Scientific newssheets
Human and social sciences -
South Africa,
Angola,
Archipelago of the Canaries,
Benin,
Burkina Faso,
Cameroon,
Cape Verde,
Central Africa,
Congo,
Ivory Coast,
Gabon,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Equatorial Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Liberia,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Democratic republic of Congo,
Rwanda,
Sao Tomé and Principe,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
Chad,
Togo,
Botswana,
Burundi,
Comoros,
Djibouti,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Mauritius,
Kenya,
Reunion,
Lesotho,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mayotte,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Uganda,
Seychelles,
Somalia,
Sudan,
Swaziland,
Tanzania,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe
December 2007
The population of Sub-Saharan Africa is continuing to grow at twice the rate recorded in Latin America and Asia. This exceptional population growth is a major handicap for efforts to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Objectives (MDO) in most of the countries lying South of the Sahara. With ...
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Scientific newssheets
Health,
Ocean, climate, impacts -
Togo,
Ivory Coast,
Ghana,
Benin,
Nigeria,
Bangladesh
July 2007
Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It is rife mainly in the tropical regions where it affects 100 000 people per year. Previous studies in Bangladesh and South America have shown the existence of a relation between climatic variations and the ...
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Scientific newssheets
Human and social sciences -
Burkina Faso,
Togo
April 2007
The work of an IRD ethnologist sheds light on an unusual custom, organization of ritual fires, a practice specific to certain groups of the Voltaic culture in Togo and Burkina Faso. This regular ancestral practice, involving annual fire-lighting ceremonies on sites that have been strictly ...
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