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Weekly Round-up 409 for 31 December - 4 January 2008
Source: IRIN
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DAKAR, 4 January 2008 (IRIN)
- CONTENTS NIGERIA: New treatment plant leaves Kano short of water
NIGERIA: Child rape in Kano on the increase
SENEGAL: Why the 'talibe' problem won't go away
CHAD: Chronic malnutrition worse in
west than in conflict zoneNIGERIA: New treatment plant leaves Kano short of water A new ultra-modern US $58 million water treatment plant outside Kano, officially Nigeria's most populous city,
came on line in December but experts say that the city's basic water needs will still not be met.
full report
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76058NIGERIA: Child rape in Kano on the
increase
KANO, 3 January 2008 (IRIN) - Police and government officials in northern Nigeria's city of Kano have reported an upsurge in incidents of child rape and said that young girls are now unsafe
in the city. full report
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76087SENEGAL: Why the 'talibe' problem won't go away
DAKAR, 3 January 2008 (IRIN) - Empty cans used for begging line the
entrance of a house in the overcrowded neighbourhood of Grand Yoff in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where a 'marabout' [Koranic teacher] and 10 boys rent two mosquito-infested rooms. full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76080CHAD: Chronic malnutrition worse in west than in conflict zone
N'DJAMENA, 4 January 2008 (IRIN) - With a massive aid operation under way in the
east of Chad, where armed conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, little attention is being paid to the west of the country which has the highest chronic malnutrition levels. full
report
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