30 Nov 2009 14:04:55 GMT Staff at WHO headquarters get H1N1 flu shots * United Nations agency staff immunised against H1N1
* WHO has long stressed safety of swine flu shots
GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation, which has been stressing the ...
30 Nov 2009 13:53:00 GMT Poppies and poverty in Afghanistan Written by Martin Jelsma and Tom Kramer
Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan is traditionally one of the main opium producing regions. But since governor Gul Agha Sherzai was appointed, poppy cultivation has reduced significantly. We recently visited the province to find out how this has happened and how the population feels about it.
We drive from Kabul to Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar. The winding road takes us down a beautiful gorge. Nangarhar province partly consists of a fertile valley well-suited for agricultural production. The valley is surrounded by mountains, with the Spingar belt in the south which includes the Tora Bora cave complex, notorious for being a Taliban stronghold and suspected location of Osama bin Laden in the first days of the U.S. invasion. Those areas are very poor, due to lack of arable land and water. Farmers here struggle to eke out a living. Opium has been their main cash crop for buying food, clothes, and pay for access to education and health.
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30 Nov 2009 13:52:00 GMT Women recruits join efforts to turn Mozambique into a demining success story
LONDON (AlertNet) - Two years ago, Claudia Felizardo Armando from Mozambique applied for a job - with a difference. She signed up to find and destroy land mines in a country heavily scarred by the remnants of 16 years of civil war.
Armando became one of the first local women deminers for the HALO Trust, a charity that removes land mines and other war debris in affected countries around the world.
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