International...
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Africa, Central African Republic, Chad
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Monday, June 17, 2019
A dissemination workshop was organized by ECA Gender, Poverty and Social Policy Division. This workshop forms part of an ECA project on the Better Monitoring of Social Protection. The objective of the project is to assist member states in...
Monday, September 3, 2018
The humanitarian crisis in the Africa's Lake Chad basin, which affects parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, continues to worsen due to prolonged violence, insecurity, and environmental degradation. To help the most vulnerable communities, the...
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Africa, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria
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Friday, August 17, 2018
The heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) today pledged to increase support for regional efforts addressing the critical...
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Africa, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Friday, June 23, 2017
The United Nations World Food Programme welcomes the contribution, from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, of 250 metric tonnes of dates, worth US$ 650,000, which will give a nutritional boost to more than 130,000 hungry and vulnerable people in Chad,...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania
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