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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 …

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 …

IN-DEPTH: Food and nutrition crisis in Niger and the Western Sahel
Tuesday, 31 Aug, 2010 – 7:09 | 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 …

SOMALIA: Mogadishu fighting cuts food supplies
Tuesday, 31 Aug, 2010 – 2:07 | Comments Off

Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN
The latest round of fighting in the Somali capital has entered the eighth day (file photo)
NAIROBI, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) – As the latest round of fighting in the Somali capital enters …

In Brief: Chad under water
Tuesday, 31 Aug, 2010 – 1:12 | Comments Off

Photo: OCHA-Chad
A flood-damaged home in Goz Beida, eastern Chad
DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) – Flooding across Chad has destroyed homes, crops, livestock, wells and latrines in communities already pummelled by food shortages and high …

SOMALIA: Mogadishu fighting cuts food supplies
Monday, 30 Aug, 2010 – 10:02 | Comments Off

Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN
The latest round of fighting in the Somali capital has entered the eighth day (file photo)
NAIROBI, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) – As the latest round of fighting in the Somali capital enters …

NIGER: Small steps towards a sustainable future
Saturday, 28 Aug, 2010 – 7:03 | Comments Off

Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …

CAMEROON: Soaring child malnutrition in north
Friday, 27 Aug, 2010 – 15:13 | Comments Off

Photo: Reinnier Kazé/IRIN
Health workers in the Far North region of Cameroon say malnutrition cases and deaths are on the rise
KOUSSERI, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) – Northern Cameroon, as in much of Africa’s western Sahel …

NIGER: Small steps towards a sustainable future
Friday, 27 Aug, 2010 – 14:19 | Comments Off

Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …

NIGER: Small steps towards a sustainable future
Friday, 27 Aug, 2010 – 6:06 | Comments Off

Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …

NIGER: Small steps towards a sustainable future
Thursday, 26 Aug, 2010 – 13:11 | Comments Off

Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …

SUDAN: Fear of LRA causes thousands to flee in Western Equatoria
Thursday, 26 Aug, 2010 – 2:05 | Comments Off

Photo: Maggie Fick/IRIN
Scared to go home: IDPs near Nzara
NZARA, 23 August 2010 (IRIN) – Armed attacks blamed on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Southern Sudan’s Western Equatoria State have displaced thousands of civilians …

MOZAMBIQUE: Rat catchers try to end arson
Wednesday, 25 Aug, 2010 – 16:13 | Comments Off

Photo: Herorat
Now on the menu in Macossa
MACOSSA, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) – Albinio Matias, a Mozambican farmer, lost his daughter, Cassula, and his home to wildfires, which also damaged his crops for four consecutive …

SUDAN: Fear of LRA causes thousands to flee in Western Equatoria
Wednesday, 25 Aug, 2010 – 5:05 | Comments Off

Photo: Maggie Fick/IRIN
Scared to go home: IDPs near Nzara
NZARA, 23 August 2010 (IRIN) – Armed attacks blamed on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Southern Sudan’s Western Equatoria State have displaced thousands of civilians …

CHAD: Malnutrition outstrips response
Wednesday, 25 Aug, 2010 – 2:19 | Comments Off

Photo: Action contre la Faim
A woman and her children in western Chad, where UN agencies, aid groups and the government are working to tackle soaring malnutrition
DAKAR, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) – In parts of …