News from category: Early Warning
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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The Ewaso Nyiro River burst its banks affecting transport between Isiolo and Samburu districts
NAIROBI, 5 March 2010 (IRIN) – Health services in Kenya should prepare for above-average precipitation during the March-to-May rainy …
Photo: Etonam Ahianyo/ IRIN
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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Mariama Adao and her last-born child
AGADEZ, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – Mariama Adao, aged 40 and a mother of eight, makes the 400km journey from Matameye in the south of Niger …
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Hundreds of migrants from southern Niger are camped out in Agadez
AGADEZ, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – The unusually large-scale migration of southern Nigerien farmers and pastoralists, heading north to look …
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What will we be able to grow in another 40 years?
JOHANNESBURG, 24 February 2010 (IRIN) – Temperatures seem set to soar to perilously high levels because of climate change. In another 40 …
Photo: Koffi Samuel/IRIN
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 …
Photo: Peter Martell/IRIN
Children take part in efforts to promote voter registration: Votes will be cast for both the president of the republic and for the semi-autonomous south (file photo)
JUBA, 19 February 2010 (IRIN) – …
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To retake Marjah, about 15,000 Afghan and foreign forces are being deployed (file photo)
KABUL/NAIROBI, 12 February 2010 (IRIN) – Continents apart, the civilian populations of Marjah, a key town in Helmand …
Photo: WFP/Sri Lanka
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 supermarket on fire in downtown Nairobi: Lack of a disaster preparedness policy results in delayed response (file photo)
NAIROBI, 11 February 2010 (IRIN) – Kenya’s failure to put in place a comprehensive …
Photo: Helen Keller International
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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The quantity of crops planted has been affected by high input costs
JOHANNESBURG, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) – Economic conditions in most southern African countries declined as a result of the global recession, pushing …
Photo: Peter Martell/IRIN
Patients recover in a southern Sudanese hospital (file photo): There has been an upsurge in violence in the south
NAIROBI, 1 February 2010 (IRIN) – The peace agreement which ended years of …
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A woman in northern Niger helps her baby drink water (file photo)
DAKAR, 28 January 2010 (IRIN) – Governments, aid agencies and donors must join forces now to ensure that severe food insecurity in the …
