Water workers on Africa mission
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Twelve British water company workers are to visit Tanzania to raise awareness about the lack of clean drinking water.
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Thousands are affected by flooding in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique, with at least 21 people dead.
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Through the back alleys and storm drains of Kakaako, state Department of Health workers were on a search-and-destroy mission yesterday for mosquito larvae that could potentially carry the West Nile Virus.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria implored dozens of fellow African leaders yesterday to work together to overcome the poverty, disease, and conflict afflicting the world's poorest continent.
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Patrolling in a wooden boat between the thickly forested banks of the broad Sangha river, the four "eco-guards" have something to show for their efforts to tackle poaching in this swathe of central Africa.
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The Red Cross warned Friday that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18 countries across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5 million people and killed nearly 300.
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TELKWA, B.C. (CP) - Instead of battling flames, a forest-fire fighting crew from northern British Columbia is battling rising flood waters in Telkwa, just east of Smithers, B.C.
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Aid agencies are appealing for funds to help the victims of recent floods in a swathe of African countries.
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African health workers aren&#39;t just being lured away by better salaries in rich countries. They are fleeing squalid and unsafe workplaces and staggering workloads.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Health workers across west and central Africa began a 23-country polio immunization campaign yesterday to reach more than 80 million children in the next several days. The undertaking is part of an international effort to eradicate the disease by next year.
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WASHINGTON: The World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and other agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking water and sanitation and reduce threats of infectious-disease outbreaks in the
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By SAMIRA JAFARI  KIMPER, Ky. - Several times a day, Roger Thacker hauls 5-gallon buckets of water about 50 yards uphill to his mobile home so his family can bathe and do laundry.
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Aid workers use brains and brawn as tsunami relief turns toward sanitation.
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Pamela Bone witnesses Africa&#39;s latest humanitarian crisis, the flight of refugees from Sudan to Chad. On the bank of the wadi, which two weeks ago was full of fast-flowing water but is now only a few muddy
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Severe flood damage has in two months affected more than 65,000 people in west Africa, making thousands homeless and wrecking infrastructure, the Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations said Friday.
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People in flood-hit areas are urged not to panic as massive efforts begin to get drinking water to those stranded.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.