News from category: In Brief
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Millions of people in the camps rely on international assistance in order to survive
NAIROBI, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) – Three Russian pilots released on 30 August, two days after they were kidnapped …
Photo: Peter Martell/IRIN
Millions of people in the camps rely on international assistance in order to survive
NAIROBI, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) – Three Russian pilots released on 30 August, two days after they were kidnapped …
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 …
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Heavy flooding in parts of Ethiopia has displaced thousands (file photo)
ADDIS ABABA, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) – Heavy flooding in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia has displaced more than 8,000 people, say …
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KINSHASA, 18 August 2010 (IRIN) – About 3,000 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo’s Equateur province are still suffering the effects of a flood caused by torrential rains which began in late …
Photo: IRIN
KINSHASA, 18 August 2010 (IRIN) – About 3,000 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo’s Equateur province are still suffering the effects of a flood caused by torrential rains which began in late …
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Human rights champion Beatrice Mtetwa
JOHANNESBURG, 19 July 2010 (IRIN) – “Things are not all right in Zimbabwe,” said human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, delighted that the American Bar Association (ABA) has …
Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN
A good harvest has led to cereal surpluses (file photo)
MODJO, 13 July 2010 (IRIN) – Ethiopia has lifted a two-year ban on the export of cereals such maize and sorghum, following a …
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Malaria is transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito
JOHANNESBURG, 2 July 2010 (IRIN) – New drugs to fight malaria may well lie at the bottom of the ocean, according to researchers studying over 2,500 …
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Bracing for first rains (file photo)
DAKAR, 29 June 2010 (IRIN) – The beginning of the rainy season in the arid Sahel region of West Africa is bringing hopes of renewed grazing land and …
Photo: IAEA
Glossina insect (tsetse fly) that causes sleeping sickness
DAKAR, 29 June 2010 (IRIN) – For the first time in half a century, the number of new diagnosed cases of human African trypanosomiasis -also known …
Photo: IAEA
Bracing for first rains (file photo)
DAKAR, 29 June 2010 (IRIN) – The beginning of the rainy season in the arid Sahel region of West Africa is bringing hopes of renewed grazing land and …
Photo: IAEA
Bracing for first rains (file photo)
DAKAR, 29 June 2010 (IRIN) – The beginning of the rainy season in the arid Sahel region of West Africa is bringing hopes of renewed grazing land and …
Photo: Mateusz Buczek/OCHA
CAP launch
NAIROBI, 28 June 2010 (IRIN) – The aid world is an acronym jungle. Sometimes there are simply not enough good ones to go around, so they get used twice.
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Photo: Mateusz Buczek/OCHA
CAP launch
NAIROBI, 28 June 2010 (IRIN) – The aid world is an acronym jungle. Sometimes there are simply not enough good ones to go around, so they get used twice.
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Photo: Mateusz Buczek/OCHA
CAP launch
NAIROBI, 28 June 2010 (IRIN) – The aid world is an acronym jungle. Sometimes there are simply not enough good ones to go around, so they get used twice.
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