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ETHIOPIA: Pastoralism against the odds
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 14:02 | Comments Off

Photo: Nena Terell/USAID
A camel seller at the Jijiga Livestock Market
JIJIGA, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) – Pastoralists’ disproportionate contribution to Ethiopia’s economy is belied by their marginalized status and by policy assumptions that they …

KENYA: Camel clinics bring condoms to nomads
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 12:02 | Comments Off

Photo: Nomadic Communities Trust
Camels bringing condoms and medical supplies
SAMBURU, 31 August 2010 (PlusNews) – In the remote and rural district of Samburu, northern Kenya, where paved roads are scarce and motorised transport hard to …

COTE D’IVOIRE: Analysis: No political mandate, no development in Côte d’Ivoire
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 11:19 | Comments Off

Photo: Anna Jefferys/IRIN
Many of Côte d’Ivoire’s hospital wards are empty, as people cannot afford treatment (file photo)
ABIDJAN, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) – Continued election delays and political turmoil have for years been used as …

NIGERIA: Educating the nomads
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 9:08 | Comments Off

Photo: Rosie Collyer/IRIN
Umar Idriss faces a dilemma: to continue rearing cattle with his family, or to attend university
KADUNA, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) – The children of most Nigerian nomads fall through the education net …

MALAWI: Food surplus creates political storm//CORRECTION//*
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 6:04 | Comments Off

Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN
Maize suplus causes tensions
JOHANNESBURG, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) – A surplus production of maize, Malawi’s staple food, will not prevent at least one million people from being food insecure, a forecast …

MALAWI: Food surplus creates political storm
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 1:06 | Comments Off

Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN
Maize suplus causes tensions
JOHANNESBURG, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) – A surplus production of maize, Malawi’s staple food, will not prevent at least one million people from being food insecure, a forecast …

DRC: Displacement and discrimination – the lot of the Bambuti Pygmies
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 1:03 | Comments Off

Photo: Lisa Clifford/IRIN
Bambuti families eke out a living on the edge of a camp for displaced people near Goma
GOMA, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) – Conditions in Mugunga camp for displaced people on the outskirts …

In Brief: Abductions in Darfur
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 1:02 | Comments Off

Photo: Peter Martell/IRIN
Millions of people in the camps rely on international assistance in order to survive
NAIROBI, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) – Three Russian pilots released on 30 August, two days after they were kidnapped …

UGANDA: New strains of HIV spreading in fishing communities//CORRECTION//*
Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010 – 12:01 | Comments Off

Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN
Catching more than fish
ENTEBBE, 31 August 2010 (PlusNews) -
A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter …

ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Refugees embrace life "out of camps"
Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010 – 10:02 | Comments Off

Photo: Wikimedia Commons
A boy carries water at the Shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) – Kibrom Sebhatu, 45, is among hundreds of Eritreans expected to benefit from a …

NIGERIA: Educating the nomads
Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010 – 10:01 | Comments Off

Photo: Rosie Collyer/IRIN
Umar Idriss faces a dilemma: to continue rearing cattle with his family, or to attend university
KADUNA, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) – The children of most Nigerian nomads fall through the education net …

In Brief: Abductions in Darfur
Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010 – 9:03 | Comments Off

Photo: Peter Martell/IRIN
Millions of people in the camps rely on international assistance in order to survive
NAIROBI, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) – Three Russian pilots released on 30 August, two days after they were kidnapped …

IN-DEPTH: Food and nutrition crisis in Niger and the Western Sahel
Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010 – 8:12 | Comments Off

Photo: Boris Heger/WFP
A slow-motion catastrophe
DAKAR, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) – The West African Sahel is facing one of the worst food and nutrition crises in recent years.
Some 10 million …

DRC: Displacement and discrimination – the lot of the Bambuti Pygmies
Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010 – 7:01 | Comments Off

Photo: Lisa Clifford/IRIN
Bambuti families eke out a living on the edge of a camp for displaced people near Goma
GOMA, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) – Conditions in Mugunga camp for displaced people on the outskirts …

UGANDA: HIV superinfection spreading in fishing communities
Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010 – 4:01 | Comments Off

Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN
Catching more than fish
ENTEBBE, 31 August 2010 (PlusNews) – A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a …

BURUNDI: Veering off the path of peaceful power-sharing
Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010 – 4:01 | Comments Off

Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN
President Pierre Nkurunziza ran unopposed in the 28 July presidential poll (file photo)
BUJUMBURA, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) – The political climate is growing increasingly antagonistic in Burundi, where many of today’s …