Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- At least US$4 million has been earmarked by several UN a gencies for the implementation of a programme to combat malnutrition in Angola. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The National Director of Micronutrient Initiative Senega l, Mr. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is appealing for US$1. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In a bid to curb the acute shortage of nutrition personn el in Kenya, the ministry of medical services will recruit more nutritionists to meet demand, Medical Services Minister Anyang' Nyong'o has said. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- A team of ECOWAS nutritionists has concluded a week-long plan for the 11th ECOWAS Nutrition Forum, scheduled to take place in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in September. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- An estimated 126,000 children are in need of urgent therapeutic care for severe malnutrition, according to the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF). Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Faced with a heavy disease burden caused by prevalent maternal and child undernourishment, Ethiopia Thursday launched its first-ever National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) to ensure its people live a healthy and productive life. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- United Nations relief agencies operating in refugee camps in northern Kenya on Tuesday warned of alarming levels of malnutrition in refugee camps. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The UN children's fund (UNICEF) country representative for Sierra Leone, Geert Cappelaere, has said 30 percent of Sierra Leonean children under five years were underweight compared to other countries within the region. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The first congress of the Federation of African Nutrition Societies (FANUS) will be held from 7 to 9 May in Ouarzazate, south-eastern Morocco, according to a statement published Thursday in Rabat by the Moroccan Nutrition Society. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Some 40,000 Ivorian children under age five are malnourished, according to Fokouo Kouadio Gualbert, an official with the National Nutrition Programme. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- More than 38,000 Mauritanian children are suffering from malnutrition, the official news agency, MAP, reported Tuesday, quoting the Secretary General of the Health and Social Affairs ministry, Mohamed Ould Ely Telmoudy. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) – The Sahel regio-n recorded a bumper cereal production of 15,062,600 tonnes in the year 2006, or 3 percent higher than in 2005 due to satisfactory rainfall despite some drought pockets in some areas, according to the Sahel and West African Club (SWAC) Thursday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania is not facing famine but a nutrition crisis, which requires urgent attention, according to Mustapha Darboe, Regional Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) for West and Central Africa. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) - – About 15. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Malnutrition has risen by between 10% and 20% in eastern DR Congo, with the more than 1. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Monday released another disturbing statistics about the undeveloped north of the country indicating that about 43 percent of children there are malnourished. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- At least 289 have died this year from malnutrition in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, national news agency, AIM reported Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) Friday called for greater international assistance to address worrying levels of malnutrition, particularly in the south and south-east of Mauritania. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Joint interventions by relief agencies have saved Sudanese refugees camped in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia from critical malnutrition, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) here reported Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Without treatment, up to 170,000 children in Ethiopia could die this year from severe acute malnutrition, the local UNICEF office warned Wednesday here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Critical malnutrition levels have been found in Bonga and Fugnido camps in western Ethiopia's Gambella Region where an estimated 50,000 Sudanese refugees are living. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The international medical charity, Doctors without borders (MSF) called Tuesday for a general mobilisation to confront the worrying food situation in Niger, where it was currently attending to 3,000 severely malnourished children in the eastern locality of Maradi. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The number of children with severe malnutrition being fed by the health NGO Medicins sans Frontieres in Maradi, south-eastern Niger is rising at an alarming rate, MSF revealed here Tuesday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Agyeman Badu Akosa, Friday in Accra described the high malnutrition rate in the country as "unacceptably," with under-nutrition causing 50 percent of deaths in children. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Malnutrition accounts for 48% of deaths among children under the age of five in the DR Congo, the director of the national nutrition programme (PRONANUT), Dr Banea Mayambu told PANA Wednesday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Office of the Mauritanian Food Security Commissioner (CSA) is to establish 123 child community nutrition centres in the Tagant, Brakna and Trarza regions, official sources hinted here Monday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- There is need to make extra efforts to extend Senegal's nutritional enrichment programme to the entire country "despite the satisfactory results" already obtained in other parts areas, Claudia Rockx, the in-charge of the nutrition component at the World Bank Office in Senegal, has said. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The ten-year Nutritional Enrichment Programme (PRN) in Senegal is a major factor and indispensable tool to alleviate poverty in the country, Prime Minister Macky Sall emphasised here Thursday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Prime Minister Macky Sall is expected to chair a workshop here Thursday to review the first half of the ten-year Nutritional Enrichment Programme (PRN) in Senegal, a government announced said Monday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin has made considerable progress in its battle against malnutrition, according to Eleonara Genovese, who headed a World Bank consultants' team which has concluded a tour here. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- All the table salt consumed in West and Central Africa will be iodized by the year 2005 as set by a Special Session of the UN General Assembly in May 2002, affirms Dr Victor Aguayo, nutritional adviser at the regional office of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) here. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The minister of health in Benin, Yvette Céline Kandissounon on Monday described malnutrition in sub- Saharan Africa as a public health problem when she addressed the opening of the 9th annual forum of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on nutrition and HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The 9th annual forum of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) nutrition network opened here Monday with Benin's health minister Céline Kandisounon urging participants to strategize on nutritional support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- All African countries can attain food and nutrition security provided they make dedicated efforts to marshal the required human, institutional and material resources for the task, says Todd Benson, an international food consumption researcher based in the US capital of Washington, D. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least one in every 10 women in Nigeria is chronically malnourished, according to a just released survey on food and nutrition status in the country. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has expanded its school feeding programme in Zambia to cover 11 new schools, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 24,000 pupils daily, acting WFP country director Jorge Fanlo-Martin said here Tuesday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, a Catholic think-tank and campaign vehicle for increased social justice in the country, Wednesday called for a holistic approach to health delivery services so that the issue of HIV/AIDS can be tied to poor nutrition in the nation. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Malnutrition is affecting more than a million of Burundi's seven million inhabitants, owing to war, the vagaries of the weather and poverty, an official of the World Food Programme (WFP) local office has revealed here. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and his Nigerian counterpart Olesegun Obasanjo were being awaited here Wednesday evening to attend a continental conference on "Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020" opening near Kampala Thursday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- World Food Programme (WFP) has disclosed that hundreds of Mauritanian mothers lose their babies due to insufficient food during pregnancy, passing on the malnourish state to the newly born. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A sub-regional workshop on food security and nutritional policies in West Africa entered its second day here with participants defining a research and action schedule to reduce hunger and improve food security in the region. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal Monday launched a ten-year programme to combat malnutrition in 740,000 children and 510,000 women in its rural and urban areas. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have announced a unified approach to promote greater consumption of fruit and vegetables, a joint statement from the two UN bodies has said. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Numbers of malnourished children could drop dramatically world-wide from the current 31% to 11 percent by 2050, says a report to be released by the Washington D. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has launched HarvestPlus, a $100- million 10-year project aimed at increasing nutrition intake in sub-Saharan Africa. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A rapid assessment conducted around the town of Mukjar in Sudan's West Darfur region by the NGO Medair, has found a high rate of malnutrition among children below the age of five. Full text...

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Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Average rates of malnutrition in war- torn southern Sudan have been steadily worsening since 2001 causing "a major humanitarian crisis," UNICEF says in a report. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Malnutrition is a serious public health problem in DR Congo, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in a poverty reduction strategy assessment document. Full text...