News from category: Environment
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River communities throughout central Mozambique are affected by flooding almost every.
JOHANNESBURG, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – Mozambique’s National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) has raised the flood alert level to “red” and …
Photo: Noor Ali/IRIN
A flooded section of the Ewaso Nyiro River along Isiolo-Samburu districts after heavy rains (file photo)
ISIOLO-NAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – At least 10,000 people in Kenya have been displaced by …
Photo: Vincent Mayanja/IRIN
Landslide-displaced people receive bottled water at Bukalasi, eastern Uganda
BUKALASI , 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – Rose Nakhayetse is lucky to be alive, but her ordeal is far from over. Having narrowly …
Photo: Jane Some/IRIN
A refugee peels a papyrus reed, one of the initial stages in the production of the Makapads sanitary pads at Kyaka II refugee settlement, southwestern Uganda
KYAKA II, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) – …
Photo: Jane Some/IRIN
Farmers can now take out insurance against weather-related crop failure (file photo)
NAIROBI, 5 March 2010 (IRIN) – Just as purchasers of electronic goods can buy extended warranties in case their TV goes …
Photo: Noor Ali/IRIN
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: Ugandan Red Cross Society
The scene of the eastern Uganda landslide
KAMPALA, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – Bad weather and lack of on-the-ground data are restricting the relief response to the 1 March landslide …
Photo: Abdi Hassan/IRIN
Hujale Jama is one of thousands of people in Bossaso who have been displaced by drought and have moved to urban centres where they depend on relatives
BOSASSO, 2 March 2010 (IRIN) – …
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Bududa District is located close to the eastern region of Mbale (file photo)
KAMPALA, 2 March 2010 (IRIN) – At least 300 people, including 100 children, are believed to have been …
Photo: Salla Himberg/IRIN
One of the homes constructed under the Huruma slum upgrading project
NAIROBI, 23 February 2010 (IRIN) – Four years after an innovative slum-upgrading project was launched in Huruma, to the northeast of …
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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: Salla Himberg/IRIN
One of the homes constructed under the Huruma slum upgrading project
NAIROBI, 23 February 2010 (IRIN) – Four years after an innovative slum-upgrading project was launched in Huruma, to the northeast of …
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Female Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis, extracted from its host
JUBA, 17 February 2010 (IRIN) – Guinea worm, the agonizing water-borne parasite, could be eradicated within “two to three years” from Southern Sudan, health officials …
Photo: Aubrey Graham/IRIN
Hardened lava after Mt Nyiragongo erupted in 2002: Nyiragongo is one of the two active volcanoes in North Kivu. The other, Nyamulagira, erupted on 2 January (file report)
GOMA, 16 February 2010 (IRIN) …
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A female deminer at work in a minefield in Bongo, near Juba
NAIROBI, 11 February 2010 (IRIN) – Major routes in Sudan have been cleared of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) but there …
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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 …
