News from category: Food Security
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
