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...
View ArticlePortuguese 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...
View ArticleCalls 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...
View ArticleUN 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...
View ArticleSyria’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...
View ArticleIn-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...
View ArticleContaining 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,...
View ArticleAnalysis: 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...
View ArticleAnalysis: 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...
View ArticleNeed 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...
View ArticleFunding 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)...
View ArticleLandslides 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...
View ArticleHumanitarian 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...
View ArticleAnalysis: 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...
View ArticleExaggerated 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...
View ArticleIrrigation 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...
View ArticlePakistan’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,...
View ArticleConcern 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...
View ArticleDRC-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...
View ArticleNigeria 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleBangladesh 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...
View ArticleInsecurity 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...
View ArticleVietnam 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...
View ArticleFrequent 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...
View ArticleIncreased 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...
View ArticleBoost 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...
View ArticleSpike 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...
View ArticleObstacles 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...
View ArticleUganda 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...
View ArticleFood 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleChaka 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...
View ArticleZimbabwe'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...
View ArticleLack 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...
View ArticleUganda 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...
View ArticleFood 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...
View ArticleSchool 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...
View ArticleSLIDESHOW: 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....
View ArticleZimbabweans 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...
View ArticleScepticism 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...
View ArticleNo 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....
View ArticleYemen – 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleChad 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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