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1. Mauritania reeling from unprecedented flooding
2. Minorities suffer worse health outcomes - report
3. Senegal struggles to safeguard seed quality
4. The controversy over "counterfeit" drugs
5. Slow healing for Mali hospitals
6. Push to tackle corruption in post-2015 agenda
7. UN meeting highlights migration's development benefits
8. Boko Haram violence takes toll on education
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Mauritania reeling from unprecedented flooding
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DAKAR, 30 September 2013 (IRIN) - Weeks of heavy rains that began in
mid-August have left much of Mauritania's capital city, Nouakchott, and
six of the surrounding regions under water, creating "unprecedented"
damage according to the Department of Civil Protection.
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Minorities suffer worse health outcomes - report
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NAIROBI, 1 October 2013 (IRIN) - Minority groups suffer worse health
outcomes than the rest of the population, according to a new report
published by Minority Rights Group International (MRG). State of the
World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2013, released to coincide
with the UN General Assembly meeting on the post-Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) agenda, calls for - among other things - greater measures
to combat disparities in global health outcomes between minority groups
and majority communities.
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Senegal struggles to safeguard seed quality
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DAKAR, 1 October 2013 (IRIN) - Senegal's 1994 legislation on seed
certification has been hugely influential, inspiring West Africa's
harmonized law on quality seed production - yet domestically, Dakar
still struggles with staff and equipment shortages that impede quality
control.
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The controversy over "counterfeit" drugs
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LONDON, 2 October 2013 (IRIN) - One of the biggest hurdles to stemming
the global tide of counterfeit medicines is disagreement over the term
itself, which drug companies are accused of hijacking for commercial
rather than public health reasons.
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Slow healing for Mali hospitals
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GAO, 3 October 2013 (IRIN) - Rows of shutter-less windows line the
administration corridor at a referral health centre in Mali's northern
city of Gao. The centre's equipment was looted and its staff fled
during the nine-month-long Islamist rebel occupation that followed the
country's March 2012 coup; services have just barely resumed.
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Push to tackle corruption in post-2015 agenda
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NEW YORK, 4 October 2013 (IRIN) - With the realization that corruption
is undermining development and the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), experts are lobbying the UN to adopt goals
and targets on good governance and transparency in the post-2015
development agenda.
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UN meeting highlights migration's development benefits
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NEW YORK, 4 October 2013 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
opened a High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development
at the UN General Assembly on Thursday by outlining an eight-point
agenda to "make migration work" for the world's 232 million migrants,
as well as their countries of origin and destination.
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Boko Haram violence takes toll on education
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KANO, 4 October 2013 (IRIN) - Thousands of students and teachers across
northern Nigeria have been forced to abandon their schools due to
increasingly brazen attacks by radical Islamist group Boko Haram (BH),
officials say.
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