News from category: Migration
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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: Anne Isabelle Leclercq/IRIN
A child with camels, donkeys and goats at the watering place near the village of Makanga
TANOUT, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – “Empty” increasingly describes the southern Niger town of Tanout in …
Photo: Phuong Tran/IRIN
Cow wastes away from malnutrition (file photo)
DAKAR, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) – The poorest households in Chad will find themselves with no food reserves in the coming weeks, according to the US …
Photo: Anne Isabelle Leclercq/IRIN
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 …
Photo: Anne Isabelle Leclercq/IRIN
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 …
Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN
Police blame foreign nationals for crime
JOHANNESBURG, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – The “absurd” claim by Gauteng’s police chief that South Africa’s richest province was home to as many as three million …
Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN
Xenophobia fuelled by poor governance
JOHANNESBURG , 9 February 2010 (IRIN) – Foreign nationals are being attacked with “impunity” in South Africa, a leading human rights organization charged as the latest service delivery …
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Women and children fleeing past outbreaks of violence in Plateau state (file photo)
KANO, 1 February 2010 (IRIN) – If the Nigerian authorities fail to punish those responsible for the latest intercommunal violence, they …
Photo: Allan Gichigi/IRIN
Protests against the detention of a radical cleric led to street clashes in Nairobi
NAIROBI, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – In the year since Mehmoud Hassan arrived in Nairobi from Baidoa in southern …
Photo: Anna Jefferys/IRIN
Members of IRC-supported peace committee that intervenes in land disputes in Baibly, western Cote d’Ivoire.
MAN, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – In Côte d’Ivoire land disputes – fuelled by the 2002 rebellion …
Photo: Prince Collins/IRIN
Joseph Rogers on his FAO-supported cabbage farm on the outskirts of the capital
MONROVIA, 19 January 2010 (IRIN) – Farmers are turning to urban gardens as a way to boost food security in …
Photo: Ann Weru/IRIN
Camels trek in search of water in the Chalbi desert region of northern Kenya
MARSABIT, 18 January 2010 (IRIN) – This is the final part of our travelogue detailing the journey into …
Photo: Adel Yahya/IRIN
New Somali arrivals wait for refugee IDs at the UN Refugee Agency’s Sanaa office
SANAA, 17 January 2010 (IRIN) – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Yemen received 77,802 new arrivals from the …
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Many foreigners are still refused treatment at public health facilities
JOHANNESBURG, 14 January 2010 (PlusNews) – A study finding that foreigners are about half as likely to fail antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as South African …
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A rough diamond – Manica’s new found wealth from Zimbabwe
MANICA, 5 January 2010 (IRIN) – Without a four-wheel drive, Manica’s potholed dirt roads are a challenge, but thanks to a steady stream of …
Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN
Asylum seekers in South Africa
DURBAN, 24 December 2009 (IRIN) – There is little or no goodwill towards foreign nationals from African states living in South Africa.
Jeannette …
