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Tackling HIV on Kenya’s transport corridors

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE NAIROBI, 2 July 2013 (IRIN) - The Kenyan government has launched a strategic plan to help revitalize HIV prevention programmes for mobile populations working...

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Portuguese migrants seek opportunities in Mozambique

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE MAPUTO, 2 July 2013 (IRIN) - The financial crisis in Europe has brought the largest influx of Portuguese migrants to Mozambique since colonial times. While...

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Calls for nutritional behaviour change in Timor-Leste

SHARE DILI, 2 July 2013 (IRIN) - More work is needed to improve nutritional behaviour in Timor Leste, where 58 percent of children under five are stunted (too short for their age) due to chronic...

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UN peacekeepers take over in Mali

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE DAKAR, 1 July 2013 (IRIN) - UN peacekeepers today took over the role of African troops in helping to stabilize and protect northern Mali, with a plan to...

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Syria’s forgotten crisis: sanitation

SHARE DUBAI, 2 July 2013 (IRIN) - Bombs, clashes and airstrikes have killed at least 92,000 in Syria, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. But millions of people - and more still...

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In-Depth Global Reports

Our Lives is a new IRIN series following 20 people in 10 countries as they try to get by in these testing times. The men and women featured - from teachers to truck drivers - describe how they cope...

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Containing disease in a Syrian refugee camp in Iraq

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE DOMIZ CAMP, 3 July 2013 (IRIN) - On a hot June afternoon, 27-year-old Gharib Mohammed stands outside his tent at this camp for Syrian refugees in Iraq,...

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Analysis: Myanmar’s Rakhine State - where aid can do harm

By Dana MacLean SHARE HIGHLIGHTS Camps could worsen sectarian tension Aid workers encourage IDP returns “Conflict-sensitive” aid approach needed Reconciliation - an overlooked key priority BANGKOK, 3...

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Analysis: Myanmar’s Rakhine State - where aid can have harmful effects

By Dana MacLean SHARE HIGHLIGHTS Camps could worsen sectarian tension Aid workers encourage IDP returns “Conflict-sensitive” aid approach needed Reconciliation - an overlooked key priority BANGKOK, 3...

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Need for better storm warnings in Sri Lanka

SHARE COLOMBO, 3 July 2013 (IRIN) - It has been nearly a month since Afthas Niflal almost lost his life at sea. The 22-year-old fisherman from the southern Sri Lankan town of Beruwala found himself...

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Funding shortfalls hit Yemen humanitarian work

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE SANA’A, 4 July 2013 (IRIN) - At the halfway point of the year, less than 40 percent of Yemen’s requested US$702 million Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP)...

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Landslides take toll on key PNG highway

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE PORT MORESBY, 4 July 2013 (IRIN) - A vital highway, long regarded as the single most important road in Papua New Guinea (PNG), is slowly being destroyed by...

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Humanitarian needs rise in Sahel

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE DAKAR, 4 July 2013 (IRIN) - Humanitarian agencies have revised upwards their appeal to help Sahelians affected by hunger, malnutrition, impoverishment and...

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Analysis: Short-term fixes - the bane of West African agriculture

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE HIGHLIGHTS Quality investment in agriculture lacking Smallholder farmers worst affected by donor underfunding Donors favour emergency aid or larger-scale...

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Exaggerated hopes for Yemen's National Dialogue Conference?

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE SANA’A, 10 July 2013 (IRIN) - Four months into their six-month mandate, the 565 Yemenis taking part in the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) know they have...

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Irrigation scheme locks horns with Kenya’s pastoralists

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE NAIROBI, 10 July 2013 (IRIN) - The Kenyan government is planning to introduce large-scale irrigation in the country’s dry lands to improve food security and...

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Pakistan’s coast - where the sea is an enemy not a friend

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KETI BUNDER, 11 July 2013 (IRIN) - On a theoretical level, climate change and sea intrusion are not things Din Muhammad Chandio, a fisherman and farmer,...

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Concern over planned relocation of refugees from Kenya to Somalia

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE MOGADISHU, 28 June 2013 (IRIN) - As plans to facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees from neighbouring Kenya gather steam, serious...

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DRC-based Ugandan rebel group “recruiting, training”

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KAMPALA, 11 July 2013 (IRIN) - The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel movement based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is...

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Nigeria school attacks spur vigilante groups

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KANO, 27 June 2013 (IRIN) - Youths in northern Nigeria’s Borno State, where many members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram (BH) have been arrested in...

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New returnees in South Sudan living on the margins

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE ARU, 15 July 2013 (IRIN) - Benjamin Mogga heads the community protection committee (CPC) in Aru, a dusty South Sudanese town hugging the road between Juba...

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Bangladesh polders under threat

SHARE DHAKA, 27 June 2013 (IRIN) - Changing weather patterns, poor maintenance and lack of investment are taking their toll on Bangladesh’s extensive polder system, viewed by many as a first line of...

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Insecurity hampers access to aid, basic services in northern Kenya

SHARE ISIOLO, 28 June 2013 (IRIN) - The northeastern Kenya county of Mandera is experiencing a spike in inter-clan clashes, with several deaths recorded in the past week. Episodes of insecurity, since...

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Vietnam concerned over HIV donor funding cuts

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE BANGKOK, 12 July 2013 (IRIN) - The Vietnamese government warns that multi-million dollar donor cutbacks could undermine progress in the country’s HIV/AIDS...

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Frequent border closures add to Gaza gas woes

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE GAZA CITY, 28 June 2013 (IRIN) - Frequent closures of the only crossing for commercial goods between Israel and the Gaza Strip have left the Occupied...

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Increased fighting takes toll on health care in Afghanistan

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KABUL, 1 July 2013 (IRIN) - It is close to midday and a group of patients wait outside the Mirwais regional hospital in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar...

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Boost for fistula treatment in Liberia

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE MONROVIA, 10 July 2013 (IRIN) - The fight against fistula is gaining ground in Liberia, where doctors and nurses at 48 health clinics have been trained to...

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Spike in disease and food security fears in CAR

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE NAIROBI, 9 July 2013 (IRIN) - The precarious security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) is worsening seasonal food insecurity and increasing...

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Obstacles to improved maternal health care in Timor-Leste

SHARE DILI, 8 July 2013 (IRIN) - Greater efforts are now needed to tackle the many challenges women face in accessing health care in Timor-Leste, which has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios...

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Uganda ill-prepared for a major earthquake

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KAMPALA, 5 July 2013 (IRIN) - Three moderate earthquakes shook Uganda's Albertine region this week, causing little damage but raising concern about the...

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Food insecurity threatens 1.2 million in Uganda’s northeast

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KAMPALA, 10 July 2013 (IRIN) - A deteriorating food security situation in Uganda’s northeastern region of Karamoja could affect an estimated 1.2 million...

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“Tipping point” reached after rise in Philippines HIV/AIDS cases?

SHARE MANILA, 11 July 2013 (IRIN) - Consistent increases in HIV infections in the Philippines cannot be reversed without appropriate interventions, say health experts, following the recent release of...

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Chaka Dagnoko - Mechanic, Mali

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE BAMAKO, 30 June 2013 (IRIN) - Chaka Dagnoko - Mechanic, Mali Name: Chakana Dagnoko Age: 25 Location:Yirimadjo, Bamako Does your spouse/partner live with...

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Zimbabwe's circumcision drive fails to take off

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE HARARE, 8 July 2013 (IRIN) - Funds for the male circumcision programme in Zimbabwe are lying idle, as the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare says not...

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Lack of funding for post-war housing in northern Sri Lanka

SHARE COLOMBO, 12 July 2013 (IRIN) - Thousands of permanent homes needed for returnees to northern Sri Lanka in the aftermath of a 26-year civil war which ended in 2009, are not being built because of...

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Uganda unprepared for influx of DRC refugees

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KAMPALA, 15 July 2013 (IRIN) - Some 66,000 Congolese refugees have crossed into Uganda in recent days, following fighting between Ugandan rebel group Allied...

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Food insecurity looms in Djibouti

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE NAIROBI, 12 July 2013 (IRIN) - Poor rains and lack of expertise to boost local food production are some of the challenges facing Djibouti’s population, says...

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School closures in northeastern Nigeria after killings

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KANO, 8 July 2013 (IRIN) - The Yobe State authorities in northeastern Nigeria have closed all schools following the 6 July Boko Haram (BH) attack on a...

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SLIDESHOW: Forgotten hunger in Yemen

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE SANA’A, 8 July 2013 (IRIN) - Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest country, is enduring some of the world’s highest rates of malnutrition and food insecurity....

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Zimbabweans lament cost of repatriating the dead

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE HARARE/JOHANNESBURG, 16 July 2013 (IRIN) - Cynthia Ndlovu, 30, a single mother employed as a cleaner at an up-market hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa, is...

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Scepticism over relocation plans for Cameroon lake gas survivors

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE YAOUNDE, 10 July 2013 (IRIN) - Plans by the Cameroonian authorities to move thousands of survivors of the 1986 Lake Nyos gas explosion back to their...

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No ID, no security – the dilemma of Sri Lanka’s returnees

SHARE COLOMBO, 17 July 2013 (IRIN) - Close to 100,000 returnees in Sri Lanka’s north lack national identity cards (NICs), more than four years after the end of the country’s decades-long civil war....

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Yemen – living with trauma

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE SANA’A, 16 July 2013 (IRIN) - “I’m handicapped inside”, says Ahmad, who in October 2011, aged 15, was shot and injured in street protests against the...

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“Wealth-sharing” deal offers hope in Mindanao

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE MANILA, 16 July 2013 (IRIN) - The Philippine government has agreed to give sweeping fiscal powers to Muslim rebels on the island of Mindanao in a bid to end...

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Chad returnees strain aid resources

Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE NAIROBI, 17 July 2013 (IRIN) - Thousands of Chadians, most of them children, have returned home, fleeing insecurity in parts of neighbouring Central Africa...

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