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Offshore West Africa 2015 - Lagos, Nigeria
2014-05-11 15:37:45| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Offshore West Africa, the region's premier technical forum focused exclusively on West Africa's offshore oil and gas industry will return to Nigeria in 2015.
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West Africa Hopes New Hydropower Dams Will Cut Poverty, Climate Risk
2013-12-18 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: West African states in the Niger River Basin are seeking to tackle climate risks and reduce poverty by constructing three hydropower dams in the next five years. In late November, the Council of Ministers of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA), meeting in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, endorsed an environmental and climate action plan for sustainable management of the scenic basin and its rich natural resources, which have come under threat from climate change. The projects include a 102 megawatt (MW)...
Study shows projected climate change in West Africa not likely to worsen malaria situation
2013-09-16 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: As public-health officials continue to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are trying to predict how climate change will impact the disease, which infected an estimated 219 million people in 2010 and is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide among children under age 5. But projections of future malaria infection have been hampered by wide variation in rainfall predictions for the region and lack of a malaria-transmission model that adequately describes the effects of local rainfall...
WEST AFRICA: Project tackles cotton contamination
2013-05-22 17:36:16| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A project to reduce and prevent contamination of cotton in West Africa has helped more than 30,000 cotton farmers in Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali over the past three years.
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In the dark about the future, West Africa struggles to fill a climate gap
2013-05-13 14:37:33| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Just two seasons exist here: the rainy and the dry. At the best of times, the temperamental rains come for three or four months and turn dusty plains into green pastures, forests and fields. But in the late 1960s, the rains came later and ended earlier. A drought started. Crops failed across the region; freshwater rivers turned to saltwater. In the Sahel, a semi-arid belt across West Africa south of the Sahara Desert, at least 100,000 people perished and millions of cattle died for want of...