http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/204/ en_GB_uk Benin http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81018 An agricultural research organization in Benin has developed new, environmentally friendly sustainable farming techniques that are particularly beneficial for farmers inflicted with HIV/AIDS, while maximizing resources and production. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78628 Angelique Kidjo and World Education will partner together to enable girls to go to secondary school in Mali and Benin. This effort will support 304 girls who have been orphaned by AIDS or whose families are affected by AIDS, are disabled or are extremely poor. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/138655/1/ Creative solutions are helping get kids in school and improve the quality of education. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73766 Motorbike taxi drivers are swarming around Benin in pro-education t-shirts, chatting with women about the importance of educating girls. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/66256 West African neighbors Benin and Nigeria agreed last week to unite efforts to prevent and suppress human trafficking, particularly of women and children. With cross-border trafficking into Nigeria rising, the countries further pledged to protect, rehabilitate, and return trafficking victims to their homes. http://www.unseulmonde.ca/link/gotolink/addhit/59431 Le Bilan fait lors de la célébration de la troisième édition de la journée internationale contre le travail des enfants révèle en effet que le fléau résiste aux actions menées pour le combattre. Aussi bien au Bénin que dans le monde tout entier, l’enfant continue d’être soumis aux travaux des adultes hypothéquant ainsi son avenir, celui de son pays et de toute l’espèce humaine. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/59062 Local people interested in learning computers are turning up at the new community multimedia centre in a neighbourhood in Benin. The UNESCO-supported telecentre does not have its own community radio station yet but has linked up with a nearby FM station for an hour’s broadcasting every day. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/53018 © ACCION International A couple of tiny loans allowed Fatouma Dijbril Issifou just the margin she needed to save enough from her vegetable stand so that children could attend school and receive medical care, and hopefully break the cycle of poverty into which Fatima was born. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/48233 Rosine Mahinou, a mother of seven never thought she would send her girls to school. But that was five years ago. Today, Ms. Mahinou has enrolled all of her girls in school along with her boys. This sea change in her attitude is largely due to a programme promoting girls’ education called Education and Community, in her village in Benin. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/47209 Barely two weeks after 116 children were returned to neighbouring Benin, another set of 120 children kidnapped from that country have been rescued by the Nigerian police. The children were victims of child trafficking and forced child labour, according to the police. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/39118 New research reports on the participation of civil society in national ICT policy-making in Egypt, Benin and Cameroon are now available on the APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor Website. The "ICT and Civil Society in Africa" reports were commissioned by APC to explore the role of local civil society organisations in developing and strengthening ICT policy-making at a national level in Africa. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/39181 New research reports on the participation of civil society in national ICT policy-making in Egypt, Benin and Cameroon are now available on the APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor Website. The "ICT and Civil Society in Africa" reports were commissioned by APC to explore the role of local civil society organisations in developing and strengthening ICT policy-making at a national level in Africa. http://de.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/20696 Von der Kreisstadt Tanguieta im Norden Benins aus führt die fast schnurgerade Piste in Richtung Nationalpark. Jetzt, zum Ende der Regenzeit ist alles fantastisch grün und die Felder der Bauern sind gut zu erkennen. Links dehnt sich das sanft zum Pendjari-Fluss hin abfallende Schutzgebiet aus, während sich rechterhand die Atakora-Bergkette wie der Rücken eines urzeitlichen Fossils erstreckt. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/671 New research has revealed that the consumption of aflatoxins, which contaminate staple foods stored in hot and humid conditions, is associated with impaired growth in children in Benin and Togo. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/41820 Children who eat foods contaminated with aflatoxins, a toxic by-product that grows on crops, show stunted growth similar to malnutrition. Aflatoxins grow when crops are stored in hot and humid conditions.