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1. WEST AFRICA: Husbands worse threat to women than gunmen
2. MAURITANIA: Beyond big refugee camps
3. NIGERIA: Violence, curfews and border closures hurt livelihoods
4. NIGERIA: Bridging the north-south maternal death divide
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WEST AFRICA: Husbands worse threat to women than gunmen
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DAKAR, 3 July 2012 (IRIN) - In conflict-hit West African countries,
husbands often pose a greater threat to women's lives than an armed
assailant, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a recent
report, but even in more stable countries, violence against women is
hard to eradicate.
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MAURITANIA: Beyond big refugee camps
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BASSIKOUNOU, 3 July 2012 (IRIN) - M'bera, a refugee camp in scrubland
on the border with Mali, came into being just five months ago; it is
now Mauritania's fourth largest town, prompting (at least superficial)
comparisons with the huge Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya.
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NIGERIA: Violence, curfews and border closures hurt livelihoods
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MAIDUGURI, 5 July 2012 (IRIN) - More than 1,000 people are estimated to
have died in bombings and shootings by Islamist extremists in northern
Nigeria since 2009, but an additional casualty has been the jobs and
opportunities lost in an already deprived region.
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NIGERIA: Bridging the north-south maternal death divide
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ABUJA, 6 July 2012 (IRIN) - Nigeria's health services halved the
maternal mortality rate between 1990 and 2010, but in parts of the
predominantly Muslim north, which is less socio-economically advanced,
women are 10 times more likely to die in childbirth than in the
oil-rich, predominantly Christian south. Maternal health personnel are
calling for more appropriate interventions to bridge the gap.
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