News from category: Aid Policy
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Residents of Nairobi’s crowded slums have been particularly hard hit by spikes in the price of food
NAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (PlusNews) – Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in …
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Congolese refugees at Base Camp II in the Nakivale settlement: At least 45,000 Congolese live in Nakivale and Kyaka II refugee settlements
NAKIVALE, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – With at least 67,000 refugees …
NAIROBI, 5 March 2010 (IRIN) – Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the …
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Poll worker in Togo’s 2010 presidential election in the capital, Lomé, on voting day
LOMÉ, 4 March 2010 (IRIN) – As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots in the presidential …
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Floods are common in southern Africa but planning for the treatment disruptions they cause isn’t, according to a new report
JOHANNESBURG, 1 March 2010 (PlusNews) – When a crisis strikes, access to antiretroviral …
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A child who underwent treatment for malnutrition, during a follow-up visit by Helen Keller International (file photo)
DAKAR, 25 February 2010 (IRIN) – Nutrition experts in Guinea are studying options for treating …
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The economic aftermath of instability
ANTANANARIVO, 24 February 2010 (IRIN) – Tensions between street traders and the city authorities in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, are mounting as hundreds of recently unemployed textile industry workers …
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Youths in Odienné, northern Côte d’Ivoire, protesting the decision of President Laurent Gbagbo to dissolve government and the electoral commission
ABIDJAN, 22 February 2010 (IRIN) – An uneasy calm has been restored in …
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Who to condemn?
DAKAR, 19 February 2010 (IRIN) – Opposition parties, Niger’s largest union and members of civil society announced their support on 19 February for a military ruling council that abducted …
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Constitutional crisis thickens (file photo)
NIAMEY, 18 February 2010 (IRIN) – Small vendors abandoned their stalls as the typical lunch hour break opened with gunfire at the presidential palace shortly after 1pm …
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Constitutional crisis thickens (file photo)
NIAMEY, 18 February 2010 (IRIN) – Small vendors abandoned their stalls as the typical lunch hour break opened with gunfire at the presidential palace shortly after 1pm …
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WFP would have to transport food from neighbouring countries in the face of a disaster (file photo)
ABIDJAN, 17 February 2010 (IRIN) – The political impasse in Côte d’Ivoire is raising concerns among …
Photo: Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN
Livestock deaths have increased the need for humanitarian intervention
HARGEISA, 16 February 2010 (IRIN) – Officials in Somalia’s self-declared independent republic of Somaliland have appealed to the international community to provide humanitarian …
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A woman and a malnourished child in the Guinea capital Conakry (file photo)
DAKAR, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) – Natural disasters, epidemics and political unrest deal a particularly heavy blow to communities …
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A poster in Côte d’Ivoire: “Street medicines kill” (file photo)
LOME, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) – The fight against fake medicines requires a united public-private front to overcome people’s resistance to health warnings …
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Oil facility in Niger Delta, where citizens suffer the effects of the “resource curse” say rights groups (file photo)
ACCRA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) – Ghana needs to do more to ensure that revenue …
