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LIBERIA: Rewarding nutritional risk-takers
Liberia :: Costa Rica | 2 days ago
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Most communities have individuals or groups whose exceptional approaches to problems help them find better solutions than their peers, say behavior change experts, who call such individuals ‘positive deviants’. Two years ago NGO Catholic Relief Services...
Tags: CRS, Liberian, Costa Rica, Liberia, Health Medical Pharma, Malnutrition, Poverty, Humanitarian aid, Diet, Nutrition, Action Against Hunger, Catholic Relief Services, Public health
Profiteering by Vulture Funds in Liberia
Monrovia :: Liberia | 2 days ago
Credibility On November 26, the British High Court announced that Vulture Funds Hamsah Investments and Wall Capital were to be awarded $20 million based on a default judgment received in 2002 by previous creditors in New York courts. The Vulture Funds had recently...
Tags: Liberian, Vulture Funds Hamsah Investments, African Development Bank, U.S. House of Representatives, debts relief, TransAfrica Forum, africa actions, Liberia, Monrovia, Default, Economic Community of West African States, Outline of Liberia, Debt, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Vulture fund
Largest Ever Yellow Fever Immunization Program Wraps up in West Africa
Monrovia :: Liberia | 7 days ago
Credibility Left untreated, the disease kills more than 30,000 people a year. In Liberia, the community group Crusader For Peace has been holding rallies to encourage people to turn out for the immunization program. The group's head, Julie Endee, says this campaign...
Tags: yellow fever, West Africa Spread, Liberian, University of Liberia, Central African Republic, immunization program, fever immunization, Walter Gwenigale, Liberia, Monrovia, Health Medical Pharma, Biological weapons, Viral diseases, Microbiology, Vaccine, Tropical diseases, Dengue fever, Neglected diseases
LIBERIA: Breaking breastfeeding myths
Monrovia :: Liberia | 9 days ago
Credibility Liberian mothers practice exclusive breastfeeding; a survey by NGO Action contre la Faim (ACF) in Monrovia estimated 44 percent in 2008. ACF staff regularly hear widespread beliefs about breastfeeding perils: It is dangerous to breastfeed while pregnant...
Tags: IRIN, UNICEF, ACF, Liberian, told irin, Massimo Stella, breastfeeding myths, NGO Caritas, Helena Sharif, behavior changing, Liberia, Monrovia, Breastfeeding, Infant, Infancy, Parenting, Breast, Breast milk, Breastfeeding in public, Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
West African refugee makes new home in Bay Area
Monrovia :: Liberia | 10 days ago
Credibility There are many things about Gbessaykai Massaquoi that distinguish him from his friends. One is the twangy music he switches to when they get out of the car. No one understands why this West African refugee, who has survived war and peril, likes country...
Tags: Gbessaykai Massaquoi, Mr. Massaquoi, Liberian, West African, Guinea, Sharyl Larson, United States, african refugees, Liberia, Monrovia, Economic Community of West African States, Kai Hiwatari, Hans Massaquoi
Vulture funds sue Liberia for £12m in high court
Monrovia :: Liberia | 11 days ago
Credibility War-torn Liberia , one of the world's poorest countries, is being sued in London's high court tomorrow over a $20m (£12m) debt contracted by its government more than 30 years ago. Two so-called "vulture funds" – investors which buy up government debts...
Tags: Liberian, vulture funds, Liberia, Monrovia, Funds, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Politics, Debt, Debt relief, Development, Jubilee Debt Coalition, Vulture fund
LIBERIA: Acute malnutrition a social problem
Monrovia :: Liberia | 13 days ago
Credibility In the Liberian capital Monrovia acute malnutrition is due not only to poverty and inadequate health and sanitation services but also to factors such as high teenage pregnancy and the war’s damage to the social fabric, say nutritionists, who call the...
Tags: Liberian, ACF Pipeline, acute malnutrition, IRIN, acute malnourished, feeding centre, Monrovia, teenage pregnancy, social problem, told irin, Liberia, Mesurado River, Saint Paul River, Action Against Hunger, Adolescence, Pregnancy, James Monroe
LIBERIA: The new war is rape
Monrovia :: Liberia | 16 days ago
Credibility In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served. Sexual violence consistently comes first or second (after...
Tags: IRIN, told irin, Monrovia, sexually violence, Liberian, UNFPA, social worker, MSF, Liberia, Gender studies, Medical emergencies, Sexual violence, Mￃﾩdecins Sans Frontiￃﾨres, Sexual assault, Sex crimes, Rape, Criminology, Social Issues
Charles Taylor war crimes trial gets mixed reviews in Liberia
Monrovia :: Liberia | 26 days ago
Credibility The prosecution now begins its cross-examination in The Hague. The local ataye center is a small, leisurely oasis on an otherwise bustling commercial street in Liberia's capital of Monrovia. Here, men sip bitter green tea, play checkers and Scrabble,...
Tags: Charles Taylor, war crimes, Liberian, Mr. Taylor, Limit Taylor, crimes trial
Prosecutors to grill Charles Taylor at war crimes trial
Freetown :: Sierra Leone | 27 days ago
Credibility Prosecutors at the U.N.-backed Sierra Leone court will start cross-examining Charles Taylor on Tuesday, challenging the former Liberian president on his denials of weapons trading in exchange for "blood diamonds." Taylor, 61, has denied all 11 charges...
Tags: Charles Taylor, Sierra Leone, Mr Taylor, war crimes, Liberian, Ex-Liberia, mutilation thousands, taylor claims
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