13/02/2022
The African Storybook Project has developed writing and publishing apps that are promoting literacy. Credit: Saide
The student from Katsina State in Nigeria, Hassan, won a National Reading Competition for a story she created using the African Storybook reader app and the African Storybook maker app. Saide, an education NGO, developed the apps through its African Storybook (ASb) project.
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13/02/2022
10 February 2022 (UNEP)* — Yacouba Sawadogo, 76, has been a farmer for much of his life, tending a plot of land in a semi-arid stretch of central Burkina Faso. But in the 1980s, that way of life almost came to an end.
Photo: Reuters Connect / 10 Feb 2022
Severe droughts triggered soil erosion and land degradation, crippling farms across Burkina Faso and much of Western Africa.
“People were leaving, and the animals and trees were dying,” Sawadogo recalled. “We had to look at a new way to farm.”
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13/02/2022
(UN News)* — The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Myanmar has doubled since February of last year, now crossing the 800,000 mark, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on 11 February 2022.
© UNHCR/Sa Nyein Chan | Internally displaced people receive assistance at the Myaing Gyi Ngu camp in Myanmar’s Kayin State.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, UNHCR spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh said the agency was stepping up aid for the displaced as conflict intensifies.
“Security is deteriorating rapidly across the country as fighting and armed conflict intensifies with no sign of abating”, Mr. Saltmarsh said.
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