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WEST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 764 21 November 2014

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ICN2: Feast and famine - trends in nutrition

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DUBAI/BANGKOK, 17 November 2014 (IRIN) - More than 20 years on from the first ever International Conference on Nutrition, its successor is due to take place in Rome this week. Yet what do those in the nutrition sector think should be focussed upon?
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Trade and transfat in the Pacific

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BANGKOK, 17 November 2014 (IRIN) - Diminished agricultural production and unhealthy imports are contributing to some of the world's highest obesity and diabetes rates in the Pacific Islands. Thousands of kilometres away from this backdrop, high-level officials are gathering for the only second-ever global nutrition conference in Rome, starting 19 November, to consolidate agreement on an international framework to improve nutrition.
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Questions over Mali's Ebola response

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BAMAKO, 18 November 2014 (IRIN) - The failure of a top Malian hospital to detect probable cases of Ebola has raised questions about whether the country's health system is sufficiently prepared to tackle the disease.
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Ebola orphans now face stigma, stress

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KAILAHUN/DAKAR, 20 November 2014 (IRIN) - West African countries generally have a strong social network that supports children during times of hardship and need. But for many of the hundreds of children orphaned by Ebola in Sierra Leone, who sometimes witnessed their parents' deaths, stress and trauma is compounded by social exclusion from their communities.
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Bringing Ebola tests up to speed

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DAKAR, 20 November 2014 (IRIN) - Ebola in West Africa is believed to have erupted almost a year ago in southern Guinea, but was confirmed by the French Pasteur Institute only in March 2014, by which time it had killed 60 people and was suspected to have crossed the border into Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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IRIN's top reads this week

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DUBAI, 20 November 2014 (IRIN) - IRIN's reading list offers the top reads for those in the humanitarian sector every week.
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PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN

GENEVA, 20 November 2014 (IRIN) - After nearly 20 years as part of the United Nations, the humanitarian news service IRIN is spinning off to become an independent non-profit media venture, with the support of a major private donor
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Mauritania cracks down on land reform activists

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NOUAKCHOTT, 21 November 2014 (IRIN) - The latest arrest of a group of prominent anti-slavery activists in Mauritania has once again brought to the fore the country's struggle with slavery and discrimination based on colour.
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Ebola hampers HIV/AIDS care in Liberia

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MONROVIA/DAKAR, 21 November 2014 (IRIN) - Ebola has crippled the provision of treatment and care to people living with HIV/AIDS in Liberia, according to health workers and patients.
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